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  • September 2004 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Metso Paper: Globalization of Finnish Metal Workshops

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Marikka Heikkila and Kalle Lyytinen
Metso Paper, the world's largest producer of paper machines, aims to transform itself into a knowledge- and information-based service and solution provider for the paper industry by aggressively exploiting information technologies. In the fall of 2002, Jorma Hujala, a... View Details
Keywords: Production; Customer Value and Value Chain; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Knowledge Management; Machinery and Machining; Expansion; Service Delivery; Manufacturing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Finland
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry

    By: Stephen A. Greyser, Kenneth Cortsen and Juan Fuentes Fernández
    LALIGA, the first- and second-tier professional soccer league (known as “football” outside of the U.S. and Canada) in Spain, enters its 100th soccer season later this decade. The most popular game in the world (Giulianotti, 2012) has gone through many changes since... View Details
    Keywords: Soccer; ＂Sports Organizations,; Business History; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Technology Adoption; Sports Industry
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    • December 2010
    • Case

    Restaurant Valuation: O'Charley's and AFC

    This case is a comparative analysis of the strategy, accounting, performance, and valuation for two restaurant chains alternatively having a company-owned versus franchising strategy. It requires students to identify these two different strategies, and the related... View Details
    Keywords: Private Ownership; Valuation; Franchise Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 25 Jul 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: July 25, 2006

    in individual information processing steps of the S&OP process, a tradeoff which to our knowledge has not been highlighted in the supply chain management literature. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-001.pdf... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2016 (Revised May 2016)
    • Case

    UFO Moviez—Gentle Disruption

    By: Hong Luo, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Saloni Chaturvedi
    UFO Moviez is an Indian technology services provider that enables low-cost, digital delivery of films to cinemas. UFO’s satellite-based technology enables a significantly wider release of films compared to traditional analog prints and standard, higher-resolution... View Details
    Keywords: Film Entertainment; Information Technology; Distribution; Disruption; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
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    • February 2023
    • Case

    Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)

    By: Jorge Tamayo and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago
    In 2020, Alejandro Simón, CEO of Sancor Seguros Group, a nearly 75-year-old cooperative that had become Argentina’s insurance leader, had to decide about the Group’s digital transformation strategy. The Group’s values and history needed to be considered during the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Transformation; Organizational Culture; Cooperative Ownership; Strategy; Business Strategy; Adaptation; Technology Adoption; Insurance Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina
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    • February 2004
    • Case

    Bradman and Tendulkar, LLC

    By: Ananth Raman and Vishal Gaur
    An investment firm is trying to project inventory turns for Radio Shack, a chain of consumer electronics stores. The investment firm has access to public financial data but not to internal operational metrics. It needs to project inventory turns because inventory... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Demand and Consumers; Distribution Channels; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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    • 19 Apr 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: April 19

    and value of specific interstate relations. Results indicate that network-weaving organizations are easier to operate when they encompass proximate and similar actors, yet they also reap rewards for bringing together otherwise... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2018
    • Case

    Rosslyn Resource: Monetization and Sales Strategy

    By: Robert J. Dolan and Sunru Yong
    Rosslyn Resource identifies exploration targets (potential mineral deposits) in the mining industry and advances them until the project can be monetized, usually through sale to a larger mining company, in return for an upfront fee and a royalty on future revenues.... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mining Industry
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    • 11 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

    for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership. Policy experiments are conducted to... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Improving Store Liquidation

    By: Nathan Craig and Ananth Raman
    Store liquidation is the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on store liquidation, not only as a means for investors to recover capital from failed ventures, but also to allow... View Details
    Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Financial Condition; Operations; Retail Industry
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    • Fall 2014
    • Article

    Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

    By: Matthew Weinzierl
    The price indexation of Social Security benefit payments has emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the United States. I characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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      Spatial Organization of Firms

      We explore the impact of geographically bounded intra-firm spillovers (internal agglomeration economies) and geographically bounded inter-firm spillovers (external agglomeration economies) on firms’ location strategies. Using data from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal... View Details
      • 05 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Motion Picture Industry: Critical Issues in Practice, Current Research & New Research Directions

      Keywords: by Jehoshua Eliashberg, Anita Elberse & Mark A. A. M. Leenders; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video; Advertising
      • 16 Oct 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

      Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may be strong or weak. Strong complements are specific and unique goods that have no value (or greatly diminished... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • July 1982 (Revised December 1984)
      • Case

      Esmark, Inc. (A)

      By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
      Involves the management of a firm with a market value of a going concern that is less than its breakup value. How does management maximize value for shareholders in this environment? View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Food and Beverage Industry
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      • 03 Feb 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: February 3

      innovative product could both radically disrupt the existing beef production and supply chain and provide an animal welfare and environmentally friendly food that had far less of an environmental impact than... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • October 1991 (Revised December 1993)
      • Case

      Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive

      Ben & Jerry's is an anti-establishment, values-driven company that has become a successful venture. The dominant founder, Ben Cohen, is not an effective manager, but he brings creative marketing and product skills that have been important to the company's success. He... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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      • Research Summary

      Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

      Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details