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- October 2002 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
The EU's 13th Directive on Takeover Bids: Unlucky for Some?
By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
In the late 1990s, the United States boomed in the context of the so-called New Economy. The countries of the European Union--despite their progress with integration in the form of the Single Market 1992 program and the adoption of a single currency in January...
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Pill, Huw, and Ingrid Vogel. "The EU's 13th Directive on Takeover Bids: Unlucky for Some?" Harvard Business School Case 703-014, October 2002. (Revised November 2002.)
- September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
Novell: World's Largest Network Software Company
By: Richard L. Nolan
After phenomenal growth and market leadership in networking, founder and CEO Ray Noorda made a frontal assault on Microsoft's core strengths. In 1994, Noorda spend over $1.5 billion acquiring companies such as WordPerfect to combat Microsoft Word, products such as...
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Keywords:
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Competition;
Internet and the Web;
Strategic Planning;
Corporate Strategy;
Information Technology Industry
Nolan, Richard L. "Novell: World's Largest Network Software Company." Harvard Business School Case 300-038, September 1999. (Revised April 2000.)
- 09 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
field, Africa Rising offered a big picture understanding of the continent, and the ways in which its past informs the present. At the same time, the course took deep, vertical looks at both the differences and nuances that render Africa unique in today's emerging View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market...
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- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
the region might never recover, that people without water, electricity, and food would have to flee, the company would lose all its customers, and employees would lose their jobs. Yakult was certainly hurting—the company’s CFO noted that Yakult had lost 30 percent of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- May 2009 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Daqi
By: Robert C. Pozen, Richard Franklyn Armbrust and Ziquan Zhang
In 2008, Daqi was one of the largest Internet portals for user-generated content and the leading word-of-mouth marketing provider in China. Grace Zhou, Daqi's CEO, was contemplating the risks and benefits of expanding Daqi's services into three new content areas—news,...
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- August 2022 (Revised March 2023)
- Technical Note
Real Estate iBuying
By: Michael Luca, Jesse M. Shapiro and Julia Kelley
This note provides an overview of real estate iBuying, or instant buying, a business model that involves buying homes and then reselling them at a profit. Introduced in the mid-2010s, iBuying streamlined the process of selling a home by offering instant, all-cash...
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Luca, Michael, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Julia Kelley. "Real Estate iBuying." Harvard Business School Technical Note 923-001, August 2022. (Revised March 2023.)
- Article
Best Practices in Estimating the Cost of Capital: Survey and Synthesis
By: Robert Bruner, Kenneth M. Eades, Robert S. Harris and Robert F. Higgins
This paper presents the results of a cost-of-capital survey of 27 highly regarded corporations, ten leading financial advisers, and seven best selling textbooks and trade books. The results show close alignment among all these groups on the use of common theoretical...
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Keywords:
Cost of Capital
Bruner, Robert, Kenneth M. Eades, Robert S. Harris, and Robert F. Higgins. "Best Practices in Estimating the Cost of Capital: Survey and Synthesis." Financial Practice and Education 8, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1998): 13–28.
- November 2014
- Article
Beyond Bedlam: How Consumers and Brands Alike Are Playing the Web
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
The new marketing order, as played out on media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, is so unlike the order it is displacing that it might seem like bedlam, an asylum of sorts for ideas intelligible only to their creators. And yet, surely, something...
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Deighton, John A., and Leora Kornfeld. "Beyond Bedlam: How Consumers and Brands Alike Are Playing the Web." GfK Marketing Intelligence Review 6, no. 2 (November 2014): 28–33.
- June 2014
- Teaching Note
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change Through Internal Communication
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in 2003 with an urgent need to change how it operated externally, adopted a highly innovative approach to communicating internally. This case, set in 2010, presents an overview of the new, more interactive model of employee...
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- June 2014
- Case
The Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation
By: Brian Hall, Aaron Chadbourne, Vibha Kagzi and Caren Kelleher
This case is about the response of the US government to the excessive compensation of executives following the market collapse of 2008. In particular, the case focuses on the special committee that was formed to oversee and regulate any financial companies that had...
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Hall, Brian, Aaron Chadbourne, Vibha Kagzi, and Caren Kelleher. "The Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation." Harvard Business School Case 914-052, June 2014.
- February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Navigating Turbulent Waters: Glitnir Bank's Communication Challenge during a Macroeconomic Crisis
By: Michael D. Kimbrough, Gregory S. Miller, Vincent Marie Dessain and Ane Damgaard Jensen
Glitnir Bank is an Icelandic company following an aggressive growth strategy that relies heavily on foreign debt. Access to such debt is suddenly curtailed when there is a downturn in market sentiment regarding the Icelandic economy as a whole. Students will reflect on...
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Keywords:
International Finance;
Banks and Banking;
Macroeconomics;
Communication Strategy;
Banking Industry;
Iceland
Kimbrough, Michael D., Gregory S. Miller, Vincent Marie Dessain, and Ane Damgaard Jensen. "Navigating Turbulent Waters: Glitnir Bank's Communication Challenge during a Macroeconomic Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 107-050, February 2007. (Revised March 2007.)
- 2005
- Book
Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides an essential framework for understanding global business. It shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as...
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Keywords:
Capitalism;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Globalization;
History;
Economy;
Trade;
Strategy
Jones, Geoffrey. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- March 1994 (Revised December 1995)
- Case
McArthur/Glen Realty Corp.
By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
Jonathan Potter is considering an investment in the newly formed McArthur/Glen Real Estate Investment Trust. The case gives some background on real estate investment trusts and their history. Also discusses manufacturers' outlet shopping centers, the type of real...
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Poorvu, William J., and John H. Vogel Jr. "McArthur/Glen Realty Corp." Harvard Business School Case 394-166, March 1994. (Revised December 1995.)
- 26 Sep 2013
- News
A blockbuster tale
- 01 Oct 2019
- News
Competing for deposit growth
- 11 Dec 2015
- News
The many lives of a watch
The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy
Our novel evidence suggests that in the times of unusually low interest rates money market fund managers increased, on average, their portfolios’ risk. We also show... View Details
- November 2015 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
Lipman: Vertical Integration in Fresh Tomatoes
By: José B. Alvarez and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Lipman, the largest open field fresh tomato grower and marketer in the United States, has been successfully pursuing an aggressive strategy of acquisitions over the last several years. End-market consolidation in the retail space has driven vertical integration in the...
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Keywords:
Tomatoes;
Fresh Produce;
Vertical Integration;
Agribusiness;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
United States;
Cuba;
Central America
Alvarez, José B., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Lipman: Vertical Integration in Fresh Tomatoes." Harvard Business School Case 516-053, November 2015. (Revised February 2016.)