Small Firms Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

1998
Chapter

British Overseas Banks as Free-Standing Companies 1830-1994

Keywords: History; Business Ventures; Globalized Firms and Management; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Great Britain

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1994
Chapter

Global Strategy: Winning in the World-Wide Marketplace

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Trade

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01 Jun 2007
News

34,000 Pages and Counting

madrigal — love poetry set to music for four to six singers. More recently, Keith has channeled his scholarly inclinations into research for a book about the Royal Winton/Grimwades pottery firm and its products. Along the way, he’s built... View Details

Keywords: class notes; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

1990
Chapter

From Cross-Border Corporate Transactions to Environmental Accords

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Agreements and Arrangements; Environmental Sustainability

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September 2001 (Revised July 2009)
Case

Buenos Aires Embotelladora S.A. (BAESA): A South American Restructuring

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Gustavo A. Herrero

In 1998, BAESA, PepsiCo's largest bottler and distributor outside North America, experienced severe financial difficulty and had to restructure its debt and business operations to avoid bankruptcy or liquidation. Based in Argentina, with operations throughout South... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Bonds; Stocks; Multinational Firms and Management; Laws and Statutes; United States; Argentina; Brazil

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01 Jun 2009
News

Crisis and Creativity

waste.” He’s correct. Now more than ever is the time for innovative managers and entrepreneurs to come up with ideas that lead to opportunities to launch new ventures. There is considerable anecdotal evidence that crises can be catalysts... View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti

01 Sep 2007
News

HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program

the new program — before arriving on campus. “No other business school offers anything similar,” says Dee Leopold (MBA ’80), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. “This is a bold program that is trying to do three things:... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1997
News

Short Takes

environmental management. Reinhardt argues that in order to manage the environmental challenge successfully, firms should improve their cost management, reduce risk, create and capture value, and help... View Details

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro: Four key themes emerge from an analysis of this struggle between two firms and their governments. The first is how managers can use international organizations, in this case... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

A decade ago, Porsche, the luxury car company, found itself at a crossroads. Renowned for its classy (and expensive) sports cars, the firm had taken a hit in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash and suffered in great part due to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

impact in the country dramatically. She was instrumental in the NYSE listing of Wipro; in facilitating nationwide cellular phone service through a deal involving the Tata and Birla families and AT&T; and in a number of privatizations. Last November, she became vice... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

on all integration task forces, but the smaller buyer went much further. The firm spent lavishly on retreats for large groups of managers and employees, discussing the strategy but also working toward... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2010
Working Paper

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks

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15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

general manager was granted autonomy, capital, and freedom to recruit star engineers from other divisions. D'Arbeloff presided as chairman of Aurora's board of directors, believing that, "with things customers aren't asking for, in... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

March 2010
Teaching Note

Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for 309074. View Details

Keywords: Private Ownership; Competition; Growth Management; Governance Controls; For-Profit Firms; Higher Education; Education Industry; China

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01 Mar 2025
News

Work of Art

gather for their weekly Wednesday sessions. The apprentice program pairs nine high school students with the nine fellows—an exercise in “possibility thinking,” as Student Program Manager Jay Kemp describes it. The kids see firsthand what... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Chris Sorensen; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

such patents. Our theoretical model builds on two distinct strategy literatures: firms appropriating rents from new technologies and firms managing stakeholders. We predict... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

but only by the firms that have employee longevity and a valued ... way of life." This may not mean retaining everyone, however, as Horacio Cavallero suggests in commenting that "I have always thought that it was very important... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett