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  • 27 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

Dumas, an assistant professor at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, describe their findings in the paper Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate, forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
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  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012) Abstract Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • News

Embracing Chaos

Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

traditional applications like mechanical patents. Quantifying these technology differences is very important for business managers and public policymakers, but these differences also provide researchers an empirical foothold for... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

production shifts to the South, Northern resources will be reallocated to R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model's predictions by analyzing responses of U.S.-based multinationals and domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2003 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Dow Chemical's Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina

By: Mihir A. Desai and Alexandra de Royere
What price should Dow Chemical bid for PBB, a petrochemical complex that is being privatized by the Argentine government? To answer this question, students are forced to consider the role of country risk, the underlying currency exposure of the business, and how to... View Details
Keywords: Bids and Bidding; Privatization; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Cash Flow; Emerging Markets; Valuation; Business and Government Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Energy Industry; Argentina
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  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

Douglas B. Holt says brand managers have little appreciation for how myths in American culture can be used to create "extraordinary" brand-building opportunities. In this e-mail interview, Holt discusses a recent working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

with the Wahhabi establishment, and its increasingly dangerous environment populated with a diverse set of enemies, he looks at the prospects for the survival of the monarchy and suggests ideas for reform. Managing in the Gray: Five... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

India Arrives

Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research infrastructure is an important, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics and techniques that can be used... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • September 2006 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

The Dubai Ports World Debacle and its Aftermath

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Describes the political ramifications in the United States of Dubai-based DP World's acquisition of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; National Security; Business and Government Relations; Ship Transportation; Dubai; United States
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

solving climate change by setting high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in farmland management and investing in regenerative agriculture.” Pat Coady MBA 1966 | Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure "We’re finally... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

and Tommy Pan Fang of Rice University—looked at communication patterns among more than 12,000 employees working for a large multinational corporation across all major time zones. The team studied their Skype messages, emails, phone calls,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual work has been done by... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

for anything where the prior art is known," explains Prithwiraj Choudhury, an assistant professor in the Technology, Operations, and Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But when a Western firm goes to a Western... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology