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      • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
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      The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

      By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
      In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
      Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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      Abdelal, Rawi E., Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer, and Aldo Musacchio. "The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry." Harvard Business School Case 706-043, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
      • March 2006
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      Geeli (CW)

      By: Kenneth A. Froot and Li Jin
      A well-performing Chinese manufacturer faces major impediments raising funding to grow. Highlights various imperfections that shape the financing decision. View Details
      Keywords: Capital Costs; Diversification; Cost of Capital; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; China
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      Froot, Kenneth A., and Li Jin. "Geeli (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 206-710, March 2006.
      • February 2006
      • Case

      Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion

      By: Nancy F. Koehn and Erica Helms
      Explores the creation and subsequent rise of Bumble and bumble, a trend-setting hair-care company. Analyzes the vision and achievements of the founding entrepreneur, Michael Gordon, and charts the evolution of the company within the $230 billion global beauty industry.... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Financial Condition; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Distribution; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Fashion Industry
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      Koehn, Nancy F., and Erica Helms. "Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 806-084, February 2006.
      • February 2006 (Revised October 2006)
      • Case

      China: Building "Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics"

      By: Debora L. Spar
      Describes China's phenomenal development from a poor, communist country to a global powerhouse. Provides background on China's history and culture, details the reforms launched in 1978 by Seng Xiaoping, and describes the situation as of 2006, focusing on the... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Government and Politics; China
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      Spar, Debora L., Jean C. Oi, and Chris Bebenek. China: Building "Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics". Harvard Business School Case 706-041, February 2006. (Revised October 2006.)
      • January 2006
      • Case

      Jack Strang at SequenceLabs

      By: Mukti Khaire, John J. Gabarro and Lynda M. Applegate
      How can entrepreneur manage his firm if things go wrong despite having a great idea, a solid team, and financial backing? Jack Strang founded a biotech firm with his friend Peter Evans, to develop molecular pathway-based "cures" for metabolic disorders. The idea was... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Growth and Maturation; Failure; Biotechnology Industry
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      Khaire, Mukti, John J. Gabarro, and Lynda M. Applegate. "Jack Strang at SequenceLabs." Harvard Business School Case 806-088, January 2006.
      • January 2006 (Revised May 2006)
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      Akin Ongor's Journey

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
      A retired bank CEO, one of Turkey's most admired leaders, wants to start a leadership institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean region. Describes his biography and values, the models he established for excellent financial performance and... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Startups; Environmental Sustainability; Retirement; Education Industry; Turkey; United States
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Akin Ongor's Journey." Harvard Business School Case 306-072, January 2006. (Revised May 2006.)
      • December 2005 (Revised April 2011)
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      General Electric's 20th Century CEOs

      By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
      General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's research lab to design and manufacture new and... View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style
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      Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "General Electric's 20th Century CEOs." Harvard Business School Case 406-048, December 2005. (Revised April 2011.)
      • December 2005 (Revised October 2006)
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      Nest Fresh Eggs (A)

      By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
      Cyd Szymanski's cage-free egg business was threatened by large caged-hen companies that saw new profit potential in the industry she had helped build. Szymanski had based her company, Nest Fresh Eggs, on a strong personal belief that people deserved healthier... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
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      Amabile, Teresa M., and Victoria Winston. "Nest Fresh Eggs (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-056, December 2005. (Revised October 2006.)
      • December 2005 (Revised March 2007)
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      Leerink Swann & Co.: Creating Competitive Advantage

      By: Boris Groysberg and Andrew N. McLean
      In the spring of 2005, CEO Jeff Leerink has called a meeting of the executive committee to formulate Leerink Swann's growth strategy over the next five years so that it accomplishes three goals: expand into a new business, reinforce the firm's legacy businesses, and... View Details
      Keywords: Banks and Banking; Human Resources; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Alignment; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Andrew N. McLean. "Leerink Swann & Co.: Creating Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Case 406-060, December 2005. (Revised March 2007.)
      • October 2005
      • Case

      Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 2005

      By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mary L. Shelman
      CEO Mayo Schmidt had just guided his firm through five difficult years. Survival had come with the difficult decision to change the 80-year-old agricultural cooperative into a Canadian business corporation. The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (SWP) now faced the future with a... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Capital; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Food and Beverage Industry; Canada
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      Goldberg, Ray A., and Mary L. Shelman. "Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 2005." Harvard Business School Case 906-402, October 2005.
      • October 2005 (Revised February 2006)
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      Reactivity: A Case of Re-Invention

      By: Myra M. Hart and Sylvia Sensiper
      By the time Glenn Osaka joined Reactivity as its new CEO in January 2001, the Internet bubble had burst, the financial markets had turned, and the company's core businesses were drying up. He was not hired to lead a turnaround, but Osaka found that the firm's future... View Details
      Keywords: Management Style; Venture Capital; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Leadership Style; Product; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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      Hart, Myra M., and Sylvia Sensiper. "Reactivity: A Case of Re-Invention." Harvard Business School Case 806-025, October 2005. (Revised February 2006.)
      • September 2005 (Revised January 2009)
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      E-Duction, Inc.

      By: Peter Tufano
      E-Ductions, a small privately held start-up, developed a new voluntary employee benefit: a payroll-deduction-linked credit card. The CLEAR card provided workers, especially low-income and credit-challenged employees, access to a card with tight credit limits, zero APR,... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Credit; Credit Cards; Compensation and Benefits; Employees
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      Tufano, Peter, and Daniel Schneider. "E-Duction, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 206-006, September 2005. (Revised January 2009.)
      • September 2005 (Revised June 2012)
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      New Songdo City

      By: Arthur I Segel, Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard and Andrew Murphy
      The government of South Korea has chosen John Hynes and Gale International to construct New Songdo City. This is an entirely new city, about the size of Boston, between the new Incheon airport and the capital of Seoul. The proposed city is the government's attempt to... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Urban Development; Construction; Design; Climate Change; South Korea
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      Segel, Arthur I., Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard, and Andrew Murphy. "New Songdo City." Harvard Business School Case 206-019, September 2005. (Revised June 2012.)
      • August 2005 (Revised March 2007)
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      Politics and Prudential Supervision: ABN Amro's Bid for Antonveneta (A)

      By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner
      Involves the March 2005 takeover bid launched by ABN Amro, the Dutch bank, for Padua-based Banca Antoniana Popolare Veneta S.p.A. (Antonveneta)--a bid that many would view as a test of Italy's commitment to the creation of a single European market for financial... View Details
      Keywords: History; Transformation; Business and Government Relations; Integration; Competitive Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; European Union; Italy
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      Abdelal, Rawi E., and Christopher Bruner. "Politics and Prudential Supervision: ABN Amro's Bid for Antonveneta (A)." Harvard Business School Case 706-009, August 2005. (Revised March 2007.)
      • July/September 2005
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      Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale

      By: Rawi Abdelal
      This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union... View Details
      Keywords: Policy; International Finance; Globalization; France; European Union
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      Abdelal, Rawi. "Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale." Critique internationale, no. 28 (July/September 2005): 87–115.
      • June 2005 (Revised January 2007)
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      Equator Principles, The: An Industry Approach to Managing Environmental and Social Risks

      By: Benjamin C. Esty, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Aldo Sesia
      In June 2003, 10 leading international banks adopted new voluntary guidelines, called the Equator Principles, to promote sustainable development in project finance. In recent years, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) had raised issues about the lenders'... View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Project Finance; Standards; Projects; Commercial Banking; Non-Governmental Organizations
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      Esty, Benjamin C., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Aldo Sesia. "Equator Principles, The: An Industry Approach to Managing Environmental and Social Risks." Harvard Business School Case 205-114, June 2005. (Revised January 2007.)
      • June 2005
      • Case

      Furqan Nazeeri and the IMTrader Spin-Out

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Brian DeLacey
      Furqan Nazeeri is looking to spin out a promising set of products and technologies from an established financial services firm. Designed as an exercise in negotiation. Includes material from the original business plan, and it is possible to simulate a negotiation... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Business or Company Management; Negotiation Process; Product Development; Technology Adoption
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Brian DeLacey. "Furqan Nazeeri and the IMTrader Spin-Out." Harvard Business School Case 805-147, June 2005.
      • April 2005 (Revised January 2006)
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      Protege Partners: The Capacity Challenge

      By: Randolph B. Cohen
      In February 2005, Jeffrey Tarrant (HBS '85) and Ted Seides (HBS '99) considered their strategy for Protege Partners, founded in July 2002 as a fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specializing in small hedge funds. Protege's assets under management had grown to $1.1 billion, and... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Growth and Maturation; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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      Cohen, Randolph B., and Brian DeLacey. "Protege Partners: The Capacity Challenge." Harvard Business School Case 205-100, April 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
      • 2005
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      Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

      By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
      We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Stocks; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Financial Institutions; Equity; Corporate Finance
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      Baker, Malcolm, Joshua Coval, and Jeremy Stein. "Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2005. (First Draft in 2004.)
      • March 2005 (Revised May 2006)
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      Buckingham Park

      By: Arthur I Segel and Joshua A. Katzin
      In September, 2004, Stephen Lebowitz, President of CBL, a $6 billion publicly traded shopping mall real estate investment trust (REIT) with over 70 million square feet, is considering acquiring 170 acres for a new retail development at a racetrack site in Southern New... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Debt Securities; Investment; Real Estate Industry; New Hampshire
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      Segel, Arthur I., and Joshua A. Katzin. "Buckingham Park." Harvard Business School Case 205-085, March 2005. (Revised May 2006.)
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