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  • January 2020
  • Case

Hurtigruten: Sailing into Warm Water?

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Kerry Herman
As this case opens in 2019, CEO Daniel Skjeldam and his team have successfully reinvigorated Hurtigruten, a storied but struggling Norwegian ferry and cruise operator, and have established it as the leading provider of polar expedition cruises. They now face a critical... View Details
Keywords: Relative Cost Analysis; Market Attractiveness; Diversification; Decision Making; Expansion; Tourism Industry; Norway
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  • September 2019 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Blenheim Chalcot

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In April 2019, Manoj Badale and Charles Mindenhall, co-founders of Blenheim Chalcot, were contemplating how they might go about developing their portfolio. Since founding the company as an internet consultancy called netdecisions in 1998, Badale and Mindenhall had... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; United Kingdom; United States; India
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  • 05 Dec 2018
  • News

6 Ways Traveling Makes You A Better Employee

    Teresa M. Amabile

    Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

    • August 2015 (Revised March 2017)
    • Case

    Planters Nuts

    By: Robert J. Dolan and Donald K. Ngwe
    In 2012 Planters had about $1 billion in U.S. annual revenues, but had experienced declining unit sales and household penetration over the past six years. The snack nuts category was growing overall, but household spending was shifting away from peanuts, cashews, and... View Details
    Keywords: Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • December 2017 (Revised February 2021)
    • Case

    Bega Cheese: Bidding to Bring Vegemite Back Home

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Lauren G. Pickle
    In January 2017, the leadership team of Bega Cheese—the Australian dairy company—was considering a bid for Mondelēz International’s Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) grocery business, which included several leading consumer brands such as Vegemite, the iconic Australian... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Value Drivers; Discounted Cash Flow (DCF); Dairy Industry; Corporate Scope; Consumer Goods; Iconic Brands; Bidding Strategy; Cross Border; Financing; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Value Creation; Diversification; Business Divisions; Corporate Finance; Capital Structure; Food; Bids and Bidding; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Australia; United States
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    • September 2020
    • Case

    Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

    By: Sunil Gupta, Jonathan Levav and Julia Kelley
    In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch InBev, Drinkworks had developed an... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Market Design; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Business Model; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Decisions; Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Research; Research and Development; Strategy; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Segmentation; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Value; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; North and Central America; United States
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    • 08 Feb 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

      Ananth Raman

      Ananth Raman is a professor in the Technology and Operations Management area where he has taught courses on various aspects of Operational Excellence—supply chain management, technology and operations management, and service operations—to MBA students... View Details

      Keywords: apparel; retailing; software
      • September 2021
      • Case

      TAV Airports: Acquiring Almaty International

      By: Juan Alcácer and Esel Çekin
      The case opens in April 2020 with Sani Şener, CEO of TAV Airports, a vertically integrated regional airport operator headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, and his team discussing the pending acquisition of the Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan. The company had... View Details
      Keywords: Airports; COVID-19 Pandemic; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Bids and Bidding; Air Transportation Industry; Central Asia; Turkey
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        Mihir A. Desai

        Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

        • February 2023
        • Case

        Nexus Market (A): Ukraine War Ripples into Silicon Valley

        By: Tsedal Neeley and Jeff Huizinga
        A Silicon Valley start-up executive must navigate tensions between its Ukrainian and Russian sub-contractors as war between the two countries rages. After war erupts between Ukraine and Russia, a team of subcontracted Ukrainian software developers threatens to cut ties... View Details
        Keywords: International Relations; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry; United States
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        • 2015
        • Working Paper

        What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

        By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
        We survey 79 private equity investors with combined assets under management (AUM) of over $750 billion about their practices in firm valuation, capital structure, governance, and value creation. Investors rely primarily on internal rate of return (IRR) and multiples to... View Details
        Keywords: Governance; Value Creation; Private Equity; Capital Structure; Valuation; Management Practices and Processes
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        • May 2020
        • Article

        Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences

        By: Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke and Armin Falk
        This paper shows that contemporary population-level heterogeneity in risk aversion, time preference, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, and trust partly traces back to the structure of the migration patterns of our very early ancestors. To document... View Details
        Keywords: Migration Patterns; Behavioral Economics; Preferences; Microeconomics; Demography; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; History; Global Range
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          Mitchell Tang

          Mitchell Tang graduated in 2016 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed dual-degrees in computational biology and economics as part of the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management (LSM). While at Penn, Mitchell was involved in research at the... View Details

          • September 2019
          • Case

          Nimbus Therapeutics

          By: Peter Barrett, Karim Lakhani and Julia Kelley
          This case focuses on Nimbus Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as its leadership team tries to determine the company’s long-term strategy. The startup’s founders structured Nimbus as a limited liability company, which has given it... View Details
          Keywords: Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
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          • May 2022
          • Case

          Maestro Pizza: Coming in Hot!

          By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
          Maestro Pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
          Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
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          • March 2016 (Revised February 2023)
          • Teaching Note

          Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades

          By: Michael Luca, Weijia Dai and Hyunjin Kim
          Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades is an exercise in which students are asked to analyze and make a recommendation on the basis of simulated experimental data. The setting is a hypothetical restaurant review company called RestaurantGrades (RG), which shows... View Details
          Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Marketing; Digital Marketing; Analysis; Performance Effectiveness
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            Ethan C. Rouen

            Ethan Rouen is an associate professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the elective course Reimagining Capitalism. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the faculty co-chair of the View Details

            • 20 Aug 2024
            • Blog Post

            Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club

            walking—my family recalls me always having a ball at my feet. In high school I played on the varsity team and, at 17, I joined a first-division team in Lebanon. I combined my academic View Details