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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
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Picking Winners: A Conversation with MacArthur Fellows Program Director Daniel J. Socolow
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How Cisco Created Their Own Talent Incubator
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What Did 2020 Do to Retail?
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Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. (A1)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. must decide what to do when he receives information that the company's supply of apple juice concentrate may be adulterated.... -
Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding... -
Cancer Treatment Centers of America: Scaling the Mother Standard of Care
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of a private and growing national network of specialty care hospitals focusing on advanced-stage and complex cancer treatments reflects on the... -
Black Duck Software
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or... -
Grupo Beta San Miguel
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the... -
People Express Airlines
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its inception in 1980 then failed spectacularly in 1986. Profiles People's aggressive... -
Amazon: The Brink of Bankruptcy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Enables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company poised on the brink of... -
Ford Motor Company: Strengthening the Dealer Network
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case describes a five-year effort (2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second-half of... -
Governance and Sustainability at Nike (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of... -
Creating Global Oil, 1900-1935
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Taught in the elective MBA course entitled The Evolution of Global Business. Examines the development of an international cartel in the oil industry in... -
The JOBS Act of 2012
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This Note summarizes the potential of the Jobs Act of 2012 to change the way in which emerging growth companies, or EMGs, access capital markets. Described... -
Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market.... -
ABC Pharmaceuticals
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case asks students to price a new drug which is in Stage II of its clinical trials. It contains detailed estimates of the time required and costs... -
Intellectual Property Intermediaries
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details During the past five to 10 years, several different intermediation business models have emerged for the intellectual property (IP) market. This note describes... -
Stamford International Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Management is struggling to meet consensus quarterly earnings-per-share numbers. Discusses a number of accounting decisions. A report indicating internal... -
A Note on Financing in Developing Economies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details As of the date of this note, financing environments varied significantly across developing economies. Differences in legal structures, operating conditions,... -
Esmark, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Involves the management of a firm with a market value of a going concern that is less than its breakup value. How does management maximize value for shareholders... -
Start-Up Chile: April 2012
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Start-Up Chile is a unique program to encourage entrepreneurs to bring their new ventures to Chile. Policymakers must evaluate its effectiveness in achieving... -
HearstLab in 2020: Igniting Innovation and Empowering Women
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2019, Eve Burton, Chairwoman of HearstLab and Chief Legal Officer at Hearst Corporation, knew that HearstLab was at a key inflection point for growth-with... -
HearstLab: Igniting Innovation and Empowering Women (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details Eve Burton founded HearstLab in 2015 to support female entrepreneurs and cultivate a new entrepreneurial mindset within Hearst Corporation. Since the...
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Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. (A1)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. must decide what to do when he receives information that the company's supply of apple juice concentrate may be adulterated.... -
Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding... -
Cancer Treatment Centers of America: Scaling the Mother Standard of Care
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of a private and growing national network of specialty care hospitals focusing on advanced-stage and complex cancer treatments reflects on the... -
Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs considers expanding to the U.S. -
Black Duck Software
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or... -
Grupo Beta San Miguel
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the... -
People Express Airlines
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its inception in 1980 then failed spectacularly in 1986. Profiles People's aggressive... -
Amazon: The Brink of Bankruptcy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Enables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company poised on the brink of... -
Ford Motor Company: Strengthening the Dealer Network
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case describes a five-year effort (2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second-half of... -
Governance and Sustainability at Nike (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of...