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- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
look at iconic products, they all have that,” Thomke says, pointing to the Porsche 911, which has changed the technology under the hood but maintained its basic shape. “It’s about evolution rather than revolution.” The company that... View Details
- 2012
- Case
ChemChina
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, Lei Li, and Hong Zhang. "ChemChina." Tsinghua University Case, 2012.
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
in 2006. The case invites students to consider how domestic and multinational companies should respond to the Chinese government's invitation to comment on the proposal. The case also describes the impetus for the new legislation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
example, because the data sources and credit histories that firms draw on in the West don't exist in emerging markets. Market research and advertising are in their infancy in developing countries, and it's difficult to find the deep... View Details
The Big Ditch
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500 CEO in history, had been the market leader in PC sales in the early 2000s. In recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
and, ultimately, the long-term performance of firms. We examine the history of the Brazilian bioethanol industry, focusing on the industrial policy program implemented by the Brazilian government in the 1970s to develop the industry. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
labs and venture capital-backed firms, you see that there are both very real strengths and some serious limitations," Lerner says. "Much of the motivation for writing this book was to bridge the gap between the two models." The View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
Knowledge, Kanter discusses the evolution that's afoot, as well as important ways that successful companies can seize emerging opportunities. Q: Why did you decide to call your new book Evolve? A: I chose the title Evolve because I wanted... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
have been very difficult for Larry to even get a foot in the corporate door, let alone rise to the top,” Gino says. “Back then, there was a lot of stigma around people who have criminal records—and that stigma still exists today.” While a growing number of View Details
- 1999
- Chapter
Multinational Cross-Investment between Switzerland and Britain 1914-1945
By: G. Jones
This chapter examines multinational cross-investment between Switzerland and Great Britain between 1914 and 1945. While Great Britain and Switzerland were both major home economies for multinationals,few companies from either country were interested in investing in the... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Electric, and Carnegie Steel were all founded in the 1880s; in the following decade came Wrigley's Chewing Gum, General Electric, Burroughs, and Pepsico. These companies developed modern sales techniques, created procedures for management... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2015
- HBS Seminar
Scott Stern, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Don't Deny the Facts
Investor's Business Daily, April 27, 2010
The ability to see facts objectively is paramount to business success. An interview with Richard S.... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
complexity and broad implications for today. In a remarkably globalized industry, Porsche is a rare example of a company staking its brand, in this example the Cayenne, on the image of one particular country. Wiedeking, regularly ranked... View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- News
AB InBev Taps Machine Learning to Root Out Corruption
- 2012
- Teaching Note
ChemChina (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, Lei Li, and Hong Zhang. "ChemChina (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2012.
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The New CEO Workshop - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
designed for newly appointed CEOs of public parent companies with annual revenues of $2 billion or more. Course History We introduced this workshop in the 1990s to address the distinctive challenges facing... View Details