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  • 1989
  • Book

Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution

By: C. A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • 25 Oct 2010
  • HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

makes ideal Harvard Business School case material for teaching everything from multinational strategy to on-the-ground logistics. Marketing professor John A. Quelch recently introduced Tesco PLC: Fresh & Easy in the United States,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • September 2021 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Bühler: Mobilizing Industry around a Common Purpose

By: Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen and Malini Sen
Bühler Group, a Swiss multinational processing technology provider, started by selling machines for processing grains and later transitioned into selling food processing solutions. A family-owned business in the fifth generation, Bühler’s high-end milling, grinding,... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Customer Focus and Relationships; Machinery and Machining; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Innovation Leadership; Switzerland
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  • Article

Models of Best Practice in Integrated Reporting 2015

By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and Sydney Ribot
In March of 2015, the authors reviewed the integrated reports of 25 multinational companies that participated in the International Integrated Reporting Council's (IIRC's) Pilot Programme Business Network. Because it was not until December 2013 that companies had any... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting
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  • August 2015 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Amazon.com, 2021

By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock, Gabriel Ellsworth and Galen Danskin
In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit 2), but not all... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Internet; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Price; Applications and Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; Advertising Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Publishing Industry; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
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  • September 2009
  • Article

Virtue out of Necessity? Compliance, Commitment and the Improvement of Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains

By: Akshay Mangla, Richard Locke and Matthew Amengual
Private, voluntary compliance programs, promoted by global corporations and nongovernmental organizations alike, have produced only modest and uneven improvements in working conditions and labor rights in most global supply chains. Through a detailed study of a major... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Ethics; Supply Chain; Governance Compliance; Globalization
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination

By: Jordan I. Siegel, Naomi Kodama and Hanna Halaburda
Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed, due in part to data limitations and methodological difficulties, and possibly to omission of a fairness factor in the economic theory of... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Fairness; Performance Productivity; Gender; Japan
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  • February 2013 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Elasto Therm: The Next Step

By: Jim Sharpe and James Weber
Julia and Nate Burstein were living their dream running their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Sales Force Management; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

forthcoming Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations By: Neeley, Tsedal Abstract—For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

goals in the face of changing regulatory and legal dynamics; and Banco Santander considering multinational dynamics involving whether to use a diversity-focused executive compensation metric in all its markets or only in some markets,... View Details
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

consumers based on new green brand identities. Spring 2014 Article Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the... View Details
  • Web

Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

you achieve your educational goals and accelerate your career. Access your free e-book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Rodrigo Wagner, Tufts University

  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Rounding the Bend

toward circularity has been “an utter and complete lack of infrastructure,” Bolon observes. Looper Textile Co. was founded in 2023 to address that. A joint venture of the multinational fashion brand H&M Group and the European... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Education (1) Mining (1) Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising (1) Mission and Purpose (20) Mobile Technology (8) Money (4) Monopoly (6) Moral Sensibility (25) Motivation and Incentives (146) Multi-Sided Platforms (5) Multinational Firms... View Details
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs, but a complement for social and cultural IGOs. July 2013 Article Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr This paper studies the impact... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Trade Credit and Taxes

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley & James R. Hines
  • 20 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

"nearly all of them expressed feeling some anxiety about having access to appropriate words," particularly when the work became highly technical, conversations became emotional, or when the workers were tired. Language barriers can divide teams in View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 12 Sep 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics

  • 04 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance

Keywords: by Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn & Jordi Quoidbach