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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Providing jobs and alleviating poverty by building new businesses

Otso Fristrom (MBA 2008) is investing in businesses with a goal of providing jobs and alleviating poverty. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • September 2004 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Metso Paper: Globalization of Finnish Metal Workshops

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Marikka Heikkila and Kalle Lyytinen
Metso Paper, the world's largest producer of paper machines, aims to transform itself into a knowledge- and information-based service and solution provider for the paper industry by aggressively exploiting information technologies. In the fall of 2002, Jorma Hujala, a... View Details
Keywords: Production; Customer Value and Value Chain; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Knowledge Management; Machinery and Machining; Expansion; Service Delivery; Manufacturing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Finland
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Applegate, Lynda M., Marikka Heikkila, and Kalle Lyytinen. "Metso Paper: Globalization of Finnish Metal Workshops." Harvard Business School Case 805-057, September 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
  • June 1988 (Revised July 1988)
  • Case

Finnpap/Finnboard: Fin-Project (B)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Tapio Reponen and Richard G Mills
Keywords: Pulp and Paper Industry; Finland
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Tapio Reponen, and Richard G Mills. "Finnpap/Finnboard: Fin-Project (B)." Harvard Business School Case 188-103, June 1988. (Revised July 1988.)
  • May 1982
  • Case

Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (C)--Finland

By: Wickham Skinner, D. Q. Mills and Jean K. Trescott
Keywords: Human Resources; Globalized Firms and Management; Planning; Finland
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Skinner, Wickham, D. Q. Mills, and Jean K. Trescott. "Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (C)--Finland." Harvard Business School Case 682-052, May 1982.
  • March 2010 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A)

By: Juan Alcacer, Rasmus Karl Gustaf Molander and Rakeen Mabud
The Finnish brewer Hartwall and the Swedish brewer Pripps had to decide how to react to the rapidly changing European political, economic, and business environment in 1989–1990. View Details
Keywords: Economics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Government and Politics; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Finland; Sweden
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Alcacer, Juan, Rasmus Karl Gustaf Molander, and Rakeen Mabud. "Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-430, March 2010. (Revised February 2013.)
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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

target="_blank">Boston, MA Cambridge, MA New York City, NY   Helsinki, Finland Open Budgets India – Municipal Corporations Look at the resources above for more, or a simple Google search of town/city name and “open... View Details
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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About

Argentina (2017); Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Istanbul, Turkey (2017); Public Art Fund, New York City, USA (2017); Muze'on Yisrael / Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (2017); Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2016); 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria (2016); Helsinki Art Museum,... View Details
  • March 2010 (Revised February 2013)
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Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (B)

By: Juan Alcacer, Rasmus Karl Gustaf Molander and Rakeen Mabud
In 1991, Hartwall and Pripps made the decision to found Baltic Beverages Holding (BBH) and invest in the former USSR by buying Estonia's biggest brewery, Saku. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Estonia; Finland; Sweden
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Alcacer, Juan, Rasmus Karl Gustaf Molander, and Rakeen Mabud. "Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-471, March 2010. (Revised February 2013.)
  • June 2016
  • Case

Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean

By: Boris Groysberg, Kalle Heikkinen and Michael Norris
In 2016, after successfully turning around Finnish nonwovens manufacturer Suominen, CEO Nina Kopola faces a decision on the company’s strategy moving forward. View Details
Keywords: Nonwovens; Female Protagonist; Turnaround; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Pulp and Paper Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; United States; Finland
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Groysberg, Boris, Kalle Heikkinen, and Michael Norris. "Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean." Harvard Business School Case 416-047, June 2016.
  • December 2002 (Revised November 2003)
  • Case

Tympani Board, The

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Mike Tarkington, a partner at Reality Venture Partners, must recommend a course of action to his colleague, Steve Bonhomme. Bonhomme is trying to decide whom he should put on the board of a company that is acquiring one of Reality's portfolio companies. Reality will... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Equity; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Finland; United States
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Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tympani Board, The." Harvard Business School Case 803-105, December 2002. (Revised November 2003.)
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

than in most other countries. For instance, developed markets such as Sweden and Finland had more muted fiscal responses. They also had different responses on the medical side of the crisis. All these factors are somewhat confounding; the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • January 2018
  • Teaching Note

Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean

By: Boris Groysberg, Kalle Heikkinen, Michael Norris and James Barnett
In 2016, after successfully turning around Finnish nonwovens manufacturer Suominen, CEO Nina Kopola faces a decision on the company’s strategy moving forward. View Details
Keywords: Nonwovens; Female Protagonist; Turnaround; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Pulp and Paper Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; United States; Finland
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Groysberg, Boris, Kalle Heikkinen, Michael Norris, and James Barnett. "Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 418-053, January 2018.
  • 2010
  • Report

Nordic Globalization Barometer 2010

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2010 Nordic Globalization Barometer, the third in this series, is again designed to serve as input to the discussions of the five Nordic Prime Ministers (representing Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) at the Nordic Globalization Forum. In its first... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Competition; Research and Development; Policy; Financial Crisis; Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Norway; China
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Ketels, Christian H.M. "Nordic Globalization Barometer 2010." Report Series, Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen, 2010.
  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigrant from Finland who came to the United States as an exchange visitor, worked under the H1-B visa program, and ultimately became a US citizen, did the heavy lifting to wrestle the database into a platform that could track... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Feb 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

but also includes Finland (according to Nina Rautiainen), the UK (Andrew Swayne), and India (Kamil Kumar Sopory). Ravindra Edirisooriya put it succinctly: "These 'small' businesses did not go into business with the idea of creating... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-068 This case describes a new venture attempting to bring early-stage entrepreneurial financing to Finland and other Nordic countries. Entrepreneurship is taking off in Finland, an area that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2020
  • News

Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

native of Finland who competed in track on a full scholarship at Georgia Tech before graduating at the top of her class with a degree in Systems Engineering. “The case method teaches you how to think through business situations and come... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 20 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

information from their back pockets and transfer it to the problem at hand. In a four-week period of time, over 574 scientists investigated the problem statement and forty-two of them submitted potential solutions for considerations. The winning solution was proposed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

attractive for investors. Jensen: Similarly, voters in Finland decided to oust the ruling Social Democrats in favor of parties promoting tax cuts in response to the attraction of neighboring Estonia's flat tax. Most recently, the United... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Workforce Change

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This research encompasses layoffs, furloughs and restructuring, global practices that affect millions of employees and thousands of companies every year. In this work I aim to replace bad practice that damages trust with good (or at least better) practice through... View Details

Keywords: Layoffs; Leadership And Change Management; Global Innovation; Strategic Decision Making; Multinational Corporations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States; France; Germany; Hungary; Finland; United Kingdom; Netherlands; China; Japan; Brazil
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