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- March 2016
- Case
IC Group A/S
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details
Keywords: IC Group; IC Companys; Carli Gry; InWear; Mads Ryder; Niels Martinsen; Premium Fashion; Fast Fashion; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Profit; Revenue; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Business or Company Management; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution Channels; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Product Positioning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Web Sites; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Scandinavia; Denmark; Sweden; Norway
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "IC Group A/S." Harvard Business School Case 716-446, March 2016.
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western firms reinforced rather than disrupted institutional and societal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
their work experience better performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51712 Harvard Business School Case 617-007 Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues Can a consortium of 16 organizations, including View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
context. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1865878 August 2013 Business Ethics. 2d ed., edited by Michael Boylan. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2013 Multinational Enterprises and Incomplete... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
run a successful multinational IT services firm where employees are treated like an extended family and strategy emerges from the bottom up? Those are the key leadership questions posed by Professor David Garvin’s 2010 case, “Zensar: The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
had from such a historical understanding of political economy and of power in an economic age. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53309 forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade, Vol. 3: Foreign Direct Investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
usual. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409116 Philips versus Matsushita: Competing Strategic and Organizational Choices Harvard Business School Case 909-415 Traces the evolving competition between two major View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
in MBA branding and advertising courses for decades. This study provides additional evidence that building culture share brands is qualitatively different than conventional brand management. I'm also working on a study with HBS professor John Quelch in which we... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
ultimately benefits business as well.” As a member of the eleven-person private-sector department, Naidoo has led multinational project teams in building on research that Oxfam did in partnership with Unilever to determine the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Case 713-522 Microsoft in Korea Microsoft Korea sees a potential opportunity to dramatically improve its subsidiary's performance by actively recruiting and promoting female senior managers in South Korea. The question is to what extent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
its neighboring countries. Now take a country like South Africa where the domestic corporate scene is actually quite developed and creative, exporting ideas, exporting managers to the multinationals who work there. What sort of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
Paine, Lynn S., Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud, and Vincent Dessain. "Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)." Harvard Business School Case 324-140, June 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
protectionist reversals together mean that few companies can afford to remain focused on their domestic markets. Managers responsible for marketing in a multinational or global enterprise must design appropriate marketing programs for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
president of purchasing to coordinate and centralize purchasing procedures in a multinational company. He encounters a lack of active cooperation. A rewritten version of an earlier case by G. Lombard. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
license from multinational companies in 1994, the “old generation” of lab managers disagreed with these aims and failed to adequately support scientists’ efforts. First, we show that the introduction of new lab managers aligned with the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism after 1848 and up the present day. It shows how multinational firms have created and co-created markets and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
India." This disclosure, which came weeks after the Indian government made a controversial decision to permit FDI in the country's multi-brand retail sector, created uproar in India. Lobbying by multinationals drew strong emotions in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
slipped behind its Indian competitors and multinational companies. Details the first phase of the transformation Nayar led in hopes of rejuvenating the industry pioneer. The tagline for this phase was "Employee First, Customer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
speculate about the potential of the World Wide Web. There was definitely no roadmap for harnessing a disparate community of Beanie Baby collectors into a multinational Fortune 500 company. “We just had to figure it out to the best of our... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
have lost consumers by fostering music that is less inspired and more generic. "Artists are not developed quarter by quarter," acknowledges Boberg. "There's an inherent conflict in trying to tend to the needs of both the artist and the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso