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15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

valuations and growth options. A key to meeting growth potential is eliminating the gulf between big-picture strategy and day-to-day field execution. It's often the most difficult part of implementation because you're dealing with a combination of core factors in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

price swings. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711004-PDF-ENG Reverse Engineering, Learning, and Innovation Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-039 This background reading looks at reverse engineering in the context of piracy and... View Details

Alexander Civetta

Alex advises innovators and high-growth companies on the intersection of law and business, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, technology transactions, and negotiation. He is a lifecycle lawyer who counsels companies from formation through exit, handling venture... View Details

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

There are three ways to differentiate in retailing: location, location, and location. The problem is that as markets mature, location becomes less potent as a competitive advantage because the consumer has a growing abundance of... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

March 2004 (Revised June 2004)
Case

Blackout: August 14, 2003

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ryland Matthew Willis

On August 14, 2003, an electricity blackout cascaded throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. Describes the structure, technology, and economics of the electric utility industry and how gradual deregulation beginning in the 1970s placed unprecedented, and... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Infrastructure; Energy Sources; Business and Government Relations; Networks; Emerging Markets; Failure; Economics; Utilities Industry; Canada; Northeastern United States

05 Oct 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling

Keywords: by Kris Johnson Ferreira, David Simchi-Levi & He Wang; Retail

May 2024
Supplement

GameStop: Social Media Finds a Cheat Code (B)

By: Joseph Pacelli and Sarah Mehta

This case accompanies “GameStop: Social Media Finds a Cheat Code (A),” no. 124-005. It provides an update on pertinent events from 2021 to 2023. View Details

Keywords: Finance; Markets; Value; Financial Services Industry; Video Game Industry; United States

01 Jun 2007
News

Mission Possible

tap the best minds in genetic research. Fresh out of HBS, Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) joined a nonprofit economic-development organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Although their missions are different, these... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

17 Mar 2017
News

Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA

market leader with $330 billion dollars in assets under management. Along the way, he has emerged as a patron of education, best known for launching the Schwarzman Scholars, an academic and cultural... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

August 1999 (Revised January 2002)
Case

Brita Products Company, The

By: John A. Deighton

Clorox's Brita skillfully exploits a tide of water safety concerns, growing a home water (filtration) business from inception to a 15% U.S. household penetration in ten years. The dilemma in the case arises as the period of increasing returns seems to be drawing to a... View Details

Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Acquisition; Retention; Safety; Natural Environment; Emerging Markets; Investment Return; Equity; Demand and Consumers; United States

March 2011 (Revised January 2015)
Teaching Note

The IASB at a Crossroads: The Future of International Financial Reporting Standards

By: Karthik Ramanna

Teaching Note for 111084 and 113089. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Strategy; Corporate Governance; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Standards; Problems and Challenges; Emerging Markets; Financial Services Industry; China

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

would have a much greater psychological effect as well as a cleaner capital structure to attract follow-on financings by outside investors. Between 1988 and 1996, the organization invested in over one dozen companies. These covered a... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
Case

CarPoint in 1999

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Gillian Morris

Updates events in Microsoft CarPoint through the end of 1999, focusing on CarPoint's strategic alliance with Ford and on competitive developments. View Details

Keywords: History; Business Model; Transportation Networks; Alliances; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Auto Industry

01 Jun 2022
News

'Rooted' In Innovation

early-stage challenges with an eye toward scaling operations after graduation. “The cases in Globalization and Emerging Markets were about business realities I’ve been living every day,” he notes. “Finance... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Financial System David Moss Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions (also listed under General Management) Laura Alfaro Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Globalization and Emerging Markets... View Details

July 2010 (Revised December 2011)
Case

Controlling Hot Money

By: Robert C. Pozen

The manager of the Japan Equities Fund is faced with an increase in "hot money" moving quickly in and out of the Fund. This short-term trading is an attempt to take advantage of the difference between the closing times of the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges. The CFO... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; International Finance; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Timing; Market Transactions; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)