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- August 2000
- Case
Mannesmann AG
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick
Explores the functioning of a German supervisory board in the context of a takeover bid made by a British company. View Details
- August 2000 (Revised September 2000)
- Case
Extraprise
By: Srikant M. Datar, Krishna G. Palepu and Sarah S. Khetani
In the three years since it was founded, the Boston-based Internet strategy consulting firm, Extraprise, has changed its strategy three times. Jennifer Gabler, the CFO, considers what kinds of control systems she can put in place to ensure the company can continue to... View Details
- July 2000 (Revised June 2002)
- Case
Dawn Riley at America True (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Dawn Riley is the CEO/Captain of America True, the first coed syndicate to race for the America's Cup. Over three years, based on her vision for America True, she built the syndicate from scratch, bringing on investors and sponsors, designing and building a boat, and... View Details
- July 2000
- Case
Dawn Riley at America True (B)
By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- June 2000
- Case
Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Lifeline Systems provides emergency response equipment to the elderly who live at home. The company uses local hospitals to market, sell, and install these units in homes, while the hospital monitors and calls for aid to respond to emergency calls from the elderly... View Details
- May 2000 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Health Development Corporation
Health Development Corp. (HDC) owns and operates health clubs in the Greater Boston area. HDC engaged a local investment banker to explore a sale of the company. The most likely buyer views HDC's prior purchase of real estate as a negative. HDC's management is... View Details
Keywords: Cash Flow; Property; Business Exit or Shutdown; Valuation; Value; Decisions; Health Industry; Boston
- April 2000 (Revised July 2000)
- Case
Family Feud (B): Andersen versus Andersen
By: Ashish Nanda
Arbitration proceedings have been initiated between Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen. The case details developments during 1999 and 2000, as the arbitration nears a decision. View Details
- March 2000
- Teaching Note
Oxford Health Plans (A): Specialty Management [and] Oxford Health Plans (B): Crisis Strikes TN
By: James L. Heskett, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Jody H. Gittell
Teaching Note for (9-898-042) and (9-800-366). View Details
- March 2000 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
eFrenzy, Inc. (A)
By: Marco Iansiti and Nicole Tempest
Details how to design, launch, and scale a rapidly growing Internet venture. Focuses on the challenges and opportunities involved in leveraging a network of partners. View Details
- February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
E-commerce at Williams-Sonoma
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Galvin
Describes Williams-Sonoma's development of a third channel of business on the Internet. Describes the strategies for managing changes in the organizational, operational, and technological structure of the company. The new e-commerce division confronts challenges posed... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Boston.com
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
How aggressively should an incumbent move when developing an online business that threatens its core product? With Internet competitors taking direct aim at the traditional print newspaper business model, the Boston Globe fought back with its own web initiative,... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Staples.com
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joanna M. Jacobson and Gillian Morris
Staples.com, the online unit of the U.S. office supplies retailing chain Staples, faces a range of strategic and organizational issues as it accelerates its growth. Should it pursue only existing Staples customers or consumers who do not shop in Staples stores? How... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Astor Park Hotel
By: William J. Poorvu, Arthur I Segel and Matthew C. Lieb
Starwood Hotels, the world's largest REIT, is interested in acquiring an underperforming hotel in the Pacific Northwest. Steve Goldman, Starwood's VP of acquisitions and development, is wondering how much to pay for the property and how to reposition it. View Details
- February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Pet Doctors: 1999
By: Paul A. Gompers and David James Alexander Grant
Describes the decisions confronting David Hodges and Garret Turley about whether to grow their chain of veterinary clinics in the United Kingdom. Turley and Hodges must decide whether to attempt to speed up their acquisition pace and raise venture capital. View Details
- February 2000 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
QuickenInsurance: The Race to Click and Close (A)
ES Technologies started in 1976 as a storefront in Tempe, Arizona selling personal computer kits to hobbyists. Twenty years later, revenues exceeded $3.5 billion, and the business had evolved from a computer store to a master reseller and full-line integrator of... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Alphatec Electronics Pcl
By: Stuart C. Gilson, C. Fritz Foley and Perry Fagan
The newly appointed CEO of an important high-technology company in Thailand must lead the company through a complicated debt restructuring. Due to the collapse of the Thai currency, the company's debt burden, like that of most Thai companies, has skyrocketed because it... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
BET.com
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Pauline M Fischer
Black Entertainment Television, a leading cable programmer, is launching BET.com, an Internet portal targeted toward African-Americans. This case examines the challenges facing BET management as it defines its service offerings and target customer segments in a... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law
By: Debora L. Spar and Jennifer Burns
For over a century, the international diamond market has been dominated by one of the most successful cartels on earth. Run by the legendary De Beers Corp., the cartel has managed to keep diamond prices increasing and to prevent the defection that dooms most other... View Details
- January 2000 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
The HBS California Research Center
By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scott D Landry
Harvard Business School's (HBS) California Research Center, a three-year experiment initiated in July 1997 to facilitate research, case-writing, and course development centered in the Silicon Valley Region, has been a "phenomenal success." In June 1999, HBS Dean Kim... View Details
- January 2000 (Revised November 2000)
- Case
Lucent Technologies New Ventures Group
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Lucent Technologies' successful New Ventures Group must present company executives with a strong case for continuing corporate venturing activities despite a troubled financial performance in difficult market conditions. View Details