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- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges. The book covers the company's strategies and provides compelling evidence of its decision making, marketing, brand management, innovation, acquisition strategies,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
success of this particular business is still untested, it's clear that company management is on a transformative course that does not center entirely on the imaging business. To implement Komori's strategy, Fuji established a centralized R&D lab, increased its... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
the computer industry. Throughout the 1970s, Xerox completed several acquisitions in order to further its project for an "architecture of information." Unfortunately, in assembling these noncopier companies and opening PARC,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
in the prior year, primarily reflecting higher customer acquisition costs amid increased competition in the educational technology market. Total enrollment grew to 40,667 participants, 5 percent higher than the prior year. Although down... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
companies seemed really intriguing, but we had a hard time looking past the current portfolio of challenged companies to see that there might be some big winners in these particular sectors. Data Domain went on to an IPO and then an View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
9/11, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at GE in its plastics, appliance, and medical systems divisions. With revenues in 2007 of $173 billion and more than 300,000 global employees, GE has seen significant change under Immelt, including... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Business School Case 819-004 SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command James “Hondo” Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
acquisition strategy. Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-002 Shift Technologies, Inc. In 2017, management at Shift, an online marketplace that uses a “high touch,”... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
short time frames," "the role of business as society begins to seek more balance between material acquisition and spiritually oriented directions." Both alumni groups, especially younger grads, saw business schools as having only the same... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
online streaming field with Otter Media, a joint venture with the Chernin Group. And industry observers agree that more acquisitions and partnerships in the years ahead will only accelerate the pace of change in a tech-heavy business that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
for walnut purchases led to Diamond dropping its high profile acquisition of Pringles, an SEC and DOJ investigation, departure of the CEO and CFO, and the grounding of a high flying growth company. The case describes the history and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Decker, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-067 This case allows instructors to explore shareholder value creation and transfer opportunities in merger and acquisition transactions. It also invites an examination of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
except at the innovation frontier where we do see foreign companies setting up. So even as many in South Africa would see the acquisition of a successful company as potentially not the right kind of direct investment, the fact that it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
students to fill the remaining six floors. In relatively no time, Russo had turned a high-risk acquisition into a high-profile success. Her name now personified the company, and her determination propelled it to new heights. Even then,... View Details
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
data, yet sales have been flat for a decade during which marketing's appetite for data has exploded. Will the acquisition of a digital data onboarder LiveRamp give marketers what they want from a data broker? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
pursuing an aggressive strategy of acquisitions over the last several years. End-market consolidation in the retail space has driven vertical integration in the extremely competitive fresh tomato business, where farm gate prices have not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
and they will have to shift their very strong culture in ways that will be uncomfortable if not impossible. I believe this may push Walmart to make their first major acquisition in the US. Q: For what companies will 2015 be a... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
Facebook's recent acquisition of WhatsApp, a service committed never to disclose consumer information, with substantial skepticism. In addition, industry initiatives to self-regulate disclosure practices have largely failed. The "Do not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
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Creo Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) Finance Richard Ruback , Royce Yudkoff Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Field X Finance, Entrepreneurial Management Randolph Cohen Fall 2025... View Details