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- December 2018 (Revised May 2021)
- Background Note
Making UK Energy Smarter
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
This case describes the history of the United Kingdom's domestic energy industry and the country's efforts to create a more competitive, greener, and distributed power sector. On July 24, 2017, the United Kingdom government and the industry regulator, the Office of Gas... View Details
Keywords: Energy Policy; Regulation; Energy Markets; Subsidies; Oligopolistic Competition; Barriers To Entry; Wholesale; Electric Vehicle; Batteries; Energy Storage; Competition Policy; Energy; Policy; Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Vertical Integration; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Disruption; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Making UK Energy Smarter." Harvard Business School Background Note 719-438, December 2018. (Revised May 2021.)
- March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
- Case
Spec's Music (A)
By: John A. Davis and Susan Harmeling
Presents the story of a music retailer in Miami which started in the late 1940s, grew throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and went public in 1985 before experiencing a deep industry crisis in the mid-1990s. At issue in 1996 is whether the company should attempt to sell... View Details
Keywords: History; Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Performance Improvement; Music Industry; Miami
Davis, John A., and Susan Harmeling. "Spec's Music (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-336, March 2000. (Revised May 2000.)
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Quelch and Katherine E. JoczHarvard Business School Case 510-071 In January 2010, Google threatened in a public statement to stop censoring its search results on its google.cn website, as required by Chinese authorities. Should Google... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- December 1986 (Revised November 1989)
- Case
Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (A)
By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine
In late summer 1986, the management of the Manufacturing Productivity Division (MPD) of Hewlett-Packard (HP) was in the process of making major market selection and product policy decisions. MPD is a small division which develops and markets manufacturing productivity... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Marketing; Product Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Production; Research and Development; Manufacturing Industry
Shapiro, Benson P., and Lawrence B. Levine. "Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (A)." Harvard Business School Case 587-101, December 1986. (Revised November 1989.)
- December 2011 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Akamai's Edge (A)
In 2009, Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, the leading online content delivery network with a 60% market share, needs to decide how to respond to aggressive entry in its market, whether and how to pursue the explosive growth in online video, and whether to stay with its... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Market Entry and Exit; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Values and Beliefs; Business Strategy; Internet
Van den Steen, Eric. "Akamai's Edge (A)." Harvard Business School Case 712-455, December 2011. (Revised April 2013.)
- January 2025
- Case
Intuition Robotics: An AI Companion for Older Adults
By: Amit Goldenberg, Elie Ofek and Orna Dan
Intuition Robotics, a startup that makes an AI companion robot to alleviate older adults’ loneliness, debates whether to pursue a B2C model or B2G route. If it opts for the government vertical, it must determine how to negotiate a favorable deal. Two weeks after... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Negotiation Offer; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
Goldenberg, Amit, Elie Ofek, and Orna Dan. "Intuition Robotics: An AI Companion for Older Adults." Harvard Business School Case 925-018, January 2025.
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and freeing up skilled labor to be used for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
can’t just look at one workplace over time,” Koning says. “You have to look at the entrance and exit of workplaces, and, when you do that, you find a much more segregated workforce.” Koning believes the findings will come as a surprise to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
Choosing Passion: A Founder’s Mission to Meet a Need for Obesity Care
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
ground between the options of pay or leave? I've been surprised by how little progress we have made with the standard economic model of incentives. A: Again, the answer depends on the cases. But in general, in some markets there is no way... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- August 2009 (Revised August 2011)
- Case
Nanosolar, Inc.
Nanosolar is a start-up company in the clean tech sector. It expects to be one of the first manufacturers to produce thin-film solar panels using copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) technology. Although this technology is less efficient in producing electricity... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Europe; United States
Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Nanosolar, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 510-037, August 2009. (Revised August 2011.)
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
In a January 2010 public statement, Google threatened to stop censoring its search results on its Google.cn website, as required by Chinese authorities. Should Google exit China? Or attempt a compromise with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
generally found in more mature industries, involves identifying and eliminating unprofitable customers. A consumer bank with significant and stable market share had as an objective to "identify, upgrade, or View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research wheelhouse of Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
decisions and actions by the partners. And regression and exit are always possible. The Collaboration Continuum is particularly useful in mapping the type of relationships a business View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- October 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Lexar Media: The Digital Photography Company?
Examines growth options for a start-up that has parlayed its core technology in flash memory controllers into a rapidly growing position in the emerging digital photography industry. The new CEO must decide whether LexarMedia should maintain its identity as a digital... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Technology Industry
Tripsas, Mary, and Emily Thomson. "Lexar Media: The Digital Photography Company?" Harvard Business School Case 805-062, October 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
FatCamera In an interview with Harvard Business School Professor Teresa Amabile for a study on retirement, one man on the cusp of exiting his career spoke openly about how the transition was making him... View Details
- January 2008 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy
By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Wong
After fifty-five years in the semiconductor industry, Morris Chang, founder and Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), was seeing a change. After four decades of regular double-digit growth the industry was still growing-but now at a much slower... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Globalized Firms and Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Semiconductor Industry; Shanghai; Taiwan
Kirby, William C., Michael Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Wong. "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 308-057, January 2008. (Revised October 2015.)
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
loud or in your mind as you let these things go. What will be different once you let them go? What do you wish to teach others? Whether your transition is related to a great exit View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin