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  • June 2018
  • Case

The Grommet in 2018

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Karen Gordon Mills and Lena Goldberg
The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of scaling its business. The Grommet's daily launch and sale of innovative consumer products, using personal videos created by product makers, had led to its initial success. In 2014, the company launched... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Value Capture; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Value; Retail Industry
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  • June 2018
  • Exercise

Venture Capital Term Sheets

By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Robert White
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  • June 2018 (Revised July 2023)
  • Case

John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating web filtering in China. It begins by tracing the origins of Cisco as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco... View Details
Keywords: Cisco; Internet and the Web; Governance Controls; Ethics; Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China
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  • June 2018
  • Supplement

Tomer Zvulun and The Atlanta Opera at Crossroads

By: Michael L. Tushman and Kerry Herman
Keywords: Innovation; Explore/Exploit; Ambidexterity; Zvulun; Opera; Arts; Strategy; Talent; Talent Management; Non-profit; Leadership Transition; Leadership; Organizational Behavior
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  • June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details
Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career
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  • June 2018
  • Teaching Note

The Transformation of Microsoft

By: C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-048. In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Corporate Finance; Valuation; Growth Management; Communication Strategy; Transformation; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; United States
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  • June 2018 (Revised October 2018)
  • Teaching Note

Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A), (B), and (C)

By: Marco Di Maggio and Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 218-095, 218-096, and 218-116. View Details
Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Underwriters; Investment Banking; Social Network; Discounted Cash Flow; Cost Of Capital; Conflicts Of Interest; Corporate Governance; Advertising; Quiet Period; Business Startups; Digital Marketing; Initial Public Offering; Information Infrastructure; Valuation; Venture Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Media; Advertising Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; California
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  • June 2018
  • Case

Forta Furniture: International Expansion

By: John A. Quelch and Karthik Easwar
The Forta Furniture case highlights the need to consider new market expansion to grow a firm. It demonstrates that simply doing what has always been done is not sustainable when other competitors enter the market with differentiated or potentially superior offerings.... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Global Range; Decision Making; Analysis; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Expansion
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  • June 2018
  • Teaching Note

Forta Furniture: International Expansion (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Karthik Easwar
Teaching Note for HBS No. 918-547. View Details
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  • June 2018
  • Supplement

Forta Furniture: International Expansion, Spreadsheet for Instructors (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Karthik Easwar
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  • June 2018
  • Supplement

Forta Furniture: International Expansion, Spreadsheet for Students (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Karthik Easwar
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  • June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
  • Teaching Note

Apple Inc. in 2018

By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-439. View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Telecommunications Industry; Computer Industry
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  • June 2018
  • Teaching Note

Lovepop

By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Olivia Hull
Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-015. View Details
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  • 18 Jun 2018
  • Talk

CEO Activism

By: Michael W. Toffel
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  • June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details
Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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  • June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
  • Teaching Note

Qualcomm Inc., 2019

By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-514. View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Property; Information Technology; Standards; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Telecommunications Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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  • June 2018 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

Qualcomm Inc., 2019

By: David B. Yoffie and Andrew S. Choi
This case is set in mid-2019, when Qualcomm was struggling with unwanted take-over battles, fights with Apple and the Chinese government, and internal dissension on the board of directors. Ten years earlier Qualcomm was hailed as a monopoly on CDMA technologies and... View Details
Keywords: Technology Cycles; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Property; Information Technology; Standards; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Telecommunications Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 18 Jun 2018
  • Panel Discussion

Strengthening Business School and Industry Partnerships

By: Lynn S. Paine
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  • Article

The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews

By: Jonas Heese, Miguel Duro and Gaizka Ormazabal
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  • 2018
  • Book

Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking

By: Gerald Zaltman
What’s the best way to change your life? Change how you think, says marketing guru Gerald Zaltman. While most of us are accustomed to self-improvement via physical exercise or dieting, we often overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts.... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Performance Improvement
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