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  • February 2018
  • Case

Whole Foods and JANA Partners

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
In 2017, JANA Partners decided to launch an activist campaign at struggling supermarket chain Whole Foods Market. The company had struggled for the past several years, and JANA thought the presence of new directors could help turn around its operations, while Whole... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Information Technology; Institutional Investing; Investment Activism; United States
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  • Other Article

Why I Volunteer at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

By: Scott Duke Kominers
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  • February 2018
  • Teaching Note

Going Rogue: Choson Exchange in North Korea

By: Sophus A. Reinert
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-015. View Details
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  • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

KT Corporation in the New Energy Market

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Dawn H. Lau
Keywords: South Korea; Korea Telecom; Energy Markets; Chang-Gyu Hwang; KT; Energy; Energy Industry; Telecommunications Industry; South Korea; Korean Peninsula
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  • February 2018
  • Teaching Note

Piracy in Somalia (A) and (B)

By: Sophus A. Reinert
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 718-018 and 718-019. View Details
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  • February 2018 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Wellington Global Impact

By: Shawn Cole and Lynn Schenk
Wellington Global Impact is one of the first public equities impact investing strategies in the market. The case explores how the strategy was developed at Wellington, including an analysis of the culture that supported its development. It also explores the difficulty... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Impact Investing; Investment; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Analysis
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  • February 2018
  • Supplement

Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas (C)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Paul M. Healy and Kyle Thomas
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  • February 2018
  • Supplement

Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas (D)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Paul M. Healy and Kyle Thomas
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  • February 2018 (Revised April 2019)
  • Case

Gurgaon

By: John Macomber and Vidhya Muthuram
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  • February 2018
  • Case

Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking Pension Fund Investments

By: John Macomber and Pippa Tubman Armerding
The so-called “infrastructure finance gap” was a problem in Nigeria as in many parts of the world. Infrastructure projects like power plants and dams were very large capital investments that could generate long-term consistent cash flows, but their financing and... View Details
Keywords: Pension Fund Investing; Infrastucture; Power/Energy; Credit Enhancement; Infrastructure; Project Finance; Investment Funds; Emerging Markets; Nigeria; Africa
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  • February 2018 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Nykaa.com: A Passion for Beauty

By: Paul Gompers, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
Being an entrepreneur was a childhood dream for Falguni Nayar. The opportunity to build Nykaa.com, a woman-centered business, with a multi-brand retail format in the beauty and wellness space, and the fact that she was doing it with her daughter Adwaita (HBS MBA 2013)... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Information Technology; Human Resources; Brands and Branding; Operations; Marketing; Decision Making
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  • February 2018 (Revised October 2019)
  • Technical Note

The Art and Science of Brand Valuation

By: Jill Avery
Brand valuation, the art and science of calculating the economic value accruing to a firm from its use of an intangible brand asset, yields frustratingly inconsistent, discrepant, and, therefore, controversial results. While it is widely accepted that brands are... View Details
Keywords: Brand Valuation; Brand Value; Brand; Brand Management; Marketing ROI; Brand Equity; Analytics; Return On Investment; Brands and Branding; Valuation; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Investment Return; Consumer Behavior; Advertising Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Auto Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Electronics Industry; Fashion Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • February 2018
  • Background Note

Patent Trolling

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, Scott Duke Kominers and George Hou
The U.S. Intellectual Property (IP) Ecosystem is one of the most robust and dynamic in the world—and has been for centuries. The bedrock of this system is the "patent," a legal document that allows its holder exclusive commercialization rights of a part of the "idea... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States
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  • February 2018 (Revised December 2020)
  • Supplement

People Analytics at Teach For America (Data Set)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer
This data set is a supplement to the People Analytics at Teach For America (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Human Resource Management; Data; Workforce; Hiring; Talent Management; Forecasting; Predictive Analytics; Organizational Behavior; Recruiting
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  • February 2018
  • Teaching Note

Advika Consulting Services: Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Human Capital

By: Alison Wood Brooks, Francesca Gino, Julia J. Lee, Bradley R. Staats, Andrew Wasynczuk and John Beshears
Teaching Note for HBS No. 916-033. View Details
Keywords: Consulting Firms
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  • February 2018
  • Case

EmQuest: Travel Distribution in the Digital Era

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Gamze Yucaoglu
EmQuest, Emirates Group’s travel distribution company, must decide what to do with its contract with the global distribution system it uses, Sabre. Since its founding in 1988, EmQuest was servicing travel agents in the MENA region by providing a connection to over 400... View Details
Keywords: UAE; Decision; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Change Management; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Competitive Advantage; Travel Industry; United Arab Emirates
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  • February 2018
  • Teaching Note

Instacart and the New Wave of Grocery Startups

By: John Deighton
Teaching Note for HBS No. 515-089. View Details
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  • February 2018 (Revised December 2020)
  • Case

People Analytics at Teach For America (A)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Julia Kelley
As of mid-2016, national nonprofit Teach For America (TFA) had struggled with three consecutive years of declining application totals, and senior management was re-examining the organization's strategy, including recruitment and selection. A few months earlier, former... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • February 2018
  • Supplement

People Analytics at Teach For America (B)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the People Analytics at Teach For America (A) case. In this supplement, Managing Director Michael Metzger must decide how to extend his team’s predictive analytics work using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Forecasting and Prediction; Recruitment; Analysis
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  • February 2018
  • Case

Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier

By: Shawn Cole and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
In 2015 Root Capital, a pioneer in the impact investing space, began to explore how to more systematically integrate impact and financial management. After much deliberation, Root Capital landed on ex-ante rating system for any potential investment that produced a... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Investment; Finance; Performance Efficiency; Boston
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