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- 05 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship
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by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
- January 2018
- Case
Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (A)
By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, must decide on the final list of candidates for the critical global marketing director position the company has been trying to fill for over a year. Since its founding in 2010,...
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Keywords:
Recruiting;
Staffing;
Emergent Countries;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Private Sector;
Business Strategy;
Decision;
Growth Management;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Selection and Staffing;
Talent and Talent Management;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Value Creation;
Organizational Culture;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technology Industry;
Turkey
Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-083, January 2018.
- August 1989 (Revised May 1991)
- Case
Grosvenor Park
By: William J. Poorvu and Katherine Sweetman
Dick Dublin believes he has designed a townhouse development which will appeal to mobile young professionals. Dublin has removed some market risk by locking in a forward commitment for low interest rate loans for future purchasers at Grosvenor Park. The pricing...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Projects;
Financing and Loans;
Property;
Financial Strategy;
Price;
Strategic Planning;
Business and Government Relations;
Real Estate Industry;
Maryland
Poorvu, William J., and Katherine Sweetman. "Grosvenor Park." Harvard Business School Case 390-010, August 1989. (Revised May 1991.)
- 16 May 2021
- News
How to Avoid the Return of Office Cliques
- Teaching Interest
Product Management 101 & 102
By: Julia B. Austin
Julia previously taught Product Management 101 & 102 (PM 101/102). This is a two-semester project-based course that uses a learning-by-doing approach to build basic product management skills. Students evaluate user needs and specify functional requirements...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
A Welfare Analysis of Gambling in Video Games
By: Tomomichi Amano and Andrey Simonov
In 2020, gamers worldwide spent more than $15 billion on loot boxes, a lottery of virtual items built into video games. Loot boxes are contentious, as regulators worry that they constitute gambling. In contrast, video game companies maintain that loot boxes are...
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Keywords:
Consumer Behavior;
Policy;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Product Design;
Video Game Industry
Amano, Tomomichi, and Andrey Simonov. "A Welfare Analysis of Gambling in Video Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-052, February 2023.
- 2012
- Working Paper
School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders
By: Danielle Li
The move toward increased school accountability may substantially affect the career risks that school leaders face without providing commensurate changes in pay. Since effective school leaders likely have significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated...
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Li, Danielle. "School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-052, October 2015.
- 26 Nov 2018
- HBS Seminar
Emily Truelove, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 12 Mar 2013
- Video
LearnX - Episode 1 - Creative Tension
- February 2008 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Apple Inc., 2008
By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
In January 2007, three decades after its incorporation, Apple Computer shed the second word in its name and became Apple Inc. With that move, the company signaled a fundamental shift away from its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC)...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Leadership;
Industry Growth;
Corporate Strategy;
Information Infrastructure;
Internet and the Web;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Technology Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Michael Slind. "Apple Inc., 2008." Harvard Business School Case 708-480, February 2008. (Revised September 2008.)
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
partly a result of poor corporate governance. We also provide evidence of a channel through which the benefits of ownership concentration outweigh its costs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-100.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBank of America:...
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Martha Lagace
- February 2022
- Teaching Note
AptDeco: Circular Economy Furniture Marketplace
By: Ayelet Israeli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-069. AptDeco, a used furniture marketplace, was growing rapidly in the tri-state area. The co-founders were confident that the business model, financial position, and unit economics positioned AptDeco for scaling in the massive $120...
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Keywords:
E-Commerce Strategy;
Mobile;
Word-of-Mouth;
Word Of Mouth;
Word-of-mouth Marketing;
Internet Marketing;
Growth Strategy;
Platform;
Platforms;
Two Sided Markets;
Two-sided Market;
Two-sided Marketplace;
Two-Sided Markets;
Two-sided Network;
Black Entrepreneurs;
Black Leadership;
African Americans;
African-American Protagonist;
Circular;
Peer-to-peer Markets;
Furniture Industry;
Growth Hacking;
Monetization Strategy;
Growth Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Digital Platforms;
Marketing Channels;
Digital Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Acquisition;
Retention;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Expansion;
Brands and Branding;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Technology Industry;
Web Services Industry;
United States;
North America;
New York (city, NY);
New York (state, US)
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Course. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307011 iPod vs. Cell Phone: A Mobile Music Revolution? Harvard Business School Case 707-419 In 2006, a nascent market for music-enabled View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 1994 (Revised February 2001)
- Case
PepsiCo's Restaurants
In 1992 PepsiCo is considering two opportunities to expand its restaurant business, Carts of Colorado, a $7 million manufacturer and merchandiser of mobile food carts, and California Pizza Kitchen, a $60 million chain in the casual dining segment. The discussion...
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Keywords:
Management Systems;
Organizational Structure;
Opportunities;
Business Strategy;
Expansion;
Food and Beverage Industry
Montgomery, Cynthia A. "PepsiCo's Restaurants." Harvard Business School Case 794-078, January 1994. (Revised February 2001.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms
By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sara Signorelli and James M. Sappenfield
Leveraging a unique dataset merging patent data with all work-related migration reforms that took place in 15 countries over 26 years, we show that reforms discouraging inventor mobility decrease the patenting of MNE subsidiaries within a country, while reforms...
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Keywords:
Migration;
Technology;
Policy Evaluation;
Patents;
Information Technology;
Immigration;
Policy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Globalization
Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sara Signorelli, and James M. Sappenfield. "Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-047, January 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- June 2009
- Article
Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation
By: Lucy White and Alan Morrison
We analyze the desirability of level playing fields in international financial regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best-regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because...
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Keywords:
Economy;
International Finance;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Standards;
Banking Industry
White, Lucy, and Alan Morrison. "Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation." Journal of Finance 64, no. 3 (June 2009): 1099–1142.
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
We need a COVID-19 D-Day—and the leadership to execute it
- 31 Mar 2016
- News
Products to Platforms: Making the Leap
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market By: Wen, Wen, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how app developers on the Android View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- July 2008 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
mixi (A)
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Masaru Nomura and Kanako Miyoshi
Kasahara, the founder and CEO of mixi, the most successful Japanese on-line social network, is deciding between two strategic options: (i) B2C or (ii) C2C to leverage the power of the social network. In the B2C option, mixi would become a portal for on-line shopping...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Digital Platforms;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Business Strategy;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Japan
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, Masaru Nomura, and Kanako Miyoshi. "mixi (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-413, July 2008. (Revised June 2011.)