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  • November 2007 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Haier Hefei Electronics Co. (A)

By: Lynn Sharp Paine
The Haier Group, the first mainland Chinese company to make the Financial Times list of Asia's "most admired companies," attributes its success in large measure to the new value system it has sought to instill throughout the organization. However, when Haier takes over... View Details
Keywords: Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Ethics; Labor and Management Relations; Business or Company Management; Contracts; Electronics Industry; China
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    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Bounded Solidarity: The Role of Migrants in Shaping Entrepreneurial Ventures

    By: Astrid Marinoni and Prithwiraj Choudhury
    We explore a previously unexamined aspect of migrants’ contributions to local entrepreneurial ecosystems: the value created by cooperative interactions between migrants and locals in entrepreneurial ventures. Specifically, we analyze whether mixed teams composed of... View Details
    Keywords: Migration; Mobility; Entrepreneurship; Immigration; Demographics; Groups and Teams
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    • 29 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

    Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
    • October 2020 (Revised March 2022)
    • Case

    Automercados Plaza's: Surviving Venezuela's Hyperinflation

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Mariana Cal and Carla Larangeira
    Under the rule of presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela experienced one of the worst economic and political meltdowns in modern history, culminating with a massive hyperinflation. Remarkably, during this dramatic times Automercados Plaza's had grown to... View Details
    Keywords: Hyperinflation; Populism; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Management; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Government Relations; Retail Industry; South America; Venezuela
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    • 14 Jun 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    The Big Money for Big Projects

    debt, which means the loan repayments must come from project cash flows only. In municipally financed or public financed projects, a government entity is the borrower or the... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
    • 11 Feb 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

    opting for the short-term benefits in spite of the risks?” "There is no doubt the transactions were very risky, as interest rates on these loans frequently exceeded 20 percent," says Boris Vallée, an assistant professor in the Finance... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Geographies of Discontent: Public Service Deprivation and the Rise of the Far Right in Italy

    By: Simone Cremaschi, Paula Rettl, Marco Cappelluti and Catherine E. De Vries
    Electoral support for far-right parties is often linked to geographies of discontent. We argue that public service deprivation, defined as reduced access to public services at the local level, plays an important role in explaining these patterns. By exploiting an... View Details
    Keywords: Election Outcomes; Electoral Behavior; Political Affiliation; Political Culture; Public Service; Political Elections; Policy; Government and Politics; Surveys; Geographic Location; Immigration; Europe; Italy
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    Czech Mate: Expropriation and Investor Protection in a Converging World

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Alberto Moel
    This paper examines the expropriation of a foreign investor by a local partner and the subsequent resolution of that case through international arbitration in favor of the investor. Despite the investor's 99% interest in joint venture, the local partner managed to... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Capital Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Courts and Trials; Rights; Czech Republic; United States
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    • 10 Oct 2009
    • News

    Making the 'public option' a simple one

    • 14 Jul 2015
    • News

    Debt Should be a Guide to Policy Making

    • April 2002 (Revised October 2003)
    • Case

    Pension Plan of Bethlehem Steel, 2001, The

    By: Peter Tufano
    Bethlehem Steel's 2001 bankruptcy filing inspires an employee's daughter to evaluate her father's pension plan, weeks after September 11's tragedies exacerbated a weakening U.S. economy and just months before her father planned to retire. Battered equity markets and... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Retirement; Steel Industry; United States
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      David Ager

      David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

      • March 2022
      • Article

      Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil

      By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Spyridon Lagaras, Jacopo Ponticelli, Mounu Prem and Margarita Tsoutsoura
      We study how the disclosure of corrupt practices affects the growth of firms involved in illegal interactions with the government using randomized audits of public procurement in Brazil. On average, firms exposed by the anti-corruption program grow larger after the... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Business Growth and Maturation; Brazil
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      • December 2006
      • Case

      Southern Company's Investment in CEMIG

      In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Privatization; Investment; Acquisition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Utilities Industry; Brazil
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        Rong Family: A Chinese Business History

        Provides the complex historical background to understanding the development of family businesses in China from the late 19th century to the present. Using the example of the Rong family, China's most prominent industrialist family in pre-1949 China, analyzes the... View Details
        • 2010
        • Working Paper

        International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth

        By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
        The key in the investigation of "where" and "why" capital flows, relative to the neoclassical benchmark, is how we measure these flows. The macro literature has been using three main yardsticks: the current account balance, returns to capital, and the volume of net... View Details
        Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Performance Productivity; Capital; Economics
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        • March 2020
        • Case

        China's Management of COVID-19 (A): People's War or Chernobyl Moment?

        By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
        In late 2019, a novel respiratory virus appeared in a province in central China. Government officials in Wuhan, Hubei province had to respond to the new virus in the shadow of the 2002–2003 outbreak of SARS in China and within the context of the country’s public health... View Details
        Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Pandemics; Public Health; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Government Administration; Social Issues; Policy; Decision Making; China
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        • November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
        • Case

        China's Rural Leap Forward

        By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
        Collectively owned township and village enterprises (TVEs) played a pivotal role in China's rapid growth during the 1980s and 1990s. Although they originated in the policies and institutions of the Maoist era, TVEs thrived only after Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms... View Details
        Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Public Sector; Public Ownership; Development Economics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Macroeconomics; Emerging Markets; China
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        • October 2017 (Revised September 2022)
        • Teaching Note

        Fuyao Glass America: Sourcing Decision

        By: Willy Shih
        This case is about globalization: a Chinese company has decided to locate a production facility close to its customers in the U.S., but a recent contract bid means it will lose money, at least initially, by supplying product from that factory. The purpose of this case... View Details
        Keywords: Supply Chains; Labor Market; Labor Supply; Arbitrage; Tradable Sector; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Labor; Globalization; Globalized Markets and Industries; Geographic Location; Auto Industry; United States; China
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