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  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

telegraph varied commodity by commodity and the bulk of communications continued by sea post until the early twentieth century. London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

    Hubert Joly

    Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy
    Author of The Heart of Business– Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

    Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit and... View Details

      George Serafeim

      George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management

        Allen S. Grossman

        Allen Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; nonprofit industry

          Leonard A. Schlesinger

          Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

          • March 2006
          • Module Note

          Financing Decisions within the Firm

          By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
          Describes a core module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module focuses on the financial and managerial issues that confront managers who make financial decisions within multinational firms: how subsidiaries should be financed and... View Details
          Keywords: Decisions; International Finance; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Framework; Performance Evaluation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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          Desai, Mihir A., and Kathleen Luchs. "Financing Decisions within the Firm." Harvard Business School Module Note 206-124, March 2006.

            Brian L. Trelstad

             

            Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

            Keywords: education industry; health care; service industry; emerging market private equity; private equity (other); venture capital industry
            • June 1994
            • Background Note

            Scope and Challenge of Business-to-Business Marketing

            By: V. Kasturi Rangan
            Identifies six key linkages that distinguish business-to-business marketing; three with respect to the external environment (i.e., derived demand, complex buying process, and concentrated customer base) and three with respect to the internal organization (emphasis on... View Details
            Keywords: Marketing; Customers; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Structure; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Technology
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            Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Scope and Challenge of Business-to-Business Marketing." Harvard Business School Background Note 594-125, June 1994.
            • March 1992
            • Case

            Merv Griffin's Resorts

            Discusses a management team that used computer-based information to micro market and provide superior products and service in a highly competitive market. The company is a leading firm in the gaming industry, and their extensive internal systems allowed them to track... View Details
            Keywords: Information Technology; Marketing
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            Sviokla, John J. "Merv Griffin's Resorts." Harvard Business School Case 192-105, March 1992.
            • January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
            • Case

            BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields

            By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
            British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development... View Details
            Keywords: Investment; Policy; Capital Budgeting; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom; Europe
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            Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields." Harvard Business School Case 201-067, January 2001. (Revised May 2010.)
            • Working Paper

            How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

            By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
            We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships... View Details
            Keywords: Venture Capital; Decision Choices and Conditions
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            Gompers, Paul A., William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. "How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22587, September 2016.
            • March 2018 (Revised August 2018)
            • Case

            Matching Markets for Googlers

            By: Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning
            This case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case evaluates how marketplace design considerations—and several alternative staffing models—could affect the company’s goals... View Details
            Keywords: People Analytics; Google; Labor Market; Staffing; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Selection and Staffing; Goals and Objectives; Technology Industry; United States
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            Cowgill, Bo, and Rembrand Koning. "Matching Markets for Googlers." Harvard Business School Case 718-487, March 2018. (Revised August 2018.) (More about Bo Cowgill.)
            • June 1993 (Revised April 1998)
            • Case

            COMCO Holding AG (B): COMCO Martech

            By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
            COMCO Martech was a new breed of joint venture for COMCO Holding, a mid-sized Swiss-German company that had grown over a five-year period through tie-ups with small, start-up companies. Whereas a typical COMCO venture provided services to a large German retailer, was... View Details
            Keywords: Joint Ventures; Business Startups; Trade; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Switzerland; United States; Europe
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            Kanter, Rosabeth M. "COMCO Holding AG (B): COMCO Martech." Harvard Business School Case 393-143, June 1993. (Revised April 1998.)

              Paul A. Gompers

              Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
              Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry
              • April 1989 (Revised September 1989)
              • Case

              CIBA-GEIGY AG: Impact of Inflation and Currency Fluctuations

              By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
              The chairman of the second-largest Swiss multinational company is preparing for a board discussion on the impact of a constantly strengthening Swiss franc. The case raises strategic issues in terms of international competitiveness, financial reporting issues of how to... View Details
              Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Currency; Financial Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Switzerland
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              Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "CIBA-GEIGY AG: Impact of Inflation and Currency Fluctuations." Harvard Business School Case 389-176, April 1989. (Revised September 1989.)
              • November 1978 (Revised June 1985)
              • Case

              Hanson Industries (B)

              By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein
              Provides a complete description of the processes used in preparing a budget (annual operating plan). Starting with basic product line decisions, management prepares a budget that integrates production and marketing within constraints of financial feasibility. The... View Details
              Keywords: Production; Negotiation; Marketing; Financing and Loans; Budgets and Budgeting; Planning
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              Bruns, William J., Jr., and Julie H. Hertenstein. "Hanson Industries (B)." Harvard Business School Case 179-077, November 1978. (Revised June 1985.)
              • 01 Jan 2003
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              • June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
              • Background Note

              The Decline of the British Cotton Industry (Abridged)

              Supplements the general argument concerning the decline of the British economy by showing how vertical specialization, horizontal competition, and entrenched job control combined to create incentives for management to adapt to changing international conditions by... View Details
              Keywords: Technology; Business Cycles; Organizational Structure; Consumer Products Industry; Great Britain
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              McCraw, Thomas K. "The Decline of the British Cotton Industry (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Background Note 391-253, June 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
              • July – August 2011
              • Article

              What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?

              By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, Nitin Nohria and George Serafeim
              A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors... View Details
              Keywords: Competition; Forecasting and Prediction; Industry Growth; Judgments; Performance; Valuation; Price; Quality; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Competency and Skills; Surveys
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              Groysberg, Boris, Paul Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim. "What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?" Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 4 (July–August 2011).
              • July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
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              AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

              By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller and Carl Kreitzberg
              By the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T’s management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called the “biggest logistical challenge” they had ever seen: retraining 100,000 workers by 2020. In 2012, internal company... View Details
              Keywords: AT&T; Workforce; Skills; Future Of Work; Telecommunications; Unions; Technological Change; Layoffs; MOOCS; Strategic Planning; Employees; Training; Competency and Skills; Labor; Learning; Labor Unions; Technology Adoption; Talent and Talent Management; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
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              Kerr, William R., Joseph B. Fuller, and Carl Kreitzberg. "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow." Harvard Business School Case 820-017, July 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
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