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- April 2024
- Supplement
Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs
By: George Serafeim
Keywords:
Carbon Emissions;
Carbon Abatement;
Sustainability;
Recycling;
Waste Management;
Technology;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Decisions;
Energy Conservation;
Investment Return;
Profit;
Technological Innovation;
Patents;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Digital Platforms;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Expansion;
Technology Adoption;
Sports;
Environmental Sustainability;
Green Technology Industry;
Service Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Rubber Industry;
Sports Industry;
Denmark;
Netherlands;
France;
United States;
Pennsylvania;
Europe
Serafeim, George. "Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 124-707, April 2024.
- March 2024
- Case
Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis
By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Rick McCathron, CEO of Hippo, considered how the firm’s underwriting model could account for the effects of climate change. Along with providing smart home packages, targeting risk-friendly customers, and using data-driven pricing, the Insurtech used technologically...
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Keywords:
Fintech;
Underwriters;
Big Data;
Insurance Companies;
Global Warming;
Business Model Design;
Weather And Climate Change;
Weather Insurance;
Earnings;
Business Model;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Green Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Natural Environment;
Natural Disasters;
Weather;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Business Earnings;
Insurance;
Social Issues;
Insurance Industry;
United States;
California
- March 2024
- Case
Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan
Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Transition;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Law;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financing and Loans;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Ownership Stake;
Expansion;
Financial Services Industry;
Estonia;
Republic of Ireland;
United Kingdom;
Singapore
- March 2024
- Module Note
Navigating the Future: Managing Financial Forecasts
By: Mark Egan
This module note guides instructors on delivering a course module that focuses on understanding, developing, and using financial forecasts from a chief financial officer’s (CFO) perspective. The cases in the module equip students with an understanding of the techniques...
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Keywords:
CFO;
Forecasting;
Corporate Finance;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Financial Management;
United States
Egan, Mark. "Navigating the Future: Managing Financial Forecasts." Harvard Business School Module Note 224-075, March 2024.
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
AB InBev: Brewing Up Forecasts during COVID-19
By: Mark Egan and C. Fritz Foley
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 224-020. In July 2021, the CEO of AB InBev's European operations and his team strategized to position the company for success post-pandemic. As the world's largest beer company, boasting over 500 brands, revenue of $46 billion, and a...
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- February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Finberg: Corporate Venture Capital in Turkey
By: Paul A. Gompers and Namrata Arora
In December 2021, Murat Özyeğin, Chairman of Fiba Holding, along with Ömer Mert and İhsan Elgin, engaged in discussions about the future of United Payment, a fintech company in which Finberg, a subsidiary of Fibabanka, held a 20% stake. Finberg, established in 2018 as...
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- February 2024
- Teaching Note
Data-Driven Denim: Financial Forecasting at Levi Strauss
By: Mark Egan
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 224-029. Levi Strauss & Co. (“Levi Strauss”) partnered with the IT services company Wipro to incorporate more sophisticated methods, such as machine learning, into their financial forecasting process starting in 2018. The decision to...
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- February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Financing Matillion’s Scaleup (A)
In 2019, Matthew Scullion, founder and CEO of U.K. startup Matillion, faced a decision about which term sheet to accept for the lead investor in his company’s $35 million Series C financing round. Would the connections and opportunities offered by Silicon Valley-based...
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Kluender, Raymond, Emanuele Colonnelli, and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Matillion’s Scaleup (A)." Harvard Business School Case 824-140, February 2024. (Revised March 2024.)
- February 2024
- Case
ReSpo.Vision: The Kickstart of an AI Sports Revolution
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Nikolina Jonsson
This case study explores the growth journey of Polish computer vision sports start-up ReSpo.Vision in an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem. By providing 3D data and analysis to soccer clubs, ReSpo.Vision achieved significant milestones with a €1 million seed round, an...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Experience and Expertise;
Talent and Talent Management;
Decisions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
AI and Machine Learning;
Analytics and Data Science;
Applications and Software;
Sports Industry;
Technology Industry;
Poland;
Europe
- February 2024
- Case
AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup
By: Frank Nagle, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein and Susan Pinckney
The case describes the history of AGENTS.inc. Despite being a small startup, with only four employees, that had never had a funding round, the company boasted an impressive client portfolio including multiple Fortune 500 companies. While AGENTS.inc had been an early...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Small Business;
Transformation;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Financial Strategy;
AI and Machine Learning;
Digital Platforms;
Technological Innovation;
Copyright;
Management;
Growth and Development;
Market Timing;
Ownership;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Competition;
Open Source Distribution;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Computer Industry;
Europe;
Germany
Nagle, Frank, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein, and Susan Pinckney. "AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup." Harvard Business School Case 724-444, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
Accelerating with Caution: Forecasting and Managing birddogs' Growth (A) and (B)
By: Mark Egan
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 224-023 and 224-024. As 2017 was drawing to a close, birddogs’ founder and CEO, Peter Baldwin, was working with his CFO Jack Sullivan to prepare for 2018. A nascent direct-to-consumer apparel brand, birddogs had carved its niche in men’s...
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- February 2024
- Case
Nuwa Capital: Investing During Uncertainty
By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Nuwa Capital (Nuwa) was a venture capital firm based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. The business was founded in 2020 by Khaled Talhouni and his partners Sarah Abu Risheh, and Stephanie Nour Prince (they were later joined by Nitin Reen...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Disruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Middle East;
Saudi Arabia;
United Arab Emirates
Gompers, Paul A., and Fares Khrais. "Nuwa Capital: Investing During Uncertainty." Harvard Business School Case 224-016, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Article
Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry
By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable”, resources and point to redeployment of...
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Randle, Dominika Kinga, and Gary P. Pisano. "Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry." Special Issue on Knowledge Resources and Heterogeneity of Entrants within and across Industries. Industrial and Corporate Change 33, no. 1 (February 2024): 238–252.
- January 2024
- Case
Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A)
By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney
In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Business Earnings;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Family Business;
For-Profit Firms;
Small Business;
Change Management;
Transition;
Communication Strategy;
Cost vs Benefits;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Profit;
Revenue;
Spending;
Global Strategy;
Goods and Commodities;
Innovation Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth Management;
Success;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cognition and Thinking;
Reputation;
Adaptation;
Expansion;
Weather;
Mission and Purpose;
Values and Beliefs;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Europe;
Italy
Zuzul, Tiona, and Susan Pinckney. "Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A)." Harvard Business School Case 724-391, January 2024.
- January 2024
- Teaching Note
Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A) & (B)
By: Tiona Zuzul
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 724-391 and 724-398. In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Business Earnings;
Agribusiness;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Family Business;
For-Profit Firms;
Small Business;
Change Management;
Transition;
Communication Strategy;
Decision Making;
Cost vs Benefits;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Profit;
Revenue;
Spending;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Goods and Commodities;
Innovation Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth Management;
Success;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cognition and Thinking;
Reputation;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Expansion;
Mission and Purpose;
Values and Beliefs;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Europe;
Italy
- January 2024
- Supplement
Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)
By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney
In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Business Earnings;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Business Startups;
Family Business;
For-Profit Firms;
Small Business;
Change Management;
Transition;
Communication;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Values and Beliefs;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Profit;
Revenue;
Spending;
Global Strategy;
Goods and Commodities;
Innovation Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth Management;
Success;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cognition and Thinking;
Reputation;
Adoption;
Expansion;
Weather;
Mission and Purpose;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Europe;
Italy
Zuzul, Tiona, and Susan Pinckney. "Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 724-398, January 2024.
- January 2024
- Case
ECOALF: Fashion for the Future
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui
ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Decisions;
Business Earnings;
Profit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Values and Beliefs;
Mission and Purpose;
Competition;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Marketing;
Marketing Channels;
E-commerce;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Fashion Industry;
Spain;
Germany;
Italy;
Europe;
United States
Keenan, Elizabeth A., Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz, and María José Satrústegui. "ECOALF: Fashion for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 524-057, January 2024.
- January 2024
- Case
Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends
In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in...
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- January 2024 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Uncle Nearest: Creating a Legacy
By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones, Nicole Gilmore and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Fawn Weaver, as a Black woman and industry outsider in a capital-intensive, highly regulated, competitive and male-dominated spirits industry, successfully overcame numerous obstacles to launch a premium American whiskey brand, Uncle Nearest in 2017, which became the...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Business Startups;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Age;
Ethnicity;
Gender;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Entrepreneurship;
Working Capital;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Intellectual Property;
Trademarks;
Leadership Style;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Marketing Strategy;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Private Ownership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Prejudice and Bias;
Social Issues;
Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Tourism Industry;
United States;
Tennessee;
France
Gibson, Hise, Archie L. Jones, Nicole Gilmore, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Uncle Nearest: Creating a Legacy." Harvard Business School Case 824-047, January 2024. (Revised March 2024.)
- January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Data-Driven Denim: Financial Forecasting at Levi Strauss
By: Mark Egan
The case examines Levi Strauss’ journey in implementing machine learning and AI into its financial forecasting process. The apparel company partnered with the IT company Wipro in 2017 to develop a machine learning algorithm that could help Levi Strauss forecast its...
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Keywords:
Investor Relations;
Forecasting;
Machine Learning;
Artificial Intelligence;
Apparel;
Corporate Finance;
Forecasting and Prediction;
AI and Machine Learning;
Digital Transformation;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
United States
Egan, Mark. "Data-Driven Denim: Financial Forecasting at Levi Strauss." Harvard Business School Case 224-029, January 2024. (Revised February 2024.)