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  • 10 Jul 2007
  • News

How to Reduce Risk in the Financial System

  • December 2024
  • Supplement

Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)

By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar, Peter Tufano, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Emilie Billaud
The (B) case explores Northvolt’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on November 21, 2024, highlighting the company’s struggles to scale operations amid a global EV market slowdown and internal production challenges. While the (A) case detailed Northvolt’s ambitious... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy; Green Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transportation; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden
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Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns

We present evidence of inefficient information processing in equity markets by documenting that biases in analysts' earnings forecasts are reflected in stock prices. In particular, investors fail to account for analysts' tendency to withhold negative views and to issue... View Details
  • 16 May 2018
  • News

How Companies Can Use the Data They Collect to Further the Public Good

  • Research Summary

Financial Incentives

My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

  • September 2012 (Revised November 2014)
  • Case

Cialis Lifecycle Management: Lilly's BPH Dilemma

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
How should Eli Lilly further develop and market a new indication of its highly successful erectile-dysfunction (ED) drug, Cialis, without confusing Cialis's hard-won brand equity with physicians and patients? With the final stages of clinical trials for the new... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Attitudes; Brands and Branding; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    Gunnar Trumbull

    Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Professor Sherman's research has long focused on financial reporting, performance measurement/management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate management and Boards of Directors in global businesses. He also actively studies methods to improve productivity in... View Details
    • August 2016
    • Supplement

    CEO Succession at Cisco (B): Announcement Strategy

    By: Boris Groysberg, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Annelena Lobb
    Supplements the (A) case (417-031). This case supplement describes Cisco’s communications strategy around the CEO announcement, which focused on controlling the narrative and avoiding leaks. The strategy included both internal and external processes aimed at... View Details
    Keywords: Management Succession; Communication Strategy; Technology Industry
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    • 2015
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Lennox-Choate
    In 2013, Howard Fischer (hedge fund founder) and Eric Jacobsen (serial entrepreneur and private equity investor) established Gratitude Railroad as a community of impact investors in nine different "tracks." Each track represented a different concept for using... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Social Change; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; United States
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    • 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Yonyou 2013 (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
    The case describes how a leading Chinese management software provider Yonyou (formerly known as "UFIDA") disrupted its value chain-based business model to transform itself into a platform provider. The case describes Yonyou's past success, the market forces and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Models; ERP; Platforms; Strategy; Transformations; China; Information Technology; China
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    • 2007
    • Book

    Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism

    By: G. Jones and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani
    These volumes demonstrates the importance of historical perspectives in the study of entrepreneurship. By exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the history of global capitalism, the authors show that historical knowledge can challenge widely accepted... View Details
    Keywords: History; Diasporas; Economic Systems; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Firms and Management; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • 27 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

    Drivers on Interstate 25 in Colorado have been speculating about the fate of hundreds of Volkswagen cars sitting in a lot near Pikes Peak International Raceway. It’s one of 37 sites in the United States where the automaker is storing... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    Li Ning - Anything is Possible

    A leading sporting goods company in China competes aggressively against global brands Nike and Adidas, with marketing strategies adapted to geographic segments. In the main cities, where competition takes place at a very conceptual level, Li Ning has chosen to adopt a... View Details
    Keywords: Product Positioning; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Global Strategy; City; Consumer Products Industry; Sports Industry; China
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    • November 2000 (Revised February 2002)
    • Case

    Resinas Sinteticas, S.A. (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers
    A recent MBA graduate heads international marketing for his family's Mexico-based rosin supply business, he must decide how to respond to the aggressive tactics of his much larger American competitor. Among other things, the U.S. competitor is spreading false rumors... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Competition; Marketing Strategy; Business Strategy; Crime and Corruption; Trade; Chemical Industry; Mexico; United States; Europe
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    • November 2006 (Revised November 2007)
    • Case

    Strategy in the Twenty First Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc.

    By: David J. Collis and Troy Smith
    The global pharmaceutical industry has gone through substantial changes in the last few decades and pharmaceutical firms face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    • January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
    • Supplement

    China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (B)

    By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Yuen Manty
    Supplements the A case [308027]. With its dual listings on the Hong Kong stock market and New York stock Exchange, state-owned enterprise, China Netcom was mandated to meet the listing requirements of these exchanges. From this initial step, China Netcom's Chairman,... View Details
    Keywords: Management Teams; Corporate Governance; State Ownership; Standards; Globalized Markets and Industries; Telecommunications Industry; China
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    • March 2011 (Revised September 2014)
    • Case

    Bridging the GAAPs

    By: Gwen Yu
    Inconsistencies in accounting treatment across countries are a major obstacle for global equity investment. Adoption of a single accounting standard (IFRS) has been received with much excitement, where apples to apples comparison across countries will become easier.... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Private Equity; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Management; Standards; Valuation
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      Brian L. Trelstad

       

      Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

      Keywords: emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity
      • September 2011 (Revised September 2011)
      • Case

      Penn Warranty Corporation

      By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
      Penn Warranty Corporation sold warranty contracts to the used car market. During the recession in 2008/2009 Penn's sales declined by 26% Instead of growing by 11% as forecasted. Also, disruptions in financial and insurance markets created a cash shortfall. In the... View Details
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