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Restoring American Competitiveness
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R0907S-EEconomicsFor decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's innovative new products. What those companies have been ceding is the country's industrial commons - that is, the collective operational capabilities that underpin new product and proc...Starting at €8.20
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Does America Really Need Manufacturing
Pisano, Gary P.; Shih, WillyArticle HBS-R1203G-EService and Operations ManagementToo many U.S. companies base decisions about where to locate production largely on narrow financial criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to innovate. The result has been an exodus of manufacturing from America, which has weakened the capabilities that domestic firms need to keep inventing high-quality, cost-competitive prod...Starting at €8.20
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Short-Termism: Don't Blame Investors
Brochet, Francois; Serafeim, George; Loumioti, MariaArticle HBS-F1206C-EExecutives often complain that investors' obsession with short-term returns forces them to make decisions that are bad in the long term. New research shows that it works both ways: Companies with a short-term orientation attract investors interested in short-term time frames.Starting at €8.20
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Tokyo AFM
Brochet, FrancoisCase HBS-109056-EAccounting and ControlThis case was written as the financial accounting portion of the final exam for a first-year MBA course at Harvard Business School. The goal was to test students' ability to apply major concepts taught during the course to an industry which they had not covered, but which shared similarities in terms of economics with issues addressed in the curriculum. The company, Tokyo Auto Fire & Marine (hereafter Tokyo AFM), is a fictitious insurance company...Starting at €8.20
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Securities Trading: Front, Middle, and Back Office
Brochet, Francois; Mabud, RakeenCase HBS-110070-EAccounting and ControlThis note explains the basic structure of the trading floor in a typical financial institution and how the front, middle and back offices interact to ensure a functioning trading system.Starting at €8.20
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Societe Generale: The Kerviel Affair (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Brochet, FrancoisTeaching Note HBS-110075-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for 110029 and 110030.Starting at €0.00
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Fiat-Chrysler Alliance: Launching the Cinquecento in North America
Pisano, Gary P.; Andrews, Phillip; Di Fiore, AlessandroCase HBS-611037-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Fiat ended its 27-year absence in the North American automobile market when the first Cinquecento (500)-a very small, iconic Italian car that had strong sales in Europe-was delivered on March 10, 2011. The Italian automaker re-entered the market through an alliance with Chrysler, the American automaker Fiat acquired in April 2009. For Laura Soave, Chrysler Group's head of Fi...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation and Growth at Actelion Ltd.
Pisano, Gary P.; Beyersdorfer, Daniela; Dittrich, RuthCase HBS-611065-ELeadership and People ManagementIn late 2010, Jean-Paul Clozel, CEO of the Swiss biotech pharmaceuticals firm Actelion, looks back on a successful decade. The small venture that he had started with a few of his scientist colleagues in the late 1990s to discover novel medicine in a research-driven organisation had grown into one of Europe's largest biotech firms by revenues. Their success was mainly founded on their orphan indication drug Tracleer, which Actelion sold and market...Starting at €8.20
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Virgin Group: Finding New Avenues for Growth
Pisano, Gary P.; Corsi, ElenaCase HBS-612070-EThe head of the branded private investment company owner of the Virgin brand reflected on the group's new pillars of growth. Since the 1970s when Richard Branson created the Virgin record retailing company, Virgin had developed from scratch six companies worth more than $1 billion each and changed their focus from record retailing and music production to a broader one based on airlines, health, financial services, mobile and media businesses. In ...Starting at €8.20
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise: The Dandelion Program
Pisano, Gary P.; Austin, Robert D.Case HBS-617016-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes Hewlett Packard Enteprise's "Dandelion Program," which has developed a new service offering for the company's clients by drawing on the special talents of people with autism. The company has deployed "pods" organized around 8 or 9 employees with autism, to function as high performance mini-ecosystems, which have turned out to be 30% more effective than average service teams (in some areas). The case centers around questions of...Starting at €8.20