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  • April 2009
  • Case

Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A)

By: Fernando Suarez, Benjamin Edelman and Arati Srinivasan
Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone operating system, faces new competition from Google and Apple. Symbian evaluates changes to its software and its relationships with distributors in order to meet these competitors. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Distribution; Competitive Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software
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Suarez, Fernando, Benjamin Edelman, and Arati Srinivasan. "Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A)." Harvard Business School Case 909-055, April 2009. (request a courtesy copy.)
  • October 1997 (Revised December 1997)
  • Case

Arrow Electronics: The Schweber Acquisition

The CEO of Arrow is about to negotiate the acquisition of a smaller competitor to achieve economies of scale. The case presents data to permit evaluation of prices to bid and negotiating strategy. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Acquisition; Electronics Industry
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Rosenbloom, Richard S., and Stephen Kaufman. "Arrow Electronics: The Schweber Acquisition." Harvard Business School Case 798-020, October 1997. (Revised December 1997.)
  • May 2002 (Revised June 2002)
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Negotiation Self-Assessment

By: Michael A. Wheeler
This exercise helps students evaluate their negotiating style on traditional measures of creating versus claiming, and empathy and assertiveness. In just a few minutes, they can see where their natural style lies on a matrix. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Attitudes
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Wheeler, Michael A. "Negotiation Self-Assessment." Harvard Business School Exercise 902-218, May 2002. (Revised June 2002.)
  • 2020
  • Other Teaching and Training Material

Encouraging Student Participation Online—and Assessing It Fairly: Techniques and Methods to Involve More Voices in Virtual Classes

By: Ayelet Israeli
This article is about encouraging student participation online—and assessing it fairly. It includes techniques and methods to involve more voices in virtual classes, and evaluate them equitably and fairly. View Details
Keywords: Teaching; Education; Online Technology
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Israeli, Ayelet. "Encouraging Student Participation Online—and Assessing It Fairly: Techniques and Methods to Involve More Voices in Virtual Classes." Harvard Business Publishing, 2020. Electronic.
  • September 1994
  • Case

Otis Elevator Company: China Joint Venture (B-2)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino
Asks the students to evaluate the challenges a company faced in the summer of 1989 in the light of great political uncertainties. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Government and Politics; Globalization; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China
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Yoshino, Michael Y. "Otis Elevator Company: China Joint Venture (B-2)." Harvard Business School Case 395-059, September 1994.
  • 06 Mar 2025
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Vivek Farias, MIT Sloan

  • 2008
  • Report

State of the Region Report 2008: Sustaining Growth at the Top of Europe

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2008 State of the Region Report is the fifth edition in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region. The Report is organized into three parts: Part A of the Report describes the economic, political, and... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Performance Evaluation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Cooperation; Baltic Countries; European Union
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Ketels, Christian H.M. "State of the Region Report 2008: Sustaining Growth at the Top of Europe." Report Series, Baltic Development Forum, Copenhagen, December 2008.
  • October 1984 (Revised May 1990)
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NIKE (A)

Describes the history of Nike, its economic strategy, and the industries in which it competes. The teaching objective is to ask the student to identify and evaluate Nike's economic/technical strategy. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Business History; Supply and Industry; Financial Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry
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Christensen, C. Roland. "NIKE (A)." Harvard Business School Case 385-025, October 1984. (Revised May 1990.)
  • 2017
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HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurs; Small Companies; Small Business Finance; Negotiation; Due Diligence; Sourcing; Search Funds; Search; Deal Sourcing; Deal Structuring; Funnel; Debt Financing; Small And Medium Enterprises; Small Business; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Deal; Ownership; Equity; Borrowing and Debt
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Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company. Harvard Business Review Press, 2017.
  • 2023
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Targeting, Personalization, and Engagement in an Agricultural Advisory Service

By: Susan Athey, Shawn Cole, Shanjukta Nath and Jessica Zhu
ICT is increasingly used to deliver customized information in developing countries. We examine whether individually targeting the timing of automated voice calls meaningfully increases engagement in an agricultural advisory service. We define, estimate, and... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Knowledge Dissemination; Customization and Personalization; Performance Effectiveness
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Athey, Susan, Shawn Cole, Shanjukta Nath, and Jessica Zhu. "Targeting, Personalization, and Engagement in an Agricultural Advisory Service." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-006, August 2023.
  • April 2015
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Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

By: Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper
This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Management Processes; Credit Products; Experimental Economics; Risk Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry
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Cole, Shawn, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper. "Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers." Journal of Finance 70, no. 2 (April 2015): 537–575.
  • September 2012 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Entrepreneurial Finance in Finland?

By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Alexis Brownell
This case describes a new venture attempting to bring early-stage entrepreneurial financing to Finland and other Nordic countries. Entrepreneurship is taking off in Finland, an area that historically has had little venture capital or high-growth start-up activity, but... View Details
Keywords: Angels; Angel Investors; VC; Micro-VC; Accelerator; Incubator; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Finland; Scandinavia; Europe
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Kerr, William R., Ramana Nanda, and Alexis Brownell. "Entrepreneurial Finance in Finland?" Harvard Business School Case 813-068, September 2012. (Revised March 2013.)
  • 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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Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-081, April 2015.
  • 2009
  • Book

Too Big to Save?: How to Fix the U.S. Financial System

By: Robert C. Pozen
Too Big To Save? provides a comprehensive review of the financial crisis, explaining not only the factors causing the crisis but also evaluating the government responses to date and suggesting practical reforms for the future. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; United States
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Pozen, Robert C. Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
  • June 1993 (Revised July 1996)
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Bajaj Auto Ltd.

By: John A. Quelch
Bajaj Auto Ltd., the world's second-largest manufacturer of two- and three-wheeler vehicles, is facing increasing competition in its domestic Indian market. The case evaluates appropriate marketing responses both in the Indian market and export markets. View Details
Keywords: Competition; Marketplace Matching; Product Development; Product Marketing; Transportation Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; India
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Quelch, John A. "Bajaj Auto Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 593-097, June 1993. (Revised July 1996.)
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Academy of Management. Technology and Innovation Management Division. Best Paper Award

By: Jacqueline Ng Lane
Winner of the 2023 Best Paper Award from the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management for “When Does Feasibility Drive Technological Innovation? Evaluator Expertise Range, Architectural Knowledge, and Preferences for Existing... View Details
  • October 2016 (Revised February 2019)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 5: Building a Profit Plan

By: Robert Simons
This module reading describes how to build a profit plan to reflect the strategy of a business in economic terms. After introducing the profit wheel, cash wheel, and ROE wheel, the module illustrates how to use a profit plan to assess the viability of different... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Profit Planning; Cash Flow Analysis; Asset Utilization; Return On Equity; Business Planning; Testing Strategy; Analyzing Strategic Alternative; Strategy; Asset Management; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Management Systems; Profit
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Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 5: Building a Profit Plan." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-105, October 2016. (Revised February 2019.)
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea--that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
  • April 1996 (Revised October 1999)
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Risk of Stocks in the Long Run, The: The Barnstable College Endowment

By: Andre F. Perold
The manager of the Barnstable College Endowment is evaluating proposals to increase the endowment's exposure to stocks based on an analysis that shows stocks to be much safer over long holding periods. View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Financial Management; Stocks; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry
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Perold, Andre F. "Risk of Stocks in the Long Run, The: The Barnstable College Endowment." Harvard Business School Case 296-073, April 1996. (Revised October 1999.)
  • August 2006 (Revised September 2006)
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Scopie's Enlarged Gland Shrinker

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Describes a firm that markets a laser for a fictional problem. Asks readers to evaluate Scopie's marketing and production strategy (it plans to start in India and then expand to the United States) and its long-term viability. View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; India; United States
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Herzlinger, Regina E. "Scopie's Enlarged Gland Shrinker." Harvard Business School Case 307-035, August 2006. (Revised September 2006.)
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