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  • December 2018 (Revised May 2021)
  • Background Note

Making UK Energy Smarter

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
This case describes the history of the United Kingdom's domestic energy industry and the country's efforts to create a more competitive, greener, and distributed power sector. On July 24, 2017, the United Kingdom government and the industry regulator, the Office of Gas... View Details
Keywords: Energy Policy; Regulation; Energy Markets; Subsidies; Oligopolistic Competition; Barriers To Entry; Wholesale; Electric Vehicle; Batteries; Energy Storage; Competition Policy; Energy; Policy; Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Vertical Integration; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Disruption; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • February 2010
  • Teaching Note

Saffronart.com: Bidding for Success (TN)

By: Mukti Khaire
Teaching Note for [808027]. View Details
Keywords: Auctions; Arts; Innovation and Invention; Internet and the Web; Revenue; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Risk and Uncertainty; Web Services Industry; Fine Arts Industry; India
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  • October 2006 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Calloway Laboratory: Pee for Profit

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Describes the formation and rapid growth of a drug-testing company. The company needs to decide whether to enter the painkiller testing market, in addition to growing its drug treatment center business. View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry
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  • December 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Vincent Marie Dessain, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Anders Sjoman
The Dutch "Verenigde Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer Cooperative" (VBA) was on of the world's largest flower exchanges. Around 6,300 flower growers, one half of them located in the Netherlands, used the auction to sell cut flowers and plants to more than 1,000 wholesalers. In... View Details
Keywords: Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Trade; Market Entry and Exit; Financial Markets; Segmentation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Netherlands
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  • February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
  • Case

Aquion Energy

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Kiron
Leaders at Aquion Energy, a Pittsburgh-based battery start-up, are deciding on a market entry strategy. Should they pursue the large but unproven grid utility market or a smaller, but higher margin market? View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Production; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Capacity; Energy Industry
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  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2007 (Revised February 2010)
  • Case

Launching Telmore (A)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Celso Fernandez and Moritz Jobke
When the Danish mobile phone service provider Telmore entered the market in October 2000, few people took notice. Its business model was not perceived as particularly aggressive or threatening to the industry. Less than three years later, Telmore's creative adaptation... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Creativity; Adaptation; Competitive Advantage; Telecommunications Industry; Denmark
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  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

Falabella stores, whether to develop personal banking services further, and whether to make substantial changes to the strategy or to exit the business. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52104 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao Abstract—This paper proposes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

(C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410118-PDF-ENG The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy Michael E. Porter, Carolyn A. Daly, and Andrew DervanHarvard Business School Case 710-463 In 2009 Children's Hospital of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2008
  • Teaching Note

Chiaphua Group Vietnam (TN)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [207090]. View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Diversification; Investment; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Market Entry and Exit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Private Ownership; Real Estate Industry; Viet Nam; Hong Kong; Singapore; Malaysia; Indonesia
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  • September 1993 (Revised December 1993)
  • Case

Cott Corp.: Private Label in the 1990s

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Robert S. Kaplan
Private label cola, Cott, gets 30% of the market in Canada. How does it move into the U.S. market? How do retailers evaluate its benefit costs? Does Cott use an existing structure or build new ones? Does Cott diversify from drink to snack foods? View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Cost Management; Labels; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Diversification; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • December 2006 (Revised January 2009)
  • Case

METRO Cash & Carry

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Lane
Analyzes the globalization of Metro Case & Carry, a German wholesaler, which has flourished in many foreign markets but struggled to gain traction in India. Considers Metro's experience in Russia and China to put the company's challenges in India in comparative... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; China; India; Russia; Germany
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  • October 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

Lexar Media: The Digital Photography Company?

Examines growth options for a start-up that has parlayed its core technology in flash memory controllers into a rapidly growing position in the emerging digital photography industry. The new CEO must decide whether LexarMedia should maintain its identity as a digital... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Technology Industry
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  • May 1997 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Teradyne: Managing Strategic Change

By: Joseph L. Bower
Three cases deal with the introduction of a new product to Teradyne's line of semiconductor test equipment. This case provides historic and administrative background for the other two cases. Teradyne: The Aurora Project deals with the problems facing the head of a... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Change Management; Business or Company Management; Market Entry and Exit; Product; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology
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  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 27, 2016

turnover—the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers—on operational performance in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

are smaller, more entrepreneurial companies and self-employed people," Deighton says. "It used to be that a little company hoped to have an exit strategy where it could be bought out by a larger... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing
  • 15 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

promising new technologies, a set of knowledgeable managers willing to take risks, helpful regulatory and tax conditions, and robust markets in order to exit investments. Despite these challenges, the past few years have seen a surge of... View Details
Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services
  • August 2007
  • Module Note

Managing Networked Businesses: Platform Evolution Module

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
Offers an overview of conceptual content and pedagogical guidance for instructors using a six-session module, "Platform Evolution," from "Managing Networked Businesses" (MNB), a case-based MBA elective course on platform-mediated networks. The module explores the... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Networks; Business or Company Management; Rights; Business Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Multi-Sided Platforms; Market Transactions; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Competition; Market Entry and Exit
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