Publications

January 2004 (Revised August 2015)
Case

Weetman Pearson and the Mexican Oil Industry (B)

By: Geoffrey Jones and Lisa Bud-Freirman

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business History; Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; United Kingdom; Mexico; Arizona

May 2003 (Revised May 2004)
Case

Submarino.com (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Luiz Felipe Monteiro

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Skills; Growth Management; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry; Brazil; Argentina; Mexico; Spain; Portugal

February 2003 (Revised August 2004)
Case

Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Jim McCusker must guide a group decision-making process aimed at getting input and buy-in from key people in California, Mexico, and Austria to choose a shop floor IT system for Flextronics. McCusker is Flextronics' account manager for the Microsoft Xbox project.... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Power and Influence; Geographic Location; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; California; Mexico; Austria

spring 2004
Article

Multinationals and Linkages: An Empirical Investigation

By: Laura Alfaro and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

Several recent papers have used plant-level data and panel econometric techniques to carefully explore the existence FDI externalities. One conclusion that emerges from this literature is that it is difficult to find evidence of positive externalities from... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Relationships; Multinational Firms and Management; Brazil; Chile; Venezuela; Mexico

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12 Jan 2010
News

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It’s strange to think about (with Boston temps stuck below freezing) but this time last year I was in Monterrey, Mexico, wrapping up a 10-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) with 48 HBS students. (You can read about that trip, and the program, here.) I’m staying... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

19 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our brand there, and purchased Astro Gaming, a California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

06 Dec 2016
First Look

December 6, 2016

rationalize these findings in a stylized model with segmented investor clienteles and habit formation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51958 Harvard Business School Case 716-062 Naranya: Created in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our brand there, and purchased Astro Gaming, a California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Case

Renegotiating NAFTA

By: Laura Alfaro, Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason and Sarah Jeong

January 1, 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Twenty-five years after the landmark trade pact was signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, considerable debate surrounded it. Trade and trade agreements were a... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Cost vs Benefits; Auto Industry; United States; Mexico; Canada

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512039-PDF-ENG INNOVA-MEX's Bid for ENKONTROL Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr, and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 812-008 In their second year, two Mexican HBS MBAs joined forces to start a search fund based in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

note presents statistics on private equity exits and discusses important issues relating to the most common exit routes. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/private-equity-exits/an/213112-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-041 salaUno: Eliminating Needless... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

family, friends, and employees." Jim Stuart has even gone so far as to help design a "Leadership Circle," an intensive program for CEOs scheduled to debut this summer in New Mexico that will integrate current management... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

Web

Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

histories through quite literal marginalization. New Mexico . Arbuckle Brothers. Trade Card. Advertising Ephemera Collection. Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, olvwork81667 Famed for their gold-hunting... View Details

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

not looking at relative productivity at a given moment in time or the relative unit cost levers, for instance, of managerial expertise. And then two, you're not seeing how fast wages are rising relative to increases in productivity. It's an issue on the border for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

06 Apr 2017
News

From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing

A Massachusetts firm that makes wire mesh for lobster traps says its technology could save millions in building the US-Mexico border wall proposed by President Donald Trump. "It's difficult to climb, it's difficult to cut—I think it just makes more sense than a... View Details

Keywords: Donald Trump; homeland security; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature makes three assertions: the U.S. did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them for the value of their assets, and the oil workers benefited from the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 1992 (Revised February 1994)
Case

North American Free Trade Agreement: Free For Whom?

Mexico, the United States, and Canada have negotiated a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that would create the largest free trade zone in the world. The union would build on the three-year-old Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.... View Details

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Trade; Canada; United States; Mexico