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- September 2000
- Case
Quokka Sports
By: Stephen P. Bradley, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Stephanie Mason Ogborne and Julie C. Toscano
Quokka Sports is an example of one of the new broadband services focused in total immersion sports. Quokka faces two issues: 1) the broadband infrastructure is emerging slowly so the type of services offered needs to be decided on. 2) Quokka faces an explosion of...
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Keywords:
Digital Marketing;
Decisions;
Information Publishing;
Infrastructure;
Competition;
Advertising Industry;
Web Services Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., Thomas R. Eisenmann, Stephanie Mason Ogborne, and Julie C. Toscano. "Quokka Sports." Harvard Business School Case 701-011, September 2000.
- March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King
By: Tom Nicholas and Matthew G. Preble
Michael Milken, an investment banker who dominated the junk bond market in the 1980s, was sentenced to jail in 1990 after pleading guilty to a number of securities and tax-related felonies. In the preceding decade, Milken had helped usher in a new wave of leveraged buy...
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Keywords:
Junk Bonds;
High-yield Bonds;
Financial Innovation;
Shareholder Value;
Bonds;
Capital;
Capital Structure;
Cost of Capital;
Crime and Corruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Ethics;
Finance;
Investment Banking;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Ownership;
Private Equity;
Restructuring;
United States
Nicholas, Tom, and Matthew G. Preble. "Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King." Harvard Business School Case 816-050, March 2016. (Revised May 2021.)
- February 2024
- Case
ReSpo.Vision: The Kickstart of an AI Sports Revolution
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Nikolina Jonsson
This case study explores the growth journey of Polish computer vision sports start-up ReSpo.Vision in an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem. By providing 3D data and analysis to soccer clubs, ReSpo.Vision achieved significant milestones with a €1 million seed round, an...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Experience and Expertise;
Talent and Talent Management;
Decisions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
AI and Machine Learning;
Analytics and Data Science;
Applications and Software;
Business Strategy;
Sports Industry;
Technology Industry;
Poland;
Europe
Gompers, Paul A., Elena Corsi, and Nikolina Jonsson. "ReSpo.Vision: The Kickstart of an AI Sports Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 824-151, February 2024.
- Program
Senior Executive Leadership Program—India
greater leadership capacity, this intensive program empowers you to look critically at the business as a whole—and build and lead a high-performance organization. You will emerge better prepared to make the bold View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
co-creation of markets and value, multinationals without firm-specific advantages, and born-global firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50242 November 13, 2015 Harvard Business Review If CEOs Care About...
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Carmen Nobel
- September 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Tata Motors: The Tata Ace
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Vishnu Srinivasan
Considers the strategy and experience of Tata Motors, India's leading commercial truck maker, as it developed a new small commercial vehicle, the Tata Ace. Positioned as a replacement for the three-wheelers that predominated as small commercial vehicles in India, the...
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Keywords:
Emerging Markets;
Product Development;
Product;
Innovation Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Auto Industry;
India
Palepu, Krishna G., and Vishnu Srinivasan. "Tata Motors: The Tata Ace." Harvard Business School Case 108-011, September 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Shunyuan Zhang
Professor Zhang uses machine learning to address marketing problems that have arisen within the nascent sharing economy. She conducts rigorous analyses of structured and unstructured data generated by new sharing economy platforms to address important issues emerging...
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Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success
By: Karen Mills
Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech...
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- January 2010 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Knight the King: The Founding of Nike
By: Noam Wasserman and Kyle Anderson
It had taken Phil Knight 16 long years to build Nike into the number one athletic-shoe company in the country. When Knight had first conceived of the company for an MBA class project, Adidas had had more than 80% market share, but Knight's marketing approach had...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Initial Public Offering;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Wasserman, Noam, and Kyle Anderson. "Knight the King: The Founding of Nike." Harvard Business School Case 810-077, January 2010. (Revised December 2012.)
- December 2004 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Cheetah Conservation Fund Bush Project, The
Laurie Marker, head of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, is trying to form a for-profit institution, the Bush Project, to control the bush encroachment problem in Namibia. Bush encroachment not only destroys the general ecosystem, but it also has a harmful impact on the...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
For-Profit Firms;
Emerging Markets;
Environmental Sustainability;
Financial Strategy;
Africa
Hecht, Peter A., and Judith Walls. "Cheetah Conservation Fund Bush Project, The." Harvard Business School Case 205-046, December 2004. (Revised February 2005.)
- January 2008 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Framedia (A) Abridged
By: Li Jin, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Li Liao, Huabing Li and Jielun Zhu
Examines an acquisition in the highly competitive outdoor media advertising industry in China in late 2005. The transaction leads to eventual consolidation of the whole industry and positive stock reactions. Discusses equity consideration in the context of an M&A...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Private Equity;
Corporate Governance;
Emerging Markets;
Organizations;
Consolidation;
Valuation;
Advertising Industry;
China
Jin, Li, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Li Liao, Huabing Li, and Jielun Zhu. "Framedia (A) Abridged." Harvard Business School Case 208-048, January 2008. (Revised March 2009.)
- January 2011 (Revised April 2023)
- Course Overview Note
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview
By: Tom Nicholas
This is a course overview note for The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. CMC is chronologically organized. It starts in the late eighteenth century when America gained independence, spans the remarkable rise to industrial maturity during the nineteenth and twentieth...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Business or Company Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Welfare;
War;
Transformation;
Information Technology;
Finance;
Situation or Environment;
Decision Making;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
United States
Nicholas, Tom. "The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 811-033, January 2011. (Revised April 2023.)
- October 1994
- Case
Olympus Optical Company, Ltd. (B): Functional Group Management
Documents the emergence of the functional group management system at Olympus's camera manufacturing facility. This system increases the pressure on the work force to decrease costs and improve output by treating the facility's 10 autonomous groups as profit centers,...
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Cooper, Robin. "Olympus Optical Company, Ltd. (B): Functional Group Management." Harvard Business School Case 195-073, October 1994.
Caroline M. Elkins
Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an... View Details
- January 2008
- Class Lecture
Billions of Entrepreneurs: The Yin and Yang of China and India (FSS)
By: Tarun Khanna
Two emerging nations, China and India, are on the move to wards economic development. They are entering the world economy on their own terms. China's model has received greater attention. India's is a diametrically different model-yin to China's yang-with different...
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Business and Government Relations;
China;
India
Khanna, Tarun. "Billions of Entrepreneurs: The Yin and Yang of China and India (FSS)." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 708-812, January 2008.
- February 2015
- Article
Location Choices under Strategic Interactions
By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Dezso and Minyuan Zhao
The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms...
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Keywords:
Location Strategies;
Multinational Strategy;
Oligopolistic Competition;
Firm Heterogeneity;
Geographic Location;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Balance and Stability;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Game Theory
Alcacer, Juan, Cristian Dezso, and Minyuan Zhao. "Location Choices under Strategic Interactions." Strategic Management Journal 36, no. 2 (February 2015): 197–215.
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a...
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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Program
Investment Management Workshop
changes could affect your strategies and your business. You will emerge better prepared to navigate the industry landscape, make optimal investments, manage risk, and create value. Read More Gain strategic insight into all segments of the...
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- September 2017
- Case
Tencent
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking service provider with several of the...
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Keywords:
Tencent;
Tencent Holdings;
WeChat;
Social Networking;
Social Networks;
Gaming;
Gaming Industry;
Video Games;
Computer Games;
Mobile Gaming;
Portals;
Payments;
Mobile Payments;
O2O;
Online-to-offline;
E-commerce;
Messaging;
Subscription Model;
Freemium;
Mobile App Industry;
Smartphone;
PC;
Monetization Strategy;
Antitrust;
Streaming;
Cloud Computing;
Artificial Intelligence;
Big Data;
Alibaba;
Facebook;
JD.com;
Tesla;
Bundling;
Synergies;
Digital Strategy;
Imitation;
Licensing;
Agility;
Entry Barriers;
Online Platforms;
Advertising;
Digital Marketing;
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Conglomerates;
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Joint Ventures;
Restructuring;
Communication;
Communication Technology;
Blogs;
Interactive Communication;
Interpersonal Communication;
Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Music Entertainment;
Investment;
Investment Portfolio;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Global Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Business History;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Positioning;
Social Marketing;
Network Effects;
Emerging Markets;
Market Entry and Exit;
Digital Platforms;
Industry Growth;
Monopoly;
Media;
Distribution Channels;
Product Development;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Government Relations;
Groups and Teams;
Networks;
Opportunities;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Commercialization;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Cooperation;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Horizontal Integration;
Vertical Integration;
Segmentation;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Applications and Software;
Information Infrastructure;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Value Creation;
Communications Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Information Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Music Industry;
Service Industry;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Asia;
China;
Canton (province, China)
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Tencent." Harvard Business School Case 718-426, September 2017.