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Mar 2012
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Choosing the United States

location decisions are incremental shifts of activities offshore; imagine a bucket with many small pinpricks. For instance, a software firm promotes American developers to high-end positions and hires workers from Eastern Europe to do... View Details

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Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

and making possible an unparalleled level of commerce. The railroads, unprecedented in size and complexity, became the model on which modern business would be based. While few dispute the transformative nature of the industry, recent scholarship has compared railroads... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Visual Collections

creditors and debtors. The collection consists of more than one thousand woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs from Western Europe and the United States, on the subjects of money, banking, and financial history and ranging in... View Details

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

to see more joint ventures in China. Turbine prices have dropped very significantly, and the efficiency has increased significantly, as well," said Samantha Ko, executive director of the China WindPower Group. "The improvements in technology are not just led... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2011
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Inside MTV’s Global Fame

integrated marketing, constantly cutting deals with advertisers not just to buy spots on MTV Europe but also to sponsor entire shows and concerts and to offer unique rewards to viewers as well. He takes credit (or blame) for MTV’s being... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

we adapt to this new context? What should we do differently? How can we turn those constraints into a competitive advantage?” Alumni from all over Europe converged in Paris for the HBS European Alumni Summit. HBS Professor Gunnar Trumbull... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

maintain its predominance once the crisis subsides. Kominers taught the case (remotely, via Zoom) in spring 2020 in the Making Markets elective course. Europe Research Center—To further HBS’s COVID-related research, the center worked with... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success

and Willy C. Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, together with Vincent Dessain (MBA 1987), executive director of the Europe Research Center, arranged visits to 11 companies across Bavaria. At firms such as... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

company that actually built things, so upon graduation, he signed on at Ford. Then it was off for some serious globe-trotting, first to South America as managing director of Ford Argentina, next to Japan as president and CEO (at age 38) of Mazda, and then to View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Portrait Project

Debbie Rosenbaum

conversation flowed between, and in spite of, different dialects. Born in Miami, I grew up in a bilingual city and a multi-language household. When my grandparents fled an anti-Semitic Europe before World War II, they settled in a small... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

received support from staff at the School’s Europe Research Center, who facilitated contacts with 13 top executives and policymakers at European businesses and institutions. When Pons teaches the case, students consider the history of... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections

credit. The collection is strongest in Western Europe and the United States from the fifteenth through1850. Thematic strengths are the history of political economy, economic philosophy, business theory, commerce, finance, taxation, money... View Details

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

modern consumer society: agriculture, retail, pharmaceuticals, and the credit industry in post-World War II Germany, France, Britain, and the United States. In postwar Europe and the United States, the consumer protection idea "emerged... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

Holding (BBH) and invest in the former USSR by buying Estonia's biggest brewery, Saku. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710471-PDF-ENG Central Europe after the Crash: Between View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Joe Khoury

countries in Asia, Latin America and Europe and got exposure to more than 500 different cases. In less than two years, HBS has offered all possible resources to help me start a business and go through the whole process of ideation,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consulting; Investment Banking

01 Feb 1997
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OPM Reunion Snapshots

notes Kathy. Bernard Foulquies (3rd OPM) Representing the fifth generation of his family in the industrial textile business in England and France, Bernard Foulquies attended OPM after filling out an application he found in an airline magazine. "After watching View Details

17 Dec 2015
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Examining Global Workforce Management

As executives of an international company are considering workforce reductions in Europe and South America, they are providing layoff support to employees and working with communities to create incentives for new businesses to replace... View Details

11 Nov 2013
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A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

targeting efforts. The First Cut Customer attrition is a widespread problem that affects firms in a variety of industries. For example, US credit card providers often deal with annual churn rates of about 20 percent, and mobile phone carriers in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library

for example, could be linked to mortgage-backed securities issued to investors in Europe or Asia. Additionally, Lehman Brothers had been a major issuer of short-term debt in the form of commercial paper, and its collapse caused a credit... View Details

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Global - Global Activities 2020

spring in the Making Markets elective course. Europe Research Center The Europe Research Center helped research and write the case “Unilever’s Response to the Future of Work” by Bill Kerr, the Dimitri V.... View Details

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