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  • February 2023 (Revised March 2023)
  • Case

Twitter Turnaround and Elon Musk

By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
Late afternoon on Friday, October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk was the center of attention at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. The night before, Musk officially took the company private and became Twitter’s majority shareholder, finally ending a months-long acquisition... View Details
Keywords: Elon Musk; Twitter; Acquisition; Revenue; Advertising; Social Media; Business or Company Management; Public Opinion; Job Cuts and Outsourcing
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Wu, Andy, and Goran Calic. "Twitter Turnaround and Elon Musk." Harvard Business School Case 723-418, February 2023. (Revised March 2023.)
  • October 2018 (Revised September 2022)
  • Case

Stock-Based Compensation at Twitter

By: Jonas Heese, Zeya Yang and Mike Young
Olivia Nash, an analyst at leading hedge fund BlueShark Capital Management, had just finished listening to the hour-long earnings call for Twitter’s Q4 2017 results. Was Twitter doing well? That depended on which numbers she chose to believe. According to Generally... View Details
Keywords: Twitter; Non-GAAP Disclosure; Stock-based Compensation; Earnings Management; Corporate Disclosure; Compensation and Benefits; Stocks; Measurement and Metrics
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Heese, Jonas, Zeya Yang, and Mike Young. "Stock-Based Compensation at Twitter." Harvard Business School Case 119-032, October 2018. (Revised September 2022.)
  • May 2020
  • Supplement

Stock-Based Compensation at Twitter

By: Jonas Heese
This video serves as a supplement to "Stock-Based Compensation at Twitter." View Details
Keywords: Twitter; Stock-based Compensation
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Heese, Jonas. "Stock-Based Compensation at Twitter." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 120-712, May 2020.
  • November 2023
  • Supplement

Twitter Pro Forma Statement of Operations

By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
Keywords: Twitter
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Wu, Andy, and Goran Calic. "Twitter Pro Forma Statement of Operations." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 724-858, November 2023.
  • 13 May 2014
  • News

Why Twitter Needs India

  • May 30, 2019
  • Article

Twitter Is Showing More Ads Instead of Better Ideas

By: Scott Duke Kominers
A social media company that doesn’t know much about its users needs to work harder on its business model. View Details
Keywords: Twitter; Business Model; Advertising; Strategy; Social Media
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Kominers, Scott Duke. "Twitter Is Showing More Ads Instead of Better Ideas." Bloomberg Opinion (May 30, 2019).
  • January 2010 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

Twitter

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, David Chen, Bill Heil and Aaron Smith
Twitter is a micro-blogging company that allows users to send short text updates to others. The site is used by people, including celebrities, government officials, and businesses. It helps to raise money for non-profit organizations and provides first-responders with... View Details
Keywords: Blogs; Revenue; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Web
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Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, David Chen, Bill Heil, and Aaron Smith. "Twitter." Harvard Business School Case 710-455, January 2010. (Revised January 2014.)
  • 02 Sep 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

Every four years, a new American presidential campaign gives a fresh boost to social media. This year the winner is Twitter. Donald Trump has racked up 11.3 million Twitter followers (and counting) compared with 8.5 million for Hillary... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
  • 10 May 2011
  • News

The Twitter Gender Gap

  • 25 Oct 2013
  • News

How Pricey Will Twitter Be?

  • 14 Oct 2022
  • News

The Challenges of Transforming Twitter

  • March 2013 (Revised March 2013)
  • Teaching Note

Twitter (TN)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
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Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Twitter (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 713-487, March 2013. (Revised from original February 2013 version.)
  • 25 Jan 2016
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Twitter is in 'very deep trouble'

  • 13 Nov 2013
  • News

Can Twitter Continue to Fly High?

  • October 14, 2022
  • Article

The Challenges of Transforming Twitter

By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
Elon Musk may be an idiosyncratic leader, but if he buys Twitter he’ll face a familiar business challenge: how to transform a legacy tech company. Faced with this challenge, leaders should follow five principles: 1) prioritize an objective, 2) communicate the strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Corporate Strategy; Change Management; Leading Change; Technology Industry
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Wu, Andy, and Goran Calic. "The Challenges of Transforming Twitter." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 14, 2022).
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • News

Twitter takes off

  • June 2013 (Revised November 2013)
  • Case

Bluefin Labs: The Acquisition by Twitter

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
What is the value of Bluefin Labs's social listening data to Twitter? Acquired by Twitter in 2013, Bluefin had built a system that gathered millions of online comments in an effort to develop new metrics for TV programs and brand advertising. With data from Twitter... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Data and Data Sets; Internet; Software; Communication Technology; Advertising; Social and Collaborative Networks; Acquisition; Television Entertainment; Advertising Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Bluefin Labs: The Acquisition by Twitter." Harvard Business School Case 513-091, June 2013. (Revised November 2013.) (request a courtesy copy.)
  • 20 Jun 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons in Strategic Change

Keywords: Re: Andy Wu; Technology
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • News

The move that could save Twitter

  • April 2013
  • Teaching Note

Bluefin Labs: The Acquisition by Twitter

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
What is the value of Bluefin Labs's social listening data to Twitter? Acquired by Twitter in 2013, Bluefin had built a system that gathered millions of online comments in an effort to develop new metrics for TV programs and brand advertising. With data from Twitter and... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Knowledge Acquisition; Marketing; Television Entertainment; Mobile Technology
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Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Bluefin Labs: The Acquisition by Twitter." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 513-094, April 2013.
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