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The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
Author: Friedman, Milton
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Speeches
Source: The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Publication Year: 1970
"When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the "social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system," it's obvious that they believe that they are defending free enterprise
Hewlett-Packard-Compaq: The Merger Decision
Authors: Palepu, Krishna G.; Barnett, Jonathan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
Hewlett-Packard's proposed $24 billion acquisition of rival Compaq marked the largest merger in the history of the computer industry. The merger was Hewlett-Packard's response to sweeping changes impacting the technology industry....
The Shakedown: Should Customer Strategy Solutions Pay Off the Tax Officials?
Author: Bodrock, Phil
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review.
Publication Year: 2005
Customer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo Zhuk, set up a software development center in Kiev, local bureaucrats say the company hasn't filed all the tax schedules it should have...
Doing Better at Doing Good: When, Why and How Consumers Respond to Corporate Social Initiatives
Authors: Bhattacharya, C.B.; Sen, Sankar
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2004
Although companies are devoting significant resources to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, insights into the optimal formulation, implementation, and effectiveness estimation of CSR strategies are currently scarce. This article takes an in-depth look at when, why, and how CSR works from a consumer's perspective...
Computone Corporation: An Instructional Case in Earnings Management and Revenue Recognition
Authors: Stallworth, H. Lynn; Braun, Robert L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: American Accounting Association
Publication Year: 2007
This case demonstrates how the company employed earnings manipulation techniques that resulted in violations of GAAP through improper revenue recognition...
Circon (A, B, C)
Authors: Hall, Brian J.; Rose, Christopher; Subramanian, Guhan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2001
In 1996, U.S. Surgical launched a hostile takeover bid against Circon Corp. After building the company for 20 years, CEO Richard Auhll takes a defensive stand that includes inviting an old HBS friend (George Cloutier) to join the fight as a director of Circon...
Microsoft's Vega Project: Developing People and Products
Author: Bartlett, Christopher A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2000
This case describes Microsoft's human resource philosophies and policies and illustrates how they work in practice to provide the company with a major source of competitive advantage. Discusses employee development, motivation, and retention efforts in one of Microsoft's product groups.
Intel in China
Authors: Slaughter, Kathleen E.; Everett, Donna R.; Xiaojun, Qian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2002
The newly appointed division head must examine organizational or communication problems within a division of a billion dollar semiconductor manufacturer...
Microsoft: Competing on Talent (A)
Author: Bartlett, Christopher A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Faculty Rating: 
[1 Faculty Rating] 3977 views
Describes the evolution of Microsoft's human resource philosophies, policies, and practices and how they were used as a core of the company's competitive advantage. In particular, the case focuses on how Microsoft has tried to retain its ability to recruit, develop, motivate, and retain first class talent as it grew from a start-up to a global behemoth...
Hewlett Packard Company in Vietnam
Author: Lau, Geok T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: North America Case Research Association, Case Research Journal, Spring, 2000; The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 2000
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 3860 views
In late 1995, John Peter, a marketing manager of Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific Limited, was evaluating the division's strategic options for doing business in Vietnam. John needed to recommend whether HPAP should enter the Vietnam market in a more strategic fashion...
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