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  • June 2009 (Revised July 2010)
  • Case

Microfin

By: Michael Chu and Enrique Kramer
The case presents the management dilemmas of a new institution in an undeveloped microfinance market in Latin America. Supported by a globally recognized industry player, it is the result of the efforts of two fledgling local entrepreneurs with a business model they... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Microfinance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
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Chu, Michael, and Enrique Kramer. "Microfin." Harvard Business School Case 309-126, June 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
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Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Reinventing Best Buy." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-442, November 2017.
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

Competitive Advantage Authors: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher Abstract Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

tragedy and a point of departure for thinking more carefully about the institutions humans have created to organize our economic lives, according to Salter. In a wide-ranging talk with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, weeks... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

Campbell, Asís Martínez Jerez, and Peter Tufano Publication:Journal of Banking and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

blocking ourselves from new challenges. This response hurts us and our organizations, but we fear making ourselves even more vulnerable by committing mistakes while learning something new. In Flying Without a Net, Thomas DeLong explains... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2013 (Revised November 2013)
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Growing Financial Services in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group

By: Paul M. Healy and Rachna Tahilyani
Aditya Birla Financial Services Group is a large, broad-based, Indian financial services institution offering products ranging from life insurance and mutual funds to private equity. The company has witnessed a turnaround in recent years and regained lost market share.... View Details
Keywords: Regulatory Environment; Finance; Asset Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Transformation; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Segmentation; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; India
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Healy, Paul M., and Rachna Tahilyani. "Growing Financial Services in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group." Harvard Business School Case 113-059, April 2013. (Revised November 2013.)
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

paid the sales force as a team. This has worked out fine, since they've been a near-monopoly seller of a single product category. However, this has changed. Not only are they facing new competition in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • 10 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

At first blush, the two-year-old online start-up Groupon seems a bit audacious. For starters, there's the news that the deal-of-the-day website turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google last month. Then there's the company's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology
  • 15 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet have flattened the competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007

first, should Schibsted allow Google to crawl its online news sites in Scandinavia? Second, were Schibsted's successes within Scandinavia repeatable outside it? Indeed, how far could Schibsted's competitive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

  Working PapersColonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India Authors:Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-062.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

competition by moving quickly into new cities, balancing the buying power of multinational retailers who were also purchasing merchandise for export, leveraging Beijing Hualian's understanding of the rapidly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January–February 2020
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Competing in the Age of AI

By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
Today’s markets are being reshaped by a new kind of firm—one in which artificial intelligence (AI) runs the show. This cohort includes giants like Google, Facebook, and Alibaba, and growing businesses such as Wayfair and Ocado. Every time we use their services, the... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; Technological Innovation; Business Model; Competition; Competitive Strategy; AI and Machine Learning
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Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Competing in the Age of AI." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 1 (January–February 2020): 60–67.
  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination regions, a pattern that differs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2007
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Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers

By: Juan Alcacer and Wilbur Chung
Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function of locations' knowledge activity, their own capabilities, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; For-Profit Firms; Knowledge Management; Research and Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; Cost Management; Technology; Competition; United States
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Alcacer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers." Management Science 53, no. 5 (May 2007): 760–776.
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

human patients. Doyle believes NovoCure has the potential to become an important company with a major new cancer therapy platform but must complete pivotal (Phase III) clinical trials and receive FDA approval. Doyle's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

see a ‘pandemic’ of bankruptcy filings in the near future,” Gilson says. “The pandemic analogy is particularly apt, in that if the number of new filings is sufficiently high, the bankruptcy courts, like hospitals treating COVID-19... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • April 2010
  • Supplement

The Auction for Travelport (B)

By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal
This short case presents the epilogue of The Auction for Travelport (A). Blackstone decided to bid on its own, acquired Travelport for $4.3 billion and subsequently went on to acquire another GDS, Travelspan, for $1.4 billion. It then merged the two GDSs and partially... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Private Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions; Industry Structures; Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Market Transactions; Change; Auctions; Travel Industry
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Hagiu, Andrei, and Misha Sanwal. "The Auction for Travelport (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-475, April 2010.
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