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Teaching Note for HBS No. 812-129. This teaching note provides an introduction to ratio analysis as well as the different financial properties across and within industries. Students are asked to match ratios to a list of industries. View Details

Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis; Industry Analysis; Finance; Analysis

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March 2007 (Revised February 2009)
Background Note

How to Crack a Strategy Case

By: Stephen P. Bradley, David J. Collis, Kevin P. Coyne, Andrei Hagiu, Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Jan W. Rivkin and John R. Wells

Addresses a common concern among strategy students: "How should I tackle this case?" Describes a process for diagnosing a strategic situation, then generating, evaluating, and choosing among strategic options. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Management Practices and Processes; Situation or Environment; Strategy; Valuation

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June 2005 (Revised May 2018)
Teaching Note

Columbia's Final Mission: A Multimedia Case

By: Michael Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Erika Ferlins

Teaching Note to 305-032. View Details

Keywords: Aerospace Industry

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winter 2007
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Oracle vs. PeopleSoft: A Case Study

By: D. Millstone and Guhan Subramanian

Keywords: Applications and Software; Information; Information Technology Industry

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Management Accounting in Hospitals: A Case Study

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Accounting; Health Industry

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2009
Working Paper

Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

By: Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu

Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Innovation and Invention; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

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December 2020
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: Cultural Entrepreneurship Case Supplement

By: Rohit Deshpandé

This case includes links to case supplement videos for students to view with the written case before class, and also supplement videos for faculty to use exclusively during class. View Details

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2016
Working Paper

Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

By: Michael Luca

Do online consumer reviews affect restaurant demand? I investigate this question using a novel dataset combining reviews from the website Yelp.com and restaurant data from the Washington State Department of Revenue. Because Yelp prominently displays a restaurant's... View Details

Keywords: Revenue; Network Effects; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Washington (state, US)

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01 Nov 2022
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Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

1992
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Teacher's Manual for Case Problems in Finance

By: W. E. Fruhan Jr., W. C. Kester, S. P. Mason, T. R. Piper and R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Finance; Cases

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November 2001 (Revised September 2004)
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Evolution of Treatment, The: The Case of Diabetes

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Jeffrey D. Street and Laura Feldman

Scientific knowledge surrounding diabetes mellitus has grown over the last century to include its cause, treatment, and prevention strategies. However, the type and level of care that patients receive is suboptional. This case examines the forces in industry,... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Health Industry

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