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      How Long Can a Company Thrive Doing Just One Thing?
      One of Boston's Best-Funded Companies Just Came out of Stealth Mode
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      How Long Can a Company Thrive Doing Just One Thing?

      By: Andy Wu and Scott Duke Kominers
      The news that the chat app Slack was being sold to veteran customer relationship management company Salesforce for $27.7 billion raised a lot of eyebrows. Why sell after a year of explosive growth? The deal, however, epitomizes a question facing so-called best-of-breed...  View Details
      Keywords: Best-of-breed Companies; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy
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      Wu, Andy, and Scott Duke Kominers. "How Long Can a Company Thrive Doing Just One Thing?" Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (December 10, 2020).
      • September 2017 (Revised July 2018)
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      CyberArk: Protecting the Keys to the IT Kingdom

      By: Raffaella Sadun, David Yoffie and Margot Eiran
      CyberArk was the recognized leader in the Privileged Account Management (PAM) space, a cybersecurity subsegment it had essentially created to secure organizations’ IT systems and sensitive data. Over 17 years, the Israeli company had grown to a market capitalization of...  View Details
      Keywords: Cybersecurity; Strategy; Growth And Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Israel; United States
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      Sadun, Raffaella, David Yoffie, and Margot Eiran. "CyberArk: Protecting the Keys to the IT Kingdom." Harvard Business School Case 718-418, September 2017. (Revised July 2018.)
      • December 2014 (Revised August 2015)
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      Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation

      By: Jose B. Alvarez and Annelena Lobb
      Muñoz Group, which supplied supermarket chains and food distribution chains around the world with fruit, flowers, juice and ice cream, was at a strategic crossroads in 2014. CEO Alvaro Muñoz had to choose the best way to achieve profit goals and provide his company...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Supply Chain; Retail; Agribusiness Industry; Globalized Firms And Management; Supply Chain Management; Competitive Advantage; Vertical Integration; Profit; Innovation And Invention; Retail Industry; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; North And Central America
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      Alvarez, Jose B., and Annelena Lobb. "Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 515-011, December 2014. (Revised August 2015.)
      • June 2004 (Revised July 2005)
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      Procter & Gamble: Global Business Services

      By: Thomas J. DeLong, Warren Brackin, Alex Cabanas, Phil Shellhammer and David L. Ager
      Dave Walker, vice-president of business service opportunities and chairman of the governance team at Procter & Gamble, must decide what to do with P&G's 5,700 employee Global Business Services (GBS) group. GBS brought together internal services such as finance,...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Units; Change Management; Decision Making; Globalized Firms And Management; Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Organizational Design
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      DeLong, Thomas J., Warren Brackin, Alex Cabanas, Phil Shellhammer, and David L. Ager. "Procter & Gamble: Global Business Services." Harvard Business School Case 404-124, June 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
      • November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
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      Oracle Corporation

      By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
      Oracle Corp., the world's second-largest independent software company (behind Microsoft) was the world's dominant supplier of database software. Oracle also sold application software, such as the popular enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management...  View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change And Adaptation; Internet; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Software; Management Teams; Innovation And Invention; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
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      Frei, Frances X., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Oracle Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 601-043, November 2000. (Revised May 2002.)
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