HBSP (USA)
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Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa, Teaching Plan
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Giacomin, ValeriaTeaching Note HBS-318081-ETeaching plan for case 313148.Starting at €0.00
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Ken Durham and Unilever as a 'Multi-Local Multinational'
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Decker, StephanieCase HBS-808025-EStrategyExplores the opportunities and threats to Unilever's global business in 1978 based on the commercial and political challenges faced by three of its subsidiaries, Lever Brothers in the United States, Hindustan Lever in India, and United Africa Company in West Africa. Management faced several problems: criticism of multinational companies, anti-trust legislation, expropriations, and rising competition from international and local rivals. Focuses on...Starting at €8.20
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Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century, Teaching Plan
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Giacomin, ValeriaTeaching Note HBS-818063-EEconomicsTeaching plan for case 805010.Starting at €0.00
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Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Benton, Elliot R.Case HBS-313148-EThis case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s Engelhard, who was well-connected with the leadership of the Democratic Party in the United States including President Lyndon B. Johnson, was one of the largest American investors i...Starting at €8.20
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Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Alamsyah, EssieCase HBS-316178-EThis case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on state-owned and foreign firms. The case describes the formidable challenges she initially faced, her subsequent breakthrough in China, and the subsequent growth as a global water treatmen...Starting at €8.20
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Zhang Xin and the Emergence of Chinese Philanthropy
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Yang, AmandaCase HBS-317045-EThis case examines the recent emergence of Chinese business philanthropy through the case of the SOHO China Foundation established by real estate wife and husband moguls Zhang Zin and Pan Shiyi. After exploring how they became billionaires through investing in the booming China real estate market in the 1990s, the case discusses their decision to found the Foundation in the context of the belated emergence of philanthropy in China, and the contin...Starting at €8.20
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Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Spadafora, AndrewCase HBS-314087-EConsiders the marketing and strategic challenges faced by natural beauty brands using the case of Australian-based Jurlique, which was acquired by Pola of Japan in 2011. The case opens two years later in July 2013 when Sam McKay, the chief executive officer, on a visit to Pola's head office in Tokyo, heard news of critical comments about the company and animal testing in a Facebook post from a group in South Australia, where the brand had been fo...Starting at €8.20
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Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Storli, EspenCase HBS-813020-EEntrepreneurshipExamines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys the historical growth of commodity trading, especially in metals, from the late nineteenth century, and its evolving forms as governments intervened in markets after 1945. Rich joined Philipp Brothers, then the largest commodity trader, in 1954. He formed his own firm two decades later. He was instru...Starting at €8.20