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    H-E-B: Creating a Movement to Reduce Obesity in Texas

    In January 2012, H-E-B Grocery Co., a private retail chain with stores located in Texas and Mexico, was introducing its Healthy at H-E-B program to its customers. The program, which started with the company's employees a few years earlier, was an effort to... View Details
    • April 2013
    • Supplement

    AIG and the American Taxpayers (B)

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
    Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Financial Policy; Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Insurance Industry; United States
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    • June 2017
    • Case

    Maggie Wilderotter: The Evolution of an Executive

    By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
    In a career that spanned over 30 years, Maggie Wilderotter served as CEO of two publicly traded companies and served on 32 corporate and 9 association and nonprofit boards of directors. As CEO of Frontier Communications, a U.S. telecom company with over $25 billion in... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Managing People; Networks; Strategy And Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Power and Influence; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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      Jay W. Lorsch

      Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

      • October 2012
      • Case

      Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell (A)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Elena Corsi
      Royal Dutch Shell has been among the early players to implement diversity and inclusion policies in the 1990s, first in the U.S. and then globally. In May 2009, Peter Voser, CFO and soon-to-be CEO, wants to adjust the company's business, headcount, and cost levels to... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Managerial Roles; Restructuring; Resignation and Termination; Diversity; Financial Crisis; Energy Industry; Netherlands
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      • 03 Jun 2015
      • Video

      Hakeem Belo-Osagie

      Hakeem Belo-Osagie, former chairman of Nigeria-based United Bank for Africa, talks about his ability to attract U.S. investors even during a time of military rule in Nigeria.
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      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Stock Market Stimulus

      By: Robin Greenwood, Toomas Laarits and Jeffrey Wurgler
      We study the stock market effects of the arrival of the three rounds of “stimulus checks” to U.S. taxpayers and the single round of direct payments to Hong Kong citizens. The first two rounds of U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of... View Details
      Keywords: Stock Market; COVID-19 Pandemic; Fiscal Stimulus; Stimulus Payments; Impact; Stocks; System Shocks; Price; Spending; United States; Hong Kong; China
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        "One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings" Harvard Business Review (May 2024)

        Intentional cooperation between two organizations — BlackRock, a major asset management firm, and national non-profit, Commonwealth — created the conditions for the nation’s largest payroll processor, multiple U.S. employers, retirement record keepers, and others... View Details
        • November 16, 2022
        • Article

        America Is Pursuing Happiness in All the Wrong Places

        By: Arthur C. Brooks
        The U.S. is undergoing a crisis of our personal and shared sense of meaning as polarization rises and institutions erode. The solution is as simple as it is difficult: Love one another. View Details
        Keywords: Happiness; Civil Society or Community; Family and Family Relationships; Government and Politics; United States
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        • 2004
        • Case

        Neology: Embedded Opportunities in the RFID Space (A)

        By: Roberto Charvel and Atul Joshi
        Neology was a pioneer in the RFID industry that was able to attract U.S. Army contracts and secure financing by creating a holding company in the U.S., while being a Mexican company. View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital; Emerging Market; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Technology
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        • March 2000 (Revised November 2001)
        • Case

        Rosenbluth International and Biztravel.com

        Rosenbluth, the third largest U.S. travel agency, uses the Internet to serve new customers with a high-service strategy. Rosenbluth acquires Biztravel.com and integrates the customer support and logistics aspects of service delivery. View Details
        Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Internet and the Web; Service Delivery; Acquisition; Travel Industry; United States
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        Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France

        By: Gunnar Trumbull
        Research into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis has drawn attention to a link between growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and... View Details
        Keywords: Household Finance; Welfare State; Credit; Personal Finance; Welfare; Borrowing and Debt; France; United States
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        • November 2015 (Revised April 2017)
        • Case

        Streaming Over Broadband: Why Doesn't My Netflix Work?

        By: Shane Greenstein and Michael Norris
        In late 2013 and early 2014, Netflix service over the major U.S. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) suffered major slowdowns. What were the causes of these problems? What could Netflix do to solve them? View Details
        Keywords: Digital Innovation; Internet; Broadband Service; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; United States
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        • July 2008
        • Case

        The Politics and Economics of Accounting for Goodwill at Cisco Systems (A)

        By: Karthik Ramanna
        Studies the role of Cisco in setting current U.S. accounting standards for acquisitions and goodwill. Students are asked to analyze an acquisition in the context of an ongoing political debate on mergers accounting. View Details
        Keywords: Goodwill Accounting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Standards; Business and Government Relations; United States
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        • 26 Mar 2013
        • News

        Housing Market Shows Fastest Rate of Recovery Since Before the Crash

        • 15 Nov 2012
        • News

        Harvard panel examines Big 3 rebound

        • 16 Apr 2020
        • News

        Small Business Loans

        • 20 Aug 2012
        • News

        The Strategic Context

        • 01 Sep 2016
        • News

        Explosives Saved an American Company From Chinese Competition

        • 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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