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  • October 1998 (Revised September 1999)
  • Case

Mercedes-Benz in Alabama: Lessons from the Field

By: William J. Bruns Jr., Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
Details the establishment of the Mercedes Benz M-Class plant in Vance, AL. The plant was established as an independent "teaching field" for parent company Daimler Benz. The case reviews the different lessons from the plant and looks at issues going forward,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Banks and Banking; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Business Ventures; Teaching; Organizational Structure; Auto Industry; Alabama
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  • December 2012
  • Supplement

Jefferson County (C): Subsequent Issuance

By: Daniel Bergstresser and Randolph B. Cohen
Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow? View Details
Keywords: Local Government; Political Process; Bankruptcy; Debt Management; Financial Planning; Urban Development; Environmental Sustainability; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; Borrowing and Debt; Alabama
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  • January 2025
  • Supplement

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Derek C. M. van Bever
Recounts a pivotal moment in Martin Luther King Jr.'s life during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, where a profound prayer amidst threats to his life renewed his faith and resolve to lead the movement. This transformative experience marked the beginning of his lifelong... View Details
Keywords: Spirituality; Civil Rights; Manging Uncertainty; Leadership; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Power and Influence; Alabama
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  • December 1998
  • Teaching Note

Mercedes-Benz in Alabama: Lessons from the Field TN

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Teaching Note for (9-199-028). View Details
Keywords: Auto Industry; Alabama
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  • Jan 2014
  • Keynote Speech

Creating Shared Value: The Path to Economic and Social Prosperity for Birmingham

By: Michael E. Porter
Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Alabama
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  • December 2012 (Revised January 2013)
  • Supplement

Jefferson County (E): Postscript

By: Daniel Bergstresser and Randolph B. Cohen
Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow? View Details
Keywords: Local Government; Political Process; Bankruptcy; Debt Management; Financial Planning; Urban Development; Infrastructure; Borrowing and Debt; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry; Alabama
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  • February 2008
  • Teaching Note

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery (TN)

By: Bill George
Teaching Note for [406016]. View Details
Keywords: Alabama
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  • August 2005 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery

By: William W. George, Rick Buhrman and Andrew N. McLean
As the Montgomery Bus Boycott starts, the young Martin Luther King Jr. faces challenges to his leadership goals, strategic vision, and personal and family safety. Makes extensive use of King's own words and writings and builds a portrait of a young, talented, and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Education; Values and Beliefs; Biography; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Alabama
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  • 05 May 2020
  • News

“Walking a Tightrope”

happened to be going to Alabama to visit a friend. And she was carrying some drugs. She was carrying like a bag of heroin. And she got caught. Thrown in jail in Alabama prison. And she was sentenced to nine... View Details
  • Web

Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Jacksonian Economy . New York: Norton, 1969. Vickers, Raymond B. Panic in Paradise: Florida’s Banking Crash of 1926 . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994. Walden, Charles M. Timing a Century: A History of the Waltham Watch... View Details
  • Web

Harvard Business School

Science, 1936. Henderson, Alexa Benson. Atlanta Life Insurance Company: Guardian of Black Economic Dignity . Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. Hill, Laura Warren, and Julia Rabig, eds. The Business of Black Power:... View Details
  • July 2012 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged)

By: Clayton Rose and Aldo Sesia
In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Family Business; Strategy And Execution; Banks and Banking; Family Ownership; Financial Institutions; Strategy; Banking Industry; United States; Alabama
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  • February 2024
  • Supplement

Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B1): Birmingham Climate Action Snapshot

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Natania Elias and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
Keywords: Mitigation Policies; Carbon Footprint; Climate Finance; Mobility; Adaptation; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Sustainable Cities; City; Innovation Strategy; Investment; United States; Alabama
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  • May 1993 (Revised January 1994)
  • Case

Cummins Engine Company, The: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant

By: Robert H. Hayes
Cummins Engine Co. is starting up production of diesel engine crankshafts in its plant in central Mexico. This operation requires much tighter tolerances than any product previously produced at the plant, and the young (recent MBA) manager who is in charge of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Production; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Industrial Products Industry; Mexico; Alabama
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  • November 1995
  • Teaching Note

The Cummins Engine Company: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant TN

By: Robert H. Hayes
Teaching Note for (9-693-121). View Details
Keywords: Industrial Products Industry; Mexico; Alabama
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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

multibillion-dollar electronics corporation. On his first day in the lab there, he encountered a large banner that read, "George Wallace for President." That proclamation for the pro-segregationist former governor of Alabama was... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Reserve University, Duke University, Peking University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt Law School and Virginia Commonwealth University, who led the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Keepers of the Flame

ways," he elaborates. "The corporate support came along much later." Wallace, an Alabama native, enjoyed highly successful stints at Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and the Georgia Research Alliance, a business/government council, before signing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons