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- March 2005
- Case
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), The
By: George C. Chacko, Anders Sjoman, Daniela Beyersdorfer and George Robert Nelson
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBEO) must decide how to respond to new competition in the market for financial options. Options have typically been a very liquid asset class, despite the fact that many single-name options are listed on the CBOE, the second largest...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Financial Liquidity;
Financial Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
Chicago
Chacko, George C., Anders Sjoman, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and George Robert Nelson. "Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), The." Harvard Business School Case 205-073, March 2005.
- April 1995 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (A)
By: Marco Iansiti and Ellen Stein
Based on a Silicon Valley company that has developed the capability to compete in a rapidly growing, highly turbulent environment. This capability hinges on its flexible and rapid development process, which the case characterizes in detail. Focuses on the development...
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Information Infrastructure;
Product Launch;
Managerial Roles;
Expansion;
Design;
Applications and Software;
Computer Industry;
Electronics Industry;
California
Iansiti, Marco, and Ellen Stein. "Silicon Graphics, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 695-061, April 1995. (Revised December 1997.)
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
Where ESG Fails
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism
- 2014
- Book
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
By: Sven Beckert
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins...
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Keywords:
Economic Systems;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Society;
Manufacturing Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
- October 2021
- Article
Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach
By: Nicolas Padilla and Eva Ascarza
The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can...
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Keywords:
Customer Management;
Targeting;
Deep Exponential Families;
Probabilistic Machine Learning;
Cold Start Problem;
Customer Relationship Management;
Programs;
Consumer Behavior;
Analysis
Padilla, Nicolas, and Eva Ascarza. "Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 58, no. 5 (October 2021): 981–1006.
- December 2022 (Revised November 2023)
- Module Note
How Do You Compete and Cooperate? Understanding Strategic Interactions
By: Jorge Tamayo
This module examines how firms interact strategically, both competitively and cooperatively, as they create and capture value. Although the module focuses on strategic interactions between competitors, an organization's relationships with buyers, suppliers, and...
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- 25 Jan 2022
- News
Baseball’s Next Competitive Advantage Isn’t Analytics. It’s Culture.
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
The Particular Creativity of Dense Urban Neighborhoods
- November 2023
- Case
Gabon Special Economic Zone
By: John Macomber and Wale Lawal
Tropical rain forest covers about 80% of the West African nation of Gabon, part of the Congo Basin and the "lungs of the world." Gabon is one of the first nations to earn revenue from carbon sequestration...as long as the rain forest remains intact. There are...
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Keywords:
Economic Development;
Forestry;
Wood;
Carbon Credits;
Supply Chain;
Economic Growth;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Government Administration;
Business and Government Relations;
Strategy;
Forest Products Industry;
Africa;
Gabon
Macomber, John, and Wale Lawal. "Gabon Special Economic Zone." Harvard Business School Case 224-012, November 2023.
- Research Summary
Pricing and Promotions
Price promotions offered by product manufacturers to channel intermediaries are the subject of much current debate, as well as attempts by packaged goods manufacturers to curb, if not eliminate, their use. Samuel S. Chun's research, which includes the development of...
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- September 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Tesla's Uncertain Fate as EV Race Accelerates
By: David Collis and Haisley Wert
By September 2021, Tesla had a staggering market cap of $755 billion. As the leader of the automobile industry, Tesla’s worth surpassed that of the six largest runner-ups combined, including Toyota, Volkswagen, BYD, Daimler, Great Wall Motors, and General Motors. As...
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Keywords:
Electric Vehicles;
Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Valuation;
Competitive Advantage;
Value Creation;
Auto Industry
Collis, David, and Haisley Wert. "Tesla's Uncertain Fate as EV Race Accelerates." Harvard Business School Case 722-368, September 2021. (Revised October 2021.)
- August 2022
- Article
Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions
By: Alexander MacKay
The optimal duration of a supply contract balances the costs of reselecting a supplier against the costs of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the contract lasts too long. I develop a structural model of contract duration that captures this tradeoff and...
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Keywords:
Supply Contracts;
Intermediate Goods;
Switching Costs;
Vertical Relationships;
Transaction Costs;
Contract Duration;
Identification;
Supply Chain;
Cost;
Contracts;
Auctions;
Mathematical Methods
MacKay, Alexander. "Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 14, no. 3 (August 2022): 164–212.
- February 2016
- Article
Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?
By: Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
Financial constraints are fundamental to empirical research in finance and economics. We propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms typically classified as constrained do not in fact behave...
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Keywords:
Corporate Finance
Farre-Mensa, Joan, and Alexander Ljungqvist. "Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?" Review of Financial Studies 29, no. 2 (February 2016): 271–308.
- June 2013 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
Valero Energy Corporation and Tight Oil
By: Richard H.K. Vietor, Eric Adamson, Aaron Byrd, Ned Chiverton, Mariko Meier and Rob Rain
Valero Energy, an incredibly successful US refiner, needs to make some decisions about tight oil. As production of light tight oil increases—from Eagle Ford, Bakken and elsewhere—Valero considers whether to add topping capacity to handle it, on top of its recent...
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Keywords:
Petroleum;
Oil & Gas;
Energy;
Environment;
Refining;
Globalization;
Tight Oil;
Strategy;
Natural Environment;
Demand and Consumers;
Supply and Industry;
Policy;
Energy Sources;
Energy Industry;
United States
Vietor, Richard H.K., Eric Adamson, Aaron Byrd, Ned Chiverton, Mariko Meier, and Rob Rain. "Valero Energy Corporation and Tight Oil." Harvard Business School Case 713-083, June 2013. (Revised June 2014.)
- April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Owens & Minor (O&M) performed lean inventory services for Virginia Mason (VM) as its Alpha Vendor, but the outdated industry pricing model created perverse incentives and could not capture O&M's costs. Together, O&M and VM created an activity-based pricing model: Total...
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Keywords:
Supply Chain Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Business Model;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Motivation and Incentives;
Asset Pricing;
Cost Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 110-063, April 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 07 Oct 2014
- HBS Seminar
Dylan Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket
This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market...
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How to Negotiate with VCs
VC-entrepreneur partnership agreements often contain flaws that become highly damaging as the parties come up against issues of power, trust, and much more. Yet many of the flaws are systematic and predictable—and hence preventable. The author, a longtime consultant... View Details
- April 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
AI Wars
By: Andy Wu, Matt Higgins, Miaomiao Zhang and Hang Jiang
In February 2024, the world was looking to Google to see what the search giant and long-time putative technical leader in artificial intelligence (AI) would do to compete in the massively hyped technology of generative AI. Over a year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a...
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Keywords:
AI;
Artificial Intelligence;
AI and Machine Learning;
Technology Adoption;
Competitive Strategy;
Technological Innovation
Wu, Andy, Matt Higgins, Miaomiao Zhang, and Hang Jiang. "AI Wars." Harvard Business School Case 723-434, April 2023. (Revised February 2024.)