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  • January 2021 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Aptiv PLC Board of Directors (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Aptiv’s board must decide whether a joint venture with an auto maker is the right next step in the company’s efforts to develop and commercialize a production-ready autonomous driving system. While many commentators believed that Aptiv’s self-driving technologies had... View Details
Keywords: Automotive Industry; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Board Decisions; Board Dynamics; Corporate Boards; Innovation And Strategy; Legal Aspects Of Business; Spin Off; Strategic Alliances; Strategic Change; Strategic Evolution; Supplier Relationships; Technological Change; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Innovation Strategy; Going Public; Joint Ventures; Leadership; Restructuring; Technological Innovation; Transformation; Auto Industry; Europe; United States
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  • January 2017
  • Case

Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Marc Baaij and Arjen Mulder
Shortly after submitting their best and final offer to acquire Merck's Consumer Care Division (a collection of "over-the-counter" (OTC) products with sales totaling $2 billion), the Bayer M&A team was given a chance to revise their bid because another potential... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Bidding Strategy; Valuing Synergies; Negotiations; Corporate Strategy; Business Unit Strategy; Bidding Process; Discounted Cash Flow; Cross-border M＆A; Tax Shields; Valuation; Competitive Strategy; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Germany; United States; United Kingdom
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  • March 2010 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

Alibaba Group

By: Julie M. Wulf
Discusses how Alibaba Group successfully managed new business ventures to become a leader in China's online marketplaces. Students follow Alibaba Group's transition from a startup to a multibusiness firm with over 15,000 employees in just over a decade. They analyze... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Subsidiaries; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Executive Compensation; Business Headquarters; Cooperation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; China
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  • February 2017
  • Case

Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model through Data

By: William R. Kerr, Gamze Yucaoglu and Eren Kuzucu
In October 2016, Nevzat Aydin, co-founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti, the Turkish online food-ordering company, was looking over the company's quarterly results and projections for the upcoming year with his management team. It had been almost a year and a half since Aydin... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Turkey; Big Data; Customer Focused Organization; Service Management; Continuous Improvement; Data Analysis; Internet; Growth Strategy; Technological Change; Information Systems; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Customer Focus and Relationships; Emerging Markets; Service Operations; Competitive Advantage; Performance Improvement; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
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  • August 2022 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

NewLab: Scaling an Innovation Engine

By: Tarun Khanna and George Gonzalez
Silicon Valley-veteran Shaun Stewart is the CEO of NewLab, a dynamic technology hub headquartered in the storied Brooklyn Navy Yard. Founded in 2016, NewLab fostered a community of entrepreneurs, corporate and government partners, and investors, all seeking to apply... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social and Collaborative Networks; Global Range; Partners and Partnerships; Networks; Growth and Development Strategy; Opportunities; Brooklyn
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  • October 2000 (Revised November 2001)
  • Case

Garage.com (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind
Silicon Valley's Garage.com matches venture capital and corporate angel investors with high-tech start-ups that are looking for early stage funding. As a Web-based service, Garage.com fields inquiries from entrepreneurs and investors around the world, and is eager to... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Venture Capital; Investment; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Operations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Technological Innovation; Brands and Branding; Information Technology Industry
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  • 30 Jan 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Martine Haas, Wharton

  • December 2004 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Cutlass Capital, L.P.

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Brian DeLacey
David Hetz and Jon Osgood are forming a new venture capital fund in 2001 to invest in health care start-ups. Describes their fundraising activities at a time when venture capital investing has reached an all-time high. Although their background skills and experiences... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Negotiation Process; Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; United States
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  • July 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

Gates Ventures: Making Alzheimer's a Forgotten Past

By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks, Shardule Shah and Calvin Marambo
After a personal journey and interest in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) by Bill Gates, Gates Ventures set out to find the best way to accelerate innovation in the field of AD. In partnership with the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, Gates Ventures created the... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Entrepreneurial Finance; Health Disorders; Mission and Purpose
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    Josh Lerner

    Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

    Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
    • January 2015 (Revised November 2016)
    • Case

    Stella McCartney

    By: Anat Keinan and Sandrine Crener
    Stella McCartney launched her own fashion house under her name in a partnership with the luxury conglomerate Kering as a 50/50 joint venture in 2001. A lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney does not use any leather or fur in her collections, which include women's... View Details
    Keywords: Luxury; Luxury Brand; Luxury Fashion; Fashion; Sustainability; Social Corporate Responsibility; Marketing Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Cause Marketing; Ethical Marketing; Charity Goods; Sustainable Fashion; Ethical Fashion; Designer Brand; Stella McCartney; Brand Positioning; Growth Strategy; Brand Extension; Brand Communication; Kering Group; H＆M; Adidas; Product Positioning; Business Conglomerates; Competitive Advantage; Environmental Sustainability; Brands and Branding; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • May 2000
    • Case

    Intel 64 Fund

    By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
    Laila Partridge of Intel's Corporate Business Development group has been charged to create a special investment fund to speed the adoption of a new chip architecture. The last architecture upgrade, from 16 to 32 bits, had needed almost a decade to become fully adopted.... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Management; Computer Industry
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    • March 1992 (Revised June 1992)
    • Case

    Thermo Electron Corp.

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    George Hatsopoulos, CEO at Thermo Electron Corp., is considering whether to issue shares in a subsidiary via an initial public offering (IPO). The company has developed an unusual corporate structure in which subsidiaries fund new ventures by raising debt and equity in... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Management; Business Subsidiaries; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters; Initial Public Offering; Capital Structure; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry
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    • Article

    Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies

    By: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio and Kannan Ramaswamy
    The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of SOMNCs can help advance the literature by... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Corporation; State-owned Enterprises; State Capitalism; FDI; Internationalization; Government And Business; National Oil Companies; State Ownership; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; Energy Industry; China; India; Europe
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    • November 2018
    • Case

    Governance Transition at Anadolu Group

    By: Paul M. Healy and Esel Y. Cekin
    Kamil Yazici and Izzet Ozilhan founded and built Anadolu Group Holding—a family business that grew into a multi-billion-dollar regional powerhouse. For 57 years they were equal partners in running the company. They then handed over a leadership role to a next... View Details
    Keywords: Family-managed Business; Professionally-run Company; Second-generation; Third-generation; Governance; Governance Changes; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Long-term Sustainability; Conglomerate; Family Business; Corporate Governance; Change Management; Management Succession; Leadership; Transition; Organizational Structure; Consumer Products Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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    • November 2002 (Revised October 2003)
    • Case

    Circles: Series D Financing

    By: Paul W. Marshall and Kristin Lieb
    Circles, a corporate concierge company on the verge of profitability, must make a decision whether to take a D-round venture capital despite ever-changing and ever-worsening terms. A four-year-old company with several major clients, it has met its business plan... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Financing and Loans; Management Teams; Growth and Development Strategy; Negotiation Process; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
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    • 20 Oct 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Elizabeth Pontikes, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

      Brian L. Trelstad

       

      Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

      Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
      • February 2015 (Revised September 2017)
      • Supplement

      Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (B)

      By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Shannon Gombos
      The case describes the decision of Omar Selim to set up Arabesque as an independent organization and how he organized Arabesque to use both financial and environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in order to deliver performance for its clients. View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investing; Investment Management; ESG; Sustainability; Investment Banking; Leadership; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Leadership Style; Business Model; Asset Management; Business Startups; Social Enterprise
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      • 2017
      • Chapter

      Entrepreneurship in Larger Companies

      By: William R. Kerr
      Entrepreneurship in large and established companies is vital for their long-term success. Incumbent firms face many challenges ranging from global competition to digitization. In times past, being caught flat-footed might have set a company back several years, but it... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship
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