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June 2018 (Revised July 2023)
Case

John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean

This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating web filtering in China. It begins by tracing the origins of Cisco as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco... View Details

Keywords: Cisco; Internet and the Web; Governance Controls; Ethics; Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China

June 2018
Supplement

Tomer Zvulun and The Atlanta Opera at Crossroads

By: Michael L. Tushman and Kerry Herman

Keywords: Innovation; Explore/Exploit; Ambidexterity; Zvulun; Opera; Arts; Strategy; Talent; Talent Management; Non-profit; Leadership Transition; Leadership; Organizational Behavior

June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
Teaching Note

Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld

In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details

Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career

June 2018
Teaching Note

The Transformation of Microsoft

By: C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland

Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-048. In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower... View Details

Keywords: Growth; Corporate Finance; Valuation; Growth Management; Communication Strategy; Transformation; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; United States

June 2018 (Revised October 2018)
Teaching Note

Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A), (B), and (C)

By: Marco Di Maggio and Benjamin C. Esty

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 218-095, 218-096, and 218-116. View Details

June 2018
Case

Forta Furniture: International Expansion

By: John A. Quelch and Karthik Easwar

The Forta Furniture case highlights the need to consider new market expansion to grow a firm. It demonstrates that simply doing what has always been done is not sustainable when other competitors enter the market with differentiated or potentially superior offerings.... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Global Range; Decision Making; Analysis; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Expansion

June 2018
Teaching Note

Forta Furniture: International Expansion (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Karthik Easwar

Teaching Note for HBS No. 918-547. View Details

June 2018
Supplement

Forta Furniture: International Expansion, Spreadsheet for Instructors (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Karthik Easwar

June 2018
Supplement

Forta Furniture: International Expansion, Spreadsheet for Students (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Karthik Easwar

June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Teaching Note

Apple Inc. in 2018

By: David B. Yoffie

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-439. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Telecommunications Industry; Computer Industry

June 2018
Teaching Note

Lovepop

By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Olivia Hull

Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-015. View Details

18 Jun 2018
Talk

CEO Activism

By: Michael W. Toffel

June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris

In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details

Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership

June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Teaching Note

Qualcomm Inc., 2019

By: David B. Yoffie

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-514. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Property; Information Technology; Standards; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Telecommunications Industry; Semiconductor Industry

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

18 Jun 2018
Panel Discussion

Strengthening Business School and Industry Partnerships

By: Lynn S. Paine

Article

The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews

By: Jonas Heese, Miguel Duro and Gaizka Ormazabal

2018
Book

Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking

By: Gerald Zaltman

What’s the best way to change your life? Change how you think, says marketing guru Gerald Zaltman. While most of us are accustomed to self-improvement via physical exercise or dieting, we often overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts.... View Details

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Performance Improvement

June 2018
Background Note

Valuation Techniques in Private Equity: LBO Model

By: Victoria Ivashina, Alexey Tuzikov and Abhijit Tagade

This note introduces an "LBO model," the main performance assessment and valuation technique used in the private equity industry. View Details

Keywords: LBO Model; Valuation; Private Equity; Performance Evaluation

June 2018
Teaching Note

Ashar Group: Brokers and Co-opetition in the Life Settlement Industry

By: Alexander Braun, Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Jiahua Xu

Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-109. View Details

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