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An Intern's Dilemma (Spanish version)
Sucher, Sandra J.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-616S11Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAn HBS student is asked by his employer to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship in order to obtain data from industry competitors.Starting at €8.20
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Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Sucher, Sandra J.; Preble, MatthewArticle HBS-R1704Z-EA summer intern isn't sure how to respond to a request that she misrepresent herself in collecting competitive intelligence for her company. One of her primary duties is to assist with market research by calling direct competitors and asking for sensitive information. Her manager wants her to tell these contacts that she's a student working on a project. She needs the internship and the money, but she also doesn't want to start her career in this...Starting at €8.20
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China Development Bank
Jin, Li; Preble, Matthew; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-212001-EFinanceIn May 2011, Chairman Chen Yuan of the China Development Bank (CDB) was thinking back on CDB's financing of a major project between Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil's state-owned oil and gas producer and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China's largest oil companies. Signed two years earlier, the deal was an oil-for-loan agreement in which Petrobras committed to a 10-year oil supply to Sinopec in exchange for a $...Starting at €8.20
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An Intern's Dilemma
Sucher, Sandra J.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-611041-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAn HBS student is asked by his employer to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship in order to obtain data from industry competitors.Starting at €8.20
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Generation Investment Management
Sucher, Sandra J.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-613002-EExamines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide whether to recommend an investment in ABB India. The decision pits economic development-supplying energy to impoverished rural areas in India, against environmental damage-caused by the...Starting at €8.20
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New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. (Abridged)
Bowen, H. Kent; Huckman, Robert S.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-613006-EService and Operations ManagementConsiders whether New Balance, one of the world's five largest manufacturers of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok-a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique aspects of New Balance's strategy-focusing on fit and performance by offering long-lived shoes in a wide variety of widths and eschewing celebrity endorsement of its products-and discuss...Starting at €8.20
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Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste
Drake, David; Hammond, Janice H.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-615040-EService and Operations ManagementThe global consumer goods company Unilever was on pace to hit a number of aggressive targets by 2020 as part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's Chief Supply Chain Officer Pier Luigi Sigismondi and his team were working towards this goal and had chosen to first focus on three key areas-sugar, tomatoes, and tea-and had analyzed where in the 'farm t...Starting at €8.20
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New Balance: Managing Orders and Working Conditions
Toffel, Michael W.; McNeely, Eileen; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-619002-EService and Operations ManagementNew Balance Athletics, Inc., a major U.S.-based athletic footwear and apparel brand, sources most of its footwear products from independent suppliers whose factories are located in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Monica Gorman, vice president of responsible leadership and global compliance, is seeking to combine data sets collected by different parts of the organization to see whether she and her colleagues in the company's order management functi...Starting at €8.20
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The Tavistock Group and the Australian Agricultural Company
Roscini, Dante; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-717009-EEconomicsIn late 2015, Dr. Shehan Dissanayake, a managing director and board member of the Bahamian-based investment firm The Tavistock Group (Tavistock), the largest single shareholder in the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), one of the country's largest agribusinesses, faces a potentially challenging future operating environment in Australia. The country's national government has recently instituted changes to its agricultural foreign direct inves...Starting at €8.20
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Can the Eurozone Survive, Teaching Note
Roscini, Dante; Preble, MatthewTeaching Note HBS-717026-EEconomicsTeaching note for case 713034.Starting at €0.00