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  • April 2003
  • Case

Energis (A)

By: John R. Wells
Describes the history of Energis, one of the United Kingdom's major alternative telecommunications network service providers (altnets). Tracks the company from its birth as a diversification move by the National Grid, the U.K.'s leading electricity distributor, through... View Details
Keywords: History; Change Management; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Structure; Industry Structures; Telecommunications Industry; United Kingdom
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  • December 1996 (Revised July 2002)
  • Background Note

Note on Marketing and the Internet

By: John A. Deighton, Alison Berkley and John Barabino
The World Wide Web is new, a comprehensive marketing environment. It is a medium for direct marketing, for retailing and distribution, for the delivery of service and product elements, for marketing research, and even for posting and testing prices. This note explores... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing
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  • 22 Nov 2012
  • News

Can entrepreneurship rescue the U.S.?

  • 07 Nov 2011
  • News

Lutte contre la pauvreté et recherche du profit

  • 05 Sep 2018
  • News

Asia's waste management failures reach crisis levels

  • 15 Mar 2016
  • News

Health Care Delivery Innovations That Integrate Care? Yes!

  • October 2008
  • Case

Hrad Technika

Examines a struggling IT outsourcing project from the perspective of the IT services provider-Hrad Technika. When used in conjunction with "Tegan c.c.c." (9-609-038), it provides an opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Globalized Firms and Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Projects; Information Technology; Wales
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  • June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

High Liner Foods, 2015

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Strategic Decision Making; Family Business; Commodities; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; Canada
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  • 09 Sep 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University

  • July 2023 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup

By: Paul M. Healy and Jung Koo Kang
The case explores the challenges of revenue recognition and financial reporting for Stride Funding (Stride), a fintech startup that has disrupted the student loan market. Stride leveraged proprietary machine learning and financial models to underwrite alternative... View Details
Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Governance Compliance; Accrual Accounting; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • October 2015
    • Article

    How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies

    By: Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann
    The evolution of products into intelligent, connected devices is revolutionizing business. In a November 2014 article, "How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition," Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and CEO James... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Operations; Business Strategy
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    • September 2017 (Revised December 2017)
    • Case

    Hulu: Redefining the Way People Experience TV

    By: Henry W. McGee and Christine Snively
    In May 2017, Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins announced the launch of Hulu Live TV, a new offering that would "change the way people experience TV." The new service would allow consumers to bypass traditional cable and satellite delivery and use the Internet to access live... View Details
    Keywords: Television Industry; Internet; Television Entertainment; Internet and the Web; Disruptive Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Price; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • 19 Jul 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

    highlights the chain's "specialists"—an unusual example of how operations, customer service, employee relations, and profitability are all maximized together. "It's a lot like the kind of service Home Depot used to be... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
    • 2015
    • Book

    How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network

    By: Shane Greenstein
    In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from... View Details
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    • May 2012 (Revised July 2012)
    • Case

    Credit Unions: The Future of the Cooperative Financial Institution

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Grace Hou
    Credit unions are a specialized type of depository institution with a cooperative, non-profit structure and a federal tax exemption. They originated as small, cooperative institutions with an emphasis on uncollateralized consumer lending to the unbanked... View Details
    Keywords: Banking; Credit Unions; Banks and Banking
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    • January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    Credit Suisse Group: Managing Equity Research as a Business

    By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Sarah Abbott
    In 2003, in the midst of industry turmoil and company-specific challenges, Stefano Natella was named Global Head of Equity Research at Credit Suisse. Over a six-year period, Natella implemented and refined a new methodology for valuing equity research analysts, both... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Customer Satisfaction; Compensation and Benefits; Selection and Staffing; Balanced Scorecard; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry
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    • March 2004 (Revised October 2013)
    • Case

    Innocents Abroad: Currencies and International Stock Returns

    By: Mihir A. Desai, Kathleen Luchs, Elizabeth A. Meyer and Mark Veblen
    What do international stocks contribute to the portfolio of a U.S. investor? How do currencies interact with stock price movements in determining the benefits of international diversification? This case helps students compare the risks and returns of foreign stock... View Details
    Keywords: Diversification; International CAPM; CAPM; Home Bias; Currency Risk; Exchange Rate Risk; International Stock Market Returns; United States; Currency Exchange Rate; Stocks; Financial Markets; International Finance; Investment Return; Currency; Risk and Uncertainty; Emerging Markets; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry; United States; Australia; Canada; China; Germany; India; Japan; United Kingdom
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    • July 2017
    • Article

    The Four Stages to Becoming an Excellent Front-Line Sales Manager

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Sales occupations account for more than 10% of the total U.S. labor force, and that official estimate is almost certainly low: In an increasingly service economy, many people who do business development for a living are not listed as “sales” for reporting purposes.... View Details
    Keywords: Salesforce Management
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    • May 1993 (Revised May 1994)
    • Case

    Managing for Integrity: Three Vignettes

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Three situations are described. A branch manager for a retail brokerage firm must decide whether to change the branch's cash management techniques to increase interest earnings. An auto mechanic must decide whether to oversell parts and repairs to meet sales and... View Details
    Keywords: Growth Management; Ethics; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Financial Management; Sales; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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