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    David Ager

    David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

    • 2012
    • Case

    ChemChina

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
    ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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    • March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Nigeria: Africa's Giant

    By: Marlous van Waijenburg
    "Nigeria: Africa’s Giant" delves into the economic development and state building record of Africa’s most populous country. Despite being one of the continent’s largest oil-exporters, Nigeria’s economy has been struggling, and poverty is widespread. The country’s... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Government Administration; Poverty; Africa; Nigeria
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    • July 2004 (Revised July 2020)
    • Case

    Hines Goes to Rio

    By: Arthur I Segel and Ricardo Reisen De Pinho
    The Torre Almirante office tower, Hines' newest project in Rio de Janeiro, was a 36-story, Class AA office tower with an adjoining 420-stall parking structure and a preserved 14-story historic facade. It was completely different from anything that had previously been... View Details
    Keywords: Property; Design; Construction; Buildings and Facilities; Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Real Estate Industry; Brazil; New York (city, NY)
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    Business History

    By: Walter A. Friedman
    Walter Friedman serves as co-editor of Business History Review. He has a special interest in the history of marketing and personal selling, and is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (Harvard, 2004). He is also interested in the... View Details
    • April 1989 (Revised March 1993)
    • Case

    ProTech, Inc.

    By: Thomas R. Piper
    A company is considering the elimination of a product line. As part of that consideration, it must develop possible strategies for closing the division, and identify the economic and non-economic implications of the strategy. The situation is complicated by the... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Equity; Problems and Challenges
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    • January 2003 (Revised November 2005)
    • Case

    Endeavor-Determining A Growth Strategy

    By: William A. Sahlman and Michael J. Roberts
    Describes the progress of a nonprofit organization, Endeavor, focused on nurturing entrepreneurship in emerging markets. At the time of the case, it has successfully expanded to five Latin American countries and is contemplating the next phase in its growth.... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Nonprofit Organizations; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy
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      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      • July 1999 (Revised March 2002)
      • Case

      Shanghai Volkswagen: Facing a New Era

      Explores the development of the Chinese auto industry and of Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW), a successful joint venture in China. Established in 1984, SVW is a joint venture between Volkswagen of Germany and the Shanghai Automobile Industry Corp. (SAIC). One key element of... View Details
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Auto Industry; Shanghai; Germany
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      • 28 Jan 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?

      Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen
      • 2015
      • Working Paper

      Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

      By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Alexander Segura
      India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person... View Details
      Keywords: Manufacturing; India; Informality; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Development Economics; Manufacturing Industry; India
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        Paul A. Gompers

        Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
        Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry
        • September 2007 (Revised November 2007)
        • Case

        Bunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets

        By: Tarun Khanna, Santiago Mingo and Jonathan West
        In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of three very integrated worldwide agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has... View Details
        Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Operations; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; White Plains; Brazil
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        • March 1993 (Revised March 1994)
        • Case

        Sierra On-Line, Inc. (A)

        Sierra On-Line, a fast growing software developer, is criticized by a Forbes journalist for excessively capitalizing software development costs. In contrast to most other software developers that typically capitalize about 20% of R&D costs, Sierra capitalizes 80%.... View Details
        Keywords: Applications and Software; Financial Statements; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
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        • 21 Nov 2016
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China

        Keywords: by Lily Fang, Josh Lerner, and Chaopeng Wu
        • September 2019
        • Article

        Bankruptcy Spillovers

        By: Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Xavier Giroud and Benjamin Iverson
        How do different bankruptcy approaches affect the local economy? Using U.S. Census microdata, we explore the spillover effects of reorganization and liquidation on geographically proximate firms. We exploit the random assignment of bankruptcy judges as a source of... View Details
        Keywords: Agglomeration; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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        • June 2005 (Revised February 2006)
        • Case

        TCL Multimedia

        By: Tarun Khanna, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and David Lane
        TCL considers the underlying logic behind the globalization of one of China's most prominent companies. TCL, and similarly prominent companies in China, are in the forefront of China's emergence as one of the world's preeminent economic powers. Allows a discussion of... View Details
        Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Success; Business Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; China
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        • November 2007 (Revised January 2013)
        • Case

        Indonesia: Attracting Foreign Investment

        By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
        Describes the economic development of Indonesia from independence after World War II to 2006 and the post-Suharto period. The coverage of the post-Suharto period provides evidence of how political and economic conditions are intertwined after a change in the political... View Details
        Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Policy; Foreign Direct Investment; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; Indonesia
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        • 2009
        • Other Unpublished Work

        Singapore Competitiveness Report

        By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

        The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

        Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore
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        • 01 Jan 2013
        • News

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