A manager’s ability to build profitable companies depends on the business environment in which the companies interact. This notice provides a framework to help understand, anticipate, and potentially promote changes in the business environment. Describes creating an image of the business environment as a country analysis. The framework for the country analysis consists of three …
In January 2005, China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) announced that it would join the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). At that time, COSCO introduced sustainability reporting in line with the UNGC, which over the next six years has grown into an information technology platform that integrates all of the company’s sustainability processes and indicators. …
This case is accompanied by a video short film that can be shown in class or included in a digital course package. Instructors should consider when the video will be made available to students as it can reveal important details of the case.
Introduces students to theories about why currency crises occur. Analyze whether crises are predictable.
After 20 years of good economic performance, Economic Czar Zhu Rongji wonders if it is time to rethink China’s development strategy. The case examines China’s development strategy since 1978 and looks at the challenges the country faces as it enters the 21st century. Course objective: to develop familiarity with China, its distinctive development strategy and …
Coloplast’s future global manufacturing strategy was based on relocating the production volume of mature product lines to low-wage countries such as Hungary and China, while most of the creative and innovative activities (pilot production, acceleration and maintenance of product range) were carried out in Denmark. The large-scale offshoring project, initially mass production and then possibly …
In the late 1940s, US State Department officials began campaigning for the establishment of an International Trade Organization (ICO). This new organization would oversee global negotiations on trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, cartels, and commodity agreements; and it would complement the IMF and the World Bank, both founded at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference to …
In June 2017, the president of the United States issued a statement on his position on Cuba. Relationships Business leaders have been very vigilant as their actions could affect the weakening of relations between the United States and Cuba initiated by their predecessor in 2016. A recent MBA graduate in Canada and an avid cigar …
This notice provides general information about the global wind industry and is intended to expand HBS 708051, The Suzlon Edge; 708022, Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Power in the US; and 707016, Supergrid.
Ford Motor Company Social Sustainability Manager David Berdish is challenged to sustainably position Ford at the forefront of the new global transportation industry while leveraging Ford’s leadership role in the automotive industry. This case takes a holistic look at the global transportation industry, but focuses on megacities in busy emerging economies and their increasingly congested …