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  • 25 Mar 2016
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Sharon Peyer, Co-founder, & VP Business Development, HitBliss

  • October 2012 (Revised February 2019)
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Whaling Ventures

By: Tom Nicholas and Jonas Peter Akins
Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there were about 900 whaling ships in the world and 700 of these were American. Rates of return on capital were high compared to benchmark investments, at... View Details
Keywords: Whaling; Organization Design; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Finance; Organizational Design; Industry Growth; History; United States
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Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter Akins. "Whaling Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 813-086, October 2012. (Revised February 2019.)
  • May 1994
  • Background Note

Designing Channels of Distribution

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Presents a framework and a method for addressing the new product channel choice decision. Offers a six-step method that involves: 1) disaggregating and prioritizing a distribution channel by customers' channel function requirements; 2) obtaining and combining... View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Framework; Cost; Customers; Cost vs Benefits; Management
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Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Designing Channels of Distribution." Harvard Business School Background Note 594-116, May 1994.
  • September 2020
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Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

By: Sunil Gupta, Jonathan Levav and Julia Kelley
In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch InBev, Drinkworks had developed an... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Market Design; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Business Model; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Decisions; Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Research; Research and Development; Strategy; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Segmentation; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Value; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; North and Central America; United States
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Gupta, Sunil, Jonathan Levav, and Julia Kelley. "Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig." Harvard Business School Case 521-010, September 2020.
  • 26 Jan 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right?

Keywords: by Paul Ma, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang
  • January 2003 (Revised February 2011)
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Business Analysis and Valuation Model (Version 5)

By: Paul M. Healy, Krishna G. Palepu and Jonathan Barnett
Once you enter company financial statements, this software enables you to standardize them to a common format, make any needed adjustments to the company's accounting, and make assumptions about the company's future performance. The model then provides financial ratios... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Standards; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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"Business Analysis and Valuation Model (Version 5)." Harvard Business School Tool 103-701, January 2003. (Revised February 2011.)
  • 24 Oct 2016
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Google and Facebook contribute zero economic value. That’s a big problem for trade.

  • March 1999 (Revised January 2000)
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A Note on Microeconomics for Strategists

By: Kenneth S. Corts and Jan W. Rivkin
Summarizes the core ideas about the microeconomics of markets that are most relevant to business strategy. Sections I and II develop two basic building blocks of any market, demand and supply. Section II discusses how demand and supply interact to determine the... View Details
Keywords: Microeconomics; Cost; Cost of Capital; Market Entry and Exit; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy
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Corts, Kenneth S., and Jan W. Rivkin. "A Note on Microeconomics for Strategists." Harvard Business School Background Note 799-128, March 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
  • March 2004 (Revised May 2004)
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Jack Smith (C): Becoming a Toyota Manager (II)

Jack Smith had a stellar career at Chrysler managing major design teams and manufacturing plants before deciding to join industry leader and benchmark Toyota. It is his first day on the job; what will his orientation entail? Cursory walkthroughs and introductions... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
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Spear, Steven J. "Jack Smith (C): Becoming a Toyota Manager (II)." Harvard Business School Case 604-060, March 2004. (Revised May 2004.)
  • March 2004 (Revised May 2004)
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Jack Smith (B): Becoming a Toyota Manager (I)

Jack Smith had a stellar career at Chrysler managing major design teams and manufacturing plants before deciding to join industry leader and benchmark Toyota. It is his first day on the job; what will his orientation entail? Cursory walkthroughs and introductions... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
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Spear, Steven J. "Jack Smith (B): Becoming a Toyota Manager (I)." Harvard Business School Case 604-059, March 2004. (Revised May 2004.)
  • July – August 2008
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Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts' Earnings Forecasts

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Craig James Chapman
We compare the earnings forecast performance of analysts at a large buy-side firm to that of sell-side analysts. Our tests show that the buy-side firm analysts make more optimistic and less accurate forecasts than their counterparts on the sell-side. These performance... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Business Earnings; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Effectiveness
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Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Craig James Chapman. "Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts' Earnings Forecasts ." Financial Analysts Journal 64, no. 4 (July–August 2008): 25 – 39.
  • 28 Jun 2010
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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

considered itself to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • March 2004 (Revised May 2004)
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Jack Smith (A): Career Launch at Toyota

Jack Smith had a stellar career at Chrysler managing major design teams and manufacturing plants before deciding to join industry leader and benchmark Toyota. It is his first day on the job; what will his orientation entail? Cursory walkthroughs and introductions... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
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Spear, Steven J., and Courtney Purrington. "Jack Smith (A): Career Launch at Toyota." Harvard Business School Case 604-057, March 2004. (Revised May 2004.)
  • August 2022
  • Case

The Spreadsheet

By: Zoë B. Cullen and Alexander J. MacKay
Compensation is the largest expenditure of almost every venture. Getting compensation packages right affects talent acquisition, retention, and profitability. In this case, and accompanying negotiation exercise, students learn strategies and tactics for setting... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing
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Cullen, Zoë B., and Alexander J. MacKay. "The Spreadsheet." Harvard Business School Case 723-366, August 2022.
  • 2007
  • Report

Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands

By: Michael E. Porter
Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands benchmarks current U.S. competitiveness against twenty years of domestic and global economic data. The baseline year, 1986, was chosen because it marked the beginning of cyclical expansion in the domestic economy, a high... View Details
Keywords: Economics; United States
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Porter, Michael E. "Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands." Report Series, Council on Competitiveness, January 2007.
  • February 1994 (Revised February 1996)
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Union Carbide Corporation: Interest Rate Risk Management

By: Peter Tufano
Union Carbide's board of directors is asked to evaluate a proposal from the staff treasurer's that would articulate policies to manage its debt portfolio. The staff proposes that shareholder value will be maximized if the firm manages its exposure to interest rates by... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Interest Rates; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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Tufano, Peter, and Jon Headley. "Union Carbide Corporation: Interest Rate Risk Management." Harvard Business School Case 294-057, February 1994. (Revised February 1996.)
  • 29 May 2009
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How economists can misunderstand the crisis

  • July 2014
  • Case

Thompson Asset Management

By: William Fruhan and John Banko
Thompson Asset Management (TAM) is a small investment advisory and asset management firm in Jacksonville, Florida, with about $100 million in assets under management in two different funds. Since starting the firm in 2009, the CEO and founder Allison Thompson has had a... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Asset Management; Expansion; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry; Florida
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Fruhan, William, and John Banko. "Thompson Asset Management." Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-565, July 2014.
  • 12 Nov 2014
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Whalen: Dow Should Give Money Back to Shareholders

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The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

By: Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
We examine twenty years of direct private equity investments by seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Intermediation; Direct Investment; Co-investment; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets
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Fang, Lily, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner. "The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity." Journal of Financial Economics 116, no. 1 (April 2015): 160–178.
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