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  • 2017
  • Module Note

Financial Accounting Reading: Analyzing Financial Statements

By: Suraj Srinivasan and V.G. Narayanan
Core Curriculum Readings in Financial Accounting cover the fundamental concepts in financial accounting. Many Readings include videos and Interactive Illustrations to help students master complex concepts.
This reading helps students understand that financial... View Details
Keywords: Financial Ratios; Financial Statements; Analysis; Accounting
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

By: Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova
Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when goods designated for a foreign market are resold domestically. One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices... View Details
Keywords: Price; Multinational Firms and Management; Demand and Consumers; Distribution Channels; Business and Government Relations; Sales; Competitive Strategy
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    Rajiv Lal

    Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

    • March 2021 (Revised July 2021)
    • Case

    Resident

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Thomas O. Jones
    Launched in 2016, Resident was a leading player in the direct-to-consumer bed-in-a-box mattress market, where it was one of at least 175 venture-backed companies competing in the space. By late 2020, it had realized over $500 million in revenue, profitability in the... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Operations; Entrepreneurship; Competitive Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Decisions; Marketing Strategy; Cash Flow; Demand and Consumers
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    • October 2018
    • Supplement

    African Bank Investments Limited (B)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; South Africa
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    • October 2013
    • Article

    The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care

    By: Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee
    In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality, despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained clinicians. Health care leaders and policy makers have tried... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Value; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • 05 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

    customers routinely selected cards that although profitable for the bank could be a poor fit for customers’ needs—leading to low satisfaction scores, cancellations, and occasionally, financial distress. To... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • May 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Hilti Fleet Management (A) and (B)

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
    These notes are meant to accompany Hilti Fleet Management (A): Turning a Successful Business Model on Its Head (717-427) and Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model (717-465).
    This case explores the introduction of fleet management in the... View Details
    Keywords: Hilti; Business Model Innovation; BMI; Fleet Management; Decision-making; Implementation; Power Tools Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Construction; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Strategy; Decision Making; Growth Management; Construction Industry; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Germany; Austria; Europe; United States; Asia; Brazil; China; Latin America; Africa; Japan; Hong Kong; France; Italy; Spain
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    • 09 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 9

    order to understand how socially imprinted WISEs may mitigate this negative relationship between social imprinting and economic productivity, we also conduct a comparative analysis of case studies. We find that one effective approach is... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2021
    • Article

    Information Transparency, Multihoming, and Platform Competition: A Natural Experiment in the Daily Deals Market

    By: Hui Li and Feng Zhu
    Platform competition is shaped by the likelihood of multi-homing (i.e., complementors or consumers adopt more than one platform). To take advantage of multi-homing, platform firms often attempt to motivate their rivals’ high-performing complementors to adopt their own... View Details
    Keywords: Platform Competition; Multi-homing; Information Transparency; Daily Deals; Groupon; LivingSocial; Digital Platforms; Information; Competition
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    • 19 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 19, 2006

    demand. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12756 The Value of a 'Free' Customer Authors:Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela, and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz Abstract Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenue and View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Jan 2024
    • Op-Ed

    Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago

    aviation technology from the past 30-40 years, Stonecipher elected to maximize profits from older models and use the cash to buy back Boeing stock. Just two years after taking over, Stonecipher resigned after violating the company’s code... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Air Transportation; Transportation; Aerospace
    • fall 2008
    • Article

    Typosquatting: Unintended Adventures in Browsing

    By: Benjamin Edelman
    "Typosquatting" is the practice of registering domain names, identical to or confusingly similar to trademarks and famous names, in hopes that users will accidentally request these sites—whereupon they will receive, typically, advertisements. This piece presents the... View Details
    Keywords: Web; Advertising; Business Model; Lawsuits and Litigation; Profit; Practice
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    • 26 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 26, 2008

    short term, but produces complementary effects in both the catalog and the online channels in the long term; the complementary effects, which are magnified in the online channel, more than overcome the initial losses in the catalog channel. View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Marketing - Doctoral

    Customer profitability analysis Eva Ascarza Das Narayandas Customer relationship management Eva Ascarza Sunil Gupta Das Narayandas V. Kasturi... View Details
    • August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
    • Case

    Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (A)

    By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
    The case opens in November 2019 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are contemplating what the best fulfillment format and... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Grocery; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Turkey
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    • August 2007 (Revised November 2010)
    • Case

    Grand Central Publishing

    By: Anita Elberse
    In April 2007, Grand Central's publisher Jamie Raab and editor Karen Kosztolnyik were involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Product Launch; Bids and Bidding; Product Development; Publishing Industry
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    • 02 Jul 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

    Keywords: by Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler & Ana Maria Santacreu; Technology
    • June 2024
    • Teaching Note

    Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

    By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details
    Keywords: Analysis; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Plan; Disruption; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Nationality; Race; Residency; Higher Education; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Corporate Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Valuation; Value Creation; Employment Industry; United Kingdom
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    • Program

    Creating Brand Value

    Build brand loyalty and optimize your customer relationships Ensure consumers are allies, not adversaries Design brand strategy and manage brands for maximum value Compete more successfully by evolving and repositioning existing brands... View Details