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- September 1999 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
Eggrock Partners, LLC (A)
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus
Explores the challenges of choosing how to grow a professional services firm (PSF). Before developing a growth strategy, the partners need to agree on what business(es) the company should be in. Each of the three partners has differing views of what the company should...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Model;
Expansion;
Business Processes;
Industry Structures;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Employees;
Partners and Partnerships;
Service Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., Myra M. Hart, and Sharon Peyus. "Eggrock Partners, LLC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-047, September 1999. (Revised October 2000.)
- November 2008 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
The Bridgespan Group: Chapter 2
By: Allen S. Grossman, Naomi Greckol-Herlich and Cathy Ross
The Bridgespan Group was launched in 2000 by management consulting group Bain & Company as a nonprofit focused on strategy consulting for nonprofits and philanthropists. Over the next eight years, Bridgespan expanded its services to include executive search, knowledge...
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Keywords:
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Operations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Expansion;
Consulting Industry
Grossman, Allen S., Naomi Greckol-Herlich, and Cathy Ross. "The Bridgespan Group: Chapter 2." Harvard Business School Case 309-020, November 2008. (Revised April 2010.)
- June 2020
- Case
TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp.
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher
In April 2013, TransDigm, a company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial aircraft, announced an agreement to acquire Aerosonic Corporation for $39 million in cash (1.2 times Aerosonic’s sales of $31...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Value Creation;
Valuation;
Negotiation;
Cash Flow;
Contracts;
Aerospace Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel W. Fisher. "TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp." Harvard Business School Case 720-480, June 2020.
- December 1998
- Case
MD Foods Amba
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
In 1998, MD Foods, a Denmark-based dairy cooperative, was searching for growth opportunities that would enable it to become northern Europe's preferred retail dairy supplier. The options being considered included expanding in existing markets, entering into new...
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Keywords:
Cooperative Ownership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Expansion;
Market Entry and Exit;
Alliances;
Innovation and Management;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Europe;
United Kingdom;
Denmark
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "MD Foods Amba." Harvard Business School Case 599-052, December 1998.
- 11 May 2015
- News
How Emerging Markets Can Finally Arrive
- Blog
Women on Boards
At HBS Executive Education, we could not pursue leadership development without one core belief—that the ability to lead is not an inborn trait and that people can learn to lead.
But learning about leadership never ends.... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Development of Ultrasound Scanning: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
We describe how efforts on multiple fronts, including advocacy, training and technological development made ultrasound the second most used diagnostic imaging technology (after X-rays). Specifically, we chronicle: 1) ultrasound’s development and introduction in the...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Invention;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Development of Ultrasound Scanning: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-003, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- June 2001 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Ducati
Focuses on the turnaround and strategic repositioning of Ducati, an Italian maker of high-end sport motorcycles, and describes the current concerns with the growth prospects of the company. Federico Minoli, the CEO and strategic mind behind the turnaround, knew that...
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- October 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Global Unichip Corporation (A)
By: Willy Shih and Chen-Fu Chien
Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) is a design services company that acts as a front-end to TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry. In so doing, it masked the complexity of the latest process technologies, and reduced the entry barriers for small firms to...
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Keywords:
Abstraction;
Value-network;
Entry Barriers;
Intermediaries;
Dis-intermediation;
Aggregator;
Vertical Specialization;
Technology Adoption;
Digital Platforms;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Horizontal Integration;
Vertical Integration;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Industry Structures;
Information Infrastructure;
Complexity;
Information Technology;
Semiconductor Industry;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Taiwan
Shih, Willy, and Chen-Fu Chien. "Global Unichip Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 613-048, October 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
- October 2020 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Automercados Plaza's: Surviving Venezuela's Hyperinflation
By: Alberto Cavallo, Mariana Cal and Carla Larangeira
Under the rule of presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela experienced one of the worst economic and political meltdowns in modern history, culminating with a massive hyperinflation. Remarkably, during this dramatic times Automercados Plaza's had grown to...
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Keywords:
Hyperinflation;
Populism;
Inflation and Deflation;
Macroeconomics;
Management;
Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business and Government Relations;
Retail Industry;
South America;
Venezuela
Cavallo, Alberto, Mariana Cal, and Carla Larangeira. "Automercados Plaza's: Surviving Venezuela's Hyperinflation." Harvard Business School Case 721-014, October 2020. (Revised March 2022.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates
By: Marguerite Obolensky, Marco Tabellini and Charles Taylor
This paper introduces the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015),...
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Keywords:
Migration;
Climate;
Immigration;
Residency;
Weather;
Ethnicity;
Climate Change;
Geographic Location;
Policy;
United States
- March 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
Pandora Radio: Fire Unprofitable Customers?
By: Willy C. Shih and Halle Alicia Tecco
Pandora Radio is at a crossroads. Founder Tim Westergren has just been told by a well known VC to get rid of his unprofitable customers in order to get his costs down, but Westergren is not sure that such actions are consistent with his company's business model....
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Customer Satisfaction;
Music Entertainment;
Venture Capital;
Profit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Consumer Behavior;
Internet;
Media and Broadcasting Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Halle Alicia Tecco. "Pandora Radio: Fire Unprofitable Customers?" Harvard Business School Case 610-077, March 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- December 2011 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Brasil Foods
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
In mid-2011, the management of Brasil Foods, a leading Brazilian branded foods producer and protein exporter, is evaluating strategies for international and domestic growth. The team has just received approval from Brazil's antitrust authorities to complete the merger...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Brazil
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Brasil Foods." Harvard Business School Case 512-013, December 2011. (Revised April 2013.)
- 2021
- Book
We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems
By: Mitchell Weiss
The huge public challenges we face are daunting. At the same time, many of us have come to accept the notion that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges—it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Not so. Entrepreneurial savvy in government is growing,...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Government Administration;
Government and Politics;
Technological Innovation;
Problems and Challenges;
Innovation Leadership;
Public Administration Industry;
Technology Industry
Weiss, Mitchell. We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Contributing to Growth? The Role of Open Source Software for Global Startups
By: Nataliya Langburd Wright, Frank Nagle and Shane Greenstein
Does participating in open source software (OSS) communities spur entrepreneurial growth? More
efficiently developing shared code, learning from what the OSS community has developed, and
shaping the direction of massive projects, such as those linked to frameworks...
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Open Source Distribution;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Human Capital;
Valuation;
Corporate Strategy
Wright, Nataliya Langburd, Frank Nagle, and Shane Greenstein. "Contributing to Growth? The Role of Open Source Software for Global Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-040, January 2024.
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
6 Books That Top Tech Execs Recommend Reading Now
- September 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Gazelle in 2012
By: Andrei Hagiu and James Weber
Gazelle has pioneered a reCommerce intermediation model: it buys used electronics from consumers and resells them on eBay or to wholesalers. Going forward, its two main strategic challenges are 1) deciding how much to rely on partnerships with large retailers for...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Markets;
Two-Sided Platforms;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Service Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and James Weber. "Gazelle in 2012." Harvard Business School Case 711-446, September 2010. (Revised April 2013.)
- March 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Microsoft's IP Ventures
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Microsoft's IP Ventures program, through which Microsoft spun out promising but unused technologies into new companies, is a new approach to corporate venture capital. The program provides "IP for equity" and has proven very successful in achieving its main...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Investment;
Intellectual Property;
Rights;
Software;
Washington (state, US)
Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Microsoft's IP Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 810-096, March 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- September 2009 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
VIZIO, Inc.
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Elizabeth A. Kind
William Wang, CEO of VIZIO, Inc., was proud of his company's success in providing affordable flat screen TVs. Since its founding in 2002, VIZIO had grown to over $2 billion in revenue and was one of the top three flat panel TV brands, along with Samsung and Sony. Faced...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Financing and Loans;
Price;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., and Elizabeth A. Kind. "VIZIO, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 110-024, September 2009. (Revised April 2020.)
- January 2012 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Mexico City Water Shortage
By: John D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James and Frederik Nellemann
In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe water shortage in Mexico City, a great global capital. The protagonist is a real estate investor doing due diligence on the magnitude of the...
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Macomber, John D., Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James, and Frederik Nellemann. "Mexico City Water Shortage." Harvard Business School Case 212-044, January 2012. (Revised January 2014.)