Global - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2003
News

Brazil Banks on Experience

Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd AMP), former head of global... View Details

Keywords: Finance

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

A worldwide economic crisis. Intense scrutiny from board members, customers, and government regulators. Expanding global markets. Public protests aimed squarely at your industry. Running a financial institution, never easy to begin with,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

June 1992 (Revised January 1994)
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Coopers & Lybrand in Hungary (C)

Coopers & Lybrand open an office in Hungary. View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Hungary

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01 Dec 2010
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Noted & Quoted

bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry complaints that new global capital requirements will reduce... View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Sep 2006
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East to West

associates Chisato Toyama (MBA ’99) and Kim Eric Bettcher. As head of the first-year required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, Paine notes that she often looks for opportunities to bring a global perspective to the... View Details

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

11 Mar 2009
HBS Case

The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine

state to ownership (with 50.002 percent), and Gazprom's strategy for becoming a global energy company, mainly through acquisition and partnerships. “Russia needs the money. It can't scare away its customers.” The learning objectives of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Energy; Utilities

24 Apr 2014
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A lifelong mission to save the oceans

central challenge of our time: how to meet the enormous resource demands of a rapidly growing global population without destroying the natural systems that sustain us,” he says. Merkl found his passion as a young boy playing along the... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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New Post for Palepu

Professor Krishna Palepu, senior associate dean for International Development at HBS, has been tapped by Harvard President Drew Faust to be her senior adviser for global strategy, a new position. Consulting with colleagues from across the... View Details

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

01 Aug 2014
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A closer look at the industry of beauty

The global beauty business is a $450 billion industry, yet it received little serious scholarly attention until Geoffrey G. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, published Beauty Imagined: A History of the View Details

April 2011 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Fast Retailing Group

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

On January 1, 2011, Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of Fast Retailing Group (FR), sent his annual New Year's message to everyone in the company. The message, entitled "Change or Die," declared that FR - which included UNIQLO, Theory, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Global Strategy; Retail Industry

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February 2008
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Terumo (C)

By: David Godes, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki

This case provides a further update on the firm's decision regarding its U.S. sales strategy for its catheter products and the progress of Solution Pack. It also discusses the expansion of the firm's “Medical Pranex,” a unique facility offering training and meeting... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Global Strategy; Sales; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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June 1992 (Revised January 1994)
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Coopers & Lybrand in Hungary (B)

Coopers & Lybrand open an office in Hungary. View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Hungary

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March 1993
Teaching Note

John A. Clendenin and Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center TN

By: Michael Beer and Russell A. Eisenstat

Teaching Note for John A. Clendenin (9-490-028) and Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center (9-490-029). View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management

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2010
Introduction

Constructing the International Economy

By: Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth and Craig Parsons

Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalization; Economy; Trade

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01 Jun 2012
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Faculty Research Online

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’ CEOs of global companies increasingly mandate that their employees learn English. The problem: these workers can experience a loss of status and believe they aren’t as effective in... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

25 Apr 2014
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To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method

strategies. Procter & Gamble employed this model when it wanted to become a major player in the global beauty-care sector. It transformed the down-market Oil of Olay into a world-class brand and proved that this product could attract both... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

would be reflecting on the success of another sold-out Global Alumni Conference (GAC), but as many of you already know, we made a very difficult decision to cancel the conference scheduled for March in Buenos Aires. We extend our deepest... View Details

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

Making Sense of Past and Present

the Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism course. Since graduating from high school, I had missed learning about the rich content of the past and its “wow” moments of surprise, especially when history reveals the darkest realities of... View Details