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• Case | HBS Case Collection | May 2018

  Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data

  Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott and Annelena Lobb

  Cowen Inc.’s broker-dealer, Cowen and Company, LLC, boasted a number of analysts who had made prescient stock calls on the basis of creative data analysis. Now Cowen Inc. had opened a new subsidiary, Kyber, which would attempt to monetize new data science products. Robert Fagin, head of research, had to consider what Kyber’s risks were, even as the unit uncovered the possibility for new revenue streams. How could Cowen continue to exploit its competitive advantage with data?

  Keywords: data science; equity research; research analysts; Investment; Data and Data Sets; Equity; Research; Analysis; Competitive Strategy;

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  Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Abbott, and Annelena Lobb. "Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data." Harvard Business School Case 418-035, May 2018.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | December 2017 (Revised April 2018)

  Area One Farms

  Forest Reinhardt, Jose B. Alvarez and Annelena Lobb

  In 2017, Joelle Faulkner, CEO of Area One Farms, a Canadian private-equity fund focused on investing in the best Canadian farms and helping them expand, considered the merits and disadvantages of expanding her business to the U.S. While the markets shared some similarities, Faulkner did not know the U.S. market as well as the Canadian one. Could her joint venture partnership model work as well in the U.S. as it had in her home country?

  Keywords: Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Canada; United States;

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  Reinhardt, Forest, Jose B. Alvarez, and Annelena Lobb. "Area One Farms." Harvard Business School Case 518-069, December 2017. (Revised April 2018.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | April 2018

  Maersk: Betting on Blockchain

  Rajiv Lal, Scott Johnson, Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

  Keywords: Maersk; IBM; Blockchain; shipping; Shipping Line; trade; Bitcoin; digitization; container shipping; Joint Ventures; Ship Transportation; Transportation Networks; Technology Platform; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Software; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry;

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  Lal, Rajiv, and Scott Johnson. "Maersk: Betting on Blockchain." Harvard Business School Case 518-089, April 2018.  View Details

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