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  • January 2004 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Ford Motor Company: Quality of Earnings Growth Analysis (A)

By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Even though Ford Motor Co. reports improved profitability, an equity analyst issues a sell recommendation and Standard & Poor's downgrades long-term debt. View Details
Keywords: Quality; Business Earnings; Valuation; Investment Return; Profit; Financial Statements; Revenue; Auto Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • September 2002
  • Case

Pura Vida Coffee

By: James E. Austin and Allen S. Grossman
Tells the story of two HBS graduates who sell gourmet coffee over the Internet to support an outreach ministry in Costa Rica. View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Internet and the Web; Food and Beverage Industry; Costa Rica
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  • January 2014 (Revised January 2015)
  • Case

Reinventing Adobe

By: Sunil Gupta and Lauren Barley
By 2013, Adobe had reinvented itself from a publisher of popular software such as Photoshop and Acrobat to a digital marketing and digital media company. In May 2013, the company decided to stop selling its software as a package in favor of Creative... View Details
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  • July 1982 (Revised July 2004)
  • Case

Esmark, Inc. (B)

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Esmark's management sells its most valuable business and its most unattractive business in an effort to reposition itself and maximize shareholder value. View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Product Positioning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Reputation; Value
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  • 11 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

For sports fans, this time of year is like a chocolate addict's free pass to Willy Wonka's factory. Horse racing's Triple Crown. The National Basketball Association and National Hockey League championship playoffs. And next up, the most watched sporting competition of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services
  • January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Predictive Biosciences

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Kiron
A small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health Testing and Trials; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry
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  • April 1994 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

Mrs. Fields, Inc. (1977 - 1987)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Keri O. Pearlson
Describes a small company selling freshly baked goods through privately owned specialty stores (each store sells only Mrs. Fields products). The company has about 8,000 employees worldwide and less than 150 information systems people for a unique leverage of MIS... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Organizations; Management Systems; Business Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • August 1998
  • Case

Record Masters

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Kent Dauten, a former general partner at the Chicago private equity firm of Madison Dearborn Partners, has engaged in a search to personally sponsor a buyout in which he can play an active management role. He has received a selling memorandum for Record Masters, a... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Negotiation Deal; Investment
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  • September 2004 (Revised September 2006)
  • Case

Harley-Davidson, Inc.: Motorcycle Manufacturer or Financing Company?

Harley-Davidson manufactures and sells motorcycles. It also provides financing for retail purchases and dealer stock. Although Harley's performance has been very strong, analysts and the press have questioned its use of a special-purpose entity to sell securities... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Retail Industry
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  • August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton
The Rohm and Haas Board decided how to move forward after its largest shareholder chose to sell all of its shares in the company. View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Management Teams; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry
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  • June 2005 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

The Harrison and HIA

By: Jay O. Light
A large East Coast insurance company is thinking of selling its investment management subsidiary. Several Eurobanks are thinking of acquiring this subsidiary. View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Subsidiaries; Investment; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation; Valuation; Insurance Industry
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Bricks and Clicks: The Effect of Store Assortment on E-tail Format (with R. Lal and E. Ofek)

An often neglected aspect in existing studies of the Internet selling process is the high volume of product returns. Such returns reflect a major logistic expenditure on behalf of companies that sell over the net. The problem is reduced when consumers shop in physical... View Details
  • November 2012 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation (Abridged)

By: Scott P. Mason
Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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  • March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
  • Case

Philips Lighting: Light-as-a-Service

By: Mark R. Kramer, Thijs Geradts and Bhanuteja Nadella
As LEDs with a 25-year lifespan replace incandescent lightbulbs, Philips Lighting faced major disruption and began to explore a new shared value business model of selling light as a service. Although it offers better profit margins and a reduced environmental... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy
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  • March 2017
  • Case

SKS Microfinance (Abridged)

By: Shawn Cole and Theresa Chen
Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable, for-profit institution with a social mission. In what is one of the first... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

NCH Capital and Univermag Ukraina

By: Josh Lerner and John Didiuk
NCH Capital is considering whether to sell its Ukrainian company Univermag Ukraina, which it has held and built up over the past decade. View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Private Equity; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Retail Industry; Ukraine
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  • October 2016 (Revised January 2018)
  • Supplement

BlackRock (D): Organizing for the Future

By: Ranjay Gulati, Jan W. Rivkin and Aldo Sesia
This (D) case is a supplement to HBS case no. 717-404 “BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems?” View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Asset Management; United States
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  • August 2, 2017
  • Article

The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China

By: William C. Kirby
The article examines the role of the Chinese government in transport firm Uber's decision to sell its China operation to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company. View Details
Keywords: Uber; China; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Transportation Industry; China; Asia
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  • January 2008 (Revised February 2008)
  • Case

Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation

Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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  • 26 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

Cavallo suggests that American companies—and more recently, consumers—are bearing the brunt of the trade war with China, whose government has been retaliating with its own import tax increases. US exporters, particularly farmers selling... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

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