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- January 2008
- Class Lecture
Billions of Entrepreneurs: The Yin and Yang of China and India (FSS)
By: Tarun Khanna
Two emerging nations, China and India, are on the move to wards economic development. They are entering the world economy on their own terms. China's model has received greater attention. India's is a diametrically different model-yin to China's yang-with different... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; China; India
Khanna, Tarun. "Billions of Entrepreneurs: The Yin and Yang of China and India (FSS)." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 708-812, January 2008.
- November 2007
- Supplement
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu
How do companies develop a strategy that is both low-cost and differentiated without becoming squeezed in the middle? Describes how Teva, Israel's largest and first multinational, achieved its globally dominant position in generic pharmaceuticals, an industry that has... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Rank and Position; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Israel; India
Khanna, Tarun, and Krishna G. Palepu. "Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 708-806, November 2007.
- 2007
- Book
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. (Winner of Association of American Publishers Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management. Winner of Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship for the book which makes an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work presented by American Sociological Association.)
- Fourth Quarter 2007
- Article
Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk
By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details
Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
Gray, Dale . F., Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie. "Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk." Special Issue on Credit Analysis. Journal of Investment Management 5, no. 4 (Fourth Quarter 2007): 5–28.
- September 2007 (Revised November 2007)
- Case
Bunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets
By: Tarun Khanna, Santiago Mingo and Jonathan West
In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of three very integrated worldwide agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Operations; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; White Plains; Brazil
Khanna, Tarun, Santiago Mingo, and Jonathan West. "Bunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets." Harvard Business School Case 708-443, September 2007. (Revised November 2007.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries -- close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Supply and Industry; Vertical Integration
Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton. "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13447, September 2007.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Activity; Horizontal FDI; Vertical FDI; Stages Of Production; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Competency and Skills; Production
Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton. "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13447, September 2007.
- September 2007
- Supplement
Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India
By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu
Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of Microsoft India, discusses market entry, localization, and intellectual property rights in emerging markets. View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology Industry; India
Khanna, Tarun, and Krishna G. Palepu. "Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 708-804, September 2007.
- August 2007 (Revised December 2007)
- Case
Microsoft in China and India, 1993-2007
By: Tarun Khanna and Prithwiraj Choudhury
Relates to Microsoft's expansion in China and India in the period 1993-2007 and the strategic issues faced by multinationals in emerging markets. View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Emerging Markets; Information Technology Industry; China; India
Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury. "Microsoft in China and India, 1993-2007." Harvard Business School Case 708-444, August 2007. (Revised December 2007.)
- August 2007
- Teaching Note
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu
Teaching note to 707441. View Details
- August 2007
- Case
Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Andrea M.A.F. Minardi
Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue them. He was approaching an American private equity fund to raise money. Describes Alecrim's challenge in creating SAT... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Utilities Industry; Brazil
Applegate, Lynda M., and Andrea M.A.F. Minardi. "Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo." Harvard Business School Case 808-062, August 2007.
- July 2007 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
The Beijing Dream
By: Arthur I Segel, Voon Siang Lee, Jialei Tian and Ying Laura Wang
The purchase of a single-family home is generally the major investment for most young couples in China. Shows in detail the process that a young couple goes through in late April 2007 to find, finance, and close on an apartment in Beijing within what they believe to be... View Details
Keywords: Property; Investment; Cost; Emerging Markets; Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Activity Based Costing and Management; Internet and the Web; Management Practices and Processes; Real Estate Industry; Beijing; United States
Segel, Arthur I., Voon Siang Lee, Jialei Tian, and Ying Laura Wang. "The Beijing Dream." Harvard Business School Case 208-015, July 2007. (Revised July 2008.)
- July 2007 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
CEMEX's Foundations for Sustainability
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Pamela Yatsko and Ryan Raffaelli
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Change Management; Emerging Markets; Construction Industry; Mexico; Egypt; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Pamela Yatsko, and Ryan Raffaelli. "CEMEX's Foundations for Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 308-024, July 2007. (Revised September 2009.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming... View Details
- June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
BBC Worldwide: Global Strategy
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In January 2007, John Smith, chief executive officer of BBC Worldwide (BBC WW), the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), was preparing to meet with his senior managers to discuss BBC WW's global strategy options. BBC WW exploited and exported... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Expansion; Internet; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Great Britain
Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "BBC Worldwide: Global Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 507-034, June 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- June 2007 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships
By: William R. Kerr, Daniel J. Isenberg and Ant Bozkaya
Stimulates discussion of entrepreneurship in emerging economies, especially for entrepreneurs returning to their home countries to start businesses with global technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict and Resolution; Turkey
Kerr, William R., Daniel J. Isenberg, and Ant Bozkaya. "TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 807-175, June 2007. (Revised June 2011.) (This case replaces "Bundling the Contracts: TA-Energy", Harvard Business School Case 807-075, by Kerr and Bozkaya.)
- May 2007 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
Dollar General (A)
By: Willy Shih, Stephen P. Kaufman and Rebecca McKillican
Dollar General Corporation (DG) operates one of the leading chains of extreme value retailers in the United States. 2006 revenues reached $9.2 billion, making DG the 6th largest mass retailer in the country. With revenues growing at 9% annually over the five-year... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; United States
Shih, Willy, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Rebecca McKillican. "Dollar General (A)." Harvard Business School Case 607-140, May 2007. (Revised November 2019.)
- March 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Korea: After the 1997 Financial Crisis
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Renee Kim
Examines what happened to Korea after the 1997 financial crisis and the implementation of the IMF-mandated reforms imposed on Korea as conditionalities to the country's emergency loan package. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; South Korea
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Renee Kim. "Korea: After the 1997 Financial Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 707-042, March 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
Teaching note to 707515. View Details
- February 2007 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Wikipedia (A)
By: Karim R. Lakhani and Andrew P. McAfee
Wikipedia has emerged as a robust model for content production by volunteers working asynchronously on the Internet with a unconventional model for distributed decision making. The "Articles for Deletion" process in Wikipedia provides unique insight into the inner... View Details