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- March 2016 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Tableau
By: Boris Vallee
Matrix Capital Management, a long-short equity hedge fund based in Waltham, Massachusetts, is assessing its investment in Tableau, a data visualization company. Tableau, which conducted an IPO a few years ago, has been experiencing substantial growth as it aims at...
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Keywords:
Hedge Fund;
Long-short Equity;
Growth Investing;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Investment;
Valuation;
Technology;
Technology Industry;
Waltham
Vallee, Boris. "Tableau." Harvard Business School Case 216-045, March 2016. (Revised November 2020.)
- July 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Qihoo
By: Feng Zhu
Qihoo, one of the largest Internet companies in China today, was founded in 2005. The company started its business by offering a security software product, and quickly dominated the market in China after its unusual move of giving its product away for free in 2009....
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- May 2011
- Article
Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis
By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera and Karim R. Lakhani
Contests are a historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide evidence of two...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Innovation and Invention;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Value;
Applications and Software;
Competition;
Performance;
Theory;
Practice
Boudreau, Kevin J., Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis." Management Science 57, no. 5 (May 2011): 843–863.
- March 2023
- Teaching Note
VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory
By: Karim R. Lakhani
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-021. The case “VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory” examines the creation of dental startup VideaHealth (Videa) and the development of its artificial intelligence (AI)-led business strategy through the eyes of founder and CEO Florian...
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- 2019
- Working Paper
Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?
By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. They are organizations composed primarily of users working collaboratively, voluntarily, and with minimal oversight to freely and openly develop and exchange knowledge...
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Keywords:
Strategic Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Strategy
Shah, Sonali K., and Frank Nagle. "Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-126, June 2019.
- November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Andrew Hill and Kaitlyn Simpson
Describes the dilemma faced by Emmanuel Ferreira, a fund manager at OppenheimerFunds. As the largest shareholder and a long-time investor in software publisher Take-Two Interactive, Ferreira contemplates whether or not to get involved with other investors in trying to...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Lorsch, Jay W., Andrew Hill, and Kaitlyn Simpson. "OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-074, November 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
- January 1999 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
Metapath Software: September 1997
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Bill Wasik
In September 1997, John Hansen called together his board to debate an interesting choice that his company had to make. Hansen--the CEO of Metapath Software, a provider of software and services to wireless carriers--had two offers to describe. The first was an offer to...
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Keywords:
Private Ownership;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Private Equity;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Management Teams;
Stocks;
Public Ownership;
Negotiation Deal;
Telecommunications Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Bill Wasik. "Metapath Software: September 1997." Harvard Business School Case 899-160, January 1999. (Revised November 1999.)
- April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
National Instruments
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Keri Pearlson and Natalie Kindred
This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based in Austin, Texas, with over $1 billion in 2011 sales, NI designs, produces, and sells software and hardware platforms...
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Keywords:
Organizational Structure;
Applications and Software;
Organizational Culture;
Technological Innovation;
Digital Platforms;
Innovation and Management;
Media;
Management Systems;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Information Technology Industry;
Service Industry;
Texas
Applegate, Lynda M., Keri Pearlson, and Natalie Kindred. "National Instruments." Harvard Business School Case 813-001, April 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- Web
Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
value-based health care delivery research at Harvard Business School led by Professors Michael Porter and Bob Kaplan. Their CEO Derek Haas worked on the HBS health care team for four years and continues to collaborate with the faculty on research. Avant-garde Health’s...
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- October 2005 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Reactivity: A Case of Re-Invention
By: Myra M. Hart and Sylvia Sensiper
By the time Glenn Osaka joined Reactivity as its new CEO in January 2001, the Internet bubble had burst, the financial markets had turned, and the company's core businesses were drying up. He was not hired to lead a turnaround, but Osaka found that the firm's future...
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- August 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
VTS
By: Mark Roberge and Michael Roberts
The case raises issues around sales force deployment and management issues in the SaaS industry. Specifically, VTS sells a software product to the real estate industry and has designed a Go-to-Market strategy for what the founders perceive to be the unique...
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- July 2001 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Policy Management Systems Corp.: The Financial Reporting Crisis
Tim Williams, the new CFO of a publicly-traded enterprise software company, attempts to rebuild his company's reputation for reliable financial reporting following a highly visible financial reporting crisis. The crisis begins with an earnings shortfall warning, which...
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Keywords:
Accrual Accounting;
Revenue Recognition;
Capital Markets;
Policy;
Corporate Governance;
Accounting Audits;
Technology Industry
Hutton, Amy P. "Policy Management Systems Corp.: The Financial Reporting Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 102-013, July 2001. (Revised October 2001.)
- June 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Alibris (B)
Takes place more than two years after the (A) case. Alibris has weathered the storms and has built a popular, growing business. As the Christmas season of 2000 approaches, the company is confronted with two IT projects that both seem urgent and important. The first is...
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Keywords:
Resource Allocation;
Information Technology;
Service Operations;
Competitive Advantage;
Information Management;
Service Industry
McAfee, Andrew P. "Alibris (B)." Harvard Business School Case 601-166, June 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- Web
Curriculum - MBA
that business model. Students will learn the attributes of effective tech venture business models and organizations—and how to design them. They will employ system dynamics modeling using simulation software to inform business model...
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- 2019
- Working Paper
Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Medical Device Industry
By: Cirrus Foroughi and Ariel Dora Stern
Does the large-scale technological change that is characteristic of an industry-wide digital transformation entrench industry leaders or enable the rise of new entrants? We offer a novel approach to this question by studying the medical device industry, a unique...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Medical Devices;
Digitization;
Medical Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Applications and Software;
Market Entry and Exit;
Industry Growth;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Foroughi, Cirrus, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Medical Device Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-120, June 2019.
- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
From software that once came in a box to phone apps that do simple tasks, more products and services are moving to a subscription model—and consumers are feeling it. The average US consumer last year spent $273 a month on 12 paid...
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. IBM, 1993–2002 Jean Paul Getty Getty Oil Company, 1956–1976 Amadeo Peter Giannini Bank of America, 1904–1936 Lawrence M. Giannini Bank of America, 1936–1952 Fred M. Gibbons Software Publishing Company, 1980–1994...
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- January 2021
- Article
Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)
In the aggregate, hiring in sales is more expensive than many companies’ cap-ex decisions. But it rarely gets the same attention and companies fail to deal with challenges inherent in sales hiring. Unlike many other business functions, there is no easily identified...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)." Top Sales Magazine (January 2021), 38–39.
- 24 Oct 2017
- News