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      • November 2002 (Revised March 2010)
      • Case

      The Newsprint Industry

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Nabil I. Al-Najjar and James Pyke
      Describes the 1990s consolidation on the newsprint industry. Questions whether consolidation will ever deliver on its promise. Whereas some industry observers maintain that the effects of consolidation are already visible, others argue that further consolidation is... View Details
      Keywords: Five Forces Framework; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Monopoly; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Consolidation; Pulp and Paper Industry
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Nabil I. Al-Najjar, and James Pyke. "The Newsprint Industry." Harvard Business School Case 703-404, November 2002. (Revised March 2010.)
      • November 2002
      • Article

      Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits

      By: Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore
      Keywords: Accounting Audits
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      Bazerman, Max H., George Loewenstein, and Don A. Moore. "Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits." Harvard Business Review 80, no. 11 (November 2002). (Reprinted in A.Leckley & J. Bogle (Eds.), Best Business Stories of the Year, Vintage Books, 2004.)
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      Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945-1980

      By: G. Jones
      This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership and control, in practice the nature of that "control" is far from... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Performance; Business or Company Management; Ownership; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      Jones, G. "Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945-1980." Business History Review 76, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 435–478.
      • July 2002 (Revised July 2008)
      • Case

      Value Retail

      By: Arthur I Segel and Ani M Vartanian
      Scott Malkin, CEO of Value Retail, a developer and operator of European outlet villages serving luxury brands, is planning on developing a 18,503 m2 open-air outlet village to be built 98 kilometers south of Milan on land he was about to acquire for 7.26 million lira.... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Retail Industry; Milan
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      Segel, Arthur I., and Ani M Vartanian. "Value Retail." Harvard Business School Case 803-008, July 2002. (Revised July 2008.)
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      On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs

      By: Laura Alfaro
      This paper provides a political economy explanation for temporary exchange-rate-based stabilization programs by focusing on the distributional effects of real exchange-rate appreciation. I propose an economy in which agents are endowed with either tradable or... View Details
      Keywords: Government and Politics; Economy; Balance and Stability; Programs; Currency Exchange Rate; Cash; Value; Distribution
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      Alfaro, Laura. "On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs." Economics & Politics 14, no. 2 (July 2002): 133–161.
      • June 2002 (Revised September 2002)
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      Pokemon: Gotta Catch 'Em All (Abridged)

      By: Youngme E. Moon
      Pokemon, the colloquial name given to a collection of 150 fantastic, animal-inspired creatures with organic powers and the capacity to evolve, are the stars of video games, trading card games, and TV cartoons. Conceived in Japan in 1996, Pokemon quickly became that... View Details
      Keywords: Brands and Branding; Age; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Copyright; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Japan; Asia; United States
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      Moon, Youngme E. "Pokemon: Gotta Catch 'Em All (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 502-092, June 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
      • March 2002 (Revised June 2005)
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      AOL Time Warner, Inc.

      By: Stephen P. Bradley and Erin Sullivan
      AOL Time Warner, which has been billed as the "first fully integrated media and communications company of the Internet Century," raises the fundamental question of how value will be created and captured by the merger of AOL and Time Warner. This case describes just how... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; Organizational Culture; Consolidation; Change Management; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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      Bradley, Stephen P., and Erin Sullivan. "AOL Time Warner, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 702-421, March 2002. (Revised June 2005.)
      • January 2002 (Revised November 2010)
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      Strategic Planning at NFTE

      By: Allen S. Grossman and Daniel F. Curran
      The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), is a successful nonprofit poised on the verge of explosive growth. The senior management contracted with McKinsey consultants to help guide the process. The founders of NFTE brought it from a small program... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations
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      Grossman, Allen S., and Daniel F. Curran. "Strategic Planning at NFTE." Harvard Business School Case 302-002, January 2002. (Revised November 2010.)
      • 2002
      • Case

      Commodities, Specialties and the Great In-Between

      By: Benson P. Shapiro
      Keywords: Profit; Goods and Commodities
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      Shapiro, Benson P. "Commodities, Specialties and the Great In-Between." Harvard Business School Publishing Case, 2002. (Note #9-999-005.)
      • December 2001
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      iSteelAsia-2001

      By: F. Warren McFarlan and Iris T. Li
      Presents a follow-up one year later. Shows how this online steel distributor has now reached breakeven. Focuses on the new challenges for the future. View Details
      Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Economy; Goods and Commodities; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Information; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Problems and Challenges; Steel Industry; China; United States
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, and Iris T. Li. "iSteelAsia-2001." Harvard Business School Case 302-074, December 2001.
      • December 2001
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      Natural Pork Production

      By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
      An entrepreneurial hog farmer's creative use of contracts and capital structure drives very successful growth and returns in a depressed commodity industry. View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Capital Structure; Futures and Commodity Futures; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Goods and Commodities; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Contracts; Success; Consumer Products Industry
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      Goldberg, Ray A., and James M Beagle. "Natural Pork Production." Harvard Business School Case 902-413, December 2001.
      • November 2001
      • Case

      Lakeside

      By: Michael A. Wheeler
      This case presents an ethical choice: How should a prospective buyer respond when a homeowner quotes a price that the buyer knows is significantly below market value? The case describes a private transaction in which the prospective seller is fully competent mentally... View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Price; Negotiation Process; Property; Risk and Uncertainty; Real Estate Industry
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      Wheeler, Michael A. "Lakeside." Harvard Business School Case 902-104, November 2001.
      • 2001
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      Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built

      By: R. S. Tedlow
      From the table of contents: Andrew Carnegie: From Rags to Richest; George Eastman and the creation of a mass market; Henry Ford: The Profits and the Price of Primitivism; Thomas J. Watson Sr. and American salesmanship; Charles Revson and Revlon: Consumer Packaged Goods... View Details
      Keywords: Business History
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      Tedlow, R. S. Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built. New York, NY: Harper Business, 2001. (Selected as one of the 10 best business books of the year 2001 by Business Week. It has also been translated into 7 languages, including Chinese (complex characters), Chinese (simplified characters), Indonesian, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.)
      • September 2001 (Revised June 2004)
      • Case

      Cafe de Colombia

      By: Rohit Deshpande and Alexandra de Royere
      Discusses sustaining brand equity after a highly successful commodity-product branding ad campaign. View Details
      Keywords: Globalization; Brands and Branding; Advertising Campaigns; Product; Goods and Commodities; Colombia
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      Deshpande, Rohit, and Alexandra de Royere. "Cafe de Colombia." Harvard Business School Case 502-024, September 2001. (Revised June 2004.)
      • May 2001 (Revised December 2003)
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      Mexico: The Unfinished Agenda

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans
      President Vincente Fox takes over in Mexico on December 1, 2000--a political revolution ending 71 years of PRI rule. In the past five years, Mexico has solved a number of macroeconomic problems and had a good run of economic growth. But a host of microeconomic problems... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Government and Politics; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Mexico
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      Vietor, Richard H.K., and Rebecca Evans. "Mexico: The Unfinished Agenda." Harvard Business School Case 701-116, May 2001. (Revised December 2003.)
      • May 2001 (Revised March 2008)
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      "To hell with the future, let's get on with the past." George Mitchell in North Ireland

      By: James K. Sebenius and Daniel F. Curran
      Examines the strategies and tactics used by U.S. negotiator George Mitchell during his two-year tenure as chairman of the all-party talks in Northern Ireland. His efforts culminated in the signing of the historic Good Friday Accords. View Details
      Keywords: Policy; International Relations; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Strategy; Northern Ireland
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      Sebenius, James K., and Daniel F. Curran. "To hell with the future, let's get on with the past." George Mitchell in North Ireland. Harvard Business School Case 801-393, May 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
      • 2001
      • Working Paper

      The Malleability of Environmentalism

      By: Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni, Min Li, Leigh L. Thompson and M. Bazerman
      In this paper, we predict and find that self-perceptions of environmentalism are changed by subtle manipulations of context and, in turn, affect environmental behavior. In Study 1, we found that people exhibit greater positive assessments of their environmental... View Details
      Keywords: Perspective; Behavior; Identity; Environmental Sustainability
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      Wade-Benzoni, Kimberly A., Min Li, Leigh L. Thompson, and M. Bazerman. "The Malleability of Environmentalism." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-066, April 2001. (Revised August 2007.)
      • March 2001
      • Article

      Strategy and the Internet

      By: M. E. Porter
      Many of the pioneers of Internet business, both dot-coms and established companies, have competed in ways that violate nearly every precept of good strategy. Rather than focus on profits, they have chased customers indiscriminately through discounting, channel... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Online Technology
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      Porter, M. E. "Strategy and the Internet." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 3 (March 2001): 62–78.
      • January 2001 (Revised October 2002)
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      The American Medical Association-Sunbeam Deal (A): Serpent on the Staff Meets Chainsaw Al

      By: Ashish Nanda and Kimberly A. Haddad
      Facing dwindling membership and looking to increase its revenue, the American Medical Association (AMA) signed an endorsement deal with Sunbeam Corp., a leader in the small home appliance industry, in August 1997. In the deal, the AMA would receive significant... View Details
      Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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      Nanda, Ashish, and Kimberly A. Haddad. "The American Medical Association-Sunbeam Deal (A): Serpent on the Staff Meets Chainsaw Al." Harvard Business School Case 801-326, January 2001. (Revised October 2002.)
      • December 2000
      • Case

      Friona Industries, L.P.

      By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
      As the food industry becomes more sophisticated, and as genomics and other factors provide for quality control from the producers to the consumers in the food chain, the beef industry has been one of the last commodity systems to organize the vertical systems to... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Food; Management Systems; Supply and Industry; Performance Consistency; Quality; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "Friona Industries, L.P." Harvard Business School Case 901-009, December 2000.
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