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- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
underutilized markets, using its global network to quickly move products to market, and reinvesting steadily in its brand. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311120-PDF-ENG L'Oréal: Global Brand, Local Knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
as profit. I owe [thanks] to Professor Kash [Rangan] for passionately leading us through a fruitful and impactful discussion. —Senthilkumar Rajendran (SELP 4, 2019) Back to top “Chrysler and BMW: Tritec Engine Joint Venture” A gifted... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
Island. No lawyers or investment bankers," Wendel smiles. By leveraging its strengths in engineering and marketing, cutting costs to the bone, and using its improved cash flow to streamline manufacturing and develop new and diversified... View Details
- October 2013
- Supplement
Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (B)
By: Paul Healy and Penelope Rossano
In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets. China's recent entry into the aluminum market was affecting both supply and demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Acquisitions; Alcoa; Alcan; Rio Tinto; Aluminum Industry; Accounting; Financial Analysis; Consolidation; Market Participation; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Mining; Mining Industry; Canada; United States
Healy, Paul, and Penelope Rossano. "Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 114-030, October 2013.
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
the rise (and fall?) of progressive taxation to the revisionary engineering of the New Deal. They consider how deeply finance has penetrated into daily life, including the ideological and political forces that made citizens into investors... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- Web
The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising 1865 - 1910 National Markets Advertising Products Trade Catalogs Trade... View Details
- January 2023
- Case
Crow Holdings Development: Mass Timber Construction
By: John D. Macomber, Robert Hernandez and Kyle MertensMeyer
Jim McCaffery and Cody Armbrister of Crow Holdings Development evaluate the pros and cons of committing to mass timber construction instead of conventional concrete or steel for a new 260,000 SF multi-story office building in Texas. Benefits include substantially... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate Development; Architecture; Air Quality; Health ＆ Wellness; Office Property; Sustainability; Carbon Abatement; Natural Environment; Environmental Accounting; Green Buildings; Design; Construction; Cost vs Benefits; Environmental Sustainability; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Texas
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- Web
Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation
guided the groundbreaking research ambitions of Polaroid—an iconic, 20th-century startup company whose pioneering achievements in optics and engineering continue to have profound technological, social, and artistic significance. At the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech
Gaurav Singh (MBA 2022) grew up in Varanasi, India. He completed his Bachelor’s of Technology in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from NIT Trichy, India before moving to the US to pursue his M.S. in Electrical and Computer View Details
- October 2013 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A)
By: Paul Healy and Penelope Rossano
In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets. China's recent entry into the aluminum market was affecting both supply and demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream... View Details
Keywords: Acquisitions; Strategy; Aluminum; Accounting; Financials; Alcoa; Rio Tinto; Alcan; Metals and Minerals; Competition; Consolidation; Emerging Markets; Acquisition; Financial Statements; Manufacturing Industry; Canada; China; Russia
Healy, Paul, and Penelope Rossano. "Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A)." Harvard Business School Case 114-029, October 2013. (Revised December 2015.)
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
recent TNS study reported the leading activities of Internet users as: used a search engine to find information (81 percent); looked up the news (76 percent); used online banking (74 percent); looked up the weather (65 percent);... View Details
- March 2010 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)
By: Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini and Renee Kim
In 2008, Andres Velasco, Chile's Finance Minister, was under mounting criticisms over his fiscal policy. As the world's largest copper producer, Chile was benefiting from the rise in copper prices, which had more than tripled since 2003. Copper revenues translated into... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Metals and Minerals; Investment Funds; Policy; State Ownership; Wealth; Chile
Alfaro, Laura, Dante Roscini, and Renee Kim. "Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-019, March 2010. (Revised May 2013.)
- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
Through what at the time felt like sheer luck, I landed an internship at Procter & Gamble on the Dish Engineering team between my sophomore and junior year. That internship taught me a lot about what a “corporate job” in the Consumer... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally, despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The globalization of toiletries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
In the 1950s, most Americans probably couldn’t name the CEOs of the largest companies in the United States, including General Motors, United States Steel, and Standard Oil. But these days, some of the most successful businesses have shifted from being faceless... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman