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• Case | HBS Case Collection | May 2018

  BuzzFeed—What Future for Native Advertising and Branded Content?

  Felix Oberholzer-Gee

  Jonah Peretti, CEO of digital publishing company BuzzFeed, needs to decide how to respond to Facebook’s announcement that it would prioritize posts from friends over content from publishers.

  Keywords: Information Publishing; Online Technology; Online Advertising; Problems and Challenges; Business Model; Strategy; Publishing Industry; Technology Industry; United States;

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  Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "BuzzFeed—What Future for Native Advertising and Branded Content?" Harvard Business School Case 718-511, May 2018.  View Details

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• Other Unpublished Work | 2017

  Better, Simpler Strategy

  Frances X. Frei and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

  Strategy, at its core, describes how a company attains superior performance. In industry after industry, there is a wide range in company performance resulting from the various strategies adopted by individual firms. Underneath all of this variation, however, are principles that are straightforward and consistent across industries. This pamphlet outlines these principles to help you set and evolve your company’s strategy. Here we offer a simple and succinct way to think about the sources of competitive advantage. We hope that our way of thinking about why some companies do far better than others is both illuminating and inspiring.

  Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage;

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  Frei, Frances X., and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Better, Simpler Strategy." Baker Library, Boston, September 2017.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | September 2014 (Revised February 2017)

  Turkcell

  Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Charles C.Y. Wang and Esel Cekin

  This case centers around the shareholder dispute between three major shareholders of Turkcell, and how its management vied against increasing regulatory intervention and market competition in the absence of a fully-functioning board. The battle for control of the Turkish telecom giant led to several years in which the company could not hold annual shareholder meetings, renew its board of directors, or pay dividends, and lacked a board-approved operating budget. Nevertheless, it maintained its majority market share and was the only telecom player with positive EBITDA in the market. What were the implications of this dispute for Turkcell's broad ambitions? How would the continuing battle affect management, talent, and the company's financial performance?

  Keywords: financial performance; corporate governance; regulatory environment; telecommunications; marketing; value added; pricing; shareholder; boards of directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Shareholder Relations; Telecommunications Industry; Turkey;

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  Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Charles C.Y. Wang, and Esel Cekin. "Turkcell." Harvard Business School Case 715-009, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)  View Details

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