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      • June 2008
      • Case

      Starbucks Coffee Company in the 21st Century

      By: Nancy F. Koehn, Marya Lisl Hill-Popper Besharov and Katherine Miller
      The case explores the opportunities and challenges confronting Starbucks in the early 21st century. For more than 15 years, Starbucks has grown swiftly and successfully, helping create a large, dynamic market for specialty coffee, building one of the world's most... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Economy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competition
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      Koehn, Nancy F., Marya Lisl Hill-Popper Besharov, and Katherine Miller. "Starbucks Coffee Company in the 21st Century." Harvard Business School Case 808-019, June 2008.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit

      By: Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala and Monica Singhal
      The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs "investable" tax credits to spur production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Housing; Renting or Rental; United States
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      Desai, Mihir A., Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal. "Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14149, June 2008.
      • May 2008 (Revised May 2008)
      • Case

      Symyx Technologies, Inc.

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Courtney Purrington and Thomas D. Perry
      Symyx is a science-based company spun out of Berkeley. Its unique materials technology has been exploited for 10 years, but the company needs a new business model. The company concept required the invention of hardware and software to do high throughput materials... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Transition; Engineering; Technological Innovation; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software
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      Bowen, H. Kent, Courtney Purrington, and Thomas D. Perry. "Symyx Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 608-152, May 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
      • April 2008 (Revised May 2010)
      • Case

      Visions of Web 3.0

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Andrew Vivero
      Explores the Semantic Web, a vision for the next generation of the World Wide Web in which information is stored in machine-readable formats. While the Semantic Web would make information more easily accessible, barriers to its adoption are very high because website... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R., and David Andrew Vivero. "Visions of Web 3.0." Harvard Business School Case 808-147, April 2008. (Revised May 2010.)
      • April 2008
      • Module Note

      Improvement with Customer-Operators

      By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
      Taught as the third module in a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations: Understanding the Customer Operating Role (606-092). Explores how firms can systematically leverage their customer-operators in the organizational improvement process is... View Details
      Keywords: Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Customer Focus and Relationships; Framework; Employees; Business Model; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design
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      Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Improvement with Customer-Operators." Harvard Business School Module Note 608-135, April 2008.
      • 2008
      • Mimeo

      Do Hedge Funds Profit from Mutual-Fund Distress?

      By: Joseph Chen, Samuel G. Hanson, Harrison Hong and Jeremy C. Stein
      This paper explores the question of whether hedge funds engage in frontrunning strategies that exploit the predictable trades of others. One potential opportunity for front-running arises when distressed mutual funds—those suffering large outflows of assets under... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Funds; Profit; Strategy; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Opportunities; Asset Management; Sales
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      Chen, Joseph, Samuel G. Hanson, Harrison Hong, and Jeremy C. Stein. "Do Hedge Funds Profit from Mutual-Fund Distress?" 2008. Mimeo.
      • May 2008
      • Article

      Excess Comovement of Stock Returns: Evidence from Cross-sectional Variation in Nikkei 225 Weights

      By: Robin Greenwood
      In the presence of limits to arbitrage, cross-sectional variation in periodic investor demand should be related to the degree of comovement of returns. I exploit the unusual weighting system of the Nikkei 225 index in Japan to identify cross-sectional variation in... View Details
      Keywords: Stocks; Investment; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Weight; Performance Expectations; Behavior; Japan
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      Greenwood, Robin. "Excess Comovement of Stock Returns: Evidence from Cross-sectional Variation in Nikkei 225 Weights." Review of Financial Studies 21, no. 3 (May 2008): 1153–1186.
      • April 2008
      • Journal Article

      Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis

      By: Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman
      This study explores the systematic variation in inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) observed both within and across stores. Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of IRI and those that do treat record inaccuracy as random.... View Details
      Keywords: Information Management; Measurement and Metrics; Logistics; Retail Industry
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      DeHoratius, Nicole, and Ananth Raman. "Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis." Management Science 54, no. 4 (April 2008).
      • March 2008
      • Case

      Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (A)

      By: V.G. Narayanan and Pamela Freed
      Samit Ghosh, the CEO and founder of Ujjivan, a major microfinance provider in Bangalore, wants to grow his business rapidly and become financially sustainable, but he's struggling with staff fraud, high costs, and how to stay true to Ujjivan's mission of poverty... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Institutions; Microfinance; Ethics; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Bangalore
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      Narayanan, V.G., and Pamela Freed. "Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (A)." Harvard Business School Case 108-057, March 2008.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis

      By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin
      A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
      Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Information Technology Industry
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      MacCormack, Alan D., John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-039, March 2008. (Revised October 2008, January 2011.)
      • February 2008 (Revised September 2008)
      • Case

      Apple Inc., 2008

      By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
      In January 2007, three decades after its incorporation, Apple Computer shed the second word in its name and became Apple Inc. With that move, the company signaled a fundamental shift away from its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC)... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Leadership; Industry Growth; Corporate Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Technology Industry
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      Yoffie, David B., and Michael Slind. "Apple Inc., 2008." Harvard Business School Case 708-480, February 2008. (Revised September 2008.)
      • February 2008 (Revised August 2008)
      • Background Note

      Note on the Law of Sexual Harassment

      By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Lara Adamsons
      This note provides an introduction to the law of sexual harassment. It has three parts. Part One describes the laws on harassment in the United States. Part Two explores controversial and emerging aspects of the American legal framework. Part Three gives a brief... View Details
      Keywords: Social Issues; Laws and Statutes; Policy; Gender; Asia; Latin America; United States; Europe
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      Paine, Lynn Sharp, and Lara Adamsons. "Note on the Law of Sexual Harassment." Harvard Business School Background Note 308-096, February 2008. (Revised August 2008.)
      • February 2008 (Revised May 2009)
      • Case

      INSEAD

      By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      In the spring of 2008, INSEAD offered a one-year MBA, PhD, executive MBA, and non-degree management education programs to nearly 900 MBA students, 64 PhD candidates, and over 8,500 executive education students. With two campuses, one in Europe and one in Asia, INSEAD... View Details
      Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Geographic Location; Business Education; Globalization; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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      Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "INSEAD." Harvard Business School Case 308-009, February 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
      • February 2008 (Revised May 2009)
      • Case

      The Center for Creative Leadership

      By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) was founded in 1970 on the notion that leadership was not innate but could be learned. CCL evolved into one of the world's top leadership development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Training; Leadership Development; Personal Characteristics
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      Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "The Center for Creative Leadership." Harvard Business School Case 308-013, February 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
      • February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
      • Case

      The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
      Grassroots Business Initiative was set up to financially assist small enterprises engaged in creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 508-063, February 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
      • February 2008 (Revised September 2010)
      • Case

      LeapFrog Enterprises

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
      Explores the success factors leading to the company's rise to the number three ranking in the aggressively competitive toy industry. LeapFrog has made the strategic decision to expand beyond the toy industry and enter the educational technology and services industry.... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry; Education Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "LeapFrog Enterprises." Harvard Business School Case 808-109, February 2008. (Revised September 2010.)
      • February 2008 (Revised May 2011)
      • Case

      The Travails of Rubber: Goodyear or Badyear?

      By: Tom Nicholas and Andrew Ferguson
      Explores the reason why Charles Goodyear, inventor of rubber vulcanization, was unable to profit from his discovery despite securing international property rights over his invention through a patent in 1844. Considers the utility of patents as an incentive for... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Motivation and Incentives; Commercialization
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      Nicholas, Tom, and Andrew Ferguson. "The Travails of Rubber: Goodyear or Badyear?" Harvard Business School Case 808-118, February 2008. (Revised May 2011.)
      • January 2008 (Revised April 2009)
      • Case

      Wyoff and China-LuQuan: Negotiating a Joint Venture (A)

      By: James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian
      Through stalled joint venture talks between Pennsylvania-based Wyoff Corp. and China-based China-LuQuan, strategic and cross-cultural negotiation challenges are explored both from American and Chinese perspectives. Wyoff, a leading US chemical company has been seeking... View Details
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Style; Strategy; Chemical Industry; China; Pennsylvania
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      Sebenius, James K., and Cheng (Jason) Qian. "Wyoff and China-LuQuan: Negotiating a Joint Venture (A)." Harvard Business School Case 908-046, January 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
      • 2008
      • Article

      Ambidexterity as a Dynamic Capability: Resolving the Innovator's Dilemma

      By: Charles O'Reilly and Michael Tushman
      How do organizations survive in the face of change? Underlying this question is a rich debate about whether organizations can adapt—and if so, how. One perspective, organizational ecology, presents evidence suggesting that most organizations are largely inert and... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Competency and Skills; Innovation and Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Performance Efficiency; Competitive Advantage
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      O'Reilly, Charles, and Michael Tushman. "Ambidexterity as a Dynamic Capability: Resolving the Innovator's Dilemma." Research in Organizational Behavior 28 (2008): 185–206.
      • 2008
      • Chapter

      Assessing Creativity and Its Antecedents: An Exploration of the Componential Theory of Creativity

      By: T. M. Amabile and Jennifer Mueller
      Keywords: Creativity; Mathematical Methods; Theory
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      Amabile, T. M., and Jennifer Mueller. "Assessing Creativity and Its Antecedents: An Exploration of the Componential Theory of Creativity." In Handbook of Organizational Creativity, edited by Jing Zhou and Christina E. Shalley. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008.
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