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  • March 2024 (Revised September 2024)
  • Case

Supercell 2.0: Clash of Plans

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and George Gonzalez
Founded in 2010, Supercell was a Helsinki, Finland-based mobile gaming company that had developed and launched five global hit mobile games: Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Hay Day, Brawl Stars, and Boom Beach. The company’s early philosophy was that it could produce... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Video Game Industry; Finland
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  • September 2003
  • Case

Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group

By: Mihir A. Desai, Paolo Notarnicola and Mark Veblen
A team of private equity investors must value the leveraged buyout of a Yellow Pages business that operated in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In the process, they must wrestle with issues of how to conduct cross-border valuations and how to value a... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Valuation
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    Derek C. M. van Bever

    Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

    • 17 Dec 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Rise of Medical Tourism

    describes, the globalization of health care also provides a fascinating angle on globalization generally and is of great interest to corporate strategists. "Apollo Hospitals—First-World Health Care at... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • June 1989 (Revised July 1993)
    • Case

    CIGNA Worldwide

    By: John A. Quelch
    A CIGNA Worldwide (CWW) task group of European country directors and key functional managers is meeting in November 1988 to discuss how CWW should respond to the European Community's plan to remove existing internal barriers and restrictions to the free flow of goods... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Insurance; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Trade; Insurance Industry; Europe
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    • May 2020
    • Article

    The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets

    By: Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev and Josh Lerner
    This paper explores the creation and evolution of new stock exchanges around the world geared towards entrepreneurial companies, known as second-tier exchanges. Using hand-collected novel data, we document the proliferation of these new stock exchanges that were... View Details
    Keywords: Stock Exchanges; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Initial Public Offering; Capital; Entrepreneurial Finance
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    • 14 Apr 2019
    • Interview

    How to Build Psychological Safety, with Amy Edmondson

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Dave Stachowiak
    Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. She has been recognized by the Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers for many years and was honored with their Talent Award in 2017. Amy is the author of... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 16 Jun 2021
    • Interview

    Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
    Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Diversity; Communication
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    • Program

    Program for Leadership Development

    leadership development program improves your decision-making and cross-functional skills by expanding your understanding of business operations and the global marketplace. With broader business knowledge, View Details
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination

    By: Jordan I. Siegel, Naomi Kodama and Hanna Halaburda
    Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed, due in part to data limitations and methodological difficulties, and possibly to omission of a fairness factor in the economic theory of... View Details
    Keywords: Managerial Roles; Fairness; Performance Productivity; Gender; Japan
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    • 07 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Sept. 7

    protection through anti-dumping measures, especially given that both industries face the full force of the global economy? We argue that the patterning of anti-dumping actions is best explained in terms of industrial structures, inclusive... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Jul 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Diversity and Inclusion at Mars Petcare: Translating Awareness into Action

    Keywords: Re: Katherine B. Coffman; Food & Beverage; Health
    • 05 Jan 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons
    • 11 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

    and started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

      Anita Elberse

      Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; arts; broadcasting; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; electronics; entertainment; fashion; home video games; information; marketing industry; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; telecommunications; video games
      • January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
      • Case

      Carnival Corporation: Cruising Through COVID-19

      By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
      In March 2020, in response to the global pandemic, the cruise industry ceased operations. Carnival was the largest cruise line operator in the world, and CEO Arnold Donald and his management team worked to position the company to survive. They slashed operating... View Details
      Keywords: Debt Issuance; Equity Issuances; Convertible Debt; Cruise Lines; Restructuring; Capital; Crisis Management; Cash Flow; Health Pandemics; Borrowing and Debt; Travel Industry; United States
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      • March 2012 (Revised September 2012)
      • Case

      INRIX

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Ryan Johnson
      Since its founding in 2004, INRIX, a leading global provider of traffic information and driver services, had received four rounds of financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; Washington (state, US)
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      • January 2008 (Revised February 2008)
      • Case

      South Dakota Wheat Growers

      By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
      As a farmer-owned cooperative, South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) serves the needs of its 3,600 active farmer-members by supplying farm inputs and organizing the marketing and transportation of grain produced in the co-op's service territory. For almost 80 years, the... View Details
      Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Production; Rail Transportation; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Economic Growth; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; South Dakota
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      • February 1999 (Revised June 2000)
      • Case

      Cimetrics Technology (A-1)

      By: Lynn S. Paine and Jose Royo
      Jim Lee, president of Cimetrics (a young, fast growing, software start-up) is reevaluating his small company's geographically dispersed product development model. To take advantage of talented low-cost labor in Russia, the company has relied on two software engineering... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Applications and Software; Business or Company Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Labor and Management Relations; Product Development; Performance Evaluation; Information Technology Industry; Russia; Canada; United States
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      • 09 Oct 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: October 9

      social and business goals, the company had articulated a stakeholder-centric model that benefited consumers through high-quality, fashionable, and affordable eyewear: the global community by donating, through sustainable channels, one... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne