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- April 2013
- Case
The Walt Disney Company: The Entertainment King (Abridged)
By: Michael G. Rukstad and David J. Collis
The first ten pages of this case are comprised of the company's history, from 1923 to 2001. The Walt years are described, as is the company's decline after his death and its resurgence under Eisner. The last five pages are devoted to Eisner's strategic challenges in...
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- April 2013
- Article
Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation. Our analysis focuses on sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic...
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Keywords:
Business Model Innovation;
Imitation;
Sponsor-based Business Model;
Strategic Revelation;
Strategic Concealment;
Business Model;
Innovation and Invention;
Price;
Competitive Strategy;
Adoption;
Value;
Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Product;
Customers;
Market Entry and Exit;
Monopoly
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Feng Zhu. "Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models." Strategic Management Journal 34, no. 4 (April 2013): 464–482.
- April 2013 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
Growing Financial Services in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group
By: Paul M. Healy and Rachna Tahilyani
Aditya Birla Financial Services Group is a large, broad-based, Indian financial services institution offering products ranging from life insurance and mutual funds to private equity. The company has witnessed a turnaround in recent years and regained lost market share....
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Keywords:
Regulatory Environment;
Finance;
Asset Management;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Transformation;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Business Processes;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Strategy;
Diversification;
Segmentation;
Financial Services Industry;
Insurance Industry;
India
Healy, Paul M., and Rachna Tahilyani. "Growing Financial Services in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group." Harvard Business School Case 113-059, April 2013. (Revised November 2013.)
- March 2013
- Case
Currency Wars
By: Laura Alfaro and Hilary White
In February 2013, the G-20 finance ministers met in Moscow, Russia to discuss the rising anxieties over a potential international currency war. It was speculated that certain countries were purposely devaluing their currencies in order to improve their competitiveness...
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Keywords:
Currency;
Competitiveness;
Trade Policy;
Devaluation;
Exchange Rate;
Monetary Policy;
Quantitative Easing;
Inflation Targeting;
Capital Flows;
Central Banking;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Competitive Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Policy;
Trade;
Conflict and Resolution;
Banking Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Moscow
Alfaro, Laura, and Hilary White. "Currency Wars." Harvard Business School Case 713-074, March 2013.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850
By: G. Jones
This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently...
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Keywords:
Institutional Change;
Political Economy;
Emerging Economies;
Developing Countries;
Industrial Development;
Culture;
Human Capital;
Economic History;
History;
Wealth and Poverty;
Business History;
Emerging Markets;
Globalization;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Manufacturing Industry;
Mining Industry;
Service Industry;
Latin America;
Asia;
North and Central America;
Africa;
South America;
Europe
Jones, G. "Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-076, March 2013.
- March 2013 (Revised April 2014)
- Case
Barnes & Noble: Managing the E-Book Revolution
By: Alan MacCormack, Brian Kimball Dunn and Chris F. Kemerer
The case describes competition in the market for E-Books, and Barnes & Noble's Strategy in this industry. As a traditional retailer, B&N was challenged by the introduction of digital technologies that allow books to be published, distributed and sold to consumers...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Technology Strategy;
Platform Competition;
Innovation Strategy;
Information Technology;
Product Development;
Digital Platforms;
Standards;
Disruptive Innovation;
Retail Industry;
Publishing Industry;
North America
MacCormack, Alan, Brian Kimball Dunn, and Chris F. Kemerer. "Barnes & Noble: Managing the E-Book Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 613-073, March 2013. (Revised April 2014.)
- Article
The Re-Industrialization of the United States?
By: Willy C. Shih
Talk of "re-industrialization" in the United States has been supported by a seeming resurgence in manufacturing, but this is driven more by the end of labor arbitrage and increasing coordination costs of offshore manufacturing. Aggressive restructurings and significant...
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Keywords:
U.S. Competitiveness;
Re-industrialization;
Re-shoring;
Operations;
Production;
Supply and Industry;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Geographic Location;
Geography;
Globalization;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Labor;
Manufacturing Industry;
Auto Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States;
China;
European Union
Shih, Willy C. "The Re-Industrialization of the United States?" Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 60, no. 2 (Second Quarter 2013): 297–312.
- March–April 2013
- Article
Vaporware, Suddenware and Trueware: New Product Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty
By: Elie Ofek and Ozge Turut
A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such communications can affect rivals' incentives to develop the same new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter...
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Ofek, Elie, and Ozge Turut. "Vaporware, Suddenware and Trueware: New Product Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty." Marketing Science 32, no. 2 (March–April 2013): 342–355.
- February 2013 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Iz-Lynn Chan at Far East Organization
By: Linda A. Hill, Anthony J. Mayo and Dana M. Teppert
Iz-Lynn Chan, assistant director of retail business group and service quality and vice president of Far East retail consultancy for Far East Organization, a private real estate developer group in Singapore, raises service standards in the company's hospitality...
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Keywords:
Hospitality;
Organizational Change And Transformation;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Change Management;
Service Industry;
Singapore
Hill, Linda A., Anthony J. Mayo, and Dana M. Teppert. "Iz-Lynn Chan at Far East Organization." Harvard Business School Case 413-060, February 2013. (Revised February 2017.)
- February 2013 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Juan Valdez: Innovation in Caffeination
By: Michael I. Norton and Jeremy Dann
Corporate entrepreneurs attempt to revive Colombia's famous Juan Valdez brand in the age of Starbucks, with café chain and packaged coffee ventures. In the 1970s and 80s, the iconic "Juan Valdez" ingredient brand was the most recognized in the world of coffee. The...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Branding;
Global Business;
Sales;
Marketing;
Retailing;
Corporate Strategy;
Organizational Change;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Brands and Branding;
Innovation and Invention
Norton, Michael I., and Jeremy Dann. "Juan Valdez: Innovation in Caffeination." Harvard Business School Case 513-090, February 2013. (Revised May 2013.)
- February 2013 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Phu My Hung
By: John Macomber and Dawn H. Lau
Privately held city development promoters decide whether to partner on next phase or go it alone in a 20-year, 4000-acre project. Set outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this decades-long project led by two Taiwanese families reshaped and built the economic...
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Macomber, John, and Dawn H. Lau. "Phu My Hung." Harvard Business School Case 213-098, February 2013. (Revised February 2014.)
- January 2013 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China's Richest Town
By: William C. Kirby, Nora Bynum, Tracy Yuen Manty and Erica M. Zendell
In 1980, the city of Kunshan was mere countryside, registering neither on the Chinese government's nor the international business community's radar. By 2010, Kunshan had become the richest city per capita in China and a global technology powerhouse, home to companies...
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Keywords:
Foreign Investment;
Entrepreneurship;
Competition;
Emerging Markets;
FDI;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Innovation Leadership;
Technology Industry;
China;
Taiwan Strait
Kirby, William C., Nora Bynum, Tracy Yuen Manty, and Erica M. Zendell. "Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China's Richest Town." Harvard Business School Case 313-103, January 2013. (Revised May 2013.)
- January 2013 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
The Basque Country: Strategy for Economic Development
By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels and Jesus M. Valdaliso
The Basque country, with a population of 2.1 million and covering 7,233 square kilometers, is an autonomous region located in the north of Spain, physically separated from it by the Pyrenees Mountains. Presents the history of the region—highly prosperous at the turn of...
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Keywords:
History;
Crime and Corruption;
Industry Clusters;
Competitive Strategy;
Microeconomics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Government and Politics;
Basque Provinces;
Spain
Porter, Michael E., Christian H.M. Ketels, and Jesus M. Valdaliso. "The Basque Country: Strategy for Economic Development." Harvard Business School Case 713-474, January 2013. (Revised June 2016.)
- January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
OSI in China
By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman
OSI, one of the world's largest suppliers of processed meats to McDonald's and other QSRs, was in the middle of a $400M expansion in China that included backward integration into poultry production. However, its current customers took only a portion of each bird...
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Keywords:
China;
Corporate Strategy;
Vertical Integration;
Competitive Positioning;
Organizational Design;
Channels Of Distribution;
Agribusiness;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
China
Bell, David E., and Mary Shelman. "OSI in China." Harvard Business School Case 513-045, January 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
- 2013
- Case
Innovation and Development of China Machine Press in the New Century
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia and Guo Jia
China Machine Press (CMP), founded in 1952, is a leading multi-field, multi-discipline and multimedia publishing group in China with large scale, comprehensive and specialized business that integrates paper media, audiovisual media and online media, and combines...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Ning Jia, and Guo Jia. "Innovation and Development of China Machine Press in the New Century." Tsinghua University Case, 2013.
- 2013
- Teaching Note
Innovation and Development of China Machine Press in the New Century (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia and Guo Jia
China Machine Press (CMP), founded in 1952, is a leading multi-field, multi-discipline and multimedia publishing group in China with large scale, comprehensive and specialized business that integrates paper media, audiovisual media and online media, and combines...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Ning Jia, and Guo Jia. "Innovation and Development of China Machine Press in the New Century (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2013.
- Article
Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
We introduce a model in which agents in a network can trade via bilateral contracts. We find that when continuous transfers are allowed and utilities are quasi-linear, the full substitutability of preferences is sufficient to guarantee the existence of stable outcomes...
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Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp. "Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks." Journal of Political Economy 121, no. 5 (October 2013): 966–1001.
- 2013
- Case
The COFCO Group
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, and Ziqian Zhao. "The COFCO Group." Tsinghua University Case, 2013.
- 2013
- Teaching Note
The COFCO Group (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, and Ziqian Zhao. "The COFCO Group (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2013.
- December 2012 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
AmTran Technology Ltd.
By: Willy Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Karen E. Robinson
As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales,...
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Keywords:
Modularity;
Technology Transitions;
Analog;
Digital;
Television;
TV;
Flat-panel;
ATSC;
NTSC;
Video;
Global Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Development;
Product Design;
Supply Chain;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Technology Platform;
Electronics Industry;
Taiwan;
United States;
Japan
Shih, Willy, Jyun-Cheng Wang, and Karen E. Robinson. "AmTran Technology Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 613-069, December 2012. (Revised March 2015.)