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- January 1998 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
Li & Fung: Beyond "Filling in the Mosaic," 1995-1998
By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
In early 1998, William and Victor Fung had to review their business, the Li & Fung Group, to plan for the next three years. Examines strategic and organizational issues including company culture, international expansion, and venture capital projects. A rewritten... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Venture Capital; Organizational Culture; Global Strategy; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Strategic Planning; Asia
Yoshino, Michael Y., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Anthony St. George. Li & Fung: Beyond "Filling in the Mosaic," 1995-1998. Harvard Business School Case 398-092, January 1998. (Revised June 1998.)
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
in January 2017 HBS’s Global Initiative established a regional research office in Johannesburg, South Africa, led by director Pippa Tubman Armerding (AB 1990), part of the School’s worldwide network of regional centers and offices. These... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership
these countries develop more efficient and equitable ways of doing business," says Leach, who anticipates a career in the mining or energy sectors. In Accra, Leach was part of a student team assigned to help a Ghanaian multimedia company,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014
benefits from a few tweaks to the format. With an added emphasis on the foundational, teamwork-based skills used throughout FIELD, the first module also incorporates a full day of exercises focused on the art of negotiation. The second module, centered on View Details
- September 2004 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Sanford C. Bernstein: Growing Pains
By: Boris Groysberg and Anahita Hashemi
To remain competitive, Sallie Krawcheck and Lisa Shalett, Sanford C. Bernstein's director of research and associate director of research, respectively, were examining the need to expand the research department's size, not only domestically but also internationally.... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion
Groysberg, Boris, and Anahita Hashemi. "Sanford C. Bernstein: Growing Pains." Harvard Business School Case 405-011, September 2004. (Revised November 2004.)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Students Top Marketing Contest
In January, Melissa Lau, Yanlin Liu, and Deena Malkina (all HBS ’08) took home top honors in Rice University’s seventh annual Marketing Case competition, besting student teams from nine other business schools, including Kellogg, Stanford,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
who used to work with Hsu’s father are retiring, and younger generations seem less interested in farming. But even as aunts and uncles retire, Hsu counts another kind of family among his core team of roughly 100 employees. Like Hsu, they... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 2009
- Book
Merchants to Multinationals
By: G. Jones
Merchants to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
and digital media presence. "We've seen what can happen decades later when you make an investment in a country." So where is the NBA's next China? Tatum offers three of the league's growing international markets and explains how the NBA works its View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
hurdle over a long period of time. We don’t think about how we do that in any one year. We think about how we do that over the course of 10 years. And so it means going into new markets, it means looking for inefficiencies, it means building a View Details
- August 1998
- Case
Electronic Commerce at Air Products
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
In 1998,chief information officers (CIOs) in the highly competitive international gases and chemicals business faced the reality that electronic commerce capability was a strategic necessity. The results of annual surveys of technology officers in the chemical industry... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Globalized Markets and Industries; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Chemical Industry; United States
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Melissa Dailey. "Electronic Commerce at Air Products." Harvard Business School Case 399-035, August 1998.
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study and identified language... View Details
- September 2006 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
Philips Electronics N.V.
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Alexis Chernak
Looks at the multinational company, Philips Electronics, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, as an example of a company with a two-tiered board. The company is governed by both a supervisory board and a board of management. Examines the role, dynamic, and best... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Netherlands
Lorsch, Jay W., and Alexis Chernak. "Philips Electronics N.V." Harvard Business School Case 407-047, September 2006. (Revised February 2008.)
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
After a long summer break, it was great to get together with the Alumni Board on campus in mid-October and to welcome twelve new members. Before I highlight the important committee work ahead, let me first bring you up-to-date on the View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
during the civil war. Investing In Growth Still, Liberia's economic team expects at least 6-7 percent GDP growth per year but believes that double-digit growth, a rare economic outcome overall in Werker's research, will be required to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
NVC 20: This year marked the 20th anniversary of the New Venture Competition, which began in 1997 as the HBS Business Plan Contest. (photo by Susan Young) After surviving among a pool of 171 alumni teams from 14 different regions, four... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- September 1996 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
InterSoft of Argentina (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Stacy Palestrant
Focuses on InterSoft of Argentina, a growing software company in Argentina. In 1993, InterSoft acquires a Russian software company and Emilo Lopez, the vice president and director of InterSoft's Systems Software Lab, must manage a creative, cross-cultural, "virtual"... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology Industry; Argentina; Russia
Hill, Linda A., and Stacy Palestrant. "InterSoft of Argentina (A)." Harvard Business School Case 497-025, September 1996. (Revised June 1998.)
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
thing. Shoppers want value but also a stimulating experience, or "discovery shopping." Rakuten helps its vendors, many of them small-shop owners, use social media to offer unique content, such as the fashion shop that chronicles its buyers' View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Cooking Up Connections
It’s a fundamental truth Alexander Blanc (GMP 8) learned at an early age: food brings people together. As a child growing up in Russia, Blanc remembers helping his mother cook so much food on his birthday that they used their apartment balcony to refrigerate leftovers.... View Details
- January 2011
- Case
Shar Matin (A)
By: David A. Thomas and Elisa Farri
The head of the subsidiary of a US company faced the decision to present an aggressive growth plan despite his CFO's lack of support. View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; United States
Thomas, David A., and Elisa Farri. "Shar Matin (A)." Harvard Business School Case 411-082, January 2011.