This note provides background information for the "Going Back to Work" re-entry planning exercise in the General Management Program (GM), one of Harvard Business School's comprehensive leadership development programs. The exercise consists of two parts: analysis of two multimedia cases in which previous GMP participants describe their re-entry experiences and creation of individual re-entry plans. Each multimedia case provides the foundation .....more

The Chinese currency, the renminbi, has been a subject of controversy between China and its trade partners (especially the US), which accuse China of manipulating its exchange rate to make its exports artificially cheaper. They perceive the renminbi as an unfair weapon in international competition. Chinese officials responded that these attacks were groundless: the renminbi was not undervalued, at least not significantly. The peg contributed to maintaining .....more

Mid-Missouri Energy (MME) is a farmer-owned cooperative created to take advantage of the growing interest in ethanol as an automotive fuel. MME's 40-million-gallon-per-year plant began production in February 2005 and, since that time, has exceeded all performance projections in terms of output, high price received for ethanol, and low price paid for feedstock (corn). Aided by record gasoline prices and usage mandates in the 2005 energy Bill, U.S. .....more