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Either click here to review your order or continue to add content from another title.    1-800 Buy Ireland   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Author(s): Emmons, Willis; Cooper, Adele; Lenane, J. Publication Date: 04/12/1999 Revision Date: 06/30/1999 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: After decades of poor economic performance, the Irish government adopted major changes in economic policy in 1987. By the end of the 1990s, Ireland's real GDP growth rate of almost 10% per year exceeds that of all member nations of the European Union (EU). A key component of Ireland's growth strategy has been the encouragement of foreign direct investment through low tax rates and financial and logistical support provided by the Irish Industrial Development Agency (IDA). In 1999, Ireland confronts the issue of sustainability of the “Irish miracle'' in the face of diminishing access to EU subsidies, increasingly strained physical infrastructure, and questions of equity in the distribution of economic gains across the population. The case includes substantial material relating to the Irish political, social, and historical context in addition to traditional economic statistics. Teaching Purpose: To provide a broad range of “raw material'' for conducting a country analysis of Ireland. The case lends itself particularly well to an exploration of the role of industrial policy, macroeconomic reforms, foreign direct investment, and regional integration in national development strategy. HBS Number: 9-799-132 Geographic Setting: Ireland Event Year Start: 1100 Event Year End: 1999 Subjects: Country analysis; Economic development; Economic policy; Europe; Foreign investment; Industrial policy; National competitiveness Academic Discipline: Business & government    Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A)   Add   View  7 pp.  Case Author(s): Reinhardt, Forest Publication Date: 02/04/1992 Revision Date: 04/28/1993 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: The Southern Co., an electric utility, is planning its compliance with the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. The Act established a system of tradeable permits for sulfur dioxide emissions. The company must decide whether to install pollution control equipment and generate excess permits for sale to other firms, or to emit larger quantities of sulfur dioxide, save capital costs, and purchase pollution permits. Can be used to teach discounted cash flow analysis of a make versus buy decision. Also raises issues of expected cost minimization, questions of economic and political uncertainty, and the value of flexibility. May be used with: (9-793-040) Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B). HBS Number: 9-792-060 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: electric utilities Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $8 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1992 Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Buy or make decisions; Electric power; Environmental protection; Financial management; Financial planning; Pollution control; Public utilities; Rates of return Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-794-043), 25p, by Forest Reinhardt   Add     25 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-792-060 HBS Number: 5-794-043 Subjects: Buy or make decisions; Electric power; Environmental protection; Financial management; Financial planning; Pollution control; Public utilities; Rates of return    Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)   Add   View  10 pp.  Case Reinhardt, Forest In addition to the issues of expected cost minimization elucidated in Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A), problems involving regulatory uncertainty are critical to the firm's Clean Air Act compliance strategy. The regulatory uncertainty affects, and is affected by, the uncertainties about the price of allowances to emit sulfur dioxide. Provides additional information on the regulatory risks and uncertainties confronting the Southern Co.; permits exploration of the relations between federal environmental regulation and state-level regulation of rates of return. May be used with: (9-792-060) Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A). HBS Number: 9-793-040 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 9/17/1992 Revision Date: 10/7/1992 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: electric utilities Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $8 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1992 Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Buy or make decisions; Electric power; Environmental protection; Financial management; Financial planning; Pollution control; Public utilities; Rates of return Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-794-043), 25p, by Forest Reinhardt   Add     25 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-793-040 HBS Number: 5-794-043 Subjects: Buy or make decisions; Electric power; Environmental protection; Financial management; Financial planning; Pollution control; Public utilities; Rates of return    Advent of Venture Capital in Latin America   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Spar, Debora; Stein, Elizabeth B. Widely regarded as the leader in international private equity, Advent International is considering the establishment of a private equity fund in Latin America in 1996. Typically, Advent entered new private equity markets through the cr HBS Number: 9-797-077 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 2/14/1997 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Subjects: Capital markets; Diversification; Mexico; Securities analysis; South America; Venture capital    Airbus vs. Boeing (A): Turbulent Skies   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Author(s): Salter, Malcolm S.; Sinrich, Irence L. Publication Date: 05/22/1986 Revision Date: 11/15/1990 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Presents the economic and political dimensions of competition in the commercial aircraft industry, as demonstrated by Airbus of Europe and Boeing of the United States. May be used with: (9-388-145) Airbus vs. Boeing (B): The Storm Intensifies. HBS Number: 9-386-193 Geographic Setting: United States; France; Germany; United Kingdom Industry Setting: Aircraft industry Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $15 billion assets Event Year Start: 1986 Event Year End: 1986 Subjects: Aircraft; Business government relations; Business policy; Competition; International business Academic Discipline: Business & government    Airbus vs. Boeing (B): The Storm Intensifies   Add   View  12 pp.  Case Author(s): Salter, Malcolm S.; Coleman, Wendy Publication Date: 05/25/1988 Revision Date: 11/15/1990 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Discusses the growing competition faced by U.S. producers of civil aircraft due to the success and expanding product line of Airbus Industries. Designed to foster discussion of international trade policy as it affects producers in the industry and to encourage firm managers to consider competitive strategies, given their influence over trade policy negotiations. A rewritten version of an earlier case. May be used with: (9-386-193) Airbus vs. Boeing (A): Turbulent Skies. HBS Number: 9-388-145 Geographic Setting: Europe/United StatesIndustry Setting: civil aircraftCompany Size: Fortune 500 Event Year Start: 1987Event Year End: 1988 Subjects: Aircraft; Business government relations; Competition; Government policy; International trade Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-388-146), 1p, by Malcolm S. Salter, Wendy Coleman    Allied Chemical Corp. (A)   Add     9 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-379-137 HBS Number: 5-390-064 Subjects: Chemicals; Corporate responsibility; Legislation; Political systems; Product safety; Regulation    Allied Chemical Corp. (B)   Add   View  17 pp.  Case Author(s): Lodge, George C.; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. Publication Date: 03/01/1979 Revision Date: 12/17/1982 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Describes Allied's cooperative approach to government relations and the approach of some of the regulatory agencies Allied deals with. Based mainly on quotes from Allied and government officials. Asks the student to evaluate Allied's government relations -- in general and in the light of three product decisions. May be used with: (9-379-137) Allied Chemical Corp. (A). HBS Number: 9-379-150 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: chemicals Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $3 billion sales Event Year Start: 1978 Event Year End: 1978 Subjects: Business conditions; Chemicals; Political systems; Regulation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Field), (9-379-151), 1p, by George C. Lodge, Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Teaching Note, (5-380-172), 2p, by George C. Lodge; Teaching Note, (5-382-025), 5p, by J. Ronald Fox   Add     5 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-379-150 HBS Number: 5-382-025 Subjects: Business conditions; Chemicals; Political systems; Regulation    Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk   Add   View  26 pp.  Case Author(s): Vietor, Richard H.K.; Prewitt, Edward Publication Date: 10/07/1992 Revision Date: 08/15/1994 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Allied-Signal, Inc., one of the world's oldest chemical companies and today a diversified conglomerate, is liable for clean-up costs of old hazardous waste sites. These costs are substantial: reserves grew to nearly $500 million in 1991. Attempting to avoid further set-asides, and anticipating U.S.-style liability laws in Europe, environmental managers undertake a review of the company's three-part environmental control policy. With extensive programs for disposal-site inspection, auditing for compliance, and hazardous waste reduction, the managers try to optimize costs and liabilities by balancing waste disposal and reduction. The case recounts the formation of the control policy in response to legislation such as RCTA, Superfund, and the Toxics Release Inventory. Examines in detail the implementation of the three hazardous waste programs, analyzing the experiences of two plants. Exhibits include internal control documentation. HBS Number: 9-793-044 Geographic Setting: United StatesIndustry Setting: chemicalsCompany Size: Fortune 500Number of Employees: 98,000Gross Revenues: $12 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1992Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Chemicals; Environmental protection; Waste disposal Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-795-076), 15p, by Richard H.K. Vietor   Add     15 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-793-044 HBS Number: 5-795-076 Subjects: Chemicals; Environmental protection; Waste disposal    Antmobel (A)   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Author(s): Enright, Michael J.; Ballarin, Eduard; Terre, Eugeni; Rodriguez, Maria Dolores Publication Date: 02/15/1995 Revision Date: 07/10/1995 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: In the midst of a sales slump brought on by a recession in Spain, Antmobel's managers are presented with an opportunity to sell a substantial quantity of furniture in Uzbekistan. Management must decide whether the order fits with the company's strategy, capabilities, and internationalization plans. HBS Number: 9-795-100 Geographic Setting: LeSenia Industry Setting: Furniture industry Number of Employees: 330 Gross Revenues: $30 million revenues Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Furniture; International business; Strategy formulation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Field), (9-795-101), 3p, by Michael J. Enright, Eduard Ballarin, Eugeni Terre, Maria Dolores Rodriguez    Aracruz Celulose S.A.   Add   View  28 pp.  Case Author(s): Reinhardt, Forest; Roberts, Jackie P. Publication Date: 11/17/1993 Revision Date: 01/23/1995 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: In 1992, Aracruz Celulose, a Brazilian company, was the world's largest producer of eucalyptus market pulp. Led by dynamic Chairman Erling Lorentzen, the company had shown twenty years of strong growth. Aracruz exported 87% of its pulp in 1992, marketing its product as a low-cost, high-quality pulp. Lorentzen, however, was concerned with creating a new vision for keeping the company vibrant in the future. Like the pulp and paper industry worldwide, Aracruz faced a number of environmental pressures, including water pollution from chlorine bleaching, sustainable forestry issues, and growth in recycled market pulps. Environmental concerns were increasing customer demand for pulp bleach without elemental chlorine ("elementally chlorine free” or "ECF” pulp). Some European customers also wanted pulp bleached without any chlorine compounds ("totally chlorine-free” or "TCF pulp”). Aracruz had responded with ECF production and limited TCF production. Finally, Aracruz also operated in a country with unstable economic conditions and strong development needs, and faced growing competition from producers in Indonesia. Teaching Purpose: Discuss strategic environmental management issues. HBS Number: 9-794-049 Subjects: Competition; Corporate strategy; Environmental protection; Paper industry; Pollution control; South America; Strategic planning Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-795-095), 23p, by Forest Reinhardt   Add   View  23 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-794-049 HBS Number: 5-795-095 Subjects: Competition; Corporate strategy; Environmental protection; Paper industry; Pollution control; South America; Strategic planning    Argentina’s YPF Sociedad Anonima (A)   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Yoshino, Michael Y.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel Examines the process of privatization and transformation the company underwent and identifies challenges facing the company as it seeks to become a global oil company. Teaching Purpose: Seeks to teach the challenges of managing privatization and transformation of a major company in an important emerging country. May be used with: (9-300-028) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (E): A New Era; (9-396-024) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (B); (9-398-005) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (D): The International Platform. HBS Number: 9-396-023 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 9/1/1995 Revision Date: 3/25/1998 Geographic Setting: Latin America Gross Revenues: $3 billion revenues Subjects: Corporate strategy; International business; Petroleum; South America    Argentina’s YPF Sociedad Anonima (Abridged)   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Yoshino, Michael Y.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Reavis, Cate Describes the privatization of YPF Sociedad Anonima and the company's dilemma of whether to acquire a troubled U.S. oil company as a way of becoming a global oil company. HBS Number: 9-398-064 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 3/23/1998 Revision Date: 5/11/1998 Geographic Setting: Argentina Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Acquisitions; Corporate strategy; Globalization; International business; Petroleum; Privatization; South America    Argentina’s YPF Sociedad Anonima (B)   Add   View  14 pp.  Case Yoshino, Michael Y.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel YPF, a recently privatized and restructured Argentine-based oil company now turns its attention to international expansion and faces an opportunity to acquire Maxus, a troubled U.S. oil company. The case discusses whether the company should go ahead with the proposed acquisition. Teaching Purpose: Designed to examine how to assess an entry possibility into the United States by a major company in an emerging market. May be used with: (9-300-028) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (E): A New Era; (9-396-023) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (A); (9-398-005) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (D): The International Platform. HBS Number: 9-396-024 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 9/25/1995 Revision Date: 3/24/1998 Geographic Setting: Argentina/United States Industry Setting: oil Gross Revenues: $4 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Corporate strategy; Globalization; International business; Petroleum; Privatization; South America Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Field), (9-396-025), 1p, by Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop; Supplement (Field), (9-396-026), 3p, by Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop    Argentina’s YPF Sociedad Anonima (D): The International Platform   Add   View  4 pp.  Case Yoshino, Michael Y.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel In March 1995, YPF (the former Argentine state-owned oil and gas utility, privatized in late 1993) acquired the Dallas-based Maxus Energy Corp., one of the world's largest independent oil and gas exploration companies. YPF's first acquisition is nearly bankrupt, with close to $1 billion in long-term debt. Roberto Monti takes over as CEO in August 1995. The case describes the steps he took to stem losses at Maxus before being named CEO of YPF in April 1997. May be used with: (9-396-024) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (B); (9-396-023) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (A); (9-300-028) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (E): A New Era. HBS Number: 9-398-005 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 8/18/1997 Revision Date: 2/12/1999 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: oil & gas Gross Revenues: $4 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1996 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Acquisitions; Corporate strategy; Globalization; International business; Management of change; Petroleum; Privatization; South America    Argentina’s YPF Sociedad Anonima (E): A New Era   Add   View  4 pp.  Case Yoshino, Michael Y.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Reavis, Cate In June 1999, Spain's former state-owned oil giant Repsol, acquired 97% of YPF, despite opposition from YPF management. The case describes the status of the two companies at the time of the acquisition and highlights concerns expressed by industry analysts on the deal. May be used with: (9-396-023) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (A); (9-396-024) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (B); (9-398-005) Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (D): The International Platform. HBS Number: 9-300-028 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 10/21/1999 Geographic Setting: Argentina Industry Setting: oil & gas Number of Employees: 10,000 Gross Revenues: $5 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1999 Event Year End: 1999 Subjects: Acquisitions; Corporate strategy; Globalization; International business; Management of change; Petroleum; Privatization; South America    Armscor: Life After Apartheid?   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Enright, Michael J.; Boden, Stephan; Smith, Benjamin After taking office, South Africa's new president, Nelson Mandela, must decide whether to dismantle or support Armscor, South Africa's state-owned arms company, which has been a pillar of the apartheid regime. Complicating matters is the fact that the arms industry was South Africa's leading manufacturing exporter and a major employer. If Mandela chooses to support Armscor, the company must develop a strategy to obtain a much larger share of a rapidly declining world market. Teaching Purpose: Allows for discussion of military versus nonmilitary industries, employment versus ideology, national sources of competitive advantage, and international business strategy in strategic industries. HBS Number: 9-796-186 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 6/21/1996 Geographic Setting: South Africa Industry Setting: armaments Number of Employees: 70,000 Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Business & society; Government & business; International business; Military R&D; National competitiveness; South Africa Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-796-043), 16p, by Michael J. Enright, Patricia F. Wakeley   Add     16 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-796-186 HBS Number: 5-796-043 Subjects: Business government relations; Business & society; International business; Military research; National competitiveness; South Africa    Assessing Foreign Business Practices   Add   View  6 pp.  Case Spar, Debora; Galton, Zanley As businesses expand worldwide, corporations are increasingly being forced to grapple with definitions of "acceptable" foreign conduct. What differentiates a "bribe" from a "commission"? Should managers abroad refer to local custom or their own national laws in determining how to respond to ambiguous or conflicting situations? The case contains 10 short scenarios and asks students to evaluate how they would respond to each. Teaching Purpose: Forces students to see the inevitable legal and moral conflicts that confront managers abroad. It should be used to push students toward understanding these conflicts, being aware of the legal conflict that surrounds issues of foreign corruption, and most importantly, developing their own framework for evaluating the appropriateness of foreign business practices. HBS Number: 9-796-105 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 12/16/1995 Subjects: Cross cultural relations; Ethics; Foreign investment; International business; International trade; Legal aspects of business    Austin, Texas: Building a High-tech Economy   Add   View  29 pp.  Case Scott, Bruce R.; Sunder, Srinivas Ramdas Members of the community decide to try to diversify the economy of Austin, TX by welcoming high technology firms and by augmenting the electrical engineering faculty at University of Texas - Austin. Teaching Purpose: To examine a change in "comparative advantage” over time. HBS Number: 9-799-038 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 10/16/1998 Geographic Setting: Austin, TX Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Community development; Comparative advantage; Economic development; High technology; Local government   Add     5 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-038 HBS Number: 5-702-095 Subjects: Community development; Comparative advantage; Economic development; High technology; Local government    Australia in the 1990s: Lucky or Broke?   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Lodge, George C. In 1996, Australia had a new prime minister, John Howard, ending 13 years of Labor Party rule. This case allows an analysis of the challenges that the new government faces and invites thought about the choices that the government has in meeting those challenges. Large and persistent current account deficits suggest that the country must increase its exports, but what will those exports be and to which markets will they go? HBS Number: 9-796-160 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/26/1996 Revision Date: 12/9/1998 Geographic Setting: Australia Event Year Start: 1960 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Australia; Country analysis; Government & business Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-798-016), 2p, by George C. Lodge, Robin Root    Australian Wheat Board Ltd.: Becoming a Grower-owned Corporation   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Goldberg, Ray A.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Reavis, Cate In July 1999, the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), a statutory national and international grain marketing organization, would become grower-owned. As a private corporation, the AWB would no longer receive government borrowing guarantees and would have to rely on its own capital base for investments. Along with a new structure, the AWB's wheat export monopoly was in jeopardy as domestic and international grain traders called for open competition. The case describes CEO Murray Roger's challenges in navigating the AWB into a new era. HBS Number: 9-599-070 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 12/1/1998 Geographic Setting: Australia Industry Setting: agribusiness Number of Employees: 450 Gross Revenues: $4.7 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1998 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Agribusiness; Australia; Government & business; Organizational structure; Privatization; Trade policy    AXA: The Global Insurance Company   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Goodman, John B.; Moreton, Patrick Claude Bebear, the CEO of AXA, the tenth-largest insurer in Europe, has just completed an acquisition of the Equitable, the seventh-largest insurer in the United States. As part of his strategy to make AXA the first truly global insurance company, Bebear is considering investing in the Japanese and German markets. In making his decision, Bebear must consider the most appropriate entry strategy into each market, taking into account the extensive regulation of the insurance industry. Teaching Purpose: To introduce students to the insurance industry and the methods used to regulate the major markets of North America, Asia, and Europe. Students can then analyze the manner in which regulation structures each market and develop a strategy for successfully selling insurance in each country. HBS Number: 9-793-094 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 1/29/1993 Revision Date: 11/15/1995 Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: insurance Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $10.5 billion revenues Subjects: EC single market; Government & business; Insurance; International business; International marketing; Regulated industries    Background and Agreements on Foreign Direct Investment   Add   View  13 pp.  Case Wells, Louis T., Jr.; Sprague, Courtenay A brief history of foreign direct investment (FDI) is put forth, with emphasis on conflicts, accompanied by developments in the legal framework governing FDI, as well as international agreements and nonbinding principles formulated to resolve disputes brought in by FDI. Propositions provide a context from which core issues may be discussed by the students. Teaching Purpose: To explore the reasons for international conflict over foreign direct investment and the opportunities for international agreements to manage these conflicts. HBS Number: 9-796-148 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/1/1996 Revision Date: 11/20/1997 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Subjects: Foreign investment; International business; International finance; Negotiations    Bain & Co., Inc.: Growing the Business   Add   View  27 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoshino, Michael Y.; Ormiston, Charles M. Publication Date: 09/28/1990 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Raises management issues facing Bain & Co. in formulating its future global strategy and implementation of that strategy. HBS Number: 9-391-069 Geographic Setting: United States, Europe, Japan Industry Setting: consulting Number of Employees: 1,000 Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1990 Subjects: Consulting; Corporate culture; International business; Organization; Strategy formulation Academic Discipline: Business & government    Being There: Sony Corp. and Columbia Pictures   Add   View  19 pp.  Case Author(s): Kou, Julia; Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 12/08/1994 Product Type: Case (Library) HBS Number: 9-795-025 Geographic Setting: Japan; United States Industry Setting: Entertainment industry Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $3.7 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1989 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Acquisitions; Foreign investment Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-798-049), 20p, by Debora L. Spar Product Description: In September 1989, Sony Corp. of Japan bid $3.4 billion for Columbia Pictures. It was the highest bid ever by a Japanese company for any U.S. property. The case examines the validity of Sony's objectives in making this purchase, and also the political uproar that the acquisition caused in the United States.   Add     20 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-795-025 HBS Number: 5-798-049 Subjects: Acquisitions; Entertainment industry; Foreign investment; Japan    Black Magic and the America’s Cup: The Victory   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Enright, Michael J.; Capriles, Andres Chronicles New Zealand's participation in successive America's Cup regattas, culminating in its decisive 1995 victory. Allows for discussion of how an organization from a small nation can beat the world's best in a technologically, organizationally, and managerially demanding and complex undertaking. The discussion can be broadened to include what firms can learn about success in international competition from New Zealand's victory. Teaching Purpose: Explores the roles of nation-specific and organization-specific advantages in determining success in international competition. HBS Number: 9-796-187 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 6/21/1996 Geographic Setting: New Zealand Industry Setting: yacht racing Number of Employees: 50 Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Australia; Management styles; National competitiveness; Organizational design; Sports Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-796-144), 2p, by Michael J. Enright   Add     12 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-796-187 HBS Number: 5-796-175 Subjects: Australia; Management styles; National competitiveness; Organizational design; Sports    Brazil Confronts an Interdependent World   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Lodge, George C.; Reavis, Cate Discusses the politics of change and how Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, elected in 1994, has fought to promote systemic change in Brazil. While his Real Plan has stabilized inflation and attracted foreign investment, the nation's deficit continues to grow. Meanwhile Brazil continues to be plagued by gross social inequalities. Teaching Purpose: To demonstrate the dependency of economic development on systemic change. HBS Number: 9-799-004 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 10/8/1998 Revision Date: 9/20/1999 Geographic Setting: Brazil Subjects: Economic development; Government & business; Inflation; Social change; South America Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-799-103), 2p, by George C. Lodge, Cate Reavis; Teaching Note, (5-799-104), 8p, by George C. Lodge   Add     8 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-004 HBS Number: 5-799-104 Subjects: Business government relations; Economic development; Inflation; Social change; South America    Bribery and Corruption   Add   View  11 pp.  Case Di Tella, Rafael; Kennedy, Robert E.; Sinha, Jay Introduces students to the legal, ethical, and business issues surrounding corruption in international business. The first section examines efforts to stop corruption--such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the OECD Treaty on corruption, and the efforts of Transparency International. The second section presents a series of "caselets" that examine different aspects of corruption. Teaching Purpose: To introduce students to the issues surrounding corruption in international business. HBS Number: 9-799-091 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 1/1/1999 Revision Date: 10/22/1999 Subjects: Bribery; Emerging markets; Ethics; International business    BSKyB   Add   View  19 pp.  Case Spar, Debora; Zakaria, Paula In 1983, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought a floundering two-year-old British company called Satellite Television plc. and renamed it Sky. Without external financing, without having been allocated any space on Britain's existing satel HBS Number: 9-798-077 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/10/1998 Revision Date: 8/7/1998 Geographic Setting: United Kingdom Industry Setting: media Gross Revenues: $1.5 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1983 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Entertainment industry; Technological change; Telecommunications; United Kingdom Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-016), 22p, by Debora Spar   Add     22 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-798-077 HBS Number: 5-799-016 Subjects: Entertainment industry; Technological change; Telecommunications; United Kingdom    Burma Pipeline   Add   View  24 pp.  Case Spar, Debora; La Mure, Lane In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipelin HBS Number: 9-798-078 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 2/25/1998 Revision Date: 3/3/2000 Geographic Setting: Burma Industry Setting: oil Number of Employees: 7,000 Gross Revenues: $8 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Activists; Business & society; Energy; Ethics; Foreign investment; Natural gas; Political risk; Southeast Asia   Add     15 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-798-078 HBS Number: 5-799-012 Subjects: Activists; Business & society; Energy; Ethics; Foreign investment; Natural gas; Political risk; Southeast Asia    Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A)   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Author(s): Emmons, Willis; Nimgade, Ashok Publication Date: 09/09/1991 Revision Date: 02/26/1993 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S. government. In spite of repeated demands over the previous two years to lower the price of AZT (trademarked Retrovie), Burroughs Wellcome and its parent company, London-based Wellcome PLC, have refused, claiming that the $6,300 annual (wholesale) cost of the drug per person is justified, based on high research, development, production, and other costs associated with the drug. The firm's opponents accuse it of using an existing chemical compound, ample government research assistance, and a cooperative regulatory system to gain a monopoly on the only approved treatment available for people with AIDS. The case gives students the opportunity to explore the economics and regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, wrestle with the ethics of drug pricing, and analyze the formulation of public relations strategies on the part of both private companies and activist groups in the age of AIDS. HBS Number: 9-792-004 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Subjects: Ethics; Multinational corporations; Pharmaceuticals; Political risk; Pricing strategy; Public relations; Regulation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-793-114), 2p, by Willis Emmons; Supplement (Library), (9-793-115), 4p, by Willis Emmons; Case Video, (9-700-501), 10 min, by Willis Emmons; Teaching Note, (5-793-023), 29p, by Willis Emmons   Add     29 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-792-004 HBS Number: 5-793-023 Subjects: Ethics; Multinational corporations; Pharmaceuticals; Political risk; Pricing strategy; Public relations; Regulation    Busang: River of Gold (A)   Add   View  24 pp.  Case Spar, Debora; Bell, Jeffrey; Dinh-Tan, Christine; Purnama, Philip In 1995, Bre-X Minerals, a tiny Canadian mining firm, struck gold. Deep in the heart of the Borneo jungle, it discovered what appeared to be one of the world's largest and most cost-effective gold deposits. Almost immediately, the firm's stock price shot upwards and its managers were besieged by eager investors and would-be partners. They also became mired in the relationship-based politics of Indonesia. To mine the gold, and reap the benefits, Bre-X management must establish several critical relationships with financial partners outside Indonesia and with political and business partners inside the country. Yet figuring out with whom to ally itself is no easy task. The case describes how Bre-X's management reviews its options and evaluates the strategic advantages and risks of key relationships. HBS Number: 9-798-002 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 10/10/1997 Revision Date: 5/1/1998 Geographic Setting: Indonesia/Canada Industry Setting: mining Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Canada; Foreign investment; Joint ventures; Mining; Public opinion; Regulation Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-798-003), 2p, by Debora Spar, Jeffrey Bell, Christine Dinh-Tan, Philip Purnama; Supplement (Library), (9-798-004), 3p, by Debora Spar, Jeffrey Bell, Christine Dinh-Tan, Philip Purnama; Teaching Note, (5-798-116), 12p, by Debora Spar   Add     12 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-798-002 HBS Number: 5-798-116 Subjects: Canada; Foreign investment; Joint ventures; Mining; Public opinion; Regulation    B-W Footwear   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoffie, David B.; Burton, Stewart C. Publication Date: 10/03/1986 Revision Date: 11/02/1988 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: As import penetration into the American footwear market reached 81% in 1986, B-W Footwear, along with all of its American competitors, was struggling. Supply lines were deteriorating, retailers and importers were gaining power, and the government had rejected two consecutive petitions for protection. Like all industries faced with comparative cost disadvantages in international competition, footwear firms such as B-W have to find new ways to compete. This case explores different survival strategies for managing comparative disadvantage. HBS Number: 9-387-022 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: footwear Company Size: small Gross Revenues: $30 million sales Event Year Start: 1986 Event Year End: 1986 Subjects: Competition; Corporate strategy; Footwear; Imports; International trade; Regulation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-389-061), 14p, by David B. Yoffie; Case Video, (9-887-523), 16 min, by David B. Yoffie; Case Video, (9-887-549), 6 min, by David B. Yoffie   Add     11 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-387-022 HBS Number: 5-389-061 Subjects: Competition; Corporate strategy; Footwear; Imports; International trade; Regulation    California: The American Future?   Add   View  34 pp.  Case Scott, Bruce R.; Price, Kevin California has long been a lead state in terms of population growth, income, and societal norms. In the 1990s, California voters approved referenda to restrict benefits to immigrants and to prohibit affirmative action. Is this likely to be another leading indicator for the country as a whole? HBS Number: 9-798-001 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 12/1/1997 Geographic Setting: California Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Affirmative action; Demographics; Government policy; Politics; Social change    CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe   Add   View  19 pp.  Case Kennedy, Robert E.; Kaufman, Karen Examines an innovative, village-based management program in Zimbabwe. While the program has been quite successful, executive director Steven Kasere is concerned about the future. The program has become quite controversial in the environmental community, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) support may be in peril. HBS Number: 9-799-085 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 2/2/1999 Revision Date: 11/21/1999 Geographic Setting: Zimbabwe Industry Setting: travel/tourism Gross Revenues: $6 million revenues Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Africa; Economic development; Emerging markets; Environmental protection; Tourism; Travel    CANTV in 1994   Add   View  15 pp.  Case Enright, Michael J. In August 1994, the management at CANTV, Venezuela's national phone company, had to decide whether to cut phone service to agencies of the Venezuelan Government for non-payment. The conflict over the unpaid bills, a deep recession, and difficulties obtaining foreign currency under exchange controls left CANTV management with its greatest challenges since the company was privatized in 1991. Teaching Purpose: Provides an introduction to the potential difficulties faced by companies investing in Latin America, or developing nations in general. HBS Number: 9-795-096 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 2/21/1995 Revision Date: 2/28/1996 Geographic Setting: Venezuela Industry Setting: telecommunications Number of Employees: 22,500 Gross Revenues: $980 million revenues Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Developing countries; Foreign investment; Government & business; International business; South America; Telecommunications    Caselets: Bribery and Extortion in International Business   Add   View  2 pp.  Case Wells, Louis T., Jr. The "caselets" comprise several examples of decisions that have to made with regard to whether to bribe or take other actions that might be considered as corrupt. Teaching Purpose: To discuss what constitutes corruption, business managers' responses to corruption, and efforts at the home country and international front to limit corrupt payments to officials. HBS Number: 9-700-055 Type: Case (Gen Exp) Publication Date: 9/27/1999 Geographic Setting: Global Subjects: Bribery; Developing countries; Ethics; International business    Catalan Leather Industry   Add   View  19 pp.  Case Enright, Michael J.; Ballarin, Eduard; Rodriguez, Maria Dolores; Del Mar Prats, Maria Antoni Subira, the Minister of Industry in Catalonia, Spain, must decide whether to impose strict European Union environmental guidelines on the local leather industry. Failure to impose new regulations would result in substantial fines. Imposition, on the other hand, could lead to a further decline in an industry already buffeted by foreign competition. Teaching Purpose: To address the impact of environmental regulations and the structure of industry on the international competitiveness of a nation's firms. HBS Number: 9-795-105 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 2/15/1995 Geographic Setting: Spain Industry Setting: leather Number of Employees: 14,500 Gross Revenues: $100 million revenues Event Year Start: 1993 Event Year End: 1993 Subjects: Environmental protection; Europe; Government & business; Industry structure; International business    Cemex and Antidumping   Add   View  17 pp.  Case Author(s): Baron, David P.; Adams, Justin Publication Date: 01/01/1994 Revision Date: 05/01/1995 Product Type: Case (Field) Publisher: Stanford University Product Description: Under the leadership of CEO Lorenzo Zambrano, Cementos Mexicanos, S.A. (Cemex) has become the largest cement producer in North America and the fourth largest in the world. As a component of its globalization strategy Cemex expanded into the United States by building terminals and exporting cement from Mexico. U.S. producers countered with an antidumping petition under Section 731 of U.S. trade law, complaining that they were injured by the imported cement. The case presents the situation in the cement market and the administrative process that resulted in a 58% duty on Cemex imports. Focuses on Cemex's strategy for addressing the antidumping petition and its aftermath. May be used with: (IB17) CEMEX, S.A. de C.V.: Global Competition in a Local Business. HBS Number: P4 Geographic Setting: Mexico, United StatesIndustry Setting: cement Event Year Start: 1989Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Imports; International business; International trade; Mexico; Strategy formulation Academic Discipline: Business & government    Champion International Corp.: Timber, Trade, and the Northern Spotted Owl   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Author(s): Reinhardt, Forest Publication Date: 08/15/1991 Revision Date: 03/15/1993 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Champion's forest products division owns timberlands, sawmills, and plywood mills in the Pacific Northwest. The listing of the northern spotted owl as an endangered species, and restrictions on exports of logs from state-owned lands, have disrupted the stumpage, log and product markets in which Champion competes. Tag Edwards, executive V.P. for forest products, needs to decide how to respond to these regulatory changes, using economic data and political information. HBS Number: 9-792-017 Subjects: Economic analysis; Environmental protection; Forest products; Political risk; Regulation; Strategy formulation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-794-034), 23p, by Forest Reinhardt   Add     21 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-792-017 HBS Number: 5-794-034 Subjects: Economic analysis; Environmental protection; Forest products; Political risk; Regulation; Strategy formulation    Chandler Home Products: European Rationalization   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Yoshino, Michael Y.; Harmeling, Susan S. Chandler, a large U.S. consumer products firm, is rationalizing its European operations. Tony Pesci, protagonist, is deciding which plants to close for maximum efficiency. Manufacturing/marketing relationship is strained as efficiency is being weighed against cross-cultural marketing. Teaching Purpose: Discusses manufacturing/marketing tensions, efficiencies, labor-contract vs. inhouse issues, cultural clashes between country divisions of large U.S.-based firms. HBS Number: 9-394-221 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 6/29/1994 Revision Date: 6/27/1995 Geographic Setting: Europe Industry Setting: consumer goods Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $3 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1993 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Cross cultural relations; Currency; Environmental protection; International marketing    Chile: The Latin American Tiger?   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Author(s): Kennedy, Robert E.; Ramos, Teresita Publication Date: 04/27/1998 Revision Date: 03/21/1999 Product Type: Case (Library) HBS Number: 9-798-092 Geographic Setting: Chile Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Economic development; International trade; Trade agreements Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-092), 25p, by Robert E. Kennedy, Brian P. Irwin Product Description: Examines Chile's development strategy since 1973. Following a series of domestic economic reforms, the country must decide whether to join a regional trading block. Considers the advantages and disadvantages of regional trade agreements and examines the differences between a free trade agreement (NAFTA) and a customs union (Mercosur).   Add     25 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-798-092 HBS Number: 5-799-092 Subjects: Economic development; International trade; South America; Trade agreements    China (A): The Great Awakening   Add   View  33 pp.  Case Spar, Debora As the third largest economy after the United States and Japan, China's startling economic growth has spurred increasing interest in the economic, social, and political factors that catapulted the country to sudden prominence. This case starts with an overview of the country's ancient and modern history, and then focuses on the dramatic transition in the mid-twentieth century under Communist rule. The case analysis divides recent economic reforms into three distinct phases: reform in the countryside (1978-84), financial and enterprise reform (1984-88), and current efforts at monetary and fiscal reform following the Tiananmen crisis of 1989. May be used with: (9-794-089) China (B): Polaroid of Shanghai Ltd.; (9-794-134) China (C): Energy and the Environment; (9-795-128) China--1995: Growing Pains. HBS Number: 9-794-019 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 9/30/1993 Revision Date: 9/12/1997 Geographic Setting: China Subjects: China; Economic development; Foreign investment Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-796-167), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor; Teaching Note, (5-794-135), 23p, by Debora Spar   Add     23 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-794-019 HBS Number: 5-794-135 Subjects: China; Economic development; Foreign investment    China (B): Polaroid of Shanghai Ltd.   Add   View  26 pp.  Case Spar, Debora Examines the experience of Polaroid of Shanghai Ltd. (PSL), a joint venture between the U.S.-based Polaroid Corp. and the Shanghai Motion Picture Industry Co., within the framework of China's foreign investment climate. Discusses the evolution of foreign investment in China, from the so-called treaty ports in the mid-nineteenth century to the creation of Special Economic Zones in the latter part of the twentieth century. A major section on the current investment regime details the negotiation and approval process, management and labor relations, the foreign exchange system, and the macroeconomic environment. May be used with: (9-794-019) China (A): The Great Awakening; (9-794-134) China (C): Energy and the Environment; (9-795-128) China--1995: Growing Pains. HBS Number: 9-794-089 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 1/31/1994 Geographic Setting: Shanghai, China Industry Setting: instant camera manufacturing Number of Employees: 300 Event Year Start: 1991 Event Year End: 1993 Subjects: China; Economic development; Foreign investment Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-794-136), 19p, by Debora Spar   Add     18 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-794-089 HBS Number: 5-794-136 Subjects: China; Economic development; Foreign investment    China (C): Energy and the Environment   Add   View  28 pp.  Case Author(s): Vietor, Richard H.K.; Murray, Fiona E.S.; Loo, Celine Publication Date: 04/14/1994 Revision Date: 03/16/1995 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Describes energy and environmental policy in China during the period 1980-1993. China has implemented ambitious plans for electrification and the substitution of fossil fuels (mostly coal) for biomass. The environmental consequences of these changes, at the local and regional levels, have been pronounced; the long-term global consequences of Chinese energy development are also thought to be significant. Chinese environmental policy has been aimed largely at mitigating the worst local and regional impacts. Raises several questions: the degree to which energy shortages or environmental problems will constrain China's future growth; the degree to which environmental quality is an important objective of Chinese policy; and the possible roles that Western governments and firms might play in developing and implementing sound energy strategies for China. Teaching Objective: To analyze the effects of governmental energy policies on local air pollution and on global atmospheric problems, to think about problems of environment and development, and to analyze the relationships between host governments and foreign firms in the energy sector. May be used with: (9-794-019) China (A): The Great Awakening; (9-794-089) China (B): Polaroid of Shanghai Ltd. HBS Number: 9-794-134 Geographic Setting: China Industry Setting: Energy Event Year Start: 1980 Event Year End: 1993 Subjects: Business government relations; Energy; Environmental protection; Mining Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-795-077), 9p, by Richard H.K. Vietor   Add     9 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-794-134 HBS Number: 5-795-077 Subjects: Business government relations; China; Energy; Environmental protection; Mining; Pollution; Pollution control    China: Facing the 21st Century   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Author(s): Kennedy, Robert E.; Marquis, Katherine Publication Date: 02/13/1998 Revision Date: 01/14/2002 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: After 20 years of strong economic performance, economic czar Zhu Rongji considers whether it is time to rethink China's development strategy. The case reviews China's development strategy since 1978 and considers the challenges facing the country as it enters the 21st Century. Teaching purpose: To develop familiarity with China, its distinctive development strategy, and the immense challenges it faces in the next 10 years. HBS Number: 9-798-066 Geographic Setting: China Industry Setting: Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: China; Economic development; Macroeconomics Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-093), 22p, by Robert E. Kennedy, Brian P. Irwin; Supplement (Library), (9-701-033), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Rebecca Evans   Add     22 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-798-066 HBS Number: 5-799-093 Subjects: China; Economic development; Macroeconomics    China’s Renminbi: “Our Currency, Your Problem”?   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Author(s): Wong, Ka-Fu; Fung, K.C.; Lai, Ricky Publication Date: 01/24/2008 Product Type: Case Publisher: University of Hong Kong HBS Number: HKU710 Geographic Setting: China Subjects: Currency; Exchange rates; Foreign exchange; Foreign markets; Country analysis; Developing countries; Base-of-the-pyramid markets; Emerging markets; Globalization; Business government relations; Lobbying; International business; International markets; Balance of trade; Free trade; International trade; Trade; Purchasing Academic Discipline: International Business Product Description: The Chinese currency, the renminbi, has been a subject of controversy between China and its trade partners (especially the US), which accuse China of manipulating its exchange rate to make its exports artificially cheaper. They perceive the renminbi as an unfair weapon in international competition. Chinese officials responded that these attacks were groundless: the renminbi was not undervalued, at least not significantly. The peg contributed to maintaining a stable economic environment, which benefited all economic partners. They also said that, if the US was running a large trade and budget deficit, it was partly attributable to capital inflow from China. The US should focus on the weaknesses of its own economy that generated these deficits, instead of treating China as a scapegoat. Officials also said that China was a sovereign country with the right to choose its exchange rate policy. Throughout 2005 to 2007, the debate was regularly in the news and it was likely that arguments would become tougher if US and European trade deficits with China continued to increase. This case is about economics and business, introducing the basics of monetary economics and demonstrating practical applications of monetary policies and exchange rates that pertain to business decisions. The teaching objectives of the case are: To teach t    Chiquita Brands International (A)   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Author(s): Mulligan, Terence; Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 10/17/1996 Revision Date: 11/07/2001 Product Type: Case (Library) HBS Number: 9-797-015 Geographic Setting: United States; Latin America Industry Setting: Fruit Gross Revenues: $3.9 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1991 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Commodity markets; EU; Imports; Politics; Trade policy; World Trade Organization Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-701-106), 3p, by Briana Huntsberger, Debora L. Spar; Teaching Note, (5-798-115), 18p, by Debora L. Spar Product Description: When a new banana import policy is implemented in 1993 by the European Union, Chiquita Brands International, the world's largest banana distributor, watches its sales and net income plummet. The policy, Council Regulation (EEC 404/93), uses a new tariff and quota scheme to support the import of European territory bananas and significantly reduce Latin American banana imports, Chiquita's primary business. As a result, Chiquita sustains losses totaling $400 million between 1992 and 1994. To combat the EU policy, Chiquita files a Section 301 Petition with the U.S. Trade Representative. Yet CEO Keith Linde knows that even a successful 301 investigation can produce only medium-to long-term results. In 1995, Chiquita still faces the immediate necessity of improving the company's grim financial position.   Add     18 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-797-015 HBS Number: 5-798-115 Subjects: Commodity markets; Food; Imports; Interest groups; International trade; Political process; Politics    Choices in U.S. Trade Policy   Add   View  12 pp.  Case Wells, Louis T., Jr.; Sprague, Courtenay Describes the moments leading to the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of international trade negotiations and the outcome of those negotiations. Discusses some of the options facing the Clinton Administration with respect to its international trade policy. Teaching Purpose: To explore the advantages and disadvantages of global rules on economic issues as opposed to bilateral arrangements or unilateral actions on the part of individual governments. HBS Number: 9-796-117 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/14/1996 Revision Date: 6/5/1996 Geographic Setting: Global Event Year Start: 1993 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Government policy; International trade    Cia. Bozano, Simonsen of Brazil: Partnering in Privatization   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Ghemawat, Pankaj Shifts attention to the international context by looking at Cia. Bozano, Simonsen (CBS), a privately-held Brazilian group that has been a leading player in Brazil's privatization efforts in the 1990s. CBS has participated in privatizations across a wide array of industries in very different ways and with very different partnership structures--shedding additional light on the factors that determine how well interorganizational relationships work. CBS also faces important issues regarding the extent to which it could continue to participate in privatizations along a broad front as opposed to focusing on a few sectors. May be used with: (9-799-025) Note on Privatization in Brazil. HBS Number: 9-799-037 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 9/28/1998 Revision Date: 4/13/2000 Geographic Setting: Brazil Subjects: Competition; Government & business; International business; Privatization; South America    Ciba Consumer Pharmaceuticals’ Acutrim: Challenges and Opportunities in Today‘s   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Koehn, Nancy; Voorheis, Rebecca Since its introduction in 1983, Acutrim has been a major player in the U.S. appetite suppressant market and in the broader diet industry. This case focuses on the strategic, regulatory, marketing, and financial challenges this product and the rapidly changing diet industry pose for Ciba Consumer Pharmaceuticals as part of a large public corporation. Within this context, the case is intended to introduce students to the $33 billion diet industry and to elucidate some of the economic, cultural, and psychological factors that help shape the market for diet products, low-fat and health entrees, and a wide variety of foods in prosperous economies. HBS Number: 9-795-043 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 12/2/1994 Revision Date: 3/28/1996 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: pharmaceuticals (OTC)/diet products Company Size: Fortune 500 Gross Revenues: $12.2 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1984 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Consumer behavior; Corporate strategy; Government & business; Marketing strategy; Pharmaceuticals    Ciba Specialty Chemicals   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Reinhardt, Forest Based on extensive interviews, this case discusses the environmental policies of a successful firm in the specialty chemicals business. Executives at Ciba have differentiated products along environmental lines and have used environmental scrutiny as a tool for cutting costs. Discusses these initiatives and also the firm's efforts to improve its management of environmental risk. Calls attention to the relationships among environmental policies, the competitive position of the firm, and the firm's overall strategy. Teaching Purpose: To understand the objectives, formulation, and implementation of environmental policy in a global business. HBS Number: 9-799-086 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 1/11/1999 Geographic Setting: Switzerland Industry Setting: chemicals Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $7 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1996 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Chemicals; Environmental protection; International business; Management philosophy; Pollution control; Switzerland Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-107), 18p, by Forest Reinhardt   Add     18 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-086 HBS Number: 5-799-107 Subjects: Chemicals; Environmental protection; International business; Management philosophy; Pollution control; Switzerland    Citibank Indonesia   Add   View  10 pp.  Case Author(s): Merchant, Kenneth A. Publication Date: 10/25/1984 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Describes a dilemma faced by Citibank's country manager for Indonesia. His superiors have asked him to raise his profit goal for 1984. But to produce increased profits he would either have to reduce the amount lent at below-market rates, particularly to prime customers and government entities, or to increase the bank's sovereign risk at the time of a downturn in the Indonesian economy. The goal is to illustrate the role of country managers and some of the difficult tradeoffs they face. HBS Number: 9-185-061 Geographic Setting: IndonesiaIndustry Setting: commercial bankingCompany Size: large Event Year Start: 1983Event Year End: 1983 Subjects: Bank management; Budgeting; Business government relations; Commercial banking; International banking; Risk management Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Case Video, (9-885-509), 28 min, by Kenneth A. Merchant; Case Video, (9-885-525), 14 min, by Kenneth A. Merchant; Teaching Note, (5-187-059), 7p, by Kenneth A. Merchant   Add     7 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-185-061 HBS Number: 5-187-059 Subjects: Bank management; Budgeting; Business government relations; Commercial banking; International banking; Risk management    Clear Communications Ltd. vs. Telecom Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. (A)   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Author(s): Emmons, Willis; Calles, Martin Publication Date: 06/30/1998 Revision Date: 12/06/2006 Product Type: Case (Library) HBS Number: 9-798-085 Geographic Setting: New Zealand Industry Setting: Telecommunications industry Number of Employees: 800 Gross Revenues: $150 million revenues Event Year Start: 1989 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Business government relations; Competition; Deregulation; Monopolies; Privatization; Telecommunications Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-798-091), 6p, by Willis Emmons, Martin Calles Product Description: Features the challenges facing an entrant in the New Zealand telecommunications market during the period 1989-1994. Clear Communications Ltd. (CCL), a joint venture owned by Bell Canada, MCI, New Zealand Television Corp., and Todd Companies, begins offering long distance service in May 1991. The firm is dependent on access to the network of the incumbent, Telecom Corp. of New Zealand, to offer most of its services. This dependence proves to be a significant obstacle to CCL's expansion into the local business call market, particularly given New Zealand's unique “light-handed” regulatory system. Clear ultimately spends millions of dollars in a failed four-year lawsuit to obtain better terms of interconnection. In October 1994, CEO Andrew Makin must decide the future strategic direction of the firm.    Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico (Abridged)   Add   View  12 pp.  Case Author(s): Rukstad, Michael G.; Horn, Julia Publication Date: 01/08/1990 Revision Date: 06/11/1993 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Describes the Mexican subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive as it sets its strategy for coping with hyperinflation and the November 1987 devaluation of the peso. HBS Number: 9-390-096 Geographic Setting: Mexico Industry Setting: consumer products Company Size: Fortune 500 Event Year Start: 1987 Event Year End: 1987 Subjects: Business government relations; Consumer goods; Foreign exchange rates; Inflation; Mexico Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-390-190), 10p, by James E. Austin, Tomas Kohn    Collapse in Asia — 1997-98   Add   View  24 pp.  Case Lodge, George C.; St. George, Anthony Discusses the Asian crisis and economists' opinions and solutions. HBS Number: 9-798-084 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/23/1998 Geographic Setting: Asia Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Asia; Economic conditions; International finance; Macroeconomics; Southeast Asia    Collision Course in Commercial Aircraft: Boeing-Airbus-McDonnell Douglas — 19   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoffie, David B.; Vayle, Eric J. Publication Date: 05/30/1991 Revision Date: 10/27/1993 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Describes the competitive situation that has arisen in the commercial aircraft manufacturing industry since Airbus entered in 1970. Having overtaken McDonnell Douglas for second place, Airbus announces plans to challenge market leader Boeing's last pocket of dominance. Industry and government officials have long complained about assistance that Airbus receives from its governments, and this new challenge threatens to spark a new battle between the governments. Pushes students to examine issues facing industry players--high risk, long-term investments; technological change; intense selling competition--and issues facing their national governments--fair vs. unfair trade; important national industries--in a highly visible time frame for players and governments. HBS Number: 9-391-106 Geographic Setting: United States & Europe Industry Setting: commercial aircraft Company Size: Fortune 500 Gross Revenues: $20 billion revenues Subjects: Aircraft; Business government relations; EC single market; International business; Transportation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-794-149), 2p, by David B. Yoffie; Teaching Note, (5-390-073), 6p, by David B. Yoffie; Case Video, (9-792-503), 11 min, by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres   Add     6 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-391-106 HBS Number: 5-390-073 Subjects: Aircraft; Business government relations; EC single market; International business; Transportation    Coming to Grips with Deregulation: Bay State Gas   Add   View  30 pp.  Case Dyck, Alexander; Reinbergs, Indra A. In 1995, CEO Roger Young made a surprising decision to bring in Joel Singer, an outsider with an MBA, to lead Bay State through the upcoming turmoil of deregulation. Singer was convinced that in this situation where the boundaries of t HBS Number: 9-798-058 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 3/10/1998 Revision Date: 6/8/1998 Geographic Setting: New England Industry Setting: gas and electric Number of Employees: 1,100 Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Corporate strategy; Deregulation; Diversification; Electric power; Natural gas; Regulated industries; Utilities    Confronting the Third Industrial Revolution   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Moss, David A. Comprises three pieces. The first piece, which forms the body of the case, is adapted from a speech delivered by the author before the Harvard Business School Political Forum in early 1995. Originally entitled "The Economic Foundations HBS Number: 9-796-161 Type: Case (Pub Mat) Publication Date: 4/19/1996 Geographic Setting: United States Subjects: Economic policy; Industrial development; Politics Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-797-064), 14p, by David A. Moss   Add     14 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-796-161 HBS Number: 5-797-064 Subjects: Economic policy; Industrial development; Politics    Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution — 1763-92   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Moss, David A. Examines the founding of the United States of America during the second half of the eighteenth century. Focuses on: 1) the reasons why the American colonists rebelled from Britain (1763-74); 2) the problems the new nation confronted during the War of Independence and under the Articles of Confederation (1775-88); 3) the main issues taken up at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (1787); and 4) the enormous challenges facing Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury in the first Washington Administration (1789-92). A complete version of the Constitution (including the first ten amendments) is attached as an appendix. Teaching Purpose: To expose students to the early history of the United States and to encourage them to grapple with fundamental issues of political economy, including the economic role of the state and the nature of property rights. HBS Number: 9-795-063 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 12/20/1994 Revision Date: 1/25/1996 Geographic Setting: United States Event Year Start: 1763 Event Year End: 1792 Subjects: Business history; Federal government; Politics Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-796-047), 28p, by David A. Moss   Add     26 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-795-063 HBS Number: 5-796-047 Subjects: Business history; Federal government; Politics    Controlling International Oil (B): The Rise and Fall of OPEC (Abridged)   Add   View  12 pp.  Case Vietor, Richard H.K.; Spar, Debora Describes the evolution of the oil industry after 1954. Examines the rise of nationalism in the oil-producing nations and the means by which it was translated into changing patterns of control in the oil industry. Describes the rise of OPEC and the two oil shocks of the 1970s. However, where the original case examines the changing structure of the oil from the oil shocks of the 1970s through the early 1990s, this version concerns itself primarily with the evolution of the oil industry from 1954 to 1975. HBS Number: 9-796-165 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/23/1996 Geographic Setting: Middle East Industry Setting: oil Subjects: Foreign investment; Middle East; Petroleum    Corposol (Abridged)   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Austin, James E. The social enterprise Corposol has become the largest lender to microentrepreneurs in Colombia. Its rapid growth and diversification into other services and geographical areas has created organizational and resource strains. Teaching Purpose: To analyze the concept of social enterprise and special challenges arising from growth and diversification. HBS Number: 9-398-123 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 3/30/1998 Geographic Setting: Colombia Industry Setting: social enterprise Number of Employees: 384 Gross Revenues: $5 million revenues Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Developing countries; Nonprofit organizations; Social enterprise; South America    Creating the International Trade Organization   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Moss, David A.; Appling, George; Archer, Andrew In the late 1940s, officials at the U.S. State Department began campaigning for the creation of an International Trade Organization (ITO). This new organization would oversee global negotiations on trade liberalization, foreign direct HBS Number: 9-798-057 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 2/27/1998 Geographic Setting: United States Subjects: Development banks; International finance; International relations; International trade; Trade policy   Add     17 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-798-057 HBS Number: 5-701-107 Subjects: Development banks; International finance; International relations; International trade; Trade policy    Currency Crises   Add   View  14 pp.  Case Author(s): Kennedy, Robert E.; Irwin, Brian P. Publication Date: 01/05/1999 Revision Date: 03/28/1999 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Briefly describes six historical currency crises. Presents actual data on 11 disguised countries and asks students to consider which is most likely to experience a crisis. Teaching Purpose: To introduce students to the causes and consequences of currency crises. May be used with: (9-799-089) Note on Currency Crises; (9-799-090) The Brazilian Currency Crisis of 1999?. HBS Number: 9-799-088 Subjects: Currency; Emerging markets; International business; Macroeconomics Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-097), 27p, by Robert E. Kennedy, Brian P. Irwin   Add     27 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-088 HBS Number: 5-799-097 Subjects: Currency; Emerging markets; International business; Macroeconomics    Cut Flower Industry in Colombia (Abridged)   Add   View  15 pp.  Case Austin, James E. The Colombian Cut Flower Exporting Association faces several problems concerning local government regulations and import restrictions from the U.S. government. The Colombian Export Promotion Agency also faces decisions as to its policy stance toward the industry. HBS Number: 9-390-109 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 4/10/1990 Revision Date: 12/7/1992 Geographic Setting: Colombia Industry Setting: cut flowers Event Year Start: 1978 Event Year End: 1978 Subjects: Agribusiness; Developing countries; Exports; Imports; International business; Regulation; South America Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-390-203), 11p, by James E. Austin, Tomas Kohn   Add     11 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-390-109 HBS Number: 5-390-203 Subjects: Agribusiness; Developing countries; Exports; Imports; International business; Regulation; South America    Daewoo Group   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Author(s): Aguilar, Francis J.; Cho, Dong Sung Publication Date: 07/23/1984 Revision Date: 09/11/1986 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Focuses on the entrepreneurship of Chairman Kim Woo-Choong of Daewoo Group which became one of the 4 major group companies in Korea in just 17 years. The group's overall strategies are explored in conjunction with the evolution of Korea's industrial policies. The case can be used to demonstrate 1) the impact of an individual's values on the performance of a corporation, 2) the business-government relations, and 3) the strategic fit of Korean firms as joint venture partners to U.S. companies. HBS Number: 9-385-014 Geographic Setting: KoreaIndustry Setting: diversifiedCompany Size: largeGross Revenues: $6 billion sales Event Year Start: 1984Event Year End: 1984 Subjects: Business government relations; Business policy; Corporate strategy; Developing countries; Entrepreneurial management; Joint ventures; Korea Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Field), (9-385-015), 2p, by Francis J. Aguilar, Dong Sung Cho; Case Video, (9-885-510), 15 min, by Francis J. Aguilar; Teaching Note, (5-388-005), 20p, by Francis J. Aguilar   Add     17 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-385-014 HBS Number: 5-388-005 Subjects: Business government relations; Business policy; Corporate strategy; Developing countries; Entrepreneurial management; Joint ventures; Korea    Debt Restructuring Under the Brady Plan   Add   View  8 pp.  Case Pill, Huw; Sprague, Courtenay Describes several debt management schemes designed to address the growing debt problems faced by developing countries including the London and Paris Clubs and the Baker and Brady Plans. Their success is described and new debt initiatives highlighted. Teaching Purpose: To outline main features of debt restructuring and debt forgiveness under the Brady Plan. Describes its objectives and success, and application for other (middle income) developing countries. HBS Number: 9-796-130 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/22/1996 Revision Date: 6/25/1998 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Subjects: Debt management; Developing countries; International banking    Decline of the Dollar — 1978   Add   View  17 pp.  Case Author(s): Rukstad, Michael G.; Pope, Daniel A. Publication Date: 03/08/1984 Revision Date: 11/07/2001 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Describes the U.S. experience with floating exchange rates between 1973 and 1978, focusing on the rapid decline of the dollar in the summer of 1978. Illustrates the major determinants of the exchange rates and the role of government intervention in the foreign exchange market. HBS Number: 9-384-116 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: federal government Event Year Start: 1978 Event Year End: 1978 Subjects: Economic policy; Foreign exchange; Foreign exchange rates; International finance; Macroeconomics; Monetary policy Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-384-172), 3p, by Michael G. Rukstad, Daniel A. Pope    Domik Project   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Author(s): Poorvu, William J.; Vogel, John H., Jr. Publication Date: 11/17/1994 Revision Date: 12/06/1995 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Cameron Sawyer, CEO of Sawyer and Co., seeks financing for an office building he is developing in Moscow. The case describes the opportunities and challenges of development in Russia. Also highlights entrepreneurial opportunities in a changing world. HBS Number: 9-395-104 Geographic Setting: Moscow, Russia Industry Setting: real estate Number of Employees: 5 Gross Revenues: $250,000 revenues Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Entrepreneurship; International business; Real estate; Russia Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Case Video, (9-396-501), 8 min, by John H. Vogel Jr.; Teaching Note, (5-396-150), 6p, by William J. Poorvu, John H. Vogel Jr.   Add     6 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-395-104 HBS Number: 5-396-150 Subjects: Entrepreneurship; International business; Real estate; Russia

Dow Corning and the Breast Implant Controversy (A)   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Author(s): Emmons, Willis; Keller, Greg; Brand, Monica Publication Date: 11/14/1994 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: In early 1994, Dow Corning Corp. debates whether to participate in a proposed $4.2 billion product liability settlement. Specifically, the firm must decide whether to contribute $2 billion to end a class action suit filed by women suffering from connective tissue diseases, autoimmune disorders, and other medical conditions, allegedly as a result of defective silicone breast implants. Although denying any impropriety, Dow Corning stands accused of intentionally withholding information on health risks associated with its implants over several decades. Teaching Purpose: Designed to facilitate an analysis of product safety issues from the perspectives of business strategy and public policy. The class discussion explores both legal and ethical dimensions of the topic. HBS Number: 9-795-047 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: medical devices Company Size: Fortune 500 Gross Revenues: $2 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Ethics; Medical supplies; Product liability; Product safety; Public policy; Public relations Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-795-048), 1p, by Willis Emmons, Greg Keller, Monica Brand    Du Pont Freon Products Division (A)   Add   View  30 pp.  Case Author(s): Vietor, Richard H.K.; Reinhardt, Forest Publication Date: 01/20/1989 Revision Date: 03/28/1995 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: In 1988, the Du Pont Co. is abruptly confronted with solid scientific evidence that chlorofluorocarbons are destroying the earth's ozone shield. Du Pont, with its Freon brand product line serving markets for foam insulation, electronics solvents, and especially refrigeration, was the world's leading producer of these chemicals. Although no substitutes were currently commercially available, or even proven, Du Pont had to decide what to do. The purpose of the case is to examine how changing science and environmental problems affect competitive conditions and corporate strategy. In particular, the case examines the criteria by which companies formulate policy. HBS Number: 9-389-111 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: chemicals Gross Revenues: $20 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1988 Event Year End: 1988 Subjects: Chemicals; Corporate strategy; Environmental protection; Pollution control; Regulated industries Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Field), (9-389-112), 1p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Forest Reinhardt; Teaching Note, (5-794-046), 26p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Forest Reinhardt   Add     26 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-389-111 HBS Number: 5-794-046 Subjects: Chemicals; Corporate strategy; Environmental protection; Pollution control; Regulated industries    Echelon in Europe   Add   View  6 pp.  Case Baron, David P. Focuses on the nonmarket strategy of a high technology company to influence European standard setting for control networks. Echelon Corp. is a small, privately-held company located in Palo Alto, CA that produces open architecture contr HBS Number: P22 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 8/1/1997 Geographic Setting: Europe Industry Setting: electronics Event Year Start: 1996 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: EC single market; Government & business; Regulation; Strategy formulation Publisher: Stanford University    Economic Reform in the Czech Republic: Velvet Revolution or Velvet Blanket?   Add   View  34 pp.  Case Scott, Bruce R.; Mondschean, Thomas S. Describes the economic reforms from 1990 to 1998, their success, the subsequent 1997 crisis, and the fall of the Klaus government. Teaching Purpose: To analyze economic reforms since 1990 and their impact on economic performance. HBS Number: 9-700-100 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 6/19/2000 Revision Date: 6/27/2000 Geographic Setting: Czechoslovakia Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Economic development; Foreign exchange rates; Monetary policy; Privatization Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-701-001), 27p, by Bruce R. Scott, Thomas S. Mondschean   Add     27 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-700-100 HBS Number: 5-701-001 Subjects: Economic development; Foreign exchange rates; Monetary policy; Privatization    Eli Lilly and Co. (A): Globalization   Add   View  29 pp.  Case Yoshino, Michael Y.; Malnight, Thomas W. Examines the changes taking place in Eli Lilly in response to the globalization of the pharmaceuticals industry. Identifies the steps taken by management, problems currently faced, and challenges for the future. Allows examination of the process of implementing a global strategy from the headquarters perspective. May be used with Eli Lilly and Co. (B): Europe and Eli Lilly and Co. (C): Japan. HBS Number: 9-391-032 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 9/10/1990 Revision Date: 1/24/1992 Geographic Setting: Worldwide Industry Setting: pharmaceuticals Company Size: Fortune 500 Gross Revenues: $4 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1990 Subjects: Business policy; International business; Organizational development; Pharmaceuticals; Resource allocation; Strategy implementation    Eli Lilly and Co. (B): Europe   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoshino, Michael Y.; Malnight, Thomas W. Publication Date: 08/02/1990 Revision Date: 01/24/1992 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Examines the challenges facing the company in light of the changing economic, regulatory, and competitive environment in the European pharmaceutical industry. Examines the steps taken by the company adapting to this changing situation as part of a total globalization strategy and aggressive growth objectives in the region. Allows examination of the changing roles of country, regional, and headquarters management. May be used with: (9-391-032) Eli Lilly and Co. (A): Globalization; (9-391-034) Eli Lilly and Co. (C): Japan. HBS Number: 9-391-033 Geographic Setting: EuropeIndustry Setting: pharmaceuticalsCompany Size: Fortune 500Gross Revenues: $4 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1990Event Year End: 1990 Subjects: Business policy; Europe; International business; Organizational development; Pharmaceuticals; Resource allocation; Strategy implementation Academic Discipline: Business & government    Eli Lilly and Co. (C): Japan   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoshino, Michael Y.; Malnight, Thomas W. Publication Date: 08/02/1990 Revision Date: 03/18/1991 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Describes the process of establishing an independent operation in Japan in the mid-1980s as a result of a decision to make a major investment in the market. Describes the challenges in setting up such an operation and focuses on the role of the country manager in managing for rapid growth in a complex but key market. May be used with: (9-391-032) Eli Lilly and Co. (A): Globalization; (9-391-033) Eli Lilly and Co. (B): Europe. HBS Number: 9-391-034 Geographic Setting: JapanIndustry Setting: pharmaceuticalsCompany Size: Fortune 500Gross Revenues: $4 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1989Event Year End: 1989 Subjects: Business policy; International business; Japan; Market entry; Organizational development; Pharmaceuticals Academic Discipline: Business & government    Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. (Abridged)   Add   View  19 pp.  Case Austin, James E. Describes the process by which EMBRAER, the Brazilian state-owned aircraft manufacturing company, grew within just seven years to dominate the local market as well as make significant inroads into the international market for light aircraft. Useful in illustrating the behavior of public enterprise and their effectiveness in accelerating technological development and promoting exports. Also illustrates what effective leadership involves in such enterprises. HBS Number: 9-390-128 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 4/18/1990 Revision Date: 12/6/1992 Geographic Setting: Brazil Industry Setting: aircraft manufacturing Company Size: mid-size Gross Revenues: $105 million sales Event Year Start: 1969 Event Year End: 1981 Subjects: Aircraft; Developing countries; Government & business; High technology products; International trade; Leadership; Strategic planning Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-390-205), 8p, by James E. Austin, Tomas Kohn    Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Author(s): Emmons, Willis; Brand, Monica Publication Date: 09/28/1992 Revision Date: 03/24/1993 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Mexico's largest construction company, Empresas ICA, makes an initial public offering to international equity investors in April 1992 to help fund its participation in an ambitious new private-sector approach to highway development. Under the new program, launched by President Carlos Salinas de Gotari in 1989, the Mexican government offers concessions to private sector bidders for the construction and operation of toll roads along key transportation corridors. Winning bidders are required to take an equity stake in their communities and to raise debt capital outside of the public sector. The case allows students to explore the opportunities and risks offered to domestic and foreign firms by the privatization movement sweeping Latin America in the early 1990s. HBS Number: 9-793-028 Geographic Setting: Mexico Industry Setting: Construction industry Subjects: Deregulation; Government policy; International business; Privatization; Transportation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-793-123), 22p, by Willis Emmons   Add     24 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-793-028 HBS Number: 5-793-123 Subjects: Construction; Deregulation; Government policy; International business; Mexico; Privatization; Transportation    Enron Development Corp.: Dabhol Power Project, Maharashtra, India (A) (Abridged)   Add   View  15 pp.  Case Author(s): Wells, Louis T., Jr. Publication Date: 02/04/1997 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: A large, lucrative power plant is negotiated for construction/operation by an American power company in India's evolving privatized power sector. The process of incorporating the project is captured in this case. The American company will own and operate the plant in India, which will sell power to India. Teaching Purpose: Entering an emerging market in an industry currently in the process of being privatized; how to handle extra-cultural negotiations; anticipating future development. May be used with: (9-797-086) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (B) (Abridged); (9-797-087) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (C) (Abridged). HBS Number: 9-797-085 Geographic Setting: Maharashtra, India Industry Setting: energy Event Year Start: 1992 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Business government relations; Energy; India; Management of change; Market entry; Natural gas; Negotiations; Privatization Academic Discipline: Business & government    Enron Development Corp.: Dabhol Power Project, Maharashtra, India (B) (Abridged)   Add   View  5 pp.  Case Author(s): Wells, Louis T., Jr. Publication Date: 02/04/1997 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: A new administration/government takes power in a state in India and cancels a power project agreed upon/created by the previous state government and an American-based energy company. The project cancellation is based on allegations of irregularities, exorbitant costs, and political pressures. Teaching Purpose: Analyzing impact of politics on business. How do you handle political change or major project cancellation in a foreign country? Were there precautionary measures that could have been taken? Would constructing and handling the deal differently have avoided the conflict/cancellation? May be used with: (9-797-085) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A) (Abridged); (9-797-087) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (C) (Abridged). HBS Number: 9-797-086 Geographic Setting: Maharashtra, India Industry Setting: energy Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Business government relations; Energy; India; Management of change; Market entry; Natural gas; Negotiations; Privatization Academic Discipline: Business & government    Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A)   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Rangan, V. Kasturi; Palepu, Krishna G.; Srinivasan, Sarayu; Bhasin, Anu; Desai, Mihir A large, lucrative power plant is negotiated for construction/operation by an American power company in India's evolving privatized power sector. The process of incorporating the project is captured in this case. The American company will own and operate the plant in India, which will sell power to India. Teaching Purpose: Entering an emerging market in an industry currently in the process of being privatized; how to handle extra-cultural negotiations; anticipating future development. May be used with: (9-596-100) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (B); (9-596-101) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (C). HBS Number: 9-596-099 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 5/10/1996 Revision Date: 7/6/1998 Geographic Setting: Maharashtra, India Industry Setting: energy Event Year Start: 1992 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Energy; Government & business; India; Management of change; Market entry; Natural gas; Negotiations; Privatization Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-598-154), 6p, by V. Kasturi Rangan   Add     6 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-596-099 HBS Number: 5-598-154 Subjects: Business government relations; Energy; India; Management of change; Market entry; Natural gas; Negotiations; Privatization    Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (B)   Add   View  6 pp.  Case Palepu, Krishna G.; Rangan, V. Kasturi; Srinivasan, Sarayu A new administration/government takes power in a state in India and cancels a power project agreed upon/created by the previous state government and an American-based energy company. The project cancellation is based on allegations of irregularities, exorbitant costs, and political pressures. Teaching Purpose: Analyzing impact of politics on business. How do you handle political change or major project cancellation in a foreign country? Were there precautionary measures that could have been taken? Would constructing and handling the deal differently have avoided the conflict/cancellation? May be used with: (9-596-099) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A); (9-596-101) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (C). HBS Number: 9-596-100 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 5/14/1996 Revision Date: 12/16/1996 Geographic Setting: Maharashtra, India Industry Setting: energy Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Energy; Government & business; India; Management of change; Market entry; Natural gas; Negotiations; Privatization Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-598-154), 6p, by V. Kasturi Rangan   Add     6 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-596-100 HBS Number: 5-598-154 Subjects: Business government relations; Energy; India; Management of change; Market entry; Natural gas; Negotiations; Privatization    Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (C)   Add   View  5 pp.  Case Author(s): Palepu, Krishna G.; Rangan, V. Kasturi; Srinivasan, Sarayu Publication Date: 06/28/1996 Revision Date: 07/28/2004 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Discusses the resolution of the canceled power project in Maharashtra. The contract between the American gas giant and Indian state government is renegotiated. Teaching Purpose: Could this have been: 1) anticipated? 2) handled more effectively/differently? Are the new terms better? What happened in this situation? Is it really over? May be used with: (9-596-099) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A); (9-596-100) Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (B). HBS Number: 9-596-101 Geographic Setting: Maharashtra, India Industry Setting: energy Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Business government relations; Energy; India; Management of change; Market entry; Natural gas; Negotiations; Privatization Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-598-154), 6p, by V. Kasturi Rangan   Add     6 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-596-101 HBS Number: 5-598-154 Subjects: Business government relations; Energy; India; Management of change; Market entry; Natural gas; Negotiations; Privatization    ENTel and the Privatization of Argentine Telecommunications   Add   View  14 pp.  Case Emmons, Willis Growing fiscal deficits, persistent economic recession, and underinvestment in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure lead the Argentine government to privatize its state-owned monopoly provider of telecommunications services, ENTel, in late 1990. The privatization process and the resulting ownership structure is complex, and the new regulatory framework appears to offer both significant opportunities and risks for investors. Teaching Purpose: Designed to explore the interaction of ownership, regulation, and competition in the privatization process and their implications for company performance and national welfare. HBS Number: 9-796-065 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 11/6/1995 Revision Date: 4/3/1996 Geographic Setting: Argentina Industry Setting: telecommunications Event Year Start: 1989 Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Economic development; Government policy; International business; Privatization; South America; Telecommunications    Environment and International Trade   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Author(s): Reinhardt, Forest; Prewitt, Edward Publication Date: 09/15/1993 Revision Date: 10/20/1994 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: During the 1990s, environmental activists became interested in trade issues for the first time. Whereas GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, had previously been the province of trade specialists, a new poster popular among environmentalists depicted the monster ``GATTzilla,'' devouring the earth, dolphins, and democratic institutions. This case describes the conflict between environmental and trade values as it is manifested in various multilateral institutions and treaties: GATT, especially after its controversial ruling on a United States dolphin protection law; NAFTA, the North America Free Trade Agreement, for which environmental matters have become an unexpected stumbling block; the European Community, as it tries to harmonize member regulations; and multilateral treaties such as CITES (the convention on trade in endangered species), the Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances, and attempts to protect tropical timber. HBS Number: 9-794-018 Event Year Start: 1993 Event Year End: 1993 Subjects: Business government relations; Environmental protection; Government policy; International business; International trade Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-795-085), 8p, by Forest Reinhardt   Add     8 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-794-018 HBS Number: 5-795-085 Subjects: Business government relations; Environmental protection; Government policy; International business; International trade; Pollution    Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corp.   Add   View  28 pp.  Case Reinhardt, Forest; Mandelli, Monica; Burns, Jennifer Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling of oil at any stage of production can damage the natural environment, human he HBS Number: 9-799-062 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 3/10/1999 Revision Date: 4/1/1999 Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: oil Gross Revenues: $40 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1999 Subjects: Decentralization; Environmental protection; International business; Petroleum industry; Pollution control; Quantitative analysis; Risk assessment; Risk management Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-112), 24p, by Forest Reinhardt   Add     24 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-062 HBS Number: 5-799-112 Subjects: Decentralization; Environmental protection; International business; Petroleum industry; Pollution control; Quantitative analysis; Risk assessment; Risk management    Europe in 1996   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Pill, Huw; Anagnostopoulos, Effie Describes the process of economic and political integration in Europe in the period since 1945. The main issues discussed are: the common market; the single market; economic and monetary union; EU enlargement encompassing formerly centrally planned economies; and EU institutional reform. Teaching Purpose: To investigate how to manage integration at the regional level in a globalizing environment. HBS Number: 9-797-047 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/9/1997 Revision Date: 9/3/1997 Geographic Setting: Europe Event Year Start: 1945 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: EC single market; Europe; International trade   Add     14 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-797-047 HBS Number: 5-702-073 Subjects: EC single market; Europe; International trade    European Monetary Union   Add   View  32 pp.  Case Author(s): Vietor, Richard H.K.; Ciminero, Sabina Publication Date: 05/25/1999 Revision Date: 12/10/2003 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: On January 1, 1999, 11 European countries unified their currencies--48 years after their first integrative efforts. This marks a huge development in the structure of Europe and the world's economy. This case examines the integrative process, the Single Europe Act and its impact on market structure during the past 13 years, and monetary union. Provides data as of 1998 on European macroeconomics integration and data in the mid-1990s on integration of product markets, capital markets, and labor markets. HBS Number: 9-799-131 Geographic Setting: Europe Subjects: Business government relations; Competition; Currency; EC single market; Eurodollars; Europe; International business; Macroeconomics Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Field), (9-799-151), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Sabina Ciminero; Teaching Note, (5-799-155), 6p, by Richard H.K. Vietor   Add     6 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-131 HBS Number: 5-799-155 Subjects: Business government relations; Competition; Currency; EC single market; Eurodollars; Europe; International business; Macroeconomics    European Monetary Union: Honeywell Europe   Add   View  4 pp.  Case Vietor, Richard H.K.; Ciminero, Sabina Supplements the case. Must be used with: (9-799-131) European Monetary Union. HBS Number: 9-799-151 Type: Supplement (Field) Publication Date: 5/20/1999 Geographic Setting: Europe Subjects: Business, Government, and the International Economy    Fan Pier   Add   View  16 pp.  Case Author(s): Poorvu, William J.; Sweetman, Katherine Publication Date: 08/31/1989 Revision Date: 01/22/1992 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: The owner of the Fan Pier site in South Boston has been found legally responsible for blocking the efforts of his development partner in attaining the approval necessary to build the $800 million megaproject they had planned together. It was believed that the owner hoped to structure a new relationship with some other partner who would share more of the economic benefits. The feuding partners need to decide how to handle the recent ruling. This case provides an opportunity to expose students to megaprojects: issues of partnership, design, architecture, changing marketing, and local politics play large roles. HBS Number: 9-390-012 Geographic Setting: Boston, MA Industry Setting: real estate Company Size: small Event Year Start: 1963 Event Year End: 1989 Subjects: Legal aspects of business; Partnerships; Project management; Real estate Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-391-213), 10p, by William J. Poorvu, Katherine Sweetman   Add     9 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-390-012 HBS Number: 5-391-213 Subjects: Legal aspects of business; Partnerships; Project management; Real estate    Farmington Fresh: Growers Changing Produce Distribution   Add   View  24 pp.  Case Goldberg, Ray A.; Daniels, Donald Opening up of Asian markets for U.S. produce provided an opportunity for large-scale producers to develop their own packing house and airline to ship their product to Asian markets. Teaching Purpose: How do farmers take a proactive strategy in reaching global produce markets in a direct fashion? HBS Number: 9-597-047 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 11/15/1996 Revision Date: 2/13/1997 Number of Employees: 100 Gross Revenues: $20 million revenues Event Year Start: 1996 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Agribusiness; Food; Southeast Asia    Fighting 21st Century Pirates: The Business Software Alliance in Hong Kong   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Farhoomand, Ali F.; Lovelock, Peter; Lo, Katherine For computer software firms, software piracy represented a large loss of potential revenues. In response to the trade in pirated software, computer software companies banded together into an international political lobby organization, HBS Number: HKU059 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 1/1/1999 Geographic Setting: Hong Kong Industry Setting: software Event Year Start: 1998 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Asia; Intellectual property; International trade; Software; Trade policy Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (HKU060), 6p, by Ali F. Farhoomand, Peter Lovelock, Katherine Lo Publisher: University of Hong Kong (Sales restricted to North America.)   Add     6 pp.  Teaching Note For use with HKU059 HBS Number: HKU060 Subjects: Asia; Intellectual property; International trade; Software; Trade policy    First Pacific Co. Ltd.: From Letters of Credit to Personal Communications Networ   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Yoshino, Michael Y.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel Examines management issues and explores the role of headquarters in a diversified firm in Asia. Teaching Purpose: To highlight strategy formulation and management systems in such a firm. HBS Number: 9-396-139 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 11/1/1995 Geographic Setting: Asia Industry Setting: telecom, distribution, financial services Number of Employees: 30,749 Gross Revenues: $3 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Business policy; International business; Southeast Asia    Forest Policy in Malaysia   Add   View  26 pp.  Case Author(s): Reinhardt, Forest Publication Date: 05/11/1992 Revision Date: 08/31/1993 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: The governments of Malaysia and the Malaysian State of Sarawak need to assess possible changes in forest policy. Environmentalist pressure threatens traditional market relationships and patterns of business-government interaction. Harvest regulations, subsidies, trade restrictions, environmental controls, and property rights structures are all called into question. Teaching Purpose: To understand problems of environmental externalities and public goods, and to analyze the effects of government policy on international trade, firm behavior, and environmental quality. HBS Number: 9-792-099 Subjects: Economic policy; Environmental protection; Forest products; International trade; Regulation; Southeast Asia Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-794-009), 30p, by Forest Reinhardt   Add     29 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-792-099 HBS Number: 5-794-009 Subjects: Economic policy; Environmental protection; Forest products; International trade; Regulation; Southeast Asia    Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Author(s): Spar, Debora; Burns, Jennifer Publication Date: 02/01/2000 Revision Date: 09/06/2002 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: For over a century, the international diamond market has been dominated by one of the most successful cartels on earth. Run by the legendary De Beers Corp., the cartel has managed to keep diamond prices steady and increasing, and to prevent the defection that dooms most other “orderly marketing arrangements.” It has also managed to uphold one of the greatest marketing coups of history: convincing millions of customers that diamonds are actually rare, and therefore highly prized. There is only one problem that the cartel faces. It is actually illegal in the United States (the world's largest market for gem diamonds) and has been under constant attack by the U.S. Justice Department. The case describes how De Beers has dealt with this problem in the past and how, in the late 1990s, changes in the African political situation and the world diamond market may suggest a new relationship with the U.S. government. Teaching Purpose: To explore the topics of both cartels and antitrust, and examine how companies may be able to affect a hostile legal environment. May be used with: (9-702-027) Note on Conflict Diamonds: Why are Civil Wars, Like Diamonds, Forever?. HBS Number: 9-700-082 Geographic Setting: South Africa, United States Industry Setting: diamonds/mining Gross Revenues: $617 million revenues Event Year Start: 1999 Event Year End: 2000 Subjects: Africa; Antitrust laws; Business government relations; Cartels; Legal aspects of business; Mining; Monopolies Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-701-019), 16p, by Debora Spar, Jennifer Burns   Add     16 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-700-082 HBS Number: 5-701-019 Subjects: Africa; Antitrust laws; Business government relations; Cartels; Legal aspects of business; Mining; Monopolies    Freeport Indonesia   Add   View  30 pp.  Case Vietor, Richard H.K. In 1996, PT Freeport Indonesia, the mining subsidiary of Freeport McMoRan, had just completed an expansion of its copper and gold mine in the western half of New Guinea. The mine, which had dealt with numerous environmental and socio-cultural problems over the past couple of years, had recently proposed concrete plans for dealing with problems of acid drainage and spoils deposition. Now, although under widespread criticism and attack, the company is undergoing environmental and social audits and is again contemplating a major expansion. Teaching Purpose: Developed to teach aspects of environmental strategy for a company invested in a developing country with less rigorous environmental enforcement. HBS Number: 9-796-124 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 3/15/1996 Revision Date: 3/13/2000 Geographic Setting: Indonesia Industry Setting: mining Number of Employees: 18,000 Gross Revenues: $2 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Developing countries; Environmental protection; Government & business; International business; Mining Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-007), 5p, by Richard H.K. Vietor   Add     5 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-796-124 HBS Number: 5-799-007 Subjects: Business government relations; Developing countries; Environmental protection; International business; Mining    French Pension System: On the Verge of Retirement?   Add   View  26 pp.  Case Moss, David A.; Dias, Anne; Stephann, Bertrand Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that is beginning to run into serious financial trouble. Ever-increasing longevity, the impending retirement of the baby boomers, and intense public pressure for a lower retirement age are all placing great strain on the existing system. The case emphasizes that in contemplating proposals for reform, the French are being required to weigh two different social objectives that appear to be in conflict--economic growth and economic security. Their choices will end up exerting an enormous impact not only on their welfare state but also on the structure of French labor and capital markets. HBS Number: 9-798-032 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 9/29/1997 Revision Date: 10/30/1997 Geographic Setting: France Subjects: Baby boomers; Capital markets; France; Pension funds; Privatization; Retirement   Add     21 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-798-032 HBS Number: 5-701-027 Subjects: Baby boomers; Capital markets; France; Pension funds; Privatization; Retirement    French Pension System: On the Verge of Retirement? (Abridged)   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Author(s): Moss, David A. Publication Date: 04/05/1999 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that is beginning to run into serious financial trouble. Ever-increasing longevity, the impending retirement of the baby boomers, and intense public pressure for a lower retirement age are all placing great strain on the existing system. The case emphasizes that in contemplating proposals for reform, the French are being required to weigh two different social objectives that appear to be in conflict -- economic growth and economic security. Their choices will end up exerting an enormous impact not only on their welfare state but also on the structure of French labor and capital markets. HBS Number: 9-799-143 Geographic Setting: FranceIndustry Setting: government Subjects: Baby boomers; Capital markets; France; Pension funds; Privatization; Retirement Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-701-027), 21p, by David A. Moss   Add     21 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-143 HBS Number: 5-701-027 Subjects: Baby boomers; Capital markets; France; Pension funds; Privatization; Retirement    Fusion Systems Corp. in Japan (A)   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin; McQuade, Krista Describes the international business of Fusion Systems Corp., a small high technology American firm, and a five-year patent dispute the company has in Japan with Mitsubishi Electric. Also describes key features of the intellectual property systems in Japan and related patenting strategies of firms. Finally, describes Fusion's strategy to seek help from the U.S. government. Ends with a decision of how Fusion should respond to Mitsubishi's latest negotiating moves. HBS Number: 9-390-021 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 2/16/1990 Revision Date: 12/15/1993 Geographic Setting: Japan Industry Setting: electronics Company Size: small Gross Revenues: $33 million sales Event Year Start: 1975 Event Year End: 1989 Subjects: Competition; International trade; Japan; Licensing; Negotiations; Patents; Technology Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Field), (9-794-067), 1p, by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres; Teaching Note, (5-794-068), 22p, by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres; Case Video, (9-792-502), 10 min, by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres   Add     22 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-390-021 HBS Number: 5-794-068 Subjects: Competition; International trade; Japan; Licensing; Negotiations; Patents; Technology    General Motors’ Asian Alliances   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. Describes all of General Motors' major alliances with Asian firms. These include Toyota, Fanuc, Isuzu, Daewoo, Suzuki, Nissan, and Hitachi. Students can discuss the rationale of each alliance, their risks, their management problems, and their likely evolution. Also shows the differences between alliances based primarily on cost considerations and those aimed at learning from other organizations. HBS Number: 9-388-094 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 1/15/1988 Revision Date: 5/2/1988 Geographic Setting: Asia Industry Setting: automobiles Company Size: Fortune 500 Gross Revenues: $100 billion sales Event Year Start: 1972 Event Year End: 1987 Subjects: Automobiles; Corporate strategy; Japan; Joint ventures; Korea Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-390-062), 13p, by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.   Add     10 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-388-094 HBS Number: 5-390-062 Subjects: Automobiles; Corporate strategy; Japan; Joint ventures; Korea    Gerber Products Co.: Investing in the New Poland   Added   View  19 pp.  Case Author(s): Young, Allegra; Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 03/22/1993 Revision Date: 07/18/1994 Product Type: Case (Field) HBS Number: 9-793-069 Geographic Setting: Europe, Eastern Industry Setting: Food processing industry Subjects: Acquisitions; Foreign investment; Uncertainty Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Exercise), (2-798-097), 1p, by Alexander Dyck, David A. Moss; Teaching Note, (5-794-036), 19p, by Debora L. Spar Product Description: Examines Gerber Products Co.'s evaluation of Alima S.A., one of Poland's largest food processing plants, as a potential overseas investment in 1991. Factors that influenced Gerber's decision are discussed in detail: property rights, taxation issues, and Poland's political economy.   Add     19 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-793-069 HBS Number: 5-794-036 Subjects: Acquisitions; Eastern Europe; Food processing industry; Foreign investment; Uncertainty    German Financial System in 2000   Add   View  26 pp.  Case Schaede, Ulrike Describes the evolution and current situation of Germany's financial system. Based on a discussion of the German economy in the postwar period, the case highlights the impact of financial globalization and EU policies on Germany's domestic system of banking and finance, corporate governance, and banking regulation. Teaching Purpose: To discuss differing national systems of finance, and multiple external and internal forces driving financial deregulation. HBS Number: 9-700-135 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 5/9/2000 Revision Date: 6/19/2000 Geographic Setting: Germany Industry Setting: banking Subjects: Banking industry; Deregulation; Germany; Government & business; Regulation Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-700-139), 15p, by Ulrike Schaede   Add     15 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-700-135 HBS Number: 5-700-139 Subjects: Banking industry; Business government relations; Deregulation; Germany; Regulation    Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification   Add   View  24 pp.  Case Author(s): Lodge, George C.; Ragsdale, James W. Publication Date: 09/17/1992 Revision Date: 07/09/1998 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: In October 1990, eastern Germany was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. The German people rewarded the architect of these changes, Helmut Kohl, with an enhanced majority in national elections. But only two years later it was hard to remember these heady times. Re-unified Germany's external and internal economic situation were out of balance. The current account fell from a large surplus to deficit. Inflation rose as the German government ran a mounting deficit to finance reconstruction. In June 1992, the Bundesbank council, the interest-rate-setting body of Germany's central bank, raised interest rates to combat this inflation. Other members of the EMS were less willing to raise interest rates as they feared recession rather than overheating. Within months, Italy devalued and the United Kingdom dropped out of the EMS. Had Kohl's reunification strategy caused the EMS crisis? What did this crisis imply about the hopes for closer European integration? HBS Number: 9-793-033 Geographic Setting: Germany Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Germany; International banking; Monetary policy Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-793-042), 2p, by George C. Lodge; Supplement (Note), (9-793-043), 3p, by George C. Lodge; Supplement (Library), (9-795-093), 6p, by George C. Lodge, John F. McGuire; Teaching Note, (5-793-047), 19p, by George C. Lodge; Teaching Note, (5-796-033), 28p, by Alexander Dyck   Add     28 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-793-033 HBS Number: 5-796-033 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Germany; International banking; Monetary policy    Germany’s Evolving Privatization Policies: The Plaschna Management KG   Add   View  26 pp.  Case Wruck, Karen H.; Dyck, Alexander Describes the evolution of the German government's approach to restructuring East German firms. Three organizations and their interactions are examined: 1) the Treuhand, Germany's privatization agency, 2) the Plaschna Management KG, a HBS Number: 9-795-120 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 3/15/1995 Revision Date: 1/26/1998 Geographic Setting: Berlin, Germany Industry Setting: government agency & electric motors Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Germany; Government & business; Privatization; Restructuring; Social change Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-796-036), 20p, by Karen H. Wruck, Alexander Dyck   Add     20 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-795-120 HBS Number: 5-796-036 Subjects: Business government relations; Germany; Privatization; Restructuring; Social change    Global Climate Change (A)   Add   View  31 pp.  Case Reinhardt, Forest; Packard, Kimberly O'Neill Scientists predict rising temperatures, changes in climate systems, and significant disruption of economic activity due to the buildup of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases in the atmosphere. Global climate change presents bus HBS Number: 9-798-076 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/3/1998 Revision Date: 1/28/1999 Geographic Setting: Global Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Business & society; Economic analysis; Economic development; Environmental protection; International relations; International trade; Negotiations; Pollution Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-109), 28p, by Forest Reinhardt    Global Climate Change (B): Country Notes for International Negotiation   Add   View  15 pp.  Case Reinhardt, Forest; Packard, Kimberly O'Neill Contains supplemental data on eight nations--Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, and the United States--for use in simulated negotiations. May be used with: (9-798-076) Global Climate Change (A); (9-700-106) Global Climate Change and BP Amoco. HBS Number: 9-798-087 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/3/1998 Revision Date: 1/6/1999 Geographic Setting: Global Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Business & society; Economic analysis; Economic development; Environmental protection; International relations; International trade; Negotiations; Pollution Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-109), 28p, by Forest Reinhardt    Global Climate Change and BP Amoco   Add   View  24 pp.  Case Author(s): Reinhardt, Forest Publication Date: 04/07/2000 Revision Date: 02/28/2001 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: BP Amoco is the world's third largest oil firm. Its CEO, Sir John Browne, broke with his industry colleagues in 1997 when he publicly declared that global climate change was a serious problem and pledged BP to play a significant role in the search for solutions. The company has committed itself to voluntary cutbacks of carbon dioxide, the main gas held responsible for global climate change. Browne and his fellow executives believe that their approach makes sense not just from the perspective of social responsibility but from a hard-headed business standpoint. This case provides the information necessary to evaluate this belief. Teaching Purpose: To understand the effects of a significant public good issue on corporate strategy and operations. May be used with: (9-798-076) Global Climate Change (A); (9-798-087) Global Climate Change (B): Country Notes for International Negotiation; (9-702-075) Global Climate Change After Marrakech (A). HBS Number: 9-700-106 Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: energy Gross Revenues: $84 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 2000 Subjects: Business government relations; Business & society; Energy; Environmental protection; Petroleum; Strategy formulation Academic Discipline: Business & government    Great Britain: Decline or Renewal?   Add   View  24 pp.  Case Author(s): Goodman, John B.; Palmer, David Publication Date: 05/15/1989 Revision Date: 06/15/1990 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Focuses on the origins of economic decline and the problems of economic management in Great Britain, the oldest industrial state. Reviews the formation of macroeconomic policy, welfare policy, and industrial policy in the postwar period. Examines Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's diagnosis of Britain's ills and explores the effectiveness of her cure. HBS Number: 9-389-011 Geographic Setting: United Kingdom; Europe Event Year Start: 1987 Event Year End: 1987 Subjects: Country analysis; Economic policy; Macroeconomics; Privatization Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-390-071), 23p, by John B. Goodman   Add     23 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-389-011 HBS Number: 5-390-071 Subjects: Country analysis; Economic policy; Europe; Macroeconomics; Privatization; United Kingdom    Grupo Garantia (A): A Case of Diversification   Add   View  36 pp.  Case Ellis, R. Jeffrey; Lelyveld, Michael Addresses the growth of this Brazilian "Grupo" from investment bank to a diversified group so common in emerging economies. Tackles interesting issues of strategic analysis, diversification, macroeconomics of emerging nations, and financial analysis. HBS Number: BAB006 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 1/1/1999 Revision Date: 6/12/2000 Geographic Setting: Brazil Industry Setting: banking, beer, food retail Subjects: Business policy; Diversified companies; Emerging markets; International business; Investment banking; South America; Strategy implementation Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (BAB007), 5p, by R. Jeffrey Ellis, Michael Lelyveld; Supplement (Library), (BAB008), 4p, by R. Jeffrey Ellis, Michael Lelyveld; Teaching Note, (BAB506), 19p, by R. Jeffrey Ellis, Andre Kriger Publisher: Babson College    Grupo Industrial Bimbo S.A. — 1998   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Goldberg, Ray A.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Sunder, Srinivas Ramdas A leading Mexican agribusiness firm wants to expand in the United States and other locations. How to do so in a manner that utilizes the strengths of the company? Teaching Purpose: To provide a global look at a world agribusiness firm from the perspective of a leading Mexican food firm. HBS Number: 9-599-066 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 12/4/1998 Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: bread & baked goods Number of Employees: 60,000 Gross Revenues: $2 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1998 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Agribusiness; Expansion; Food; International business; Mexico    Grupo Porcicola Mexicano: “El Nuevo Cerdo”   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Goldberg, Ray A.; Tasker, Charlotte A vertically integrated hog system supported by investors, compesinos, and government incentives is attempting to provide an example of how to change a major commodity system in Mexico during currency devaluation, high interest rates, and volatile commodity prices. Teaching Purpose: How to develop a modern hog system in a developing country during volatile times. HBS Number: 9-596-077 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 12/2/1995 Revision Date: 2/8/1996 Geographic Setting: Mexico Industry Setting: food/pork production Gross Revenues: $35 million revenues Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Agribusiness; Developing countries; Mexico    Han Young Labor Dispute (A)   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Kennedy, Robert E.; Irwin, Brian P. Examines the evolution of a labor dispute at the Han Young maquiladora in Tijuana, Mexico. The dispute began over union representation at a 120-worker company, but soon escalated into a source of tension between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and a test for the labor side agreements to NAFTA. Asks students: 1) to consider how international treaties interact with domestic laws, and 2) the proper role of various parties to the dispute. HBS Number: 9-799-084 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 12/11/1998 Revision Date: 10/12/1999 Geographic Setting: Tijuana, Mexico Industry Setting: automobile components Number of Employees: 120 Gross Revenues: $2 million revenues Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Automotive supplies; Business government relations; Emerging markets; International relations; Labor relations; Mexico; Trade agreements    Historical Society of Pennsylvania   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Greyser, Stephen A.; Woerner, Stephanie The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) runs one of the nation's most important research libraries and a museum focusing on colonial history. Financial analysis shows that the society has absorbed increased costs of operation over HBS Number: 9-597-062 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 11/20/1996 Revision Date: 2/5/1997 Geographic Setting: Philadelphia, PA Industry Setting: nonprofit research library Number of Employees: 37 Gross Revenues: $1.5 million revenues Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Board of directors; Corporate governance; Nonprofit organizations; Social enterprise; Strategy formulation    Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Author(s): Spar, Debora; Burns, Jennifer Publication Date: 01/19/2000 Revision Date: 09/06/2002 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: In the mid-1990s Nike, one of the world's most successful footwear companies, is hit by a spate of alarmingly bad publicity. After years of high-profile media attention as the company that can “just do it,'' Nike is suddenly being painted as a firm that relies on low-cost, exploited labor in its overseas plants. Nike officials vigorously deny the charges, claiming that Nike has no control over the independent contractors who manufacture Nike shoes. But the activists will not retreat. Eventually, Nike must learn to deal with the activists' claims and with the web of conflicting data that surrounds the notion of a “fair'' or “living'' wage. Teaching Purpose: To stimulate debate about appropriate wages in developing countries and the role of activists in affecting company decisions. HBS Number: 9-700-047 Geographic Setting: United States, Indonesia, Vietnam Industry Setting: footwear/sporting goods Number of Employees: 16,000 Gross Revenues: $9 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1991 Event Year End: 1999 Subjects: Activists; Business government relations; Developing countries; Ethics; Footwear; International operations; Labor relations; Wages & salaries; Working conditions Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-701-020), 15p, by Debora Spar    Hoechst and the German Chemical Industry   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Author(s): Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin; McQuade, Krista Publication Date: 01/30/1990 Revision Date: 05/28/1991 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Describes the rise of the German chemical industry and the specific country-based factors that contributed to the rise. Focuses on the German firm Hoechst: its history, its position after World War II, and its subsequent internationalization. Set in 1986 when Hoechst was considering a multi-billion dollar acquisition of Celanese Corp. in the United States. In considering the merits of this acquisition, students will explore the extent to which Hoechst's competitive advantages still stemmed from its home base in Germany, or from other sources. May be used with Hoechst in the United States (A) and (B). HBS Number: 9-390-146 Geographic Setting: Germany Industry Setting: chemicals Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $20 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1986 Event Year End: 1986 Subjects: Chemicals; Germany; International business; International trade; Technology Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-794-052), 21p, by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres   Add     20 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-390-146 HBS Number: 5-794-052 Subjects: Chemicals; Germany; International business; International trade; Technology    Hoechst in the United States (A)   Add   View  19 pp.  Case Author(s): Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin; McQuade, Krista Publication Date: 01/23/1991 Revision Date: 05/28/1991 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Describes the U.S. market for chemicals following WW II to the present and the attention of the market for global chemical companies. Traces the involvement of Hoechst in this market up to the 1980s when minimum growth has been offered through Hoechst's U.S. subsidiary, American Hoechst and the company is seeking opportunities for expansion through acquisition. Calenese Corp., the tenth largest chemical company in the United States, stands out as the best opportunity. Students will evaluate the strength of the Celanese opportunity in light of Hoechst's position, objectives, and past strategies. May be used with Hoechst and the German Chemical Industry and Hoechst in the United States (B). HBS Number: 9-391-140 Geographic Setting: Germany Industry Setting: chemicals Company Size: Fortune 500 Gross Revenues: $1.7 billion sales Event Year Start: 1986 Event Year End: 1986 Subjects: Acquisitions; Chemicals; International business Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-794-026), 31p, by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres    Hong Kong as a Media Hub: The 1998 Review of Television Policy   Add   View  19 pp.  Case Farhoomand, Ali F.; Lovelock, Peter; Lo, Katherine In September 1998, the Hong Kong government undertook the unusual step of releasing policy review documents for public consultation, for both the broadcast media and telecommunication sectors. In one fell swoop, the government had atte HBS Number: HKU026 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 1/1/1999 Geographic Setting: Hong Kong Industry Setting: media & telecommunications Event Year Start: 1998 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Asia; Broadcasting industry; Government policy; Information industry; Telecommunications Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (HKU027), 5p, by Ali F. Farhoomand, Peter Lovelock Publisher: University of Hong Kong (Sales restricted to North America.)    Hong Kong’s Financial Crisis — 1997-98   Add   View  15 pp.  Case Whitman, John; Cascales, Maria J. The Asian miracle turned into a nightmare in 1997. Thailand triggered the region's free-fall when the baht was delinked from the U.S. dollar in July. This sent other Asian currencies tumbling as speculators took advantage of profit opp HBS Number: HKU031 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 1/1/1999 Geographic Setting: Hong Kong Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Asia; Currency; Economic conditions; Government & business; Stock exchanges Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (HKU032), 9p, by John Whitman, Maria J. Cascales Publisher: University of Hong Kong (Sales restricted to North America.)   Add     9 pp.  Teaching Note For use with HKU031 HBS Number: HKU032 Subjects: Asia; Business government relations; Currency; Economic conditions; Stock exchanges    House of Tata: Acquiring a Global Footprint   Add   View  33 pp.  Case Author(s): Khanna, Tarun; Palepu, Krishna G.; Bullock, Richard J. Publication Date: 05/21/2008 Revision Date: 06/30/2009 Product Type: Case (Field) HBS Number: 9-708-446 Geographic Setting: India Number of Employees: 289,500 Gross Revenues: $28.8 billion Event Year Start: 2007 Event Year End: 2007 Subjects: Acquisitions; Globalization; International management Academic Discipline: Competitive strategy Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-709-455), 6p, by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu Product Description: Chronicles the globalization of the Tata Group, one of India's largest business groups. Since 2000, many Tata Group operating companies have aggressively built international businesses, particularly through overseas acquisitions. After describing the globalization rationales and approaches of the major Tata Group companies, the case asks students to consider whether Tata Motors should pursue the acquisition of the Jaguar and Land Rover brands owned by US-based Ford Motor company.    Houses for Africa   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Kennedy, Robert E.; Dunne, Maurice F. Traces the founding and development of Houses for Africa, a firm established to build low-income housing in Zimbabwe. Explores entrepreneurship in an emerging market, the problems that arise when complementary markets do not function well, and the importance of distinguishing transitory opportunities from opportunities to establish first-mover advantage following liberalization. HBS Number: 9-799-041 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 11/16/1998 Revision Date: 3/29/1999 Geographic Setting: Zimbabwe Industry Setting: construction Number of Employees: 20 Gross Revenues: $5 million revenues Event Year Start: 1998 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Africa; Emerging markets; Entrepreneurship; Housing Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-100), 24p, by Robert E. Kennedy, Brian P. Irwin   Add     24 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-041 HBS Number: 5-799-100 Subjects: Africa; Emerging markets; Entrepreneurship; Housing    Incidents in Foreign Direct Investment   Add   View  3 pp.  Case Wells, Louis T., Jr.; Sprague, Courtenay Presents seven examples (i.e., incidents) of conflict concerning foreign direct investment. The incidents lay the framework for discussion of issues such as the jurisdiction of the WTO and the U.S. position, the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 and its political implications, and campaign contributions from foreign corporations backing U.S. democrats--and the controversy therein. Teaching Purpose: Serves as a useful tool for discussion of international conflicts associated with trade, investment, and national sovereignty. HBS Number: 9-797-111 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/19/1997 Revision Date: 11/17/1997 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Subjects: Economic analysis; Foreign investment; Government policy; International trade; Regulation    Incidents in Trade Policy   Add   View  4 pp.  Case Wells, Louis T., Jr.; Sprague, Courtenay Discusses a series of incidents of conflict between the United States and foreign governments on trade. Teaching Purpose: To explore the role of global agreements versus bilateral arrangements and unilateral action in international trade. HBS Number: 9-796-140 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/19/1996 Revision Date: 10/5/1999 Geographic Setting: Global Subjects: Government policy; International trade    India (A)   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Vietor, Richard H.K.; Iskandar, Waleed J.; Weston, Max L. Outlines India's import substitution strategy and its planned development process. The effects of the difficult political and social context on economic development are analyzed. The failure of the system to achieve sustainable growth and improvement leads to attempts at reforms which, along with worsening political and ethnic conflicts, lead to a crisis in 1991. Teaching Purpose: To examine India's failed development strategy of autonomous import substitution and to consider more viable options. HBS Number: 9-793-112 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 2/19/1993 Revision Date: 6/15/1998 Geographic Setting: India Event Year Start: 1973 Event Year End: 1991 Subjects: Developing countries; Imports; India Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-793-113), 5p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Waleed J. Iskandar, Max L. Weston    India in 1996   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Author(s): Kennedy, Robert E.; Ramos, Teresita Publication Date: 02/05/1998 Revision Date: 04/08/2002 Product Type: Case (Library) HBS Number: 9-798-065 Geographic Setting: India Event Year Start: 1996 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Economic development; Politics Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-700-060), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Rebecca Evans; Teaching Note, (5-799-094), 24p, by Robert E. Kennedy, Brian P. Irwin Product Description: Five years after economic liberalization, reform in India was stalled. Palaniappan Chidambaram had been recently appointed finance minister and was responsible for developing an economic plan. This case examines the economic and political impact of liberalization programs.   Add     24 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-798-065 HBS Number: 5-799-094 Subjects: Economic development; India; Politics    India in the 1990s   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Author(s): Lodge, George C.; Bhasin, Anu Publication Date: 02/22/1995 Revision Date: 02/17/1998 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Describes the efforts of Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao to deregulate and open up the Indian economy in the early 1990s. Focuses on the difficulties he encountered, reflected in the poor showing of the ruling Congress Party in state elections in December 1994, and raises the questions: Why is economic change so difficult in India? What are the obstacles to Rao's reforms? What is the likelihood that he will succeed? Contains a brief history of India's economic, political, and social development since it achieved independence in 1947. HBS Number: 9-795-119 Geographic Setting: India Subjects: Business government relations; Deregulation; India Academic Discipline: Business & government    Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Valor, Josep Describes how Information Technology Services Director Mohamed Muhsin planned to restructure the bank's information technology in response to President Jim Wolfensohn's call to build a knowledge bank. Several reorganization efforts tak HBS Number: 9-898-053 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 9/17/1997 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: development banking Event Year Start: 1996 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Banking; Centralization; Decentralization; Information systems; Knowledge management; Organizational change; Organizational structure    Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (B)   Add   View  9 pp.  Case Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Valor, Josep Acting on his vision to make the World Bank a knowledge institution, bank President Wolfensohn announces the creation of an Information and Knowledge Management Council and an Information Solutions Group, headed by a newly nominated CEO, Mohamed Muhsin. This case describes Muhsin's intentions as well as those of the head of the bank's knowledge-management initiative. May be used with: (9-898-053) Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A). HBS Number: 9-898-054 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 9/24/1997 Revision Date: 10/20/1997 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: development banking Event Year Start: 1996 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Banking; Centralization; Decentralization; Information systems; Knowledge management; Organizational change; Organizational structure    Intel Corp. — 1988   Add   View  12 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoffie, David B.; Lurie, Ralinda Y.; Huston, Ben Publication Date: 02/23/1989 Revision Date: 12/16/1991 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: In 1988, Intel had a spectacular year. However, Andy Grove, Intel's CEO, wanted to reevaluate the company's position in "systems"--Intel's OEM PC, boards, and supercomputer businesses. This case explores Intel's position in both the semiconductor industry and its growing competition with its customers in systems. HBS Number: 9-389-063 Geographic Setting: United StatesIndustry Setting: semiconductorsCompany Size: Fortune 500Gross Revenues: $36 million revenues Event Year Start: 1988Event Year End: 1988 Subjects: International business; Semiconductors; Strategy formulation; Vertical integration Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-389-191), 32p, by David B. Yoffie    InterGen and the Quezon Power Project: Building Infrastructure in Emerging Marke   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Kennedy, Robert E. Examines InterGen's breakthrough Quezon power project, located in the Philippines. Explores how InterGen evaluates and manages project risk through partner selection, the use of operating contracts, and project finance techniques. Teaching Purpose: To illustrate the risks and rewards of investing in infrastructure projects in emerging markets. HBS Number: 9-799-057 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 2/2/1999 Revision Date: 8/20/2000 Geographic Setting: Philippines Industry Setting: power generation Gross Revenues: $100 million revenues Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Electric power; Emerging markets; Infrastructure; Project finance; Southeast Asia; Utilities Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-102), 25p, by Robert E. Kennedy, Brian P. Irwin   Add     25 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-057 HBS Number: 5-799-102 Subjects: Economic infrastructure; Electric power; Emerging markets; Project finance; Southeast Asia; Utilities    Is Mr. Spock Human?   Add   View  4 pp.  Case Enright, Michael J. In 1994, the European Union Commission set out to harmonize trade restrictions across the Union. A Pan-European quota was set on "toys representing animals of non-human creatures." Toys representing humans were not affected. The quota forced customs officials to answer the question: Is Mr. Spock, from the Star-Trek television series, human? HBS Number: 9-796-049 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 8/21/1995 Geographic Setting: European Union Industry Setting: toys Gross Revenues: $200 million revenues Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: China; EC single market; Europe; International trade; Toy industry    Is the United States Competitive in the World Economy?   Add   View  7 pp.  Case Lodge, George C.; Bell, Marie A collection of charts intended to show the competitiveness of the United States in the world economy between 1975 and 1995. Teaching Purpose: To consider the concept of national competitiveness, apply it to the United States, and examine courses and consequences of the competitive situation of the United States in the 1990s. HBS Number: 9-795-129 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/30/1995 Revision Date: 9/20/1996 Geographic Setting: United States Subjects: Country analysis; Economic indicators; Government & business; National competitiveness    Ivanovas: A Family Business   Add   View  4 pp.  Case Goldberg, Ray A.; Hoagland, Ralph; Paltseva, Marina Describes a family that creates a private farm operation around one crop, potatoes. The successes and failures they achieve are set forth along with alternative ways to cope with the distribution system. Teaching Purpose: To provide students with the problems of privatizing a Russian farm and the alternative courses of action facing the farmer. HBS Number: 9-595-086 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 2/7/1995 Geographic Setting: Russia Industry Setting: agribusiness Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Agribusiness; Family owned businesses; Privatization; Russia    Japan (D1): A Strategy for Economic Growth   Add   View  32 pp.  Case Scott, Bruce R.; Sproat, Audrey T. Data on Japan's unparalleled economic growth in the post-war era: How was it achieved and what future risks might be foreseen in 1971? May be used with: (9-798-083) Japan: "Free, Fair, and Global?". HBS Number: 9-378-106 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 10/1/1977 Revision Date: 4/1/1998 Geographic Setting: Japan Gross Revenues: Y79 billion GNP Event Year Start: 1952 Event Year End: 1971 Subjects: Country analysis; Economic development; Fiscal policy; Government & business; Industrial development; Japan; Monetary policy Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-140), 7p, by Bruce R. Scott   Add     7 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-378-106 HBS Number: 5-799-140 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Economic development; Fiscal policy; Industrial development; Japan; Monetary policy    Japan Confronts an Interdependent World   Add   View  31 pp.  Case Lodge, George C.; Nagase, Toshio Traces the evolution of Japan's economic strategy from 1972 to 1992. Describes the collapse of the Japanese stock market in the spring of 1992, raising the question: Is this the end of Japan's miraculous growth? To help students consider that question, the case describes Japan's industrial and technology policy and reviews key economic events during the period, such as the Nixon shock, the oil shock, the Plaza accords and endaka (rising yen value), increasing U.S. debt, the U.S. recession, and the declining value of the dollar. Written from the point of view of a Japanese government policymaker. HBS Number: 9-793-034 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 9/9/1992 Revision Date: 3/18/1998 Geographic Setting: Japan Event Year Start: 1972 Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Country analysis; Government & business; Japan Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-795-125), 4p, by George C. Lodge, Marie Bell; Supplement (Library), (9-797-144), 6p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Eilene Zimmerman; Teaching Note, (5-793-107), 9p, by George C. Lodge   Add     9 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-793-034 HBS Number: 5-793-107 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Japan    Japan: “Free, Fair, and Global?”   Add   View  27 pp.  Case Vietor, Richard H.K.; Lynagh, Stephen In April 1998, Prime Minister Hashimoto faced serious problems, both with his program of six systemic reforms and with his fiscal policy. Japan had been in effective recession for six years, unable to retain the miracle-growth achieved in earlier decades. Hashimoto has proposed to reform social security, fiscal policy, administration, regulation, education, and especially the financial system. But institutional rigidities--the bureaucracy, labor policies, corporate governance, and the aging population among others--has made change exceedingly difficult. May be used with: (9-378-106) Japan (D1): A Strategy for Economic Growth. HBS Number: 9-798-083 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 5/1/1998 Revision Date: 1/22/1999 Geographic Setting: Japan Subjects: Asia; Fiscal policy; Japan; Macroeconomics; Recessions; Regulation Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-006), 8p, by Richard H.K. Vietor   Add     8 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-798-083 HBS Number: 5-799-006 Subjects: Asia; Fiscal policy; Japan; Macroeconomics; Recessions; Regulation    Japanese Facsimile Industry in 1990   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Author(s): Enright, Michael J. Publication Date: 05/02/1991 Revision Date: 04/02/2007 Product Type: Case (Library) HBS Number: 9-391-209 Geographic Setting: Japan Industry Setting: Facsimile machine Gross Revenues: $6 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1980 Event Year End: 1980 Subjects: Competition; Industry analysis; International business Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-794-045), 23p, by Michael J. Enright Product Description: Japanese firms dominate the facsimile machine industry, accounting for more than 90% of worldwide sales. This case explores the reasons for this dominance. May be used with: (HKU075) The Japanese Facsimile Industry in 1998.   Add     23 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-391-209 HBS Number: 5-794-045 Subjects: Competition; Industry analysis; International business; Japan; Office equipment

Japanese Facsimile Industry in 1998   Add   View  9 pp.  Case Enright, Michael J.; Lee, Andrew Throughout the 1990s, Japanese manufacturers had dominated the global market of fax machines. By 1998, alternative forms of messaging like Internet Fax and PC Fax had been gaining ground, and global competition from American, Korean, and Taiwanese manufacturers was stepping up. But all these seemed to pose little threat to Japanese fax machine manufacturers. May be used with: (9-391-209) The Japanese Facsimile Industry in 1990. HBS Number: HKU075 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 1/1/2000 Geographic Setting: Japan Event Year Start: 1998 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Competition; Industry analysis; International business; Japan; Office equipment Publisher: University of Hong Kong (Sales restricted to North America.)    Japan’s Automakers Face Endaka   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Author(s): Spar, Debora; Kou, Julia; Stein, Elizabeth B. Publication Date: 01/19/1996 Revision Date: 02/18/1998 Product Type: Case (Library) HBS Number: 9-796-030 Geographic Setting: Japan; United States Industry Setting: Automotive industry Event Year Start: 1985 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Business government relations; Exports; Foreign exchange rates; Foreign investment; International trade Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-798-050), 26p, by Debora Spar Product Description: In April 1995, the Japanese yen hit a post-World War II high against the U.S. dollar. The yen's relentless ascent affected firms on both sides of the Pacific, but fell particularly hard on Japan's big four automakers. This case explores how endaka — or “high yen” — changes the competitive environment for the automakers and how they respond to the change. Examines how macroeconomic and political shifts can dramatically affect the competitive position of firms operating in a global economy. Also describes how firms can reshape their strategies to compete even in starkly different domestic environments.   Add     26 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-796-030 HBS Number: 5-798-050 Subjects: Automotive supplies; Business government relations; Exports; Foreign exchange rates; Foreign investment; International trade    Kennedy and the Balance of Payments   Add   View  17 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoffie, David B.; Austin, Jane K. Publication Date: 12/16/1982 Revision Date: 07/15/1985 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: In 1960, the United States was facing a balance of payments problem. Gold reserves were being drained, American products were losing competitiveness, and the dollar was under attack. This case analyzes the roots of this problem, provides an opportunity to discuss in depth balance of payments accounting, and allows students to explore various solutions to balance of payments difficulties. May be used with: (9-384-005) Balance of Payments: Accounting and Presentation. HBS Number: 9-383-073 Geographic Setting: United States Event Year Start: 1950Event Year End: 1960 Subjects: Balance of payments; EC single market; Economic policy; International trade; Monetary policy; National competitiveness Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Note), (9-384-006), 1p, by David B. Yoffie, Jane K. Austin; Supplement (Note), (9-385-243), 1p, by David B. Yoffie, Jane K. Austin; Teaching Note, (5-385-241), 13p, by David B. Yoffie   Add     13 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-383-073 HBS Number: 5-385-241 Subjects: Balance of payments; EC single market; Economic policy; International trade; Monetary policy; National competitiveness    Korean Development and Western Economics   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Lodge, George C.; Sprague, Courtenay Provides a summary of Korea's economic performance during the past 40 years. Korea's economic strategy is discussed with regard to context--both the domestic (historic) as well as the international factors--that have informed Korea's development. Simultaneously, Korea also functions as a case study for the divergence of Asian countries from the practice of Western neoclassical economics. Teaching Purpose: Intended to provide a background and framework upon which World Bank planners and policy makers may construct ideas and bring about educated decision making as a result. HBS Number: 9-797-008 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 8/27/1996 Revision Date: 12/18/1996 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Subjects: Country analysis; Economic analysis; Economic development; Economic policy; Government & business; Korea    Korea’s Technology Strategy   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin; Lee, Seurg-Joo Describes Korea's efforts to improve its technological capability and learn to produce and export high technology goods. The roles of government policy, domestic firms, and foreign firms are explored. Special attention is paid to how technology flows across borders, what impact this has on competitiveness, and how government and firms manage these flows. Can be taught following State and Markets in South Korea. HBS Number: 9-388-137 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 4/21/1988 Revision Date: 1/20/1989 Geographic Setting: Korea Industry Setting: high technology Event Year Start: 1980 Event Year End: 1980 Subjects: Economic development; Government & business; High technology products; International business; Korea; R&D; Technology Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-389-092), 23p, by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres   Add     23 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-388-137 HBS Number: 5-389-092 Subjects: Business government relations; Economic development; High technology products; International business; Korea; Research & development; Technology    Lada do Brasil   Add   View  29 pp.  Case Author(s): Austin, James E.; Shapiro, Helen; Gokgur, Publication Date: 03/27/1992 Revision Date: 06/25/1993 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: In an effort to capitalize on the entrepreneurial opportunity presented by the Brazilian government's trade liberalization, a Panamanian automobile trading company launched a business of importing the Russian made Lada cars into Brazil. The company confronts a complex political and economic environment and strong competition from the existing automobile producers. Presents the business challenges and opportunities accompanying trade liberalization. Reveals the competitive dynamics in environments undergoing economic transformation. HBS Number: 9-392-122 Geographic Setting: Brazil Industry Setting: automobiles Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Automobiles; Developing countries; International business; International trade; South America Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-392-123), 17p, by Helen Shapiro   Add     17 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-392-122 HBS Number: 5-392-123 Subjects: Automobiles; Developing countries; International business; International trade; South America    Layton Canada   Add   View  13 pp.  Case Spar, Debora; Ricciardi, Lygeia; Bures, Laura In 1993, Layton Canada finds itself caught in an intractable political situation. As part of a global reorganization process, the firm has been transformed from a subsidiary of a Dutch parent corporation to a subsidiary of a U.S. parent. Now, if it continues with its usual practice of exporting electrical components to Cuba, it will violate U.S. export law. If it ceases, however, it will violate Canadian law. Teaching Purpose: To examine how politically motivated trade and export practices can have a major impact on firms engaged in global operations. Also explores the origins and motives of export restrictions and sanctions. A rewritten version of an earlier case. HBS Number: 9-796-108 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 12/19/1995 Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: electrical components Event Year Start: 1993 Event Year End: 1993 Subjects: Business conditions; Canada; Conflict; International business; International trade; Legislation; Multinational corporations Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-798-054), 14p, by Debora Spar   Add     14 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-796-108 HBS Number: 5-798-054 Subjects: Business conditions; Canada; Conflict; International business; International trade; Legislation; Multinational corporations    Lenzing AG: Expanding in Indonesia   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Author(s): Ricciardi, Lygeia; Bures, Laura; Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 12/21/1995 Revision Date: 01/08/2008 Product Type: Case (Field) HBS Number: 9-796-099 Geographic Setting: Indonesia Industry Setting: Textile industry Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1990 Subjects: Apparel; Developing countries; International operations; Multinational corporations; Plant location Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-798-005), 28p, by Debora L. Spar Product Description: In 1994, Lenzing AG, the world's largest rayon manufacturer, is deciding whether to expand production in South Pacific Viscose, its Indonesian subsidiary. Indonesia is a booming market for rayon, but management still has some concerns about the expansion. First, for the plant to remain successful, Lenzing's downstream customers — textile producers — must also remain in Indonesia. Second, despite being located in an area of tropical forests, the Indonesian plant has no local access to wood pulp, its most critical input. Finally, with the expansion, Lenzing would be increasing its exposure in a country that remains politically and economically uncertain.   Add     28 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-796-099 HBS Number: 5-798-005 Subjects: Clothing; Developing countries; International operations; Multinational corporations; Paper industry; Plant location; Textiles    Li & Fung (A): Beyond “Filling in the Mosaic” — 1995-98   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoshino, Michael Y.; St. George, Anthony Publication Date: 01/05/1998 Revision Date: 06/23/1998 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: In early 1998, William and Victor Fung had to review their business, the Li & Fung Group, to plan ahead for their next three-year plan. Examines strategic and organizational issues including company culture, international expansion, and venture capital projects. Teaching Purpose: Explores opportunities and challenges faced by a highly successful trading company in Asia. A rewritten version of an earlier case. HBS Number: 9-398-092 Geographic Setting: Hong Kong Industry Setting: trading Number of Employees: 2,480 Gross Revenues: $1.6 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Expansion; International trade; Southeast Asia; Textiles; Venture capital; Wholesaling Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-399-001), 15p, by Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Anthony St. George   Add     15 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-398-092 HBS Number: 5-399-001 Subjects: Expansion; International trade; Southeast Asia; Textiles; Venture capital; Wholesaling    Lotus Development Corp.: Entering International Markets   Add     15 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-387-034 HBS Number: 5-389-039 Subjects: Computer industry; International business; International trade; Marketing strategy; Software; Strategy formulation    Managing International Alliances: Conceptual Framework   Add   View  20 pp.  Note Author(s): Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin Publication Date: 05/14/1993 Product Type: Note Product Description: Provides an overview of key issues on management of international alliances, including: 1) the logic of collaboration; 2) selecting partners; 3) structuring alliances; 4) alliance networks; 5) alliance dynamics; 6) limits to alliances; and 7) the role of governments. HBS Number: 9-793-133 Subjects: Corporate strategy; International business; Joint ventures; Partnerships Academic Discipline: Business & government    Marriott Corp. and the Warsaw Hotel — 1986: Would Poland Become Marriott’s Ne   Add     12 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-492-006 HBS Number: 5-493-072 Subjects: Eastern Europe; Entertainment industry; Europe; Financial analysis; Hotels & motels; International business; International finance    Mavesa: Business Strategy Amid Economic and Political Turmoil   Add   View  15 pp.  Case Kennedy, Robert E.; Irwin, Brian P. Examines Mavesa's response to external liberalization in 1989. The consumer packaged goods firm, which had been extensively vertically integrated, completely revamps its business strategy in the 1990s. HBS Number: 9-700-041 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 1/15/2000 Revision Date: 8/17/2000 Geographic Setting: Venezuela Industry Setting: consumer packaged goods Number of Employees: 2,500 Gross Revenues: $400 million revenues Event Year Start: 1989 Event Year End: 1999 Subjects: Brand management; Consumer goods; Emerging markets; Globalization; South America; Trade policy    Medtronic, Inc.   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Author(s): Goodman, John B.; Moreton, Patrick Publication Date: 01/26/1993 Revision Date: 10/13/1993 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: In 1991, Bill George, CEO of Medtronic, the world's largest manufacturer of pacemakers, was evaluating his strategic options in light of the changing economic environment. In the United States, Europe, and Japan, governments were considering regulatory changes to reduce health care expenditures, including reduction in pacemaker prices. The case outlines Medtronics development of the cardiac pacemaker and its diversified businesses. It then examines Medtronic's pacemaker operations and the changing health care environment in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Teaching Purpose: To highlight the impact of government policy on business strategy. Enables students to compare cross-national regulatory differences and to develop an integrated business and political strategy. HBS Number: 9-793-058 Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: medical devices Company Size: Fortune 500 Gross Revenues: $1.2 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1992 Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Business government relations; Health; International business; Medical supplies; Pricing strategy; Public policy; Regulated industries Academic Discipline: Business & government    Menem and the Populist Tradition in Argentina   Add   View  26 pp.  Case Di Tella, Rafael; Neuman, Eliseo Argentina has flourished under a fixed exchange rate system, yet there are large income and employment fluctuations. The social cost of unemployment is threatening the viability of the economic model. Building a welfare state is one of the alternatives. But isn't this a return to the populist policies of the past? Teaching Purpose: The link between exchange rates and social policy and the role of political parties. HBS Number: 9-700-061 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/21/2000 Geographic Setting: Argentina Event Year Start: 1999 Event Year End: 1999 Subjects: Currency; Politics; South America; Unemployment Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-700-064), 18p, by Rafael Di Tella, Eliseo Neuman   Add     18 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-700-061 HBS Number: 5-700-064 Subjects: Currency; Politics; South America; Unemployment    Mexico (A): From Stabilized Development to Debt Crisis   Add   View  11 pp.  Case Author(s): Pill, Huw Publication Date: 02/24/1997 Revision Date: 02/27/2002 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Describes the evolution of the Mexican economy from 1945 to 1982. Describes the import-substituting industrialization strategy pursued in the aftermath of World War II. Discusses briefly why this failed in the late 1960s, and then analyzes the change of strategy toward a state-led development financed by bank-borrowing from abroad that culminated in the debt crisis. Teaching Purpose: To analyze the causes and consequences of the 1982 debt crisis and discuss how they could have been avoided. A rewritten version of an earlier case. May be used with: (9-797-050) Mexico (C): Reform and Crisis -- 1987-95; (9-797-051) Mexico (D): Stabilization and Retrenchment; (9-797-105) Mexico (B): Escaping from the Debt Crisis?. HBS Number: 9-797-096 Geographic Setting: MexicoIndustry Setting: government Event Year Start: 1945Event Year End: 1982 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Debt management; Foreign investment; Inflation; Mexico; Political process Academic Discipline: Business & government    Mexico (B): Escaping from the Debt Crisis?   Add   View  9 pp.  Case Author(s): Pill, Huw Publication Date: 02/24/1997 Revision Date: 02/27/2002 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Describes the response of the Mexican authorities and the international community to the ``Third World Debt Crisis'' that came to the forefront of global economic concerns in the early 1980s. Focuses on the respective roles of the private sector, governments (Mexican and foreign), and the international community in addressing the crisis. Teaching Purpose: To evaluate the role of the private sector, governments, and international organizations in responding to international economic issues in a globalized world economy. May be used with: (9-797-050) Mexico (C): Reform and Crisis -- 1987-95; (9-797-051) Mexico (D): Stabilization and Retrenchment; (9-797-096) Mexico (A): From Stabilized Development to Debt Crisis. HBS Number: 9-797-105 Geographic Setting: MexicoIndustry Setting: government Event Year Start: 1982Event Year End: 1982 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Debt management; Foreign investment; Inflation; Mexico; Political process Academic Discipline: Business & government    Mexico (C): Reform and Crisis — 1987-95   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Author(s): Pill, Huw Publication Date: 02/25/1997 Revision Date: 10/15/2002 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Describes the evolution of the Mexican economy and its relation with the international capital markets in the period leading up to the Peso crisis of December 1994. Emphasizes the role of “Washington consensus'' policies in stimulating the inflows, and the inability of the Mexican banking system to intermediate them efficiently. Teaching Purpose: To explore the role of portfolio capital flows in the globalized international capital market and address the mechanisms and institutions needed to manage them. May be used with: (9-797-051) Mexico (D): Stabilization and Retrenchment; (9-797-096) Mexico (A): From Stabilized Development to Debt Crisis; (9-797-105) Mexico (B): Escaping from the Debt Crisis?. HBS Number: 9-797-050 Geographic Setting: Mexico Industry Setting: government Event Year Start: 1987 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Debt management; Foreign investment; Inflation; Mexico; Political process Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-702-067), 18p, by Huw Pill   Add     18 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-797-050 HBS Number: 5-702-067 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Debt management; Foreign investment; Inflation; Mexico; Political process    Mexico (D): Stabilization and Retrenchment   Add   View  7 pp.  Case Pill, Huw Describes the response of the Mexican authorities and the international community to the Mexican Peso crisis of 1994 and the banking, financial, and macroeconomic crisis that followed it. Teaching Purpose: To evaluate who should be responsible for ensuring efficient intermediation of portfolio capital flows in a globalized economy: the private sector, national governments, or international organizations. May be used with: (9-797-050) Mexico (C): Reform and Crisis--1987-95; (9-797-096) Mexico (A): From Stabilized Development to Debt Crisis; (9-797-105) Mexico (B): Escaping from the Debt Crisis?. HBS Number: 9-797-051 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 2/24/1997 Revision Date: 8/15/1997 Geographic Setting: Mexico Industry Setting: government Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Country analysis; Debt management; Foreign investment; Government & business; Inflation; Mexico; Political process    Mexico in Debt   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Vietor, Richard H.K.; Zimmerman, Eilene Describes Mexico's political and economic system in the 1960s and 1970s. Focuses on: 1) the causes of the debt crisis in 1982; 2) elements of President de la Madrid's restructuring efforts between 1982-88; President Salinas's attempts to complete restructuring and bring the macroeconomy into a period of high growth with low inflation; NAFTA; and the events leading up to Mexico's 1995 currency crisis. HBS Number: 9-797-110 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/22/1997 Revision Date: 5/19/2000 Geographic Setting: Mexico Event Year Start: 1982 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Economic development; Macroeconomics; Mexico; Politics Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-009), 18p, by Richard H.K. Vietor; Supplement (Library), (9-700-051), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Rebecca Evans   Add     18 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-797-110 HBS Number: 5-799-009 Subjects: Economic development; Macroeconomics; Mexico; Politics    Mexico: Escaping from the Debt Crisis?   Add   View  27 pp.  Case Shapiro, Helen Explores how Mexico found itself in the debt crisis that exploded in 1982 and how the de la Madrid administration (1982-88) followed by the Salinas government (1988 on) devised policies by which to resolve the macroeconomic imbalances. Describes the economic and political consequences of these policies and the tradeoffs involved. The primary lessons include: 1) an understanding of the internal and external causes of Mexico's unsustainable debt, 2) the difficulties of adjustment and the constraints policymakers face in implementing policy, and 3) the conditions under which noninflationary growth and debt repayment are sustainable. May be used with Mexico--1995: The Crisis Returns. HBS Number: 9-390-174 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/10/1990 Revision Date: 1/24/1994 Geographic Setting: Mexico Industry Setting: government Event Year Start: 1976 Event Year End: 1990 Subjects: Country analysis; Debt management; Foreign investment; Government & business; Inflation; Mexico; Political process Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-792-050), 19p, by Helen Shapiro   Add     19 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-390-174 HBS Number: 5-792-050 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Debt management; Foreign investment; Inflation; Mexico; Political process    Microsoft in the People’s Republic of China — 1993   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Author(s): Khanna, Tarun Publication Date: 02/13/1995 Revision Date: 08/02/1995 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Explores some of the economic and political tradeoffs that need to be negotiated by a firm seeking to influence industry structure. The setting is the nascent personal computer software industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1993. Microsoft has to localize its software products for use in the PRC. This localization can either be done in-house by Microsoft, or can be contracted to the local software vendors. Explores the costs and benefits of full integration and arms-length market transaction. Also discusses the “holdup'' problem that arises when assets specific to a particular partnership are created. Teaching Purpose: Structuring a newly developing industry, market entry in an emerging economy, and understanding the pros and cons of integrating into a related set of activities. HBS Number: 9-795-115 Geographic Setting: China Industry Setting: personal computer software Company Size: Fortune 500 Event Year Start: 1993 Event Year End: 1993 Subjects: Business government relations; China; Industry structure; Market entry; Software; Vertical integration Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement, (9-797-107), 4p, by Tarun Khanna, Danielle Melito; Teaching Note, (5-796-072), 31p, by Tarun Khanna   Add     31 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-795-115 HBS Number: 5-796-072 Subjects: Business government relations; China; Industry structure; Market entry; Software; Vertical integration    Mips Computer Systems (A)   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin; McQuade, Krista Describes the strategy and performance of Mips Computer Systems, focusing on the company's use of a global network of alliances to promote its RISC standard. Addresses how various networks (consortia) of firms are competing in this field. Examines networking strategies. HBS Number: 9-792-055 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 3/12/1992 Revision Date: 12/16/1992 Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: computers Company Size: mid-size Number of Employees: 800 Gross Revenues: $160 million revenues Event Year Start: 1985 Event Year End: 1991 Subjects: Competition; Entrepreneurship; International business; Semiconductors; Technology Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-793-049), 2p, by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, Neil Jones; Teaching Note, (5-794-020), 23p, by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres   Add     23 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-792-055 HBS Number: 5-794-020 Subjects: Competition; Entrepreneurship; International business; Semiconductors; Technology    Montana Land Reliance   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Author(s): Reinhardt, Forest; Patterson, Thomas A. Publication Date: 12/17/1993 Revision Date: 01/07/1994 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: The Montana Land Reliance is a small not-for-profit organization in the business of creating conservation easements on private lands in Montana. The easements preserve the scenic character and recreational value of the lands by precluding subdivision and other forms of real estate development. The Reliance, established only in 1976, has grown rapidly in recent years. At the time of the case, its leaders face the need to define the market they want to serve, determine the right rate of growth, and create the institutional capabilities to capitalize on their early successes. Teaching Purpose: Shows the uses and limitations of private incentives in maintaining environmental values, and to show how government institutions (local land use laws, the tax code) can affect the private use of natural resources. Also presents some classic problems of small business management in a nonprofit setting, and shows students some of the rewards and pitfalls of working in a small nonprofit organization. HBS Number: 9-794-050 Geographic Setting: Rocky Mountains Industry Setting: nonprofit Number of Employees: 7 Gross Revenues: $200,000 revenues Event Year Start: 1992 Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Entrepreneurial management; Environmental protection; Nonprofit organizations; Real estate; Recreation; Small business; Social enterprise; Strategy formulation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-795-028), 16p, by Forest Reinhardt   Add     15 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-794-050 HBS Number: 5-795-028 Subjects: Entrepreneurial management; Environmental protection; Nonprofit organizations; Real estate; Recreation; Small business; Social enterprise; Strategy formulation    Motorola and Japan (A)   Add   View  13 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoffie, David B.; Coleman, John J. Publication Date: 10/14/1987 Revision Date: 02/18/1992 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: In 1981, Motorola was reevaluating its strategy towards Japan. The firm had been successful in penetrating the Japanese market, and it was confronting increased Japanese competition at home. How it should respond and with what kind of organization were the central questions confronting management. HBS Number: 9-388-056 Geographic Setting: United States and JapanIndustry Setting: semiconductors, telecommunicationsCompany Size: Fortune 500 Event Year Start: 1981Event Year End: 1981 Subjects: Business government relations; Competition; International trade; Japan; Semiconductors; Telecommunications Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Field), (9-388-057), 3p, by David B. Yoffie, John J. Coleman; Supplement (Library), (9-389-172), 6p, by David B. Yoffie, John J. Coleman, David Dobrowolski; Teaching Note, (5-389-008), 12p, by David B. Yoffie   Add     12 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-388-056 HBS Number: 5-389-008 Subjects: Business government relations; Competition; International trade; Japan; Semiconductors; Telecommunications    Multi-Jurisdictional Compliance in Cyberspace   Add   View  17 pp.  Case Farhoomand, Ali F.; Clark, Vanessa N.; Lovelock, Peter Law, by definition, was jurisdictional, yet in cyberspace it had become increasingly questionable whether laws regulating the physical marketplace were able to be superimposed onto this new marketspace or were altogether redundant. The HBS Number: HKU063 Type: Case (Gen Exp) Publication Date: 1/1/2000 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Industry Setting: information technology Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1990 Subjects: Commercial law; Compliance; Electronic commerce; Intellectual property; Internet; Legal aspects of business Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (HKU064), 14p, by Ali F. Farhoomand, Vanessa N. Clark, Peter Lovelock Publisher: University of Hong Kong (Sales restricted to North America.)   Add     14 pp.  Teaching Note For use with HKU063 HBS Number: HKU064 Subjects: Commercial law; Compliance; Electronic commerce; Intellectual property; Internet; Legal aspects of business    NAPOCOR Privatization: Power in the Philippines   Add   View  27 pp.  Case Dyck, Alexander; Bernardo, Nonito R., Jr.; McGuire, John F. In the summer of 1993, brownouts reached 10 hours a day in Metro Manila, the center of the Philippine economy. Solving the electricity crisis was central to recently elected President Fidel Ramos's plan to transform the Philippines fro HBS Number: 9-797-001 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 12/5/1996 Revision Date: 12/5/1997 Geographic Setting: Philippines/Southeast Asia Industry Setting: electric supply Gross Revenues: $2 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Contracts; Electric power; Privatization; Regulated industries; Southeast Asia   Add     25 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-797-001 HBS Number: 5-702-062 Subjects: Contracts; Electric power; Privatization; Regulated industries; Southeast Asia    National Power and the Privatization of the British Power Generation Industry   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Emmons, Willis; Simnett, Ed The British government privatized the nation's electric utility sector in 1991 through a complex process involving the restructuring of the industry as well as the creation of a new regulatory oversight body. National Power plc, the largest of the privatized power generators, has emerged as highly profitable under private ownership, yet faces challenges with respect to an increasingly hostile regulatory environment. In addition, the firm, under Chairman John Baker, is debating whether to explore opportunities for expansion and diversification in foreign markets. Teaching Purpose: Designed to explore the strategic implications of privatization from the standpoint of a recently privatized firm, formerly part of a monopoly public utility. In addition, the material facilitates an analysis of the privatization of a vertically integrated monopoly from a public policy perspective. HBS Number: 9-796-066 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 11/7/1995 Revision Date: 11/23/1999 Geographic Setting: United Kingdom Industry Setting: electric utility Number of Employees: 6,064 Gross Revenues: L3.6 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1991 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Electric power; International business; Privatization; Public utilities; Regulation; United Kingdom    Nestle Alimentana S.A. — Infant Formula (Abridged)   Add   View  16 pp.  Case Author(s): Austin, James E. Publication Date: 04/06/1990 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: The new vice president of infant and dietetic products of Nestle Alimentana S.A. has to make recommendations on the company's marketing programs for its infant formulas in developing countries. The U.S. subsidiary is currently the target of a consumer boycott because of the company's current and historical marketing programs. Introduces the question of using Western marketing techniques in the Third World, the problems of distributor control, and potential product misuse because of consumer poverty and ignorance. Provides a summary of the industry's evolution and a chronology of the controversy. Recommended: ``Family Planning, Infant Mortality and Malnutrition,'' by E. Haubold, Swiss Review of World Affairs, March 1979. HBS Number: 9-590-070 Geographic Setting: Multinational Industry Setting: infant formula Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $12 billion sales Event Year Start: 1978 Event Year End: 1979 Subjects: Advertising; Boycotts; Consumer marketing; Developing countries; Distribution planning; Food; International marketing; Marketing strategy Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-590-120), 10p, by James E. Austin, Tomas Kohn    Network Associates: Securing the Internet   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Spar, Debora; Burns, Jennifer Follows one company's path through the uncharted terrain of government regulation and the Internet. In March 1998, Network Associates announced it would begin selling powerful encryption software from its Dutch subsidiary. Such a move HBS Number: 9-799-087 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 3/15/1999 Revision Date: 5/10/1999 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: computer software Number of Employees: 2,400 Gross Revenues: $612 million revenues Event Year Start: 1998 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Business government relations; California Research Center; Computer security; Exports; Internet; Regulation; Silicon Valley; Software industry Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-701-018), 9p, by Debora Spar   Add     9 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-087 HBS Number: 5-701-018 Subjects: Business government relations; California Research Center; Computer security; Exports; Internet; Regulation; Silicon Valley; Software industry    New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (A)   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Krishna, Vijay Concerns a 1983 joint venture between General Motors and Toyota to produce small cars in the United States. Describes the globalization of the auto industry and the competitive positions of the two companies. HBS Number: 9-189-125 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/25/1989 Revision Date: 3/22/1991 Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: automobiles Company Size: large Event Year Start: 1982 Event Year End: 1983 Subjects: Antitrust laws; Automobiles; International operations; Joint ventures Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-189-126), 2p, by Vijay Krishna; Teaching Note, (5-191-161), 9p, by Vijay Krishna   Add     9 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-189-125 HBS Number: 5-191-161 Subjects: Antitrust laws; Automobiles; International operations; Joint ventures    New Zealand: The Wonder Down Under   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Emmons, Willis; Glasgow, Kevin Long regarded as the most extensive welfare state among the world's industrialized nations, New Zealand embarked on a strategy of radical economic reform/liberalization following a severe foreign exchange crisis in 1984. This case examines the initial reform strategy under the Labour government (1984-90) and the subsequent reforms under the National government (1991-96). By late 1998, an unstable coalition government under Prime Minister Jenny Shipley faces a wide range of social, economic, and political pressures from both the right and left. Teaching Purpose: Provides a broad range of material for evaluating the short-term and long-term implications of "shock therapy" in an industrialized nation context. HBS Number: 9-700-022 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 9/24/1999 Geographic Setting: New Zealand Event Year Start: 1642 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Country analysis; Economic development; Foreign investment; National competitiveness    Nike in China (Abridged)   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Author(s): Austin, James E. Publication Date: 04/11/1990 Revision Date: 08/12/1993 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Nike is reviewing its strategy for producing shoes in China for the U.S. market. Compares the experience in China with that in other countries. HBS Number: 9-390-092 Geographic Setting: China Industry Setting: footwear Company Size: large Gross Revenues: $9 million sales Event Year Start: 1984 Event Year End: 1984 Subjects: China; Footwear; Foreign investment; International business; Joint ventures; Manufacturing; Operations management Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-390-186), 9p, by James E. Austin, Tomas Kohn   Add     9 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-390-092 HBS Number: 5-390-186 Subjects: China; Footwear; Foreign investment; International business; Joint ventures; Manufacturing; Operations management    North American Free Trade Agreement: Free For Whom?   Add   View  30 pp.  Case Shapiro, Helen; Dininio, Phyllis Mexico, the United States, and Canada have negotiated a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that would create the largest free trade zone in the world. The union would build on the three-year-old Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada. Proponents claim that NAFTA is a "win-win-win" situation, but its detractors argue that it would reduce wages, create unemployment, and generate environmental problems. NAFTA's easy ratification was called into question by the election of President Bill Clinton in the United States and the resignation of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Canada. HBS Number: 9-792-049 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 5/6/1992 Revision Date: 2/9/1994 Geographic Setting: United States, Canada, Mexico Subjects: Canada; Economic development; International trade; Labor unions; Mexico; Political risk Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-792-059), 23p, by Helen Shapiro   Add     23 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-792-049 HBS Number: 5-792-059 Subjects: Canada; Economic development; International trade; Labor unions; Mexico; Political risk    Ocean Spray Cranberries: Environmental Risk Management   Add   View  27 pp.  Case Author(s): Vietor, Richard H.K.; Murray, Fiona E.S. Publication Date: 01/13/1994 Revision Date: 08/12/1994 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Ocean Spray Cranberries, one of the nation's most successful agricultural cooperatives, faces some difficult environmental management problems associated with water usage and wetlands development. Because of federal and state wetlands laws, new bogs for expansion had become virtually impossible to develop. Moreover, to protect its valuable brand, Ocean Spray needs to make reasonably certain that its 800 grower-owners utilize the best possible environmental practices in water management and the use of agricultural chemicals. A single incident could cause the company significant harm. The case describes some of the innovative programs undertaken to facilitate best practices among the loose knit community of growers. HBS Number: 9-794-088 Geographic Setting: Massachusetts Industry Setting: Agribusiness Number of Employees: 1,800 Gross Revenues: $260 million revenues Event Year Start: 1993 Event Year End: 1993 Subjects: Agribusiness; Agriculture; Environmental protection Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-795-082), 6p, by Richard H.K. Vietor   Add     6 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-794-088 HBS Number: 5-795-082 Subjects: Agribusiness; Agriculture; Environmental protection; Food processing industry; Regulation    Origins of National Income Accounting   Add   View  7 pp.  Case Moss, David A.; Gownder, Joseph P. Set in the Great Depression, this case explores the origins of national income accounting in the United States. Highlights Senator La Follette's 1932 proposal for the Federal Government to begin collecting national income statistics. Teaching Purpose: To introduce national income accounting within the context of the Great Depression. HBS Number: 9-799-080 Type: Case (Pub Mat) Publication Date: 12/30/1998 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: government Subjects: Accounting; Business cycles; Business history; Economic depression    Paragould City Cable   Add   View  18 pp.  Case Author(s): Emmons, Willis Publication Date: 10/26/1993 Revision Date: 10/21/1996 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Unhappy with the prices provided by the local, privately owned cable television operator, the city of Paragould, Arkansas constructs a competing municipally owned cable system. Once in operation, Paragould City Cable faces vigorous competition from the incumbent private operator. In the fall of 1993, City Cable Manager Larry Watson must decide what strategic changes, if any, to make in light of the municipal system's persistent losses. HBS Number: 9-794-030 Geographic Setting: Paragould, AR Industry Setting: Cable television industry Subjects: Competition; Industry structure; Local government; Regulated industries; Telecommunications Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-797-058), 18p, by Willis Emmons   Add     18 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-794-030 HBS Number: 5-797-058 Subjects: Competition; Entertainment industry; Industry structure; Local government; Regulated industries; Telecommunications    Patricia Ostrander   Add   View  35 pp.  Case Author(s): Koehn, Nancy F.; Edwards, Donald J.; Weiss, Antonio F. Publication Date: 10/13/1994 Revision Date: 04/11/1996 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Analyzes the career of former money manager Patricia Ostrander. Focuses on Ostrander's purchase of stock warrants issued in connection with the 1985 leveraged buyout of Storer Communications and on her later indictment and conviction for accepting unlawful compensation. At the broadest level, the case examines the financial, economic, legal, and moral consequences of capital market activities in the 1980s. HBS Number: 9-795-016 Geographic Setting: Boston, MA; New York, NY Industry Setting: Financial services Subjects: Business government relations; Capital markets; Ethics; Financial services; Investment banking; Legal aspects of business; Leveraged buyouts Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-796-001), 16p, by Nancy F. Koehn   Add     16 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-795-016 HBS Number: 5-796-001 Subjects: Business government relations; Capital markets; Ethics; Financial services; Investment banking; Legal aspects of business; Leveraged buyouts; Securities markets    Paul Volcker and the Federal Reserve — 1979-82   Add   View  30 pp.  Case Author(s): Rukstad, Michael G. Publication Date: 08/27/1985 Revision Date: 02/04/2003 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Describes three years of the Volcker monetary policy experiment. The Federal Reserve changed the focus by its operating procedure from an interest rate instrument to a reserve instrument and it reaffirmed its commitment to hitting its preannounced monetary growth target. At the same time Congress initiated widespread deregulation of financial institutions. The case encourages discussion on the best strategy and implementation of monetary policy, the effect of deregulation on its conduct, the causes of the recession and disinflation, and the competitive implications of the recent changes in monetary policy for competitive institutions. HBS Number: 9-386-055 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: government Event Year Start: 1979 Event Year End: 1982 Subjects: Banking; Deregulation; Economic policy; Interest rates; Macroeconomics; Monetary policy Academic Discipline: Business & government    Pfizer: Global Protection of Intellectual Property   Add   View  27 pp.  Case Author(s): Paine, Lynn Sharp; Santoro, Michael A. Publication Date: 02/13/1992 Revision Date: 04/06/1995 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Top officials at Pfizer are assessing their strategy for improving protection of Pfizer's patents around the world. The outcome of the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations is uncertain, and it is not clear whether an acceptable intellectual property protection agreement will emerge. The case describes how Pfizer helped transform intellectual property from a lawyer's specialty to an international trade issue of concern around the world through close cooperation with the U.S. government, leadership in forming a tripartite coalition among U.S., Japanese, and European industry, and mobilization of the Pfizer organization. Shows how far a company may go to protect its intellectual property in a world where the concept of intellectual property is not universally recognized or accepted. May also be used to discuss the effectiveness and legitimacy of Pfizer's strategy, the conflicts between industrialized country and developing country perspectives on international trade and national sovereignty, and the question of appropriate norms of intellectual property protection. HBS Number: 9-392-073 Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: pharmaceuticals Company Size: Fortune 500 Number of Employees: 40,000 Gross Revenues: $6 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1991 Event Year End: 1991 Subjects: Business government relations; Developing countries; International trade; Patents; Pharmaceuticals; Policy making; Political process Academic Discipline: Business & government    Poland — 1989   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Spar, Debora Describes the political and economic situation in Poland in 1989, following the country's first democratic elections and the subsequent establishment of a Solidarity-led government. After examining the legacies left by 40 years of Communist rule, the case lays out the problems that face the new government and the choices it must make. Most centrally, it outlines the Sachs proposal for a rapid "leap to the market" and lays out the arguments for and against such a move. Designed to encourage students to think about the structural prerequisites for capitalism and to realize the difficulties the new Polish government will face as it tries to balance its economic and political objectives. HBS Number: 9-792-091 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/20/1992 Revision Date: 9/30/1993 Geographic Setting: Poland Event Year Start: 1989 Event Year End: 1989 Subjects: Eastern Europe; Economic development; Politics; Privatization; Social change Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-797-057), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Eilene Zimmerman; Teaching Note, (5-794-037), 18p, by Debora Spar   Add     17 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-792-091 HBS Number: 5-794-037 Subjects: Eastern Europe; Economic development; Politics; Privatization; Social change    Portfolio Capital Flows to Emerging Markets   Add   View  12 pp.  Case Pill, Huw Presents some data showing the magnitude, direction, and composition of capital flows to less developed countries (the so-called emerging markets) in the period 1990-95. Some potential explanations for these flows are discussed. A number of policy responses to the scale of the flows are offered. Teaching Purpose: Offers conceptual material to address policy issues concerning capital flows. May be used with: (9-796-123) World to Mexico--Get a Grip!. HBS Number: 9-796-129 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/19/1996 Revision Date: 8/15/1997 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Developing countries; International finance    Private Management and Public Schools (A)   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Dyck, Alexander; Melito, Danielle Examines the prospects for private management in U.S. public schools. Introduces the U.S. system of education and the concerns driving the education reform process. Focuses on the education and business strategies of Education Alternat HBS Number: 9-797-113 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/25/1997 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: education management (EMO) Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Academic administration; Deregulation; Government & business; Privatization; Public policy; Social enterprise   Add     17 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-797-113 HBS Number: 5-702-061 Subjects: Academic administration; Business government relations; Deregulation; Privatization; Public policy; Social enterprise    Private Management and Public Schools (B)   Add   View  17 pp.  Case Dyck, Alexander; Melito, Danielle Examines the prospects for private management in U.S. public schools. Focuses on the education and business strategies of firms seeking to expand as a result of charter school legislation that allowed for-profit entities to enter and c HBS Number: 9-797-114 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/4/1997 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: education management (EMO) Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1996 Subjects: Academic administration; Deregulation; Government & business; Privatization; Public policy; Social enterprise   Add     17 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-797-114 HBS Number: 5-702-061 Subjects: Academic administration; Business government relations; Deregulation; Privatization; Public policy; Social enterprise    Prochnik: Privatization of a Polish Clothing Manufacturer   Add   View  27 pp.  Case Author(s): Loveman, Gary; Kotchen, David T. Publication Date: 08/19/1993 Revision Date: 01/05/1994 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Prochnik was a large state-owned clothing manufacturer located in the textile-production-intensive region of Lodz, Poland. In the early months of economic reform, Prochnik was one of the first five state enterprises to be privatized through IPO and traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The case describes the array of changes necessary to transform Prochnik into an internationally competitive private enterprise. Teaching Purpose: To examine the management challenges associated with restructuring and privatizing a large state enterprise, and to analyze what factors have accounted for one of Poland's most ambitious and successful state enterprise. HBS Number: 9-394-038 Geographic Setting: PolandIndustry Setting: clothing Subjects: Business government relations; Clothing; Eastern Europe; Management of change; Privatization; Stock offerings Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-394-133), 11p, by Gary Loveman, Linda Carrigan, David T. Kotchen   Add     10 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-394-038 HBS Number: 5-394-133 Subjects: Business government relations; Clothing; Eastern Europe; Management of change; Privatization; Stock offerings    Procter & Gamble Japan (A)   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Yoshino, Michael Y.; Stoneham, Paul H. Ten years after entering Japan, P&G had accumulated over $250 million in operating losses on declining annual sales of $120 million by 1983. The decision facing the president of P&G International: exit, retrench or rebuild the operation? Ironically, the initial entry was a success story with P&G Japan achieving an operating breakeven in their fifth year and market leadership in a number of categories. However, in the late 1970's market share and profit in all categories declined disastrously. Management changes failed to reverse the trends until an objective examination of the entry strategy, approach to the Japanese consumer, competition, technology and internal organization were made. By 1983, accelerating losses forced P&G to decide whether to exit or stay. HBS Number: 9-391-003 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 9/17/1990 Revision Date: 1/30/1992 Geographic Setting: Japan Industry Setting: consumer goods Company Size: Fortune 500 Gross Revenues: $136 million sales U.S. in Japan Event Year Start: 1972 Event Year End: 1983 Subjects: Consumer goods; Corporate strategy; International business; International marketing; Japan Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Field), (9-391-004), 2p, by Michael Y. Yoshino, Paul H. Stoneham; Supplement (Field), (9-391-005), 19p, by Michael Y. Yoshino, Paul H. Stoneham; Supplement (Field), (9-391-054), 1p, by Michael Y. Yoshino, Paul H. Stoneham    Proposition 211: Securities Litigation Referendum (A)   Add   View  15 pp.  Case Author(s): Baron, David P.; Watts, Chris Publication Date: 10/01/1997 Product Type: Case (Field) Publisher: Stanford University HBS Number: P23A Geographic Setting: California Industry Setting: general/high technology Subjects: Business government relations; Interest groups; Legal aspects of business; Legislation; State government; Strategy formulation Academic Discipline: Business & government Product Description: In 1996, Silicon Valley companies and their leaders organized a successful campaign to defeat a ballot initiative that would have circumvented federal law and made securities fraud lawsuits, which the companies believed were largely frivolous, easier to win. Approximately 1,300 federal class action securities fraud lawsuits were filed from 1988 to 1996, resulting in settlements averaging $7.3 million. The lawsuits, which alleged securities fraud resulting from inflated earnings projections by the firms, were typically filed after a sharp fall in a company's share price. High technology firms, which frequently have volatile share prices, were the principal target of the lawsuits. Several law firms, led by Bill Lerach, specialized in these lawsuits, and some were believed to have stables of shareholders who would file a lawsuit as soon as a company's share price fell significantly. Even though the defendant companies were confident that no fraud had been committed and that the lawsuits were frivolous, the defendants felt compelled to settle to avoid a prolonged and costly court battle. In 1995, high technology, accounting, and other firms succeeded in having Congress enact federal legislation limiting the circumstances under which such lawsuits would be successful. Restricted at the federal level, the plaintiff's bar sought to use state laws as the basis for their lawsuits. To strengthen their position under state law, the plaintiff's bar qualified a referendum,    Proposition 211: Securities Litigation Referendum (B)   Add   View  16 pp.  Case Author(s): Baron, David P.; Watts, Chris Publication Date: 10/01/1997 Product Type: Case (Field) Publisher: Stanford University HBS Number: P23B Geographic Setting: California Industry Setting: general/high technology Subjects: Business government relations; Interest groups; Legal aspects of business; Legislation; State government; Strategy formulation Academic Discipline: Business & government Product Description: In 1996, Silicon Valley companies and their leaders organized a successful campaign to defeat a ballot initiative that would have circumvented federal law and made securities fraud lawsuits, which the companies believed were largely frivolous, easier to win. Approximately 1,300 federal class action securities fraud lawsuits were filed from 1988 to 1996, resulting in settlements averaging $7.3 million. The lawsuits, which alleged securities fraud resulting from inflated earnings projections by the firms, were typically filed after a sharp fall in a company's share price. High technology firms, which frequently have volatile share prices, were the principal target of the lawsuits. Several law firms, led by Bill Lerach, specialized in these lawsuits, and some were believed to have stables of shareholders who would file a lawsuit as soon as a company's share price fell significantly. Even though the defendant companies were confident that no fraud had been committed and that the lawsuits were frivolous, the defendants felt compelled to settle to avoid a prolonged and costly court battle. In 1995, high technology, accounting, and other firms succeeded in having Congress enact federal legislation limiting the circumstances under which such lawsuits would be successful. Restricted at the federal level, the plaintiff's bar sought to use state laws as the basis for their lawsuits. To strengthen their position under state law, the plaintiff's bar qualified a referendum,    R.R. Donnelley: Expanding into Eastern Europe   Add   View  14 pp.  Case Kennedy, Robert E. Examines several market entry options for R.R. Donnelley's expansion into Eastern Europe. Used as an introduction to a Harvard Business School course titled "New Opportunities in Emerging Markets." Asks students to consider the following issues: 1) the impact of macroeconomics and political instability on project profitability, 2) market research in an emerging market, 3) choice of a joint venture partner, 4) geographic versus industry diversification, and 5) capital structure. HBS Number: 9-799-083 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 12/21/1998 Revision Date: 3/13/1999 Geographic Setting: Central Europe Industry Setting: commercial printing Number of Employees: 34,000 Gross Revenues: $4.2 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1992 Event Year End: 1993 Subjects: Corporate strategy; Eastern Europe; Emerging markets; Foreign investment; Macroeconomics    Reagan Plan   Add   View  24 pp.  Case Author(s): Lodge, George C. Publication Date: 05/12/1981 Revision Date: 02/08/2000 Product Type: Case (Pub Mat) Product Description: Contains President Reagan's address to Congress in February of 1981 in which he proposes $49 billion in budget cuts and tax reductions. Also contains David Stockman's “economic Dunkirk'' memorandum of November 1980. Exhibits contain economic data. Purpose is to provide an opportunity to analyze and evaluate Reagan's assumptions. HBS Number: 9-381-173 Geographic Setting: United States Event Year Start: 1981 Event Year End: 1981 Subjects: Business government relations; Economic analysis; Economic policy; Federal government; Taxation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-700-083), 2p, by Julio J. Rotemberg; Supplement (Pub Mat), (9-382-005), 5p, by D. Quinn Mills; Supplement, (9-798-095), 6p, by Willis Emmons; Supplement, (9-700-070), 10p, by Julio J. Rotemberg, Cherie Nursalim    Reconstruction of Zambia   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Vietor, Richard H.K.; Prewitt, Edward Examines the causes of decline--economic, social, and political--of the Zambian economy since 1974. It takes place at the time of the election of Frederick Chiluba, in October 1991. Examines the problems of economic development in Africa, and especially, of structural reform away from closed, statist systems of government. Also examines the problems of external debt and the reliance on commodity industries to produce foreign exchange. HBS Number: 9-792-089 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 4/6/1992 Revision Date: 4/2/1997 Geographic Setting: Zambia Gross Revenues: $8 million revenues Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1991 Subjects: Africa; Developing countries; Economic development; Foreign exchange; Macroeconomics; Politics Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-792-092), 2p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Edward Prewitt; Supplement (Library), (9-795-144), 5p, by George C. Lodge, Marie Bell; Supplement (Library), (9-797-056), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Eilene Zimmerman    Recycling Problem: International Bank Lending in the 1970s   Add   View  4 pp.  Case Pill, Huw Provides a brief overview of international bank lending to developing countries in the 1970s and its culmination in the third-world debt crisis after 1982. Teaching Purpose: To illustrate the problems with international financial flows through the Euromarkets following the 1970s oil shocks and how they led to debt servicing problems in the third world. HBS Number: 9-796-131 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/21/1996 Revision Date: 8/13/1997 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Event Year Start: 1973 Event Year End: 1982 Subjects: Balance of payments; Debt management; Developing countries; International banking    Regarding NAFTA   Add   View  14 pp.  Case Author(s): Spar, Debora; Stein, Elizabeth B. Publication Date: 10/29/1996 Revision Date: 05/28/1998 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: In the aftermath of World War II, the countries of the industrialized world engaged in an unprecedented round of institution-building, through which historical barriers to international trade, especially tariffs, came tumbling down. The GATT has reshaped the environment of world trade to such an extent that international trade flows have exploded. Even as global trade has become more integrated, however, a second round of institutions, regional rather than global--has emerged. The most recent and largest of the major regional institutions, NAFTA, was signed on December 17, 1992, and took effect in early 1994. This case examines the effect of this radically new institutional context on three different firms, each representing a different industry and country. Teaching Purpose: Demonstrates the importance of regional institutions such as NAFTA and also the extent to which their impact and benefits vary widely across firms and industries. HBS Number: 9-797-013 Geographic Setting: North America Industry Setting: meatpacking, auto, electronics Event Year Start: 1965 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Foreign policy; International business; International trade Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-798-122), 20p, by Debora Spar   Add     20 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-797-013 HBS Number: 5-798-122 Subjects: Foreign policy; International business; International trade    Responding to 21st Century Financial Crisis   Add   View  6 pp.  Case Pill, Huw During the 1990s, financial crises appear to have been almost annual events. Examples abound: the collapse of S & Ls in the United States; currency mayhem in Europe; Mexican devaluation and banking crisis; Japanese banks teetering on the verge of default; currency and collapse and bank failure throughout East Asia. Something new and dangerous seems afoot--something Michael Camdessus (Managing Director of IMF) has called a "21st Century Financial Crisis." How should the international community respond? This case presents the views of two engaged observers: Joseph Stiglitz, the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and George Soros, hedge fund manager and self-styled international philanthropist. HBS Number: 9-798-090 Type: Case (Pub Mat) Publication Date: 4/13/1998 Geographic Setting: Unspecified Subjects: Business conditions; Economic conditions; Economic theory; International finance; Macroeconomics    Responsible Care   Add   View  24 pp.  Case Author(s): Lodge, George C.; Rayport, Jeffrey F. Publication Date: 01/15/1991 Revision Date: 03/18/1991 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: Describes a 1989 initiative of the Chemical Manufacturer's Association (CMA) to secure chemical industry support for and implementation of a series of codes of conduct in the field of environmental health and safety. Called ``Responsible Care'', the program makes implementation of the codes a condition of membership in CMA. The case raises issues of due process, fairness, legitimacy, relations with EPA, and fears of small companies. HBS Number: 9-391-135 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: Chemical industry Event Year Start: 1980 Event Year End: 1990 Subjects: Business government relations; Environmental protection; Social enterprise Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-391-136), 11p, by George C. Lodge   Add     11 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-391-135 HBS Number: 5-391-136 Subjects: Business government relations; Chemicals; Environmental protection; Social enterprise    Retail in Mexico — 1993   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Author(s): Yoffie, David B.; La Follette, Charles M. Publication Date: 06/24/1993 Revision Date: 09/28/1993 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: In the wake of NAFTA, U.S. retail firms begin to see Mexico as an attractive market for international expansion. This case examines the structure of Mexico's volume retail (grocery, discount, warehouse club, hypermarket) industry, the joint ventures between U.S. and Mexican firms, and the prospects for the future. HBS Number: 9-793-144 Geographic Setting: Mexico Industry Setting: retail Event Year Start: 1993 Event Year End: 1993 Subjects: Industry analysis; Mexico; Retailing; Strategy formulation Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-798-109), 7p, by David B. Yoffie   Add     7 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-793-144 HBS Number: 5-798-109 Subjects: Industry analysis; Mexico; Retailing; Strategy formulation    Rosenbluth International Mexico (Abridged)   Add   View  8 pp.  Case Author(s): Kamauff, John; Ager, David L. Publication Date: 03/01/1995 Revision Date: 11/09/2000 Product Type: Case (Field) Publisher: Richard Ivey School of Business/UWO Product Description: Enrique Felgueres, Jr., general manager of Rosenbluth International's (RI) Mexican operations, had recently been given the task of transforming Bancomer Travel Services, a small Mexican-owned agency, into a branch office of RI. The Rosenbluth service concept has contributed to RI's success in the U.S. and Canadian business travel industry, but the U.S./Canadian success does not imply that the Rosenbluth service concept can be taken carte blanche into Mexico. This case challenges students to consider if and how to adapt the service concept for the Mexican market, the Mexican business traveler, and for travel in Mexico. HBS Number: 95D006 Geographic Setting: Mexico Industry Setting: Transportation industry Company Size: mid-size Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: International business; Operations management; Partnerships; Services; Tourism Academic Discipline: Business & government    Russia — 1994   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Dyck, Alexander Describes Russia's transition from a centrally planned economy under Communist rule to an increasingly market-oriented economy under a more democratic political regime. Can be used to discuss the complementarity of elements of an econo HBS Number: 9-795-089 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 2/14/1995 Revision Date: 4/2/1996 Geographic Setting: Russia Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Business conditions; Country analysis; Economic development; Economic planning; Management of change; Privatization; Russia Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-795-114), 4p, by Alexander Dyck, John F. McGuire; Teaching Note, (5-796-070), 24p, by Alexander Dyck   Add     22 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-795-089 HBS Number: 5-796-070 Subjects: Business conditions; Country analysis; Economic development; Economic planning; Management of change; Privatization; Russia    Safe Food Act: A Consumer Group’s Perspective   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Goldberg, Ray A.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Hogan, Harold F., Jr. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is taking a position on creating a new safety leadership vehicle in the U.S. government. How should they plead their cause? What are its merits and faults? Teaching Purpose: To enable MBAs and senior managers to understand consumers' priorities from the food system and how to work with them. HBS Number: 9-900-013 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 11/9/1999 Revision Date: 12/16/1999 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: agribusiness/food Gross Revenues: $800 billion revenues Event Year Start: 1999 Event Year End: 1999 Subjects: Agribusiness; Consumer behavior; Consumerism; Government & business; Product safety    Samsung Electronics (A): Entering India   Add   View  21 pp.  Case Author(s): Chakraborty, Sumit; Sharma, Shushil; Ray, Sougata Publication Date: 12/07/2007 Product Type: Case Publisher: Richard Ivey School of Business/UWO HBS Number: 9-906-M34 Geographic Setting: India Subjects: Global business; Global economy; Globalization; International business; International markets; Balance of trade; Free trade; International trade; Trade; Strategic management; Strategy; Strategy & execution; Consumer electronics Academic Discipline: International Business Product Description: Samsung Electronics (Samsung) managing director had presented the new management philosophy for achieving leadership in a global market. The three-part strategy would prioritize quality, globalization, and multifaceted integration, in that order. After a restructuring effort, Samsung had emerged as a leader in the global electronics industry. Now, considering the new management philosophy and several other factors, the managing director faced the decision of whether Samsung should enter the Indian market. Learning Objective: The case is targeted toward postgraduate students in business management and also for working professionals in EDP (executive development programs) / MDP (management development programs) to teach them how to do business in an emerging foreign market. The objective of the session would be to enable the participants to identify the strategic questions from the view of Samsung.    Schweizerische Maschinenfabrik Zug, A.G.   Add   View  15 pp.  Case Enright, Michael J. Schweizerische Maschinenfabrik Zug (SMZ), a 110-year old Swiss machinery firm, faces several issues at the end of 1992. It's not clear whether the company will be able to maintain its traditional price premium in the face of foreign competition. The firm must chart a course through the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, political change in Eastern Europe, instability in the European Monetary System, and uncertainty over Switzerland's future in Europe. HBS Number: 9-795-026 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 1/5/1995 Revision Date: 10/6/1995 Geographic Setting: Switzerland Industry Setting: process equipment Number of Employees: 5,900 Gross Revenues: $800 million revenues Event Year Start: 1992 Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Competition; Foreign exchange rates; International business; Machinery; Strategy formulation; Switzerland Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-796-188), 18p, by Michael J. Enright, Victor Kantor Burg   Add     16 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-795-026 HBS Number: 5-796-188 Subjects: Competition; Foreign exchange rates; International business; Machinery; Strategy formulation; Switzerland    Searching for Trade Remedies: The U.S. Machine Tool Industry — 1983   Add   View  13 pp.  Case Yoffie, David B.; Phelps, Richard In 1983 the National Machine Tools Builder Association was predicting a declining market for the United States and rising imports. Machine tool manufacturers had to decide if they should ask the U.S. government for help, and if they did, which administrative channels offered the most promise. This case examines the competitive position of the U.S. industry in 1983 compared to Japan, Germany, and the newly industrialized countries; and, in conjunction with United States Trade Law, explores some of the governmental options that were available. HBS Number: 9-388-071 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 11/12/1987 Revision Date: 3/18/1988 Geographic Setting: United States, Japan, Germany Industry Setting: machine tools Event Year Start: 1983 Event Year End: 1983 Subjects: Competition; Government & business; International trade; Machine tools; Multinational corporations Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-389-059), 15p, by David B. Yoffie   Add     15 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-388-071 HBS Number: 5-389-059 Subjects: Business government relations; Competition; International trade; Machine tools; Multinational corporations    Shell, Greenpeace, and Brent Spar   Add   View  8 pp.  Case Author(s): Diermeier, Daniel Publication Date: 09/01/1996 Product Type: Case (Field) Publisher: Stanford University Product Description: The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies owns a petroleum platform, the Brent Spar, in the North Sea. The Brent Spar is an oil storage facility and tanker loading buoy. It came to the end of its useful life and was taken out of commission in September 1991. After a thorough study of the environmental impact of various disposal options, Shell concluded that deep water disposal was the safest strategy. The German arm of Greenpeace mounted an aggressive public campaign against this action, affecting public opinion to the point where Shell changed its disposal plans and opted for on-land dismantling. HBS Number: P19 Geographic Setting: Europe Industry Setting: oil exploration Event Year Start: 1995 Event Year End: 1995 Subjects: Chemicals; Environmental protection; Europe; Natural gas; Petroleum Academic Discipline: Business & government    Shock Therapy in Eastern Europe: The Polish and Czechoslovak Economic Reforms   Add   View  26 pp.  Case Kennedy, Robert E.; Sandler, Amy L. Provides information on economic reform programs in Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1990. Students are asked to compare and contrast the economic situations in the two countries, as well as the political constraints on reform. May be used with: (9-797-080) Transition to a Market Economy: The Components of Reform. HBS Number: 9-797-068 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 2/21/1997 Revision Date: 10/16/1999 Geographic Setting: Poland & Czechoslovakia Event Year Start: 1990 Event Year End: 1990 Subjects: Eastern Europe; Economic policy; Macroeconomics   Add     24 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-797-068 HBS Number: 5-799-064 Subjects: Eastern Europe; Economic policy; Macroeconomics    Singapore   Add   View  25 pp.  Case Author(s): Reinhardt, Forest; Prewitt, Edward Publication Date: 03/31/1993 Revision Date: 04/05/1995 Product Type: Case (Library) Product Description: Since winning independence in 1965, Singapore achieved some of the world's highest rates of economic growth. A large part of GDP and employment came from direct investment by multinational companies in low-cost assembly work, but in the 1990s Singapore's rising wage rates increasingly priced it out of these industries. Could Singapore change itself from an assembler and fabricator of Western-designed parts to a designer and marketer of desirable products? Lee Kuan Yew, “the father of Singapore,'' repeatedly had shown an ability to guide the nation through such transitions. Not only did his successor have no such track record, but the next transition might be the hardest yet. Teaching Purpose: Useful in analysis of economic development strategies, and consideration of questions of productivity measurement. May be used with: (9-794-051) Accounting for Productivity Growth. HBS Number: 9-793-096 Geographic Setting: Singapore Event Year Start: 1992 Event Year End: 1992 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Economic development; Economic planning; Productivity; Southeast Asia Academic Discipline: Business & government Supplementary Materials: Supplement (Library), (9-797-055), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Eilene Zimmerman; Teaching Note, (5-795-036), 22p, by Forest Reinhardt; Supplement (Library), (9-799-154), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Sabina Ciminero; Supplement (Library), (9-700-050), 4p, by Richard H.K. Vietor, Rebecca Evans   Add     21 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-793-096 HBS Number: 5-795-036 Subjects: Business government relations; Country analysis; Economic development; Economic planning; Productivity; Southeast Asia

Singapore: Committee on Singapore’s Competitiveness   Add   View  20 pp.  Case Enright, Michael J.; Lee, Andrew In October 1998, a private-sector-led Committee on Singapore's Competitiveness submitted its report to the Singaporean government. The report assessed Singapore's economic health at the time and competitiveness over the next decade, an HBS Number: HKU033 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 1/1/1999 Geographic Setting: Singapore Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1998 Subjects: Asia; Competition; Economic policy; Government & business; National competitiveness Publisher: University of Hong Kong (Sales restricted to North America.)    Singapore’s Trade in Services   Add   View  23 pp.  Case Spar, Debora; Kou, Julia; Bures, Laura Focuses on the efforts of Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB) to grow the tiny island almost wholly through an expansion of its service economy. Between 1965 and 1990, Singapore achieved a remarkable rate of growth, largely by HBS Number: 9-796-135 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 3/11/1996 Revision Date: 10/10/1996 Geographic Setting: Singapore Industry Setting: services Event Year Start: 1994 Event Year End: 1994 Subjects: Developing countries; Economic policy; Foreign investment; Government policy; Services; Southeast Asia Supplementary Materials: Teaching Note, (5-799-020), 21p, by Debora Spar   Add     21 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-796-135 HBS Number: 5-799-020 Subjects: Developing countries; Economic policy; Foreign investment; Government policy; Services; Southeast Asia    Social Security Reform   Add   View  22 pp.  Case Kennedy, Robert E.; Irwin, Brian P. Examines various approaches to pension reform. Examines the current Social Security system in the United States, pension reform in other countries, and the leading approaches to reform. Concludes with analysis of three questions: 1) would returns be higher in a private system? 2) how could the transition to a new system be financed?, and 3) would privatization increase national savings? HBS Number: 9-799-011 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 7/27/1998 Revision Date: 3/26/1999 Geographic Setting: United States Industry Setting: government Event Year Start: 1997 Event Year End: 1997 Subjects: Government policy; Pension plans; Privatization; Social security   Add     29 pp.  Teaching Note For use with 9-799-011 HBS Number: 5-799-095 Subjects: Government policy; Pension plans; Privatization; Social security    South Africa: Getting in GEAR   Add   View  29 pp.  Case Author(s): Vietor, Richard H.K. Publication Date: 08/26/1997 Revision Date: 09/22/2004 Product Type: Case (Field) Product Description: In 1997, Thabo Mbeki is contemplating South Africa's performance since the end of Apartheid in 1994. The economy has done fairly well, but the government's macroeconomic strategy calls for higher growth and employment creation. The case describes the country's history, especially Apartheid, and various social problems that persist: unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, AIDS, crime, and education. Tries to understand the interaction between these problems and the macroeconomic strategy, and considers whether anoth