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Adelina Pak
Informed by her prior experiences in the Technology industry, Adelina enjoys helping students understand the various roles within tech and navigate recruiting specific to the industry. She has experience working at both software and hardware, B2C and B2B, as well as...
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Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. An award-winning instructor, his academic work and consulting are focused on competitive strategy and the effects of digital technology on corporate... View Details
- September 2000 (Revised October 2002)
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National Logistics Management
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Mary Rotelli and Kristin Kohler
National Logistics Management (NLM), a third-party logistics company, is a successful, profitable business that provides a more cost-effective and efficient means to expedite premium freight. With the logistics landscape changing, NLM's market niche is threatened. Can...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Logistics;
Industry Structures;
Planning;
Service Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Mary Rotelli, and Kristin Kohler. "National Logistics Management." Harvard Business School Case 801-110, September 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
- 14 Sep 2015
- News
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
One Way Companies Are Concealing Higher Prices: Smaller Packages
- August 2000 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Callaway Golf Company
By: Rajiv Lal and Edie Prescott
Describes a situation faced by Mr. Ely Callaway, the 80-year-old founder, chairman, and CEO of Callaway Golf Co., in the fall of 1999. After a decade of stunning success with the marketing concept, Callaway suffered a significant loss and witnessed a steep decline in...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Communication Strategy;
Product;
Business Strategy;
Change Management;
Competitive Advantage
Lal, Rajiv, and Edie Prescott. "Callaway Golf Company." Harvard Business School Case 501-019, August 2000. (Revised September 2005.)
- 01 Apr 2016
- News
New brew: Starbucks Canada to offer beer, wine
- January 2009 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
LeBron James
By: Anita Elberse and Jeff McCall
In 2005, to the astonishment of many sports industry insiders, superstar basketball player LeBron James fired his agent and established his own firm, LRMR, to handle all aspects of his business ventures and marketing activities and named his childhood friend Maverick...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Sports;
Sports Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Jeff McCall. "LeBron James." Harvard Business School Case 509-050, January 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
Management Culture & Surveillance
Highlighted in Columbia L. Sch.’s Blue Sky and Duke L. Sch.’s Global Markets blogs. Featured in its own episode of Stanford L. Sch.’s Business Scholars podcast. Selected for “New and Emerging Voices in Workplace Law,” 2020 AALS Ann. Meeting.
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- 23 Sep 2013
- News
That Online Review May Really Be Too Good to Be True
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.
better than us. Which at the time, wasn’t saying much. Today, Deborah and I (an HBS MBA 2010 graduate) run FertilityIQ, an online educational resource used by over 90% of all US fertility patients. We’re imperfect, but we’ve managed to help patients and build an...
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- November 2001 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Grupo Elektra
By: David J. Arnold, Gustavo Herrero and Luiz Felipe Monteiro
Grupo Elektra is Latin America's largest consumer finance company based on credit sales in its hard goods retail outlets. It has started to internationalize in Latin America but now must to decide whether to enter the U.S. Hispanic market and which of its two core...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Emerging Markets;
Global Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Retail Industry;
Latin America;
United States;
Mexico
Arnold, David J., Gustavo Herrero, and Luiz Felipe Monteiro. "Grupo Elektra". Harvard Business School Case 502-039, November 2001. (Revised July 2011.)
- December 2001
- Case
Cybersettle
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
Cybersettle's management faced a dilemma: How could they turn their company, which provided confidential online settlement services for insurance claims, into a profitable enterprise? Having started during the heady days of Internet "dot-com fever," the company now had...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Bids and Bidding;
Negotiation Process;
Conflict and Resolution;
Business Strategy;
Commercialization;
Internet;
Insurance Industry
Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "Cybersettle." Harvard Business School Case 902-158, December 2001.
Julie Battilana
Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Aligning Strategy and Sales with Frank Cespedes
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Harvard Professor: Iceland Should Think Geothermal
- May 1996 (Revised March 1998)
- Case
SaleSoft, Inc. (A)
By: Das Narayandas
SaleSoft, a start-up firm, markets Comprehensive Sales Automation Solutions (CSAS) that automate a firm's sales, marketing, and service functions. Even though the product has received very favorable responses from prospects, product complexity and a long buying cycle...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decisions;
Revenue;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Sales;
Opportunities;
Information Technology;
Technology Industry
Narayandas, Das. "SaleSoft, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 596-112, May 1996. (Revised March 1998.)
- May 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
Ashar Group: Brokers and Co-opetition in the Life Settlement Industry
By: Alexander Braun, Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Jiahua Xu
Connecting life insurance policyholders with potential investors (called Life Settlement Providers), Ashar Group plays a pivotal role in the industry. Its current position is, however, increasingly being challenged by consumer-direct models, led by major providers...
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Keywords:
Insurance;
Investment;
Markets;
Competitive Strategy;
Cooperation;
Financial Services Industry
Braun, Alexander, Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy, and Jiahua Xu. "Ashar Group: Brokers and Co-opetition in the Life Settlement Industry." Harvard Business School Case 218-109, May 2018. (Revised June 2018.)