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Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Lubinski, ChristinaCase HBS-811060-EEntrepreneurshipThis case examines the management of home and host country risk by Beiersdorf during the interwar years. It can be used both in business history courses and more generally to teach political risk management by multinational corporations. Beiersdorf, a German personal products company, expanded globally before 1914, but had its foreign factories and intellectual property expropriated during World War 1. After 1919 ceo Willy Jacobson rebuilt the in...Starting at €8.20
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Inventory-Driven Costs (Spanish version)
Callioni, Gianpaolo; De Montgros, Xavier; Slagmulder, Regine; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.; Wright, LindaArticle HBS-R0503JService and Operations Managementcomponent devaluation costs for components still held in production; price protection costs incurred when product prices drop on goods distributors still have on their shelves; product return costs that have to be absorbed when distributors return and receive refunds on overstock items; and obsolescence costs for products still unsold when new models are introduced. By developing metrics to track those costs in a consistent way throughout the PC...Starting at €8.20
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HeidelbergCement: The Baltic Kiln Decision
Drake, David; Kleindorfer, Paul; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.Case HBS-614025-EStrategyStarting at €8.20