Publications

Fast Answer

HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

Generous data download limit. LSEG Workspace PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information.... View Details

April 1989 (Revised November 1998)
Supplement

Masco Corp. (B)

By: Michael E. Porter and Cynthia A. Montgomery

Describes Masco's initial entry strategy and is designed as an in-class handout. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Diversification; Consumer Products Industry

June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
Case

Innovation at Progressive (C): Auto Repair

By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

Analyzes whether Progressive should enter the auto repair industry. The critical decision is whether the competencies that made Progressive succeed in the auto insurance industry can translate to the auto repair industry. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Innovation and Invention; Insurance Industry; Service Industry; Auto Industry

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

of Summit's funds that were ten years old or older were in the top quartile, and he said he believed the 1999 fund he's involved with would likely occupy a similar spot when exits were made and the returns counted. "But that means... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

October 2011 (Revised March 2015)
Case

Dongfeng Passenger Vehicle Company: Marketing Challenges for the Underprivileged Latecomer

By: Willy Shih and Nancy Hua Dai

As Mr. Li Chunrong visited the new assembly line for the Dongfeng Passenger Vehicle Company in Wuhan, China, he contemplated the position his business unit found itself in: a latecomer. As a state-owned enterprise Dongfeng had entered into numerous joint ventures to... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Auto Industry; China

February 1995 (Revised July 1995)
Supplement

Antmobel (B): Entering France?

Antmobel is presented with a plan to enter the French market. The company must weigh the costs and potential benefits of such a move in the context of its international strategy and the firm's capabilities. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Global Strategy; France

August 1984 (Revised May 1992)
Case

MCI Telecommunications Corp. (C): Data Communications Market Opportunity Assessment

By: John F. Cady and Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Communication Technology; Telecommunications Industry

Find at Harvard

Portrait Project

Nelly-Ange Kontchou

soil for latching onto every crease of my clothing when we got home. It wouldn’t leave me be. Before the start of business school, I step off the plane at Douala International Airport and into the suffocating heat. As I look out the exit... View Details

Alumni WDYDWYD

Athena Ko

When I was younger I was told I could do anything and have everything if I put my mind to it. So in the first thirty-odd years I went to Oxford, Harvard, had a good investment banking career, successfully exited a start up in 2006, and... View Details

November 2022 (Revised April 2023)
Supplement

HTC and Virtual Reality (B)

By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins

In April 2023, Cher Wang, CEO and Chairwoman of HTC, reflected on her time as a leader in the virtual reality industry from her office high above Taoyuan City, Taiwan. It had been a roller coaster ride of new product introductions and unexpected challenges for HTC and... View Details

Keywords: VR; Virtual Reality; Strategy; Metaverse; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Technology Industry; Taiwan; China; United States

December 1995 (Revised February 1997)
Case

Vickers Incorporated: Omaha Plant

The new vice president of the industrial group at Vickers, Inc., a pump manufacturer, must decide whether to shut down the company's largest production facility located in Omaha, Nebraska. The plant is plagued by antiquated equipment, antagonistic union relations, and... View Details

Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Operations; Manufacturing Industry

Web

Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

can be achieved? 5. Ecosystem and Ethics. What are the important ethical considerations that a startup founder needs to consider, particularly as they face key moments such as financing and exit opportunities? How are a founder’s... View Details

November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Case

NYSE vs. NASDAQ: International Competition

By: Estelle S. Cantillon and Tarun Khanna

Compares and contrasts the international strategies of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ as they looked overseas for new sources of growth in the late 1990s. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Financial Markets; Globalization; United States

Find at Harvard

December 2018
Teaching Note

Bayern Munich in China

By: Karim Lakhani and Sascha L. Schmidt

Teaching Note for HBS No. 617-025. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry; Football; Soccer; Bundesliga; Digital Technology; Sports; Global Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Online Technology; Sports Industry; Germany; China

01 Jun 2011
News

New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’

he recalls. Within months, Wyman exited the firm, but several years passed before he found his new calling, what he regards as the transformational outcome of his HBS experience. Building on their previous experiences in Rwanda, the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

24 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

the behavior leads to a negative rather than a positive outcome. We also find that people's willingness to punish wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Entry, Exit... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2024
Article

Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry

By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano

An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable”, resources and point to redeployment of... View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Assets

Find at Harvard

December 2011 (Revised April 2013)
Supplement

Akamai's Edge (B)

By: Eric Van den Steen

In 2009, Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, the leading online content delivery network with a 60% market share, needs to decide how to respond to aggressive market entry, whether and how to pursue the explosive growth in online video, and whether to stay with Akamai's... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Advantage

February 2003 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Susan Griffin: Formulation of a Long-Term Investment Strategy

By: Dwight B. Crane and Julia Stevens

Susan Griffin, owner and cofounder of a small manufacturing company, is formulating a long-term investment strategy. Griffin plans to sell her $10 million company and invest the revenue. She must decide how to allocate her investment so that she can rely entirely on... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment