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- March 2013
- Case
NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser
The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks...
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Keywords:
Short Selling;
Financial Accounting;
Financial Analysis;
Financial Analysts;
Valuation;
Business Analysis;
Financial Statement Analysis;
Financial Statements;
Securitization;
Securities Analysis;
Fraud;
Accounting Quality;
Accounting Red Flags;
Accounting Restatements;
Hedge Fund;
Hedge Funds;
Accounting Scandal;
Accounting Fraud;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Intermediaries;
Financial Firms;
Corporate Accountability;
Subprime Lending;
Mortgage Lending;
Accounting;
Accrual Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
California
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Amy Kaser. "NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle." Harvard Business School Case 113-120, March 2013.
- October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Herman Miller (A): Innovation by Design
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
Gary Van Spronsen, president of Miller SQA, has been asked to leave the thriving subsidiary he helped to reinvent to join Herman Miller's corporate initiative on innovation. Miller SQA has pioneered processes new to the Herman Miller organization, such as...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Supply Chain Management;
Business Model;
Organizations;
Values and Beliefs;
Manufacturing Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., and Stacy McManus. "Herman Miller (A): Innovation by Design." Harvard Business School Case 602-023, October 2001. (Revised November 2002.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Executives' Financial Preferences and Shareholder Tax Outcomes
By: Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya M. Perez-Silva
We demonstrate that executives’ personal financial preferences impact both layers of shareholder taxes, corporate taxes and corporate payouts. We reconstruct executives’ insider equity portfolios to quantify their personal incentives and analyze stock sales that reveal...
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Keywords:
Executives;
Capital Gain;
Dividends;
Effective Tax Rate;
Tax Avoidance;
Taxation;
Management Teams;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo, and Andreya M. Perez-Silva. "Executives' Financial Preferences and Shareholder Tax Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-034, September 2015.
- 2000
- Article
The Consequences of Customization on the Use of Management Accounting Systems
By: J. Bouwens and Margaret A. Abernethy
The understanding of the antecedent conditions influencing the design of management accounting systems (MASs) is very limited. In recent years, significant research attention has been devoted to understanding how different strategic priorities influence these systems....
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Bouwens, J., and Margaret A. Abernethy. "The Consequences of Customization on the Use of Management Accounting Systems." Accounting, Organizations and Society 25, no. 3 (April 2000): 221–241.
- November 2001
- Case
Korea-Tender
By: Das Narayandas and Kate Attea
Korea-Tender is a closed-bidding auction company trying to break even and must select the best opportunity to increase membership and revenue. It can continue its current model with heavy advertising, try to modify its costs, or develop an additional business model...
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- October 2014 (Revised January 2015)
- Background Note
Advanced Leadership in Public Education: Tools for Tackling Change from Outside the Building In
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Pamela Yatsko
If you want to create change in public education but are not a school principal or other traditional public education leader, what do you need to do? This long, integrated background note examines the inspiring models and stories of individuals who are improving...
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- September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
d.light
By: Michael Chu, Krishna G. Palepu and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
Kenyan off-grid-solar pioneer d.light can power entire homes in rural Africa but must now decide how to fund the growth of its asset-heavy business model. Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman founded d.light in 2006 to transform lives through solar solutions enabling access to...
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Keywords:
Alternative Energy;
Business Model;
Capital;
Emerging Markets;
Expansion;
Financial Strategy;
Renewable Energy;
Strategy;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Energy Industry;
Africa;
Kenya;
India
Chu, Michael, Krishna G. Palepu, and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha. "d.light." Harvard Business School Case 321-069, September 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
NatureSweet
By: Jose Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across the United States and $329 million in 2016 revenues. CEO Bryant Ambelang treated...
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Keywords:
NatureSweet;
Tomatoes;
Agriculture;
Greenhouse;
Ambelang;
Cherry Tomatoes;
Incentives;
Worker Empowerment;
Empowerment;
Toyota Production System;
Leadership;
Branding;
Produce;
Manufacturing;
Organizational Change;
Agribusiness;
Business Model;
Employee Relationship Management;
Working Conditions;
Organizational Culture;
Success;
Problems and Challenges;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
Mexico;
North America
Alvarez, Jose, Forest Reinhardt, and Natalie Kindred. "NatureSweet." Harvard Business School Case 518-002, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- May 2017
- Case
Promontory, Inc.
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amy Handlin
Promontory, Inc. is a small, privately owned firm in the promotional products (specialty advertising) industry. After starting the firm two years ago with the intention of pursuing a high-quality/high-price strategy, the CEO is seeking methods of increasing sales...
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Keywords:
Salesforce Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Customization and Personalization;
Business Model;
Sales;
Advertising Industry
Cespedes, Frank V., and Amy Handlin. "Promontory, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 917-535, May 2017.
- April 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Supplement
Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (B)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
The epilogue to Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A), the B case details the outcome of the issues discussed in Case A; namely that Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor did implement the TSCC contract. Virginia Mason also kept the suture contract...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Supply Chain Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Measurement and Metrics;
Contracts;
Health Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 109-077, April 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- April 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
EMC2: Delivering Customer Centricity
By: Thomas Steenburgh and Jill Avery
This case introduces the concept of customer centricity and traces its development at EMC, the world's leading data storage hardware and information management software company. EMC's customers had historically relied on EMC salespeople to guide them through the...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Interpersonal Communication;
Customer Relationship Management;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Marketing Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Salesforce Management;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Internet;
Information Technology Industry
Steenburgh, Thomas, and Jill Avery. "EMC2: Delivering Customer Centricity." Harvard Business School Case 511-124, April 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of... View Details
- 2012
- Article
Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price Impact and Timing of SEOs
By: Mozaffar N. Khan, Leonid Kogan and George Serafeim
In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior returns that are likely correlated with other determinants of SEOs. We use price pressure resulting from...
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Keywords:
Equity;
Market Transactions;
Valuation;
Capital Structure;
Market Timing;
Mathematical Methods;
Acquisition
Khan, Mozaffar N., Leonid Kogan, and George Serafeim. "Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price Impact and Timing of SEOs." Journal of Finance 67, no. 4 (August 2012): 1371–1395.
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame that challenge View Details
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- Winter 2022
- Article
Leading Disruption in a Legacy Business: A Compelling Growth Ambition Is a Critical Enabler for New Ventures
By: Andy Binns, Michael Tushman and Charles O'Reilly
Leading innovation in established corporations is difficult. Active inertia and dynamic conservatism are real. Still, leaders can drive disruptive ventures from inside large corporations. These leaders ideate, incubate, and scale innovations, much as an entrepreneur...
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Keywords:
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation and Management;
Leading Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business Model
Binns, Andy, Michael Tushman, and Charles O'Reilly. "Leading Disruption in a Legacy Business: A Compelling Growth Ambition Is a Critical Enabler for New Ventures." MIT Sloan Management Review 63, no. 2 (Winter 2022).
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Flexible Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments
By: Qiang Liu, Thomas J. Steenburgh and Sachin Gupta
Different instruments are relevant for different marketing objectives (category demand expansion or market share stealing). To help brand managers make informed marketing mix decisions, it is essential that marketing mix models appropriately measure the different...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Investment;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Mathematical Methods
Liu, Qiang, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Sachin Gupta. "The Flexible Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-012, September 2011.
- 14 Dec 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
How Japan’s Recruit Holdings Regained Trust after a Scandal
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Re: Sandra J. Sucher
- February 2005 (Revised November 2016)
- Background Note
Forecasting the Adoption of a New Product
By: Elie Ofek
Provides tools and methodologies that allow forecasting demand for innovative new products. Highlights the Bass model—the theory behind it and ways to determine its parameters. Provides a detailed example of how to use the Bass model to forecast demand for satellite...
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Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Innovation and Invention;
Marketing;
Demand and Consumers;
Mathematical Methods;
Competition
Ofek, Elie. "Forecasting the Adoption of a New Product." Harvard Business School Background Note 505-062, February 2005. (Revised November 2016.)
- February 2020
- Article
Gender and Entrepreneurship in the Renewable Energy Sector of Rwanda
By: Manuel Barron, Rowan P. Clarke, Amanda Elam, Rebecca Klege, Anita Shankar and Martine Visser
Until recently, women have not been seen as having the potential for entrepreneurial success. Yet women’s engagement in the energy sector could substantially improve energy access for those most underserved. This article examines the role of women as energy...
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Keywords:
Economic Development;
Renewables;
Economics;
Entrepreneurship;
Gender;
Renewable Energy;
Performance Effectiveness;
Emerging Markets;
Energy Industry;
Africa
Barron, Manuel, Rowan P. Clarke, Amanda Elam, Rebecca Klege, Anita Shankar, and Martine Visser. "Gender and Entrepreneurship in the Renewable Energy Sector of Rwanda." Special Issue on Gender and Energy: Opportunities for All. Institute of Development Studies Bulletin 51, no. 1 (February 2020): 53–70.
- March 2021 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Seeding and Selling Asana
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Susie Ma and Amram Migdal
In December 2019, Oliver Jay, Asana’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), was reconsidering his go-to-market (GTM) strategy. Asana was cloud-based work management software that enabled users to break up projects into discrete tasks that could be assigned, scheduled, and...
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Keywords:
SaaS;
Customer Journey;
Business Model;
Business Organization;
Change Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Industry;
United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Susie Ma, and Amram Migdal. "Seeding and Selling Asana." Harvard Business School Case 821-054, March 2021. (Revised August 2022.)