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  • June 2022
  • Teaching Plan

Pacesetters

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 322-019. City Sealcoating CEO Keith Chaney had just publicly called out the Boston Chamber of Commerce for their slow progress on their supplier diversity program, Pacesetters. Established in 2018 by regional business leaders,... View Details
Keywords: Minority-owned Businesses; Procurement; Racial Wealth Gap; Diversity; Small Business; Restructuring; Contracts; Goals and Objectives; Performance Improvement; Performance Evaluation; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Making Finance Personal

solutions, he has aggressively implemented the notion that customers, through their implicit choices or explicit actions (what Cook calls a “user contribution system”), and his brainstorming employees (in small groups within the company... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • October 2003 (Revised December 2006)
  • Case

Corrupt Practices in International Business

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Robert E. Kennedy
Explores various aspects of corruption in international business. This abridged case contains materials from both Corruption in International Business (A) & (B), but does not include the example "caselets." A rewritten version of earlier cases. View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Crime and Corruption
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  • May 1982
  • Case

Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (B)--West Germany

By: Wickham Skinner, D. Q. Mills and Jean K. Trescott
Keywords: Human Resources; Globalized Firms and Management; Planning; West Germany
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  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

time. Book link: http://www.e-elgar-business.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=12519 Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current Issues Authors:Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda Publication:In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2005
  • Other Unpublished Work

Value-Added Taxes and International Trade: The Evidence

By: Mihir A. Desai and James R Hines Jr.
Keywords: Taxation; Trade; Globalized Firms and Management
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  • July 2011
  • Teaching Note

Suntech Power (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note for 712001. View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Sales; Information Technology; Business Subsidiaries; System; Competition; Renewable Energy; Semiconductor Industry; Germany; Spain; United States; China; Japan
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  • 1976
  • Chapter

More or Less Poverty? The Economic Effects of the MNE at Home and in the LDC's

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Economies and Regions
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  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

announcement of a huge and unexpected second quarter loss, the CFO was removed from her post after only seven months in the job. This case explores the challenges faced by a firm leader as she attempts to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Henry Taub

    Taub took a back-office, manual operation and turned it into a successful business proposition. In starting ADP, he concentrated on providing payroll services for small businesses and for financial service View Details
    Keywords: Services
    • 01 Feb 2002
    • News

    The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause

    American-born Philip W. Stern (MBA '82) moved to Australia in 1985, spending several years as a McKinsey consultant. He has been Down Under ever since. Now a self-proclaimed Sydney local, Stern is a partner at the management consulting... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 11 Apr 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Financial Services 24/7

    reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal—and inexpensive—chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or pay a bill, traditional financial View Details
    Keywords: by Susan Young
    • January 2001 (Revised August 2003)
    • Case

    Diageo plc

    A major U.K.-based multinational is reevaluating its leverage policy as it restructures its business. The treasury team models the tradeoffs between the benefits and costs of debt financing, using Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the savings from the interest tax... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Multinational Firms and Management; Capital Structure; Restructuring; United Kingdom
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    • 22 Jul 2020
    • Blog Post

    Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

    classmate Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020). The idea came to me after I saw many of my Black classmates become discouraged by being left out of recruiting processes altogether or repeatedly rejected from the small pool of coveted roles in venture... View Details

      Arthur J. Decio

      Decio transformed his family’s company from a small coach firm in a garage in Indiana into one of the three largest builders of manufactured homes in the United States. Under his leadership, Skyline grew to... View Details
      Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
      • Profile

      PJ Meyer

      "level the playing field for local businesses" by working with student groups to set up internet alternatives for small businesses to perform everything from advertising to online ordering. Participation in a number of business... View Details
      • 01 Oct 1997
      • News

      Antitrust in Historical Perspective

      turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details
      Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
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      Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

      This course will be 25 class sessions that will be primarily case-oriented with some additional readings and high-profile in-class speakers, along with two project days. This course complements Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring and Financial View Details
      • 18 Nov 2014
      • News

      Providing relief when disaster strikes

      Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. (Published November 2014) View Details