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- October 2022
- Technical Note
Entrepreneurial Legacy
By: Christina R. Wing, David M. Werdiger, Vicki Morton and Elizabeth Breiter
- September 2022
- Case
Esas Group: Investing Together, Staying Together
By: Christina R. Wing and Alpana Thapar
This case opens in June 2022, after Esas Group, one of Turkey’s largest family-owned investment firms, implements a series of changes to professionalize the business and help transition family members from operators to responsible investors. In December 2019, the Group...
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- July 2022 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Sixty Years of Sylvia’s
By: Christina R. Wing, Carlton Burrell Jr., Chika-Dike Nwokike and Abby Patrick
Sylvia’s Restaurant, approaching its sixtieth anniversary this August, is a testament to the values instilled by the matriarch herself, Sylvia Woods. Despite living through an era of racial oppression and poverty, Sylvia accessed financing and established her financial...
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- September 2021
- Supplement
The Boston Beer Company (B): Growth and Uncertainty
By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
The first three years of CEO Dave Burwick’s tenure were tumultuous for the Boston Beer Company. The company’s hard seltzer products continued to grow unexpectedly quickly, eclipsing the company’s legacy Samuel Adams beer products. Meanwhile, a polarizing political...
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- August 2021 (Revised March 2022)
- Teaching Note
Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group
By: Christina R. Wing, Suraj Srinivasan and Esel Çekin
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 620-009.
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- August 2021
- Teaching Note
From Beirut with Love (A) and (B)
By: Christina R. Wing and Esel Çekin
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 619-024 and 619-027.
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- July 2021
- Teaching Plan
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-065.
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- May 2021
- Teaching Plan
Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads
By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-018. For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Construction;
Geographic Location;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Housing;
Leadership Style;
Management Succession;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Family Ownership;
Family and Family Relationships;
Urban Development;
Customization and Personalization;
Real Estate Industry;
Maharashtra;
India;
San Francisco
- March 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane
Realizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicolás Ibáñez and David Cotterman were considering how best to continue to diversify their investor base and how to optimize...
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- March 2021 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
The Gauthier Family: To Sell or Not to Sell?
- January 2021
- Case
Saham Group: It's In the Genes
By: Christina R. Wing and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2020 as Moulay Mhamed Elalamy (Mhamed), CEO of the Saham Group (the Group), a pan-African investment company that operates a variety of businesses out of Morocco, contemplates the Group’s identity, its investment strategy, and how to navigate...
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- January 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Ken Talbot—Cautionary Tale in Estate Planning
By: Christina R. Wing and Faith Lyons
In 2010, Ken Talbott, a self-made Australian billionaire, was traveling throughout Africa to bring his innovative coal technology to the continent when he perished in a plane crash. His will was originally created years prior when his estate worth was estimated to be...
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- July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads
By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Construction;
Geographic Location;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Housing;
Leadership Style;
Management Succession;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Family Ownership;
Family and Family Relationships;
Urban Development;
Customization and Personalization;
Real Estate Industry;
Maharashtra;
India;
United States
- February 2020
- Teaching Note
Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A) and (B)
By: Nien-he Hsieh and Christina R. Wing
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 619-039 and 320-091.
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- February 2020
- Supplement
Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)
By: Nien-he Hsieh, Christina R. Wing and John Masko
This supplemental case tracks the results of the Colman and Taubman-Dye class action suit against Theranos as well as Theranos’ other legal challenges and chronicles the final demise of the company in 2019.
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- October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Thermax—Changing of the Guard
By: Christina R. Wing and Inakshi Sobti
Thermax is an engineering company in India that provides integrated solutions in energy, environment, and chemicals. The Aga family along with family trusts owns 62% of the company. Post a restructuring exercise in 2000, Thermax transforms itself from a small family...
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- October 2019 (Revised July 2022)
- Module Note
Demystifying Families in Business: Module 3—The Family Office
By: Christina R. Wing, Charles Richards and Vicki Morton
- September 2019 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
Sopra Banking Software: Can a French Fintech Succeed in the U.S.?
- September 2019 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
It's All About Family: Esas Group
By: Christina R. Wing and Alpana Thapar
This case describes how Ali Sabancı and his sister Emine Sabancı Kamışlı, shareholders of Esas Group, one of Turkey’s largest family-owned investment firms, worked to grow and professionalize the business. While their father Şevket Sabancı, played an instrumental role...
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