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12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

needed to ponder on how to revise the company's compensation system to better motivate its staff in a deregulated market and communicate all these changes to the unionized labor force. Purchase the case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

case is based have been disguised. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-026 The TTIP: Bridging the Transatlantic Economy In 2016, the United States and the European View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Editor's Note: Millions of Brits are going to the polls today to take part in an historic vote on the European Union that will have a huge impact on the economic, political, and social future of the United Kingdom and its relationships... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

December 2008 (Revised October 2009)
Case

Wal-Mart Stores in 2003 (Abridged Version)

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Examines Wal-Mart's development over three decades and provides financial and descriptive detail of its domestic operations. In 2003, Wal-Mart's Supercenter business has surpassed its domestic business as the largest generator of revenues. Its international operation... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Advantage; Labor Unions; Operations; Global Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Gender; Retail Industry; United States

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

on, it pays its key cast and crew members the minimum salary stipulated by industry unions and only pays out sizeable bonuses if a movie’s box-office reaches certain levels, it gives its directors a great deal of creative control, and it... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

SebeniusHarvard Business School Note 912-029 This note provides historical context and background for a challenging negotiation by Col. Joshua Chamberlain of the 20th Maine Regiment of the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

2015 Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has... View Details

01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

“It’s a match made in heaven!” One hears this said at weddings, at the end of mergers, at the hiring of CEOs, and, of course, at the hiring of coaches in the National Football League. Human history is rife with examples of a union of two... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and Democratic ideas about health insurance. More choice, affordability, and personal control A View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

as a strategic issue," Merton says. "They had been offering unions the choice of a dollar's worth of salary or what they thought was a dollar's worth of benefits. Most unions picked the benefits,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

31 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

Trade Union restrictions on carbon emissions. It has a strong internal culture of environmental responsibility, yet at the opening of the case UBS discovers that its stance on global warming lags behind industry competitors. Is 'rational'... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

August 2015 (Revised March 2016)
Supplement

Rana Plaza (C): Primark and Victim Compensation

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

Keywords: Labor Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability; International Marketing; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Marketing; Labor Unions; Environmental Sustainability; Globalized Markets and Industries

September 2023
Background Note

Amager Bakke: Municipal Waste to Energy

By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter

This background note describes the Amager Bakke waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Copenhagen, which merges traditional waste incineration with a combined heat and power (CHP) plant and air pollution control (scrubbing) technology, and had plans to add carbon dioxide (CO2)... View Details

April 2014 (Revised June 2016)
Case

Tapestry Networks

By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer

Tapestry Networks assembled industry leaders and their regulators in small, private meetings to build new frameworks for pressing regulatory challenges. Tapestry's motivating principle was to reimagine solutions to complex problems (e.g., drug-approval standards) in... View Details

Keywords: General Management; Government And Business; Strategy; Consulting Industry; United States; European Union

February 1991 (Revised January 1992)
Case

Henderson Home Products: USSR Joint Venture

By: Michael Y. Yoshino

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Consumer Products Industry; Soviet Union; United States

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March 1990 (Revised August 1991)
Case

Tambrands, Inc.: The Femtech Soviet Joint Venture (A)

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Corporate Strategy; Soviet Union; United States

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September 2012 (Revised May 2013)
Case

Automating the Paris Subway (A)

By: Michel Anteby, Elena Corsi and Emilie Billaud

In 2001, the head of the Paris Subway reflected on how to transform Line 1 into a driverless line without triggering a social conflict. After the shock of the 2000 Notre Dame de Lorette subway accident, in which a train derailed and caused 25 injuries in a Paris subway... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Technological Innovation; Rail Transportation; Labor Unions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; Paris

September 1989 (Revised July 1991)
Case

Caterpillar, Inc.: George Schaefer Takes Charge

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

For over half a century, Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) had been a world leader in the manufacture of earthmoving and construction machinery. In 1982, just months after it recorded the highest sales and profits in its history, CAT experienced its greatest crisis. Demand fell... View Details

Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Crisis Management; Labor Unions; Demand and Consumers; Management Teams; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Business Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Industrial Products Industry