Publications

Educators

September 1986 (Revised April 1990)
Case

Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH

Mueller-Lehmkuhl sells apparel fasteners and rents attaching machines. It views these two products as effectively a single item and prices them accordingly, the fasteners at high profit and its attaching machines at a loss. The cost system allocates the cost of the... View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Profit; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Japan; Germany

Educators

10 Mar 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

Beth Thoren (MBA 1992) was a teenager in Japan the first time she saw the ocean. “I thought it was the most beautiful and fragile thing I’d ever seen,” she recalls. The experience sparked a lifelong interest in the natural world and led... View Details

Keywords: April White

August 1989 (Revised November 1994)
Case

Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.: Marketing Strategy for the European Market

By: John A. Quelch

Nissan executives are reviewing their European marketing strategy in light of the 1992 European Community (EC) market integration program and the likely end of bilateral import quotas on Japanese cars by some EC countries. Having recently established a manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Resource Allocation; Market Entry and Exit; Trade; Auto Industry; Japan; United Kingdom; Europe

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

University's most influential professors and the author of numerous books and publications including On Competition (HBSP 1998) and co-author of Can Japan Compete? (Perseus Press, 2000), told the audience that it's time to look at inner... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts, then taught the teachers The... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2003
News

Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

year our yield (the rate of acceptance on offers of admissions) surpassed an astounding 90 percent — the highest of any business or professional school. Global Outreach On the global front, we officially launched the Japan Research Office... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 1998
Background Note

Share Buy-Backs: The European and Japanese Experience

By: Marc L. Bertoneche

Keywords: Stock Shares; Europe; Japan

June 1997
Case

Tokyo Electric Power Company

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Keywords: Utilities Industry; Tokyo

November 1998 (Revised July 1999)
Case

Merrill Lynch's Acquisition of Mercury Asset Management

By: Andre F. Perold, Imran Ahmed and Randolph B Altschuler

In the Spring of 1998, Merrill Lynch faced an array of challenges and opportunities related to its global asset management business. The firm had recently completed its $5.3 billion cash acquisition of U.K.-based Mercury Asset Management, a transaction that made it one... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Asset Management; Currency; Financial Strategy; Global Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Retirement; Japan; Europe; United Kingdom

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

recommendations for would-be global leaders is to live in a country where the language spoken is different from that in one's home country. "When my wife and I lived in Japan we had a two-year-old child, which meant we had to dive in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2011
News

‘Green’ Trailblazers

Oakville, Ontario Energy management applications Paul Grana (MBA 2009) Tigo Energy Los Gatos, California; Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan Hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency, management, and control... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

October 2008 (Revised February 2009)
Case

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering

Explores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder. While DSHM had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Ship Transportation; Competitive Strategy; Globalization; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; China; South Korea

Educators

July 2008 (Revised May 2017)
Teaching Note

Financial Leadership in Novartis Consumer Health Businesses

By: Boris Groysberg and Geoff Marietta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 406-102. View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; Australia; Japan; Venezuela