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      • May 2003 (Revised November 2005)
      • Case

      Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      The great U.K. retailer fell on hard times in 1998. In 2001, a new CEO was recruited who appears to have succeeded in turning around this world-renown company. This case examines the steps he took (strategic, structural, and recruiting key people) and highlights a... View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Recruitment; Leadership Development; Crisis Management; Supply and Industry; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Segmentation; Retail Industry
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      Bower, Joseph L. "Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises." Harvard Business School Case 303-096, May 2003. (Revised November 2005.)
      • 2003
      • Conference Paper

      Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction

      By: John D. Macomber
      Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Technological Innovation; Construction; Design; Performance Improvement; Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Management; Adoption; Business Model; Capital Structure; Supply Chain
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      Macomber, John D. "Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction." Paper presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003.
      • 2003
      • Chapter

      Managing Across Borders: New Organizational Responses

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
      Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      Bartlett, Christopher A., and Sumantra Ghoshal. "Managing Across Borders: New Organizational Responses." Chap. 7 in Smart Globalization: Designing Global Strategies, Creating Global Networks, edited by Anil K. Gupta and Eleanor D. Westney. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
      • February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
      • Case

      Accel Partners' European Launch

      By: G. Felda Hardymon and Josh Lerner
      In spring 2001, with the venture market crashing all around, the London office of Accel Partners, a major west coast venture capital firm, needs to make a decision about investing in an Irish software company. As the first investment of the new European operation, the... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Venture Capital; Global Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Expansion; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; London; United States
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      Hardymon, G. Felda, and Josh Lerner. "Accel Partners' European Launch." Harvard Business School Case 803-021, February 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
      • January 2003 (Revised September 2007)
      • Background Note

      A Note on Racing to Acquire Customers

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
      Examines factors that motivate a firm's race to acquire customers in newly emerging markets and explores conditions under which racing strategies are likely to yield attractive returns. Provides a definition of racing behavior, introduces the notion of an optimal level... View Details
      Keywords: Customers; Price Bubble; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Behavior; Competition
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R. "A Note on Racing to Acquire Customers." Harvard Business School Background Note 803-103, January 2003. (Revised September 2007.)
      • 2003
      • Chapter

      Equity Financing

      By: Paul Gompers and Joshua Lerner
      Equity financing for entrepreneurial firms has attracted increasing attention in both the popular press and academic literature. The dramatic growth in the venture capital industry in the past two decades has been accompanied by new academic research that explores... View Details
      Keywords: Angel Investors; Financing and Loans; Equity; Venture Capital; Business Startups
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      Gompers, Paul, and Joshua Lerner. "Equity Financing." In Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction, by Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch, 267–298. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
      • December 2002 (Revised February 2005)
      • Case

      Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (B): A Global Merger

      By: Ashish Nanda
      The negotiations for the merger between Cap Gemini and Ernst & Young conclude, resolving issues of how to bring together Ernst & Young consulting partnerships from all over the world into the publicly held Cap Gemini. Reactions to the merger were optimistic within Cap... View Details
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation; Multinational Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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      Nanda, Ashish, Bertrand Moingeon, Lisa Haueisen Rohrer, and Guillaume Soenen. "Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (B): A Global Merger." Harvard Business School Case 903-057, December 2002. (Revised February 2005.)
      • December 2002 (Revised January 2014)
      • Case

      Matt Leeds (A)

      By: Linda A. Hill

      A new associate in a consulting firm attempts to navigate his way through the norms and culture of a new setting and to manage his relationships with his superiors and peers, which got off to a poor start.

      PLEASE NOTE: This case was revised in January 2014.... View Details

      Keywords: Power and Influence; Rank and Position; Organizational Culture; Consulting Industry
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      Hill, Linda A. "Matt Leeds (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-111, December 2002. (Revised January 2014.)
      • December 2002 (Revised June 2003)
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      Vignette: The Rebar Dilemma

      By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Martin Smith, a new associate at an LBO firm, must respond to a problem posed by his boss, based on an historical deal that suddenly came undone. After months of negotiation, his firm's plan to buy a bankrupt competitor of one of its portfolio companies and close it... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Competition; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management
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      Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Vignette: The Rebar Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 803-091, December 2002. (Revised June 2003.)
      • October 2002 (Revised May 2004)
      • Case

      Intuit's New CEO: Steve Bennett

      By: William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
      Describes the transition to a new CEO at Intuit, a successful software and financial services firm in California. The new CEO must decide what to change and how fast. He must also navigate within a culture everyone believes to be successful but he envisions can be... View Details
      Keywords: Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; California
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      Sahlman, William A., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Intuit's New CEO: Steve Bennett." Harvard Business School Case 803-044, October 2002. (Revised May 2004.)
      • October 2002 (Revised January 2013)
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      Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

      By: Paul M. Healy
      Krispy Kreme is a rapidly growing firm with a business model that has excited Wall Street. View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Financial Statements; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Reporting; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      Healy, Paul M. "Krispy Kreme Doughnuts." Harvard Business School Case 103-018, October 2002. (Revised January 2013.)
      • September 2002 (Revised January 2003)
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      Dimensional Fund Advisors, 2002

      By: Randolph B. Cohen
      Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment management firm that prides itself on basing its investment strategies on sound academic research. Many of the best-known finance research papers of the past two decades (especially those by Eugene Fama and Kenneth... View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research; Success; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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      Cohen, Randolph B. "Dimensional Fund Advisors, 2002." Harvard Business School Case 203-026, September 2002. (Revised January 2003.)
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      What Do We Know About Variance in Accounting Profitability?

      By: Anita M. McGahan and Michael E. Porter
      In this paper, we analyze the variance of accounting profitability among a broad cross-section of firms in the American economy from 1981 to 1994. The purpose of the analysis is to identify the importance of year, industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; United States
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      McGahan, Anita M., and Michael E. Porter. "What Do We Know About Variance in Accounting Profitability?" Management Science 48, no. 7 (July 2002): 834–851.
      • April 2002
      • Case

      Ocular

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Gregor M. Andrade and Jonathan Man
      Concerns the decision of Ed Kennedy, co-founder of Ocular Networks, as he decides what financing strategy his firm should take. The venture capital and public markets for telecommunications start-ups had dried up and Kennedy must decide whether to cut costs and raise... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Business Startups; Decisions; Venture Capital; Cost Management; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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      Gompers, Paul A., Gregor M. Andrade, and Jonathan Man. "Ocular." Harvard Business School Case 202-118, April 2002.
      • March 2002 (Revised October 2005)
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      Wal-Mart in 2002

      By: David B. Yoffie and Yusi Wang
      In its first quarter of 2002, Wal-Mart became the largest company on the globe (by sales) and expanded into Japan. Was the giant retailer unstoppable? This case explores Wal-Mart's top issues in fueling top- and bottom-line growth: diversification into groceries, new... View Details
      Keywords: Diversification; Expansion; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Global Strategy; Retail Industry; Japan; United States
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      Yoffie, David B., and Yusi Wang. "Wal-Mart in 2002." Harvard Business School Case 702-466, March 2002. (Revised October 2005.)
      • February 2002 (Revised April 2002)
      • Case

      Chengwei Ventures and the hdt* Investment

      By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Bo Feng, cofounder and principal in Chengwei Ventures, one of the first sovereign venture capital firms in China, is trying to decide on the proper business model for hdt, the product of a merger between two portfolio companies. This case discusses the best way for the... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Relationship Management; Sovereign Finance; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Markets; Business Model; Financial Services Industry; China
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      Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Chengwei Ventures and the hdt* Investment." Harvard Business School Case 802-089, February 2002. (Revised April 2002.)
      • 2002
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      The Maturity of Debt Issues and Predictable Variation in Bond Returns

      By: Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood and Jeffrey Wurgler
      The maturity of new debt issues predicts excess bond returns. When the share of long term debt issues in total debt issues is high, future excess bond returns are low. This predictive power comes in two parts. First, inflation, the real short-term rate, and the term... View Details
      Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Bonds; Investment Return; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction
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      Baker, Malcolm, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "The Maturity of Debt Issues and Predictable Variation in Bond Returns." 2002. (First draft in 2001.)
      • January 2002 (Revised January 2004)
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      Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in the Twenty-First Century

      By: David B. Yoffie and Yusi Wang
      Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-cola and Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. New challenges of the 21st century included boosting flagging domestic cola sales and finding new revenue streams. Both firms also began to modify their bottling,... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Growth and Development; Brands and Branding; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Performance; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Yoffie, David B., and Yusi Wang. "Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in the Twenty-First Century." Harvard Business School Case 702-442, January 2002. (Revised January 2004.)
      • 2002
      • Article

      High Performance Firms in a Complex New China: A Tale of Six Cities

      By: Rohit Deshpandé and John U. Farley
      Keywords: Performance; Business Ventures; City; China
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      Deshpandé, Rohit, and John U. Farley. "High Performance Firms in a Complex New China: A Tale of Six Cities." Journal of Global Marketing 16, nos. 1/2 (2002): 207–229.
      • October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
      • Case

      Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
      In 1997, Mike Volkema faced the difficulty of attempting to revitalize a once dynamic organization. Volkema wondered how he could incorporate advances made within subsidiaries, such as Miller SQA's business model innovation, into the company as a whole while also... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Product Design; Product Development; Product; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Service Delivery; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Stacy McManus. "Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams." Harvard Business School Case 602-024, October 2001. (Revised November 2002.)
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