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  • September 2020 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

The Indian Premier League, 2020

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
Since its founding in 2008, the Indian Premier League (IPL), India’s eight-week Twenty20 (T20) cricket competition, had become one of the most popular and lucrative sporting leagues in the world. In 2019, the IPL attracted 462 million TV viewers and 300 million digital... View Details
Keywords: Sports; Organizational Structure; Marketing; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Sports Industry; India
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  • Research Summary

Information Effects of Jump Bidding in English Auctions (with Dror Lellouche)

Under what circumstances might a bidder find it rational to raise the current offer by a substantial factor instead of making just a small increase above the highest bid? This paper aims to answer this question by exploring the implications of jump bidding over the... View Details

  • January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
  • Teaching Note

Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods

By: Jill Avery
Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods (CPG), offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3.00 price point that promised... View Details
Keywords: Brand; Brand Management; DTC; Private Label; Groceries; Packaged Food; Personal Care; Startups; Retailing; Amazon; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Business Startups; Disruption; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • October 2005
  • Case

Intel Corporation 2005

By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
Buoyed by strong recent sales growth but humbled by failed strategic bets and other missteps, Intel in 2005 initiated a major reorganization. Under its new CEO, Paul Otellini, the company shifted toward a "platform" model, inspired by the success of its Centrino... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Alignment; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Semiconductor Industry
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  • Article

Strategic Orientations in a Competitive Context: The Role of Strategic Orientation Differentiation

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Amir Grinstein and Elie Ofek
Strategic orientation studies often provide 'best practice prescriptions' for firms in a given context—matching orientations to environmental conditions. While this perspective has value, empirical results are equivocal, and an important reality has been overlooked:... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Change Management; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • May 2004
  • Background Note

56K Modem Battle

By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Examines the battle to set the standard for the 56K modem. Set in 1996, this case looks at how computers accessed the Internet via a telephone line, or dial-up connection, and a hardware modem. In 1995, there were 18.6 million total modem unit shipments, with market... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Revenue; Patents; Product Launch; Network Effects; Standards; Competition; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Illinois
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  • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    Positioning Brands Against Large Competitors to Increase Sales

    The authors explore the effects of having a large dominant competitor and show conditions under which focusing on a competitive threat, rather than hiding it, can actually help a brand. Through lab and field studies, the authors demonstrate that highlighting a large... View Details

      Jerry R. Green

      Jerry R. Green

      David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

      John Leverett Professor in the University

      Harvard University

       

      Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
      • September 1987
      • Background Note

      What Do Venture Capitalists Do?

      By: William A. Sahlman
      Presents the results derived from 49 responses to a questionnaire mailed to 100 venture capitalists in late 1984. The purpose of the survey was to shed light on the relationship between venture capitalists and their portfolio companies. The survey revealed that the... View Details
      Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Recruitment; Surveys; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Relationships; Service Industry
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      • June 2023 (Revised January 2024)
      • Case

      Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion

      By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
      On December 6, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Executive Chairman Mark Liu outlined the company’s ambitious plans to invest $40 billion to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in Phoenix. The event also celebrated the... View Details
      Keywords: Geopolitical Units; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan; United States
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      • December 2021
      • Article

      Left- and Right-Leaning News Organizations Use Negative Emotional Content and Elicit User Engagement Similarly

      By: Andrea Bellovary, Nathaniel Young and Amit Goldenberg
      Negativity has historically dominated news content; however, little research has examined how news organizations use affect on social media, where content is generally positive. In the current project we ask a few questions: Do news organizations on Twitter use... View Details
      Keywords: Negative Press; Twitter; Political Affiliation; Affect; News; Media; Internet and the Web; Emotions; Perspective; Social Media
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      • January 2019
      • Case

      Capitalism, Entrepreneurship and Responsibility

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This case contains excerpts from prominent business leaders and others expressing their views on the responsibilities, if any, of business leaders to other stakeholders in society. It begins with an excerpt from Andrew Carnegie, the nineteenth century steel magnate, in... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leadership; Attitudes; Perspective
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      • 27 Dec 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

      From the problems posed by the Great Recession to the devastation in Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico, from the continuing economic growth of India and China to a cascade of entrepreneurial ventures, the year 2010 offered a wide assortment of accomplishments and... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff

        Michael A. Wheeler

        Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

        Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
        • 13 Feb 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

        Collis and Leena Kulkarni, former research associates at HBS. “We found that candidates were talented, and yet they self-selected out,” Coffman says. Ultimately, that means many businesses advertising for executive positions may wind up with applicant pools that are... View Details
        Keywords: by Kara Baskin
        • Research Summary

        An Unlimited Moments GMM Estimator

        A short time series relative to the number of moment conditions in a GMM framework yields an inconsistent estimator.  To circumvent this problem, researchers generally restrict the number of moment conditions to some fraction of the length of the time... View Details
        • June 2018 (Revised August 2019)
        • Case

        Qualcomm Inc., 2019

        By: David B. Yoffie and Andrew S. Choi
        This case is set in mid-2019, when Qualcomm was struggling with unwanted take-over battles, fights with Apple and the Chinese government, and internal dissension on the board of directors. Ten years earlier Qualcomm was hailed as a monopoly on CDMA technologies and... View Details
        Keywords: Technology Cycles; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Property; Information Technology; Standards; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Telecommunications Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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        • Article

        Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches

        By: Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang
        Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent... View Details
        Keywords: Peer Firm; EDGAR Search Traffic; Revealed Preference; Co-search; Industry Classification; Perception; Internet and the Web; Investment
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        • April 1995 (Revised July 1995)
        • Case

        Power Play (B): Sega in 16-bit Video Games

        Home video-game systems were pioneered by the U.S. company Atari in the mid-1970s. After going through boom and bust in the early 1980s, the industry was resurrected in the mid-1980s by the Japanese company Nintendo. With its 8-bit video-game system, Nintendo... View Details
        Keywords: Information Technology; Competition; Video Game Industry; Japan; United States
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