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By: Shunyuan Zhang
Professor Zhang uses machine learning to address marketing problems that have arisen within the nascent sharing economy. She conducts rigorous analyses of structured and unstructured data generated by new sharing economy platforms to address important issues emerging...
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- 11 May 2011
- News
A New Era of Entrepreneurship
- December 1986 (Revised August 1988)
- Case
LifeSpan Inc.: Abbott Northwestern Hospital
Raises the powerful issues of measuring marketing performance in a not-for-profit services setting. Also raises several interesting ethical issues. LifeSpan Inc., a Minneapolis based not-for-profit organization is the parent holding company of three hospitals and...
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Keywords:
Nonprofit Organizations;
Ethics;
Marketing Communications;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Industry;
Health Industry;
Minneapolis
Menezes, Melvyn A. "LifeSpan Inc.: Abbott Northwestern Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 587-104, December 1986. (Revised August 1988.)
- September 1999
- Case
Project Dreamcast: Serious Play at Sega Enterprises Ltd. (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Andrew Robertson
Focuses on the ongoing competitive battles in the global home video game market that is estimated to exceed $15 billion by 1999 in the United States and Japan alone. Describes how Sega Enterprises has redesigned its development processes to create a revolutionary...
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Keywords:
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Competitive Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Product Development;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Sales;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Computer Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Andrew Robertson. "Project Dreamcast: Serious Play at Sega Enterprises Ltd. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-028, September 1999.
- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
percent believe the technology will affect them personally. Harvard Business School faculty members share their thoughts below about how AI will reshape the workforce and the skills necessary to succeed in the years ahead. Joseph Fuller:...
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- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
runs), and scaling (the development of a full-fledged new product or service). "Becoming a corporate explorer is not a route to a safe or easy career." The authors share the stories of influential explorers, such as retired IBM manager...
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by Lane Lambert
- July 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Beohemija's Duel
By: Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
Vladimir Joksic, Director of Marketing for Serbia's Beohemija, along with his marketing team has managed to grow Duel, the firm's soap powder offering from single digits to almost 40% of the Serbian market in just a few short years. He has used innovative and...
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- August 2018
- Case
Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru
By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American country. Growth of the Peruvian middle...
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Jeffrey Boyar. "Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru." Harvard Business School Case 219-030, August 2018.
- November 2000 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Intuit QuickBooks
By: Rajiv Lal and Punima P Kochikar
Internet QuickBooks, a successful product with a strong brand and an 85% share of retail sales, was faced with the challenge of meeting market growth expectations in a mature, slowing market segment. Generating recurring revenues by providing value-added online...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Decisions;
Growth and Development;
Brands and Branding;
Market Participation;
Problems and Challenges;
Internet and the Web;
Value;
Web Services Industry
Lal, Rajiv, and Punima P Kochikar. "Intuit QuickBooks." Harvard Business School Case 501-054, November 2000. (Revised July 2001.)
- 13 Jan 2011
- News
Untangling Code
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
Anecdotally, employees also started sharing salaries through Google spreadsheets, according to Cullen’s research. How transparency leads to lower pay Cullen and Pakzad-Hurson studied how the labor market...
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by Avery Forman
- 26 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism
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by Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
- January 2019 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
KITEA (A): Democratizing Furniture in Morocco
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2013 as Amine Benkirane, founder and CEO of the leading Moroccan furniture company KITEA, contemplates the loss his company has incurred for the first time in its 20-year history. The case then describes KITEA’s origins and provides a detailed...
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Keywords:
Retail;
KITEA;
Furniture;
Furniture Industry;
Entry Strategy;
Responding To Entry;
Localization;
Competitive Interaction;
Private Sector;
For-Profit Firms;
Business Model;
Business Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Adaptation;
Corporate Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Retail Industry;
Africa;
Morocco
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "KITEA (A): Democratizing Furniture in Morocco." Harvard Business School Case 719-420, January 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- May 1975 (Revised May 1982)
- Case
Southwest Airlines (C)
Southwest Airlines, a small intrastate carrier, has just completed its first year of operations in June 1972 and management is debating what advertising and promotional strategy to adopt for the future. Southwest has successfully broken into a market dominated by two...
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Lovelock, Christopher H. "Southwest Airlines (C)." Harvard Business School Case 575-118, May 1975. (Revised May 1982.)
- 15 Dec 2017
- News
Patient-Powered Precision
- 15 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns
- 2013
- Working Paper
Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing
By: Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to...
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Fang, Lily, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner. "Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19300, August 2013.
- September 2013
- Article
Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing
By: Lily H. Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to...
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Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner. "Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 9 (September 2013): 2139–2173.
- July 2016
- Article
Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns
By: Malcolm Baker and Yuhai Xuan
There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as changes in Tobin's Q or past stock returns, and equity issues. Typically, this performance is thought to be a characteristic of the firm, not the CEO who happens to run the firm. In contrast...
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Baker, Malcolm, and Yuhai Xuan. "Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns." Journal of Financial Economics 121, no. 1 (July 2016): 66–78.