Austria - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2003 (Revised August 2004)
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Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Jim McCusker must guide a group decision-making process aimed at getting input and buy-in from key people in California, Mexico, and Austria to choose a shop floor IT system for Flextronics. McCusker is Flextronics' account manager for the Microsoft Xbox project.... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Power and Influence; Geographic Location; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; California; Mexico; Austria

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Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details

Keywords: accounting industry; management consulting; pharmaceuticals

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23 May 2005
Research & Ideas

What Could Bring Globalization Down?

destabilization of the alliance system (unreliability of Austria in German eyes, of Britain in French eyes). The existence of a rogue regime sponsoring terror (Serbia). The rise of a revolutionary organization hostile to global capitalism... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 May 2015
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Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

©iStockphoto Here's some heartening news for working mothers worried about the future of their children. Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Dante Roscini

Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

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Participating Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(Tirana) Argentina Universidad Católica de Córdoba (Córdoba) Universidad de San Andrés (Victoria) Armenia American University of Armenia (Yerevan) Austria Danube University Krems (Krems an der Donau) FHWien University of Applied Sciences... View Details

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

obtained for Austria and Hungary from 1870-1915. Download Data Set in Excel McDonald's: Countries of Operation McDonald’s; PR Newswire Map created by John Regan, MBA 2016 Download Data Set in Excel McKinsey Offices Courtesy of McKinsey... View Details

May 2017 (Revised September 2018)
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Hilti Fleet Management (A): Turning a Successful Business Model on Its Head

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer

This case explores the introduction of fleet management in the construction industry by the premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 2000. Following its customers’ needs, Hilti moved from selling power tools to leasing them as a service. The introduction of the new... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

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01 Dec 2005
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Alumni Fill Diplomatic Posts

HBS alumni currently hold several key diplomatic posts in Europe. U.S. ambassadors to France, Germany, Italy, and Austria are, respectively, Craig Stapleton (MBA ’70), William Timken Jr. (MBA ’62), Ronald Spogli (MBA ’75), and designee... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About

where he continued his studies at the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design in the 1990s. Among his major solo exhibition venues are the Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria (2022); Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, UK... View Details

Philip Sporn

Sporn was one of the foremost contributors to the growth in the consumption and dissemination of electric power. A tireless advocate for the industry, Sporn’s efforts were aimed at greater efficiency of operations through technological advances in the fields of... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

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Erwin Wurm Big Disobedience 2016 | About

a large-scale suit, without a body, to stand in for the human form. The sculpture is a critique of contemporary society, its title a play on Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience.” Big Disobedience was first presented at Art Basel Miami Beach in December... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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You Are What You Eat

Writing in the magazine Pig Progress (September 23, 2010), Austria-based John Hodges (AMP 52, 1967),an expert on genetics and ethics in agriculture, food, and the environment, warned that the current system of agribusiness is untenable. “Driven by competition alone,... View Details

Keywords: agricultural intensification; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

John D. Hertz

Hertz founded the Yellow Cab Company in 1915 as a way to provide transportation services at a modest price. At the time, livery services were targeted only to the upper echelons of society, and Hertz believed that there was a vast untapped potential. Hertz’s... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
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Zotter Living by Chocolate

By: Mukti Khaire, Stefan Aichinger, Monika Maria Elisabeth Hoffmann and Maximilian Georg Manfred Schnoedl

This case is about a boutique chocolate manufacturer's decision to grow. Zotter, an Austrian company that was a pioneer in the organic and Fairtrade chocolate movement, uses the traditional confit technique to make premium hand-scooped chocolates in unusual and... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Austria

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Carnegie was considered one of the most influential contributors to American fashion for over five decades. Her French-inspired designs became the toast of the high fashion world during the thirties and forties. Though she initially catered to a very wealthy clientele,... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

April 2023
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Burning the Sails to Save the Ship: The Pilati Family Dilemma

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger

Octavian Graf Pilati, rising generation member of an Austrian princely family, prepared to sell the palace his family had held for over three hundred years. In recent years, the Pilati family lands had been leveraged as loan collateral for an international venture that... View Details