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  • 01 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

Since 1953, the regional bank Credito Emiliano has accepted curious collateral for small-business loans: giant wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. Known locally as Credem, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance

A new chair has been established by André R. Jakurski (MBA '73) to support research in the area of global finance. Professor Kenneth A. Froot will be View Details
  • 11 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
  • November 2005
  • Case

Marilyn Carlson Nelson and the Carlson Companies Renaissance

By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
In 2005, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, CEO and chairman of the Carlson Companies, must decide whether to outsource jobs at the risk of destroying the culture centered on the values of integrity, trustworthiness, and caring that she had painstakingly created since becoming... View Details
Keywords: History; Leadership Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Family Ownership; Leadership Style; Management Teams
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  • May 2017
  • Teaching Note

Hilti Fleet Management (A) and (B)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
These notes are meant to accompany Hilti Fleet Management (A): Turning a Successful Business Model on Its Head (717-427) and Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model (717-465).
This case explores the introduction of fleet management in the... View Details
Keywords: Hilti; Business Model Innovation; BMI; Fleet Management; Decision-making; Implementation; Power Tools Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Construction; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Strategy; Decision Making; Growth Management; Construction Industry; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Germany; Austria; Europe; United States; Asia; Brazil; China; Latin America; Africa; Japan; Hong Kong; France; Italy; Spain
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  • February 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Keith Chi-ho Wong and Tracy Manty
With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic changes in China to succeed as a global leader in the auto parts industry and to develop into a broad business... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Global Strategy; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Vertical Integration; Auto Industry; Hangzhou; United States
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  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

Top leaders of a global consulting firm longed to add more women to its partner ranks, if women would just put in the hours necessary to compete. But mothers would always... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination

With the support of the HBS Summer Fellows Program, I had the opportunity to follow my passion and work on my project to support senior care in China. As View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 2007
  • Book

America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
This book draws on the author's multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Policy; Leadership; Civil Society or Community; Cooperation; United States
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  • December 2023
  • Case

TikTok: The Algorithm Will See You Now

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In a world where attention is a scarce commodity, this case explores the meteoric rise of TikTok—an app that transformed from a niche platform for teens into the most visited domain by 2021—surpassing even Google. Its algorithm was a sophisticated mechanism for... View Details
Keywords: Social Media; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Business and Government Relations; International Relations; Cybersecurity; Culture; Technology Industry; China; United States; India
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  • 02 Mar 2021
  • HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

Early on the morning of June 1, 1921, more than 5,000 white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, invaded the African-American neighborhood View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 30 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

emerging markets of China and India—are filled with capital controls and ownership restrictions. How can the United States as a destination end up being so much less attractive... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • Web

R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

according to Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. Cavallo, who bases his findings on a decade’s worth View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Organic Matter

with nearly 30 times the heat-trapping powers of CO2—represents 10 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions; according to the EPA, dairies and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; green business; agriculture; alternative energy; Agriculture
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

The Hard Way

contracts filled three floors. Next, she restarted her English language school for international students, a side of the business that faltered after View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

purchases. This approach would not only insure more people, but could lead to more innovative, less costly approaches to generating medical breakthroughs, the team says. Chandra, who is the Henry and Allison... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • Web

Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

disclosure of repurchase intent and more detailed quantitative repurchase disclosure. While the modernized rule became effective in October 2023, it was vacated View Details
  • 05 Jun 2015
  • News

Waltons cement grip on Wal-Mart with new chairman

  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

has been discussed for decades. Here is research and writing from Harvard Business School that discusses both the concept in theory and examples View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology