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- 19 Nov 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
- 2021
- Article
Internment as a Business Challenge: Political Risk Management and German Multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947)
By: Christina Lubinski, Valeria Giacomin and Klara Schnitzer
Internment in so-called “enemy countries” was a frequent occurrence in the 20th century and created significant obstacles for multinational enterprises (MNEs). This article focuses on German MNEs in India and shows how they addressed the formidable challenge of the... View Details
Keywords: Internment; Political Risk; International Business; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; War; History; Outcome or Result; India; Germany
Lubinski, Christina, Valeria Giacomin, and Klara Schnitzer. "Internment as a Business Challenge: Political Risk Management and German Multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947)." Business History 63, no. 1 (2021): 72–97.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment During WWII
By: Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
This paper documents that the Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for Black men than for white men and the Black-white gap was larger in counties with higher levels of... View Details
Keywords: State Capacity; Institutions; War; History; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Government Administration
Qian, Nancy, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment During WWII." Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 22, 2025. Available also from KelloggInsight, HBS Working Knowledge, NBER, and LSE.)
- July 2022 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Nestlé, Shared Value and KitKat Diplomacy
By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Sabine Pitteloud
The case revolves around the decision on March 23, 2022 by Mark Schneider, the chief executive of Swiss-based Nestlé, to withdraw the emblematic Kit Kat chocolate bar from sales in Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine in the previous month, although not its... View Details
Keywords: Shared Value; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Globalized Economies and Regions; Ethics; War; Social Issues
Jones, Geoffrey G., and Sabine Pitteloud. "Nestlé, Shared Value and KitKat Diplomacy." Harvard Business School Case 323-018, July 2022. (Revised October 2022.)
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
electricity and turned India into the world's largest tea producer during the nineteenth century. They built automobile industries in Latin America after World War II. And so on. Book Excerpt Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
cannot be a leader if you’re not aware.” One way that mass incarceration can impact big businesses, says Jack, is when prison labor is part of a company’s portfolio. In her role at Head View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- August 2012 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
Egypt: Turbulence, and Transition?
By: Diego Comin, Mohamed Heikal and Adam Said
The case goes over the evolution of politics and institutions in Egypt over the last 50 years. The case provides new insights on the reasons for violent political transitions and also explores the effects of political instability on productivity and competitiveness. View Details
Keywords: Institutional Change; Military; Competitiveness; Democracy; Revolution; Productivity; History; Transition; Economic Systems; Competition; War; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Government and Politics; Volatility; Egypt
Comin, Diego, Mohamed Heikal, and Adam Said. "Egypt: Turbulence, and Transition?" Harvard Business School Case 713-014, August 2012. (Revised March 2015.)
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
and started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
weeks, all of the prisoners of war captured at the shack would be executed—but some who had followed Green through the mountains survived to tell... View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
The most damaging portion of former FBI Director Louis Freeh's comprehensive report on the Pennsylvania State pedophilia scandal is his conclusion that four senior university officials concealed football coach Jerry Sandusky's child abuse... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
GARRETT Ashley Garrett's 20 years as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen fed her soul. Raised and educated as a Quaker, Garrett (MBA 1987) says her family's values—consensus, equality, service, and integrity—provided her a solid foundation... View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
to write this work? What are some of the illusions you uncovered, and which ones strike you as most important to grapple with? A: Our country is in the midst of a major controversy regarding U.S. foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2022
- Chapter
Crises and International Business
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter uses the intellectual journey of the author to suggest that crises have been the norm rather than the exception in the history of international business. Over the last 100 years world wars, regional conflicts, the Great Depression, and decolonization are... View Details
Keywords: Crisis; Multinational Companies; International Business; Emerging Market; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; System Shocks; War; Emerging Markets; Crisis Management
Jones, Geoffrey. "Crises and International Business." Chap. 2 in International Business in Times of Crisis. Vol. 16, edited by Rob van Tulder, Alain Verbeke, Lucia Piscitello, and Jonas Puck, 27–32. Progress in International Business Research. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
thousands of Hungarian Jews died in Auschwitz. His father's mother, for example, as well as some of the relatives of his wife Eva, a Viennese Jew. And they lost a number View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Even as a preteen, Jennifer Porter Anderson (MBA 2013) was convinced there could be a better, more compassionate alternative for criminal justice than locking people up in large, violent prisons. What began as a family dinner-table conversation about the concept View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
2008 WL 1961156 (May 7, 2008) and the practical implications of the differences between unincorporated and corporate entities are highlighted. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310036-PDF-ENG Barclays Wealth:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
Bill after World War II, which created a huge pool of potential new students. What were other crucial turning points? A: The Great Depression of the 1930s reinvigorated the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
Cavallo suggests that American companies—and more recently, consumers—are bearing the brunt of the trade war with China, whose government has been retaliating with its own import tax increases. US exporters,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
US Army War College was having a three-day workshop on critical infrastructure threats. He wangled an invitation from a retired general and drove seven hours from his home in New Hampshire to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he listened to... View Details