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      • April 2005 (Revised January 2007)
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      Furman Selz LLC (A): A Tale of Two Acquisitions

      By: Nancy D. Beaulieu, Boris Groysberg and Kyle Doherty
      Profiles a firm that was reacquired by two companies with different degrees of success. Highlights integration challenges present in acquisition deals when the primary assets of the target are human capital. Focuses on Furman Selz's acquisition by Xerox in 1987; its... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transition; Valuation; Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits; Integration; Organizational Culture; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Beaulieu, Nancy D., Boris Groysberg, and Kyle Doherty. "Furman Selz LLC (A): A Tale of Two Acquisitions." Harvard Business School Case 905-066, April 2005. (Revised January 2007.)
      • February 2005
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      Managing the Ecosystem

      By: Marco Iansiti
      The days of the corporate lone wolf are over. In our increasingly interconnected world, standing alone is no longer a viable business model. Instead, smart companies rely heavily on networks of partners, suppliers, and customers to achieve market success and sustain... View Details
      Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Partners and Partnerships; Industry Clusters; Customers; Markets; Situation or Environment; Banks and Banking; Insurance; Software
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      Iansiti, Marco. "Managing the Ecosystem." Optimize 4, no. 2 (February 2005).
      • January 2005 (Revised August 2005)
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      A Note on Managing the Growing Venture

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh, James L. Heskett and Michael J. Roberts
      Focuses on the strategic and organizational challenges that confront growing enterprises and the entrepreneurs who lead them. Provides an overview of how a new venture needs to change as it passes from the initial start-up to the growth phase. Explores how a venture's... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Leading Change
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      Hamermesh, Richard G., James L. Heskett, and Michael J. Roberts. "A Note on Managing the Growing Venture." Harvard Business School Background Note 805-092, January 2005. (Revised August 2005.)
      • January 2005 (Revised November 2009)
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      Tata Consultancy Services

      By: Rohit Deshpande and Seth Schulman
      As CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), S. "Ram" Ramadorai had grown the company into an emerging IT services powerhouse, with marquee clients such as General Electric, offices in 32 countries, and revenues of nearly $2 billion dollars. Now, he was about to steer... View Details
      Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Labor; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Consulting Industry; India; United States
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      Deshpande, Rohit, and Seth Schulman. "Tata Consultancy Services." Harvard Business School Case 505-058, January 2005. (Revised November 2009.)
      • December 2004 (Revised July 2005)
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      Extend Fertility

      By: Myra M. Hart and Sylvia Sensiper
      Focuses on the search for opportunity, the generation and evaluation of business concepts, creation of a business plan, and the start-up process. Follows experienced entrepreneur Christy Jones as she combines her business skills and personal experience to generate new... View Details
      Keywords: Opportunities; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Gender; Business Startups; Biotechnology Industry
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      Hart, Myra M., and Sylvia Sensiper. "Extend Fertility." Harvard Business School Case 805-065, December 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
      • December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
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      Managing Diversity at Cityside Financial Services

      By: Robin J. Ely and Ingrid Vargas
      Cityside Financial Services, a disguised consumer bank, serves both a largely African-American urban community and a more affluent, predominantly white clientele. To match the gender and racial makeup of its staff to that of its customers, Cityside's sales division... View Details
      Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Situation or Environment; Race; Employees; Gender; Customer Satisfaction; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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      Ely, Robin J., and Ingrid Vargas. "Managing Diversity at Cityside Financial Services." Harvard Business School Case 405-047, December 2004. (Revised April 2006.)
      • December 2004 (Revised May 2005)
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      Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute to sustainable development. Its initiatives focus first on coffee, cocoa, and milk. Nestle managers assert that the... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy; Agribusiness; Supply Chain Management; Marketing Strategy; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Reinhardt, Forest L. "Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 705-018, December 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
      • November 2004
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      IBM's Diversity Strategy: Bridging the Workplace and the Marketplace

      By: David A. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji
      Explores how IBM incorporated diversity into its business strategy, making the case that workforce diversity is critical to marketing its products and services to its customers. In the early 1990s, Ted Childs, vice-president of Workforce Diversity, proposed to CEO Lou... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Diversification; Business Strategy; Integration; Global Strategy; Organizations; Markets; Information Technology Industry; United States
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      Thomas, David A., and Ayesha Kanji. "IBM's Diversity Strategy: Bridging the Workplace and the Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 405-044, November 2004.
      • November 2004 (Revised May 2005)
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      Marvel Enterprises, Inc.

      By: Anita Elberse
      The management team of Marvel Enterprises, known for its universe of superhero characters that includes Spider-Man, the Hulk, and X-Men, must reevaluate its marketing strategy. In June 2004, only six years after the company emerged from bankruptcy, Marvel has amassed a... View Details
      Keywords: Intellectual Property; Business Model; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Opportunities; Growth and Development Strategy; Rights; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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      Elberse, Anita. "Marvel Enterprises, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 505-001, November 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
      • October 2004
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      Continuing Transformation of Asahi Glass, The: Implementing EVA

      By: Mihir A. Desai, Masako Egawa and Yanjun Wang
      This case explores the use of EVA--economic value added--methodology at Asahi Glass. EVA is among the changes initiated by the CEO aimed at transforming Asahi Glass from a traditional Japanese company to a global firm. Other changes included a corporate reorganization... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Change Management; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Recruitment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation
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      Desai, Mihir A., Masako Egawa, and Yanjun Wang. "Continuing Transformation of Asahi Glass, The: Implementing EVA." Harvard Business School Case 205-030, October 2004.
      • October 2004 (Revised October 2013)
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      In Search of Global Regulation

      By: Geoffrey Jones, Mona Rahmani and Alexis Gendron
      The history of the international regulation of global capitalism is surveyed, addressing the challenges facing firms confronting international, national, and regional regulation. Follows the history of global regulation after 1914, from the League of Nations'... View Details
      Keywords: History; Multinational Firms and Management; International Relations; Laws and Statutes; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations
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      Jones, Geoffrey, Mona Rahmani, and Alexis Gendron. "In Search of Global Regulation." Harvard Business School Case 805-025, October 2004. (Revised October 2013.)
      • September 2004 (Revised February 2006)
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      Fernwood Art Investments: Leading in an Imperfect Marketplace

      By: Boris Groysberg, Joel Podolny and Timothy Keller
      As Bruce Taub, founder of Fernwood, strolled past some of New York City's finest galleries, he pondered the unique challenges that Fernwood faced. Where others had seen the inefficiency of imperfect markets, Taub saw an opportunity to revolutionize the very nature of... View Details
      Keywords: Arts; Investment; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; New York (city, NY)
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      Groysberg, Boris, Joel Podolny, and Timothy Keller. "Fernwood Art Investments: Leading in an Imperfect Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 405-032, September 2004. (Revised February 2006.)
      • July 2004 (Revised May 2008)
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      Beacon Lakes

      By: Arthur I Segel, Robert Barlick Jr and Jose Gonzalez
      In September 2001, Armando Codina, the CEO and chairman of Codina Group, is facing the decision of whether to go ahead as planned with its $220 million Beacon Lakes project, a 6.6-million-square-foot warehouse and office park in Miami's Airport West submarket. Although... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Urban Scope; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Expansion; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; Everglades National Park; Miami
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      Segel, Arthur I., Robert Barlick Jr, and Jose Gonzalez. "Beacon Lakes." Harvard Business School Case 805-023, July 2004. (Revised May 2008.)
      • July 2004 (Revised March 2006)
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      RosettaNet and ebXML: Betting on the Right eBusiness Standard

      By: F. Warren McFarlan and Veronika Belokhvostova
      A major enterprise software company must select which technologies to support, based on their long-term and short-term viability and benefits. The protagonist is involved in the release of the B2B integration component of major enterprise software whose purpose is to... View Details
      Keywords: Communication Technology; Customer Focus and Relationships; Markets; Standards; Science-Based Business; Situation or Environment; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, and Veronika Belokhvostova. "RosettaNet and ebXML: Betting on the Right eBusiness Standard." Harvard Business School Case 305-006, July 2004. (Revised March 2006.)
      • July 2004 (Revised December 2004)
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      Timberland: Commerce and Justice

      By: James E. Austin, Herman B. Leonard and James Quinn
      When Jeffrey Swartz became the third generation in his family to lead the Timberland Co., he pursued a strategy in which commerce and justice were "inextricably linked." Community involvement, environmental management, and global labor standards became not addenda to... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Opportunities; Alignment; Business Strategy; Value
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      Austin, James E., Herman B. Leonard, and James Quinn. "Timberland: Commerce and Justice." Harvard Business School Case 305-002, July 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
      • June 2004
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      A Catering Theory of Dividends

      By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
      We propose that the decision to pay dividends is driven by prevailing investor demand for dividend payers. Managers cater to investors by paying dividends when investors put a stock price premium on payers, and by not paying when investors prefer nonpayers. To test... View Details
      Keywords: Dividends; Catering; Financial Instruments; Investment Return; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "A Catering Theory of Dividends." Journal of Finance 59, no. 3 (June 2004): 1125–1165.
      • May 2004 (Revised April 2005)
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      Prudential Securities

      By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Amanda Cowen
      Prudential Insurance Co. attempted to diversify into financial services by building an investment banking franchise. Prudential's initial foray into the industry was its acquisition of The Bache Group in 1982. In 2000, the company decided to exit investment banking.... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Banking; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Diversification; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry
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      Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Amanda Cowen. "Prudential Securities." Harvard Business School Case 104-008, May 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
      • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
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      Slingshot Technology, Inc. (A)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
      Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 804-022, May 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
      • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
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      Slingshot Technology, Inc. (B)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
      Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 804-023, May 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
      • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
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      Slingshot Technology, Inc. (C)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
      Supplements the (A) case. View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Case 804-024, May 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
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