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Slovakia that morning: They were there to bring an end to the war. Green and his team were under orders to support the Slovak National Uprising. Three weeks earlier, Slovak partisans had risen up against the country’s Nazi-allied... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

August 2003
Teaching Note

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (TN)

By: Paul M. Healy

Teaching Note for (9-103-018). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)

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01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

move the goalposts all the time, people don’t pay attention to long-range plans. Actually, we learned something about planning from the Chinese central planning system. They work on five-year plans. The plan doesn’t change, View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

April 1976
Case

Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John A. Quelch

Keywords: Energy Industry; Michigan

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May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
Teaching Note

Designing a Compliance Program at AB InBev

By: Eugene Soltes

Teaching Note for HBS No. 118-071. View Details

Keywords: Governance; Crime and Corruption; Governance Compliance; Consumer Products Industry; Africa; Europe; India; North America

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February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
Case

Priceline.com: Name Your Own Price

By: Robert J. Dolan

Priceline.com is a new concept shifting the setting of price from sellers to buyers. The company aspires to use its patented process of advertising units of demand at named prices to suppliers in many categories. This case focuses on its initial use in the airline... View Details

Keywords: Price; Internet and the Web; Marketing; Emerging Markets; Consumer Products Industry; Travel Industry; United States

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February 1969
Article

Test of a Product Cycle Model of International Trade: U.S. Exports of Consumer Durables

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Global Range; Trade; Product; Goods and Commodities; United States

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January 2001 (Revised August 2003)
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Student Educational Loan Fund, Inc. (Abridged)

By: Peter Tufano

Rick Melnick oversees the Student Educational Loan Fund (SELF), which provides loans to Harvard Business School students. SELF is changing the terms of student loans from variable-rate with semiannual payments to fixed-rate loans with equal monthly payments. Melnick... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Financing and Loans; Business Education; Interest Rates; Education Industry; Boston

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05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

Like many people interested in the tangled connections between health care progress and intellectual property rights, I avidly followed the Myriad Genetics case, decided by the Supreme Court this June 13. In sum, molecular diagnostics... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details