Publications

February 2006 (Revised October 2006)
Case

The Children's Investment Fund, 2005

By: Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua B. Sandbulte

TCI, The Children's Investment Fund, is a London-based hedge fund. The firm donates a significant fraction of the fees it earns to a charitable foundation. In 2005, TCI took a large stake in Deutsche Borse, the stock exchange in Frankfurt. Its battle with management... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Financial Markets; Investment Activism; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Financial Services Industry; London; Germany

April 2011 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Fast Retailing Group

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

On January 1, 2011, Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of Fast Retailing Group (FR), sent his annual New Year's message to everyone in the company. The message, entitled "Change or Die," declared that FR - which included UNIQLO, Theory, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Global Strategy; Retail Industry

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

question: where would they travel for their Global Immersion project? Each box contained a jigsaw puzzle with a map of the selected destination. Once students had assembled their puzzle, they also learned the name of the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

16 May 2016
Blog Post

Career Resources for International Students

international students and the global job search outside of the U.S. While we are based in Boston, we continually build our global network of organizations that would like to... View Details

March 2010 (Revised November 2010)
Case

Pandora Radio: Fire Unprofitable Customers?

By: Willy C. Shih and Halle Alicia Tecco

Pandora Radio is at a crossroads. Founder Tim Westergren has just been told by a well known VC to get rid of his unprofitable customers in order to get his costs down, but Westergren is not sure that such actions are consistent with his company's business model.... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Customer Satisfaction; Music Entertainment; Venture Capital; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Internet; Media and Broadcasting Industry

September 1992
Case

Kodak Business Imaging Systems Division

By: Marie-Therese M. Flaherty and Steven C. Wheelwright

Describes Kodak's decision regarding a manufacturing site for some of its products. Compares several types of products (with different cost structures) and several worldwide locations (with different characteristics). Provides a framework (model) for comparing and... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Production; Product; Global Range; Supply Chain Management; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Electronics Industry

July 2010 (Revised March 2015)
Teaching Note

1366 Technologies

By: Ramana Nanda and Joseph B. Lassiter III

Teaching Note for 810005. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Production; Supply and Industry; Corporate Strategy; Capital; Manufacturing Industry

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

Taiwanese to a global firm, developing and maintaining a functioning global structure, building a sales and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2014
Blog Post

Turnaround & Restructuring Club Conference Recap

moderated by HBS Professor Kristin Mugford. Mr. Toy spoke in detail about his vast turnaround experiences and when asked about current trends stated, “Currently the market is doing pretty well, so there’s... View Details

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

PublicationsBlock-by-Blockbuster Innovation Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 5 (May 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/05/column-block-by-blockbuster-innovation/ar/1/ Between... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2003 (Revised July 2006)
Exercise

Travelexis.com Role for Jackie Hoff from Travelexis.com

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Nicole Nasser

Two fictional travel companies, SCOUT and TravelPlanner, engage in competitive bidding to acquire a third party, Travelexis. This exercise consists of three roles, one representative from each of the three companies. It is based on the actual negotiations between... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Bids and Bidding; Acquisition; Travel Industry

January 2003 (Revised July 2006)
Exercise

Travelexis.com Role for Pat Young from SCOUT

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Nicole Nasser

Two fictional travel companies, SCOUT and TravelPlanner, engage in competitive bidding to acquire a third party, Travelexis. This exercise is consists of three roles, one representative from each of the three companies. It is based on the actual negotiations between... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Bids and Bidding; Acquisition; Travel Industry

January 1988 (Revised February 1991)
Case

International Sourcing at Intercon

Describes the many international sourcing initiatives in a multinational connector manufacturing company. Focuses on the domestic operations, international staff, and their initiatives to create cooperative links among and with independent subsidiaries. Students can... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

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10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2009
Article

Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation

By: Lucy White and Alan Morrison

We analyze the desirability of level playing fields in international financial regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best-regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because... View Details

Keywords: Economy; International Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Banking Industry

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18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of, among other things: product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and future industry evolution. We explore this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

most attractive terms? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809031 Note on the Global Wind Industry Harvard Business School Note 709-005 This note provides... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2019
Case

AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Describes the entrepreneurial leadership of Jack Manning Bancroft (JMB), a young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Mission; Organization Culture; Non-profit; NGO; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Global Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Secondary Education; Organizational Culture; Education Industry; Education Industry; Australia; United States