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- February 2011 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
The Cheezburger Network
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Cheezburger Network was a Web publisher of humorous, user-contributed content, using social media for dissemination, and selling advertising against the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011, it raised $30 million in venture capital for the...
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Budgets and Budgeting;
Digital Marketing;
Customer Relationship Management;
Venture Capital;
Emerging Markets;
Strategic Planning;
Sales;
Internet and the Web;
Publishing Industry;
Publishing Industry
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "The Cheezburger Network." Harvard Business School Case 511-091, February 2011. (Revised November 2013.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- Profile
Rocio Parra
Why was getting a business education important to you? As a consultant, I had the opportunity to work in a variety of industries from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to government View Details
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Retail
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000...
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Martha Lagace
- March 2024
- Supplement
Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)
By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Communication Strategy;
Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Business Cycles;
Technological Innovation;
Sports;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Resource Allocation;
Marketing;
Sales;
Business Strategy;
Expansion;
Valuation;
Sports Industry;
Sports Industry;
United States;
North Carolina
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
seems to rise above national influences and toward a commonality shared by other top firms in the international arena. In their study of the software industry in India, HBS professors Tarun Khanna View Details
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Garry Emmons
- September 2011
- Supplement
Expansion at Narayana Hrudayalaya
By: Tarun Khanna and Tanya Bijlani
Narayana Hrudayalaya has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore, with a 25-acre campus that offers complex tertiary care procedures ranging from orthopedics to cancer care. In 2008, NH raised private equity from JP Morgan and Pinebridge Investments to...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Price;
Health Care and Treatment;
Emerging Markets;
Social Enterprise;
Expansion;
Health Industry;
Bangalore;
Cayman Islands;
Miami
Khanna, Tarun, and Tanya Bijlani. "Expansion at Narayana Hrudayalaya." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 712-801, September 2011.
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
transactions structured? Lastly, for Wong and his top managers, how will each listing choice affect Gome's future development in the context of the pending market deregulation View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Case
Vander Mining Partners, IPADE
By: Roberto Charvel
In 2010 Vander Mining was trying to raise one of the few private equity funds specialized in mining. This was difficult among other things because institutional investors did not have a private equity team specialized in mining and emerging markets.
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Keywords:
Real Assets;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Economics;
Metals and Minerals;
Mining;
Assets;
Private Equity;
Public Equity;
Goods and Commodities;
Emerging Markets;
Market Participation;
Mining Industry;
Mining Industry;
North and Central America
Charvel, Roberto. "Vander Mining Partners, IPADE." Mexico City: Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE) Case EE 10 C 09, 2010.
- June 2023
- Case
Collaboration Wars: Slack vs. Microsoft Teams 2023
By: David B. Yoffie, Kriti Gupta, Mehek Punatar, Poonam Sacheti and Poorvi Vijay
What's the future of corporate communications? Email? Corporate messaging? The battle for corporate messaging in 2023 was stacking up as a fight between Slack, which had been recently acquired by Salesforce, and Microsoft Teams. This case explores a classic judo...
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Yoffie, David B., Kriti Gupta, Mehek Punatar, Poonam Sacheti, and Poorvi Vijay. "Collaboration Wars: Slack vs. Microsoft Teams 2023." Harvard Business School Case 723-457, June 2023.
- August 2009
- Article
Rewriting History
By: Alexander Ljungqvist, Christopher J. Malloy and Felicia Marston
We document widespread ex post changes to the historical contents of the I/B/E/S analyst stock recommendations database. Across a sequence of seven downloads of the entire I/B/E/S recommendations database, obtained between 2000 and 2007, we find that between 6,594...
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Keywords:
Competency and Skills;
Stocks;
Profit;
Market Transactions;
Reputation;
Financial Services Industry
Ljungqvist, Alexander, Christopher J. Malloy, and Felicia Marston. "Rewriting History." Journal of Finance 64, no. 4 (August 2009): 1935–1960.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Rewriting History
By: Alexander Ljungqvist, Christopher J. Malloy and Felicia Marston
We document widespread ex post changes to the historical contents of the I/B/E/S analyst stock recommendations database. Across a sequence of seven downloads of the entire I/B/E/S recommendations database, obtained between 2000 and 2007, we find that between 6,594...
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- March 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture
Captures the efforts of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to create a digital venture. Knight Ridder proves to be a pioneer in digital publishing, launching the first online newspaper site; builds a network of newspaper sites called Real Cities; and invests in...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Newspapers;
Innovation and Invention;
Journalism and News Industry
Gilbert, Clark. "Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture." Harvard Business School Case 803-107, March 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
What Building a “Jeopardy!” Robot Taught IBM About Innovation
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
employed by the hospitals in which they work. The resulting social interactions between these individuals and groups within hospitals provide a fruitful setting for examining issues that are of relevance to organizations in a broader...
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- February 1997
- Case
Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (B) (Abridged)
A new administration takes power in a state in India and cancels a power project agreed upon by the previous state government and a U.S.-based energy company. The project cancellation is based on allegations of irregularities, exorbitant costs, and political pressures.
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Keywords:
Energy Generation;
Fairness;
Cost;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Contracts;
Market Entry and Exit;
Negotiation Process;
Conflict Management;
Energy Industry
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (B) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 797-086, February 1997.
- January 1993 (Revised April 1993)
- Case
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten years to bring a new product to the marketplace and the division depends on good relations and active feedback from its...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Performance Evaluation;
Customer Relationship Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Customer Satisfaction;
Research and Development;
Marketplace Matching;
Financial Condition;
Product Launch;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 193-091, January 1993. (Revised April 1993.)
- January 2019
- Case
AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot
Describes the entrepreneurial leadership of Jack Manning Bancroft (JMB), a young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Mission;
Organization Culture;
Non-profit;
NGO;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Leadership;
Global Strategy;
Mission and Purpose;
Secondary Education;
Organizational Culture;
Education Industry;
Education Industry;
Australia;
United States
Bartlett, Christopher A. "AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot." Harvard Business School Case 919-411, January 2019.
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
one time we didn't have markets for fish in the sea or trees in the woods: there were few of us and many of them, and it didn't matter which of us owned them. That's not true...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
hope that this President will do the same. Christine Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organization, & Marketing Unit: Donald Trump's recent executive order is indefensible. We must welcome the brightest students,...
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