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      • 2011
      • Working Paper

      Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
      We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Feng Zhu. "Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-003, July 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
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      Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
      We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p file sharing where all... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Distribution; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Strategy; Profit; Price; Performance Efficiency
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane. "Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 19, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 333–373.
      • June 2010
      • Teaching Note

      Southwest Airlines: In a Different World (TN)

      By: James L. Heskett and W. Earl Sasser
      Teaching Note for 910419. View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Price; Service Operations; Globalization; Cost vs Benefits; Air Transportation Industry; New York (state, US)
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      Heskett, James L., and W. Earl Sasser. "Southwest Airlines: In a Different World (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 910-426, June 2010.
      • May 2010
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      Tremblant Capital Group Exhibits (CW)

      By: Robin Greenwood
      Brett Barakett, CEO and founder of Tremblant Capital Group, a New York-based hedge fund, must decide what to do with his fund's position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40 percent in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Stocks; Investment Funds; Consumer Behavior; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; New York (state, US)
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      Greenwood, Robin. "Tremblant Capital Group Exhibits (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 210-710, May 2010.
      • April 2010 (Revised May 2017)
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      Tremblant Capital Group

      By: Robin Greenwood
      Brett Barakett, CEO and founder of Tremblant Capital Group, a New York–based hedge fund, must decide what to do with his fund's position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40% in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund that... View Details
      Keywords: Business Earnings; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Funds; Consumer Behavior; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      Greenwood, Robin. "Tremblant Capital Group." Harvard Business School Case 210-071, April 2010. (Revised May 2017.)
      • April 2010 (Revised October 2010)
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      Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining

      By: Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
      In 2009 the management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last few years had... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Global Strategy; Risk Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Mining Industry; Brazil
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      Khanna, Tarun, Aldo Musacchio, and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining." Harvard Business School Case 710-054, April 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
      • April 2010 (Revised March 2011)
      • Case

      Tata Nano The People's Car

      By: Krishna G. Palepu, Bharat N. Anand and Rachna Tahilyani
      The case explores how Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company, developed the Nano, the world's cheapest car. The case focuses on the translation of Ratan Tata's (chairman of Tata Motors) vision of a safe affordable car for the masses by Ravi Kant, managing... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Globalized Firms and Management; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Business Processes; Quality; Competition; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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      Palepu, Krishna G., Bharat N. Anand, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Tata Nano The People's Car." Harvard Business School Case 710-420, April 2010. (Revised March 2011.)
      • 2001
      • Working Paper

      Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
      We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Business Model; Competition; Competitive Strategy
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Feng Zhu. "Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-026, September 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
      • February 2010 (Revised December 2010)
      • Case

      Lending Club

      By: Peter Tufano
      A new entrant in the nascent online peer lending space, Lending Club must decide whether or not to register with the SEC. Lending Club provided a platform through which individual borrowers could receive loans funded by individuals who chose to invest in them. The... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Instruments; Price; Personal Finance; Financing and Loans; Financial Services Industry
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      Tufano, Peter, Howell Jackson, and Andrea Ryan. "Lending Club." Harvard Business School Case 210-052, February 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
      • February 2010 (Revised June 2022)
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      Dollarama Inc.

      By: Andre F. Perold
      Dollarama is the leading operator of dollar stores in Canada. The firm performed extraordinarily well after a leveraged buyout in 2004 and recently executed a highly successful IPO. The company sources its goods primarily from Asia. It has strong brand recognition and... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Supply Chain; Competitive Advantage; Valuation; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
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      Perold, Andre F. "Dollarama Inc." Harvard Business School Case 210-041, February 2010. (Revised June 2022.)
      • January 2010 (Revised May 2012)
      • Case

      TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing

      By: Karim R. Lakhani, David A. Garvin and Eric Lonstein
      TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Two-Sided Platforms; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Software; Technology Industry
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      Lakhani, Karim R., David A. Garvin, and Eric Lonstein. "TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing." Harvard Business School Case 610-032, January 2010. (Revised May 2012.)
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      Capital Market-Driven Corporate Finance

      By: Malcolm Baker
      Much of empirical corporate finance focuses on sources of the demand for various forms of capital, not the supply. Recently, this has changed. Supply effects of equity and credit markets can arise from a combination of three ingredients: investor tastes, limited... View Details
      Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Limits To Arbitrage; Market Efficiency; Securities Issuance; Supply Effects; Corporate Finance; Investment; Price; Capital Markets; Equity; Financial Services Industry
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      Baker, Malcolm. "Capital Market-Driven Corporate Finance." Annual Review of Financial Economics 1 (2009): 181–205.
      • November 2009 (Revised December 2009)
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      DaChan Food (Asia) in China

      By: Ray A. Goldberg and David Lane
      DaChan Food in China is providing leadership in the quality, health, and environmental needs of the Chinese consumer as poultry consumption increases there. Continuing to provide that leadership as global and national competition increase becomes more and more... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Food; Leadership Development; Demand and Consumers; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China
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      Goldberg, Ray A., and David Lane. "DaChan Food (Asia) in China." Harvard Business School Case 910-401, November 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
      • September 2009 (Revised April 2020)
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      VIZIO, Inc.

      By: Krishna G. Palepu and Elizabeth A. Kind
      William Wang, CEO of VIZIO, Inc., was proud of his company's success in providing affordable flat screen TVs. Since its founding in 2002, VIZIO had grown to over $2 billion in revenue and was one of the top three flat panel TV brands, along with Samsung and Sony. Faced... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financing and Loans; Price; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry
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      Palepu, Krishna G., and Elizabeth A. Kind. "VIZIO, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 110-024, September 2009. (Revised April 2020.)
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Anger and Regulation

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
      We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for other people's welfare (altruism) in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an equilibrium may emerge... View Details
      Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior; Monopoly; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emotions; Welfare
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra. "Anger and Regulation." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009.
      • July 2009 (Revised March 2010)
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      Sotheby's & Christie's Inc.

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Catherine Jane Wise
      The fine art auction business has remained a duopoly over its 250 year history. The industry is dominated by Sotheby's and Christie's Inc. Curiously, neither competitor has been able to overtake the other by a notable margin despite the clear network effects of this... View Details
      Keywords: Arts; Business Model; Restructuring; Economics; Auctions; Market Entry and Exit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Operations; Competition
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Catherine Jane Wise. "Sotheby's & Christie's Inc." Harvard Business School Case 710-412, July 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
      • June 2009
      • Teaching Note

      COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd. (TN)

      By: David E. Bell, Sarah Morton and Mary Louise Shelman
      Teaching Note for [508079]. View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Goals and Objectives; Quality; Price; Competitive Strategy; Contracts; Supply and Industry; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Cost Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
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      Bell, David E., Sarah Morton, and Mary Louise Shelman. "COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd. (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 509-045, June 2009.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web

      By: Marco Iansiti
      Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent nature of innovation in information technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
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      Iansiti, Marco. "Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-142, June 2009.
      • April 2009 (Revised December 2015)
      • Case

      Dot.com: Online Pet Retailing

      By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
      From 1995 to 1999, the U.S. experienced a period of tremendous growth in its information technology (IT) sector. The IT industry, although it accounted for less than 10% of the U.S. economy's total output, contributed disproportionately to economic growth. One market... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Failure; Competitive Strategy; Online Technology; Retail Industry
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      Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Dot.com: Online Pet Retailing." Harvard Business School Case 809-117, April 2009. (Revised December 2015.)
      • March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
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      Addleshaw-Goddard LLP

      By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and James Weber
      Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the U.K., is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom
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      Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and James Weber. "Addleshaw-Goddard LLP." Harvard Business School Case 409-056, March 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
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