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Toys R Us Japan
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; MacKenzie, Jacqueline; Bures, Laura
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1999
Documents the American retailer's process of entry into the Japanese toy market. Discusses the history of Toys "R" Us in the United States as well as the history of the Japanese toy market, distribution, wholesaling, and retailing systems...
Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Bartlett, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
This case was analyzed for the 2003 Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition. In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine
White Nights and Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Jarosz, William W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1995
In the latter half of the 1980s, the collapse of the Soviet empire created an unprecedented opportunity for Western businesses. Among those most attracted were the oil firms, who rushed to investigate Russia's vast petroleum reserves. But, as they soon discovered, investing in Russia still entailed tremendous risks...
Union Carbide's Bhopal Plant (A, B)
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Hull, Suzanne; Kou, Julia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
In December 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, sprung a leak, releasing thousands of gallons of highly toxic gas into the atmosphere. By the time the leak was sealed, over 2,000 people had died. In a series of three excerpts from published accounts, the case covers the events that led up to the tragedy and the aftermath--financial, legal, and emotional--for Union Carbide's management...
The Burma Pipeline
Authors: LaMure, Lane T.; Spar, Debora L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2000
In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipeline was designed to bring sorely needed energy supplies into both Thailand and Burma, and to serve as a linchpin for Unocal's expanding Asian strategy...
The Power of Activism: Assessing the Impact of NGOs on Global Business
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; LaMure, Lane T.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2003
Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the emergence of activism across a wide variety of issue areas. On topics ranging from human rights to labor conditions, NGOs and activists represent an increasingly important constituency in a firm's nonmarket environment...
Phase Two: The Pharmaceutical Industry Responds to AIDS
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Bartlett, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2002
Describes how major pharmaceutical firms changed their strategy and pricing policies in the years 2000 to 2002 to respond to the growing AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Where Babies Come from
Author: Spar, Debora L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2006
Persistent demand from people who have been denied the blessings of parenthood has created an assisted-reproduction market that stretches around the globe and encompasses hundreds of thousands of people. In the United States alone, nearly 41,000 children were born via in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 2001. Roughly 6,000 came from donated eggs, and almost 600 were carried by surrogate mothers. U.S. legislators have been reluctant to regulate this market...
Network Associates: Securing the Network
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Burns, Jennifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship @ Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1999
Follows one company's path through the uncharted terrain of government regulation and the Internet.
Rx Depot
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Day, Adam
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
In 2002, a handful of entrepreneurs began to ship drugs from Canada into the United States, taking advantage of regulatory and price differentials across the neighboring countries. Using the Internet and a low-cost network of Canadian pharmacies, firms like Rx Depot allowed U.S. customers to order their prescription medications in the United States, purchase them at a substantial discount from prevailing U.S. prices, and deliver the medications directly to their homes...
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