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      • February 2021
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      AptDeco: Circular Economy Furniture Marketplace

      By: Ayelet Israeli and Jamie Merkrebs
      AptDeco, a used furniture marketplace was growing rapidly in the tri-state area. The Co-Founders were confident that the business model, financial position, and unit economics positioned AptDeco for scaling in the massive $120 billion furniture market, despite its...  View Details
      Keywords: E-commerce; E-commerce Strategy; Mobile; Digital Marketing; Word-of-mouth; Word-of-mouth Marketing; Word Of Mouth; Internet Marketing; Growth Strategy; Platform; Platforms; Two Sided Markets; Two-sided Market; Two-sided Marketplace; Two-sided Markets; Two-sided Network; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Leadership; African Americans; Circular; Peer-to-peer Markets; Furniture Industry; Furniture; Growth Hacking; Monetization Strategy; Growth management; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Market Platforms; Marketing channels; Online Advertising; Consumer Behavior; Acquisition; Growth And Development Strategy; Two-sided Platforms; Customer Focus And Relationships; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; North America; New York (city, Ny); New York (state, Us)
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      Israeli, Ayelet, and Jamie Merkrebs. "AptDeco: Circular Economy Furniture Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 521-069, February 2021.
      • 2021
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      Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      Selling is changing, but the impact on sales of megatrends like ecommerce, big data, and AI is often misunderstood and not supported by empirical data. Managers who fail to separate fact from hype will make decisions based on bad assumptions and, in a competitive...  View Details
      Keywords: Sales; Strategy; Salesforce management; Change; Adaptation
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      Cespedes, Frank V. Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Supplement

      Barbara Krakow Gallery (B): Art and the Pandemic

      By: Jose B. Alvarez and David Lane
      Updates (A) case by describing the early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the art market, the renaming of the gallery as the Krakow Witkin Gallery, and the response of its partners and staff to the pandemic.  View Details
      Keywords: Art Market; Covid-19; Arts; Business Model; Change management; Trends; Communication; Customer Focus And Relationships; Human Resources; Marketing; Distribution channels; Outcome Or Result; Health Pandemics; Fine Arts Industry
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      Alvarez, Jose B., and David Lane. "Barbara Krakow Gallery (B): Art and the Pandemic." Harvard Business School Supplement 521-031, January 2021.
      • December 2020
      • Case

      Château Margaux: Serving Up the Third Wine

      By: Elie Ofek
      In fall 2019, Corinne Mentzelopoulos, owner of the famous first-growth Château Margaux, is pondering a series of decisions with respect to the chateau's third wine. Margaux du Château Marguax, as this wine was called, was launched in 2013 with a particular goal in mind...  View Details
      Keywords: Brand Management; Pricing; Wine Industry; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Performance Evaluation; Price; Distribution channels; Growth And Development Strategy; France
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      Ofek, Elie. "Château Margaux: Serving Up the Third Wine." Harvard Business School Case 521-054, December 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience

      By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
      Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., had developed an entirely new “mixed play” product experience that blended familiar Hot Wheels play in the physical world with breakthrough play in...  View Details
      Keywords: Toys; Go-to-market Strategy; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Decision Making; Marketing; Strategy; Los Angeles
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      Ofek, Elie, Andres Terech, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience." Harvard Business School Case 521-017, September 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Article

      Customer Supercharging in Experience-Centric Channels

      By: David R. Bell, Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
      We conjecture that for online retailers, experience-centric offline store formats do not simply expand market coverage, but rather, serve to significantly amplify future positive customer behaviors, both online and offline. We term this phenomenon “supercharging” and...  View Details
      Keywords: Retail Operations; Marketing-operations Interface; Omnichannel Retailing; Experience Attributes; Quasi-experimental Methods; Operations; Online Technology; Marketing channels; Consumer Behavior; Retail Industry
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      Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno. "Customer Supercharging in Experience-Centric Channels." Management Science 66, no. 9 (September 2020).
      • August 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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      Digital Marketing at HBS Online

      By: Sunil Gupta and Rajiv Lal
      In July 2020, the management team of Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online) had to decide how to allocate its marketing budget for fiscal year 2021 between various digital channels and its portfolio of courses. Since its launch in 2014, HBS Online had grown to...  View Details
      Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Advertising; Online Advertising; Marketing channels; Brands And Branding; Business Education; Education Industry; United States; Boston
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      Gupta, Sunil, and Rajiv Lal. "Digital Marketing at HBS Online." Harvard Business School Case 521-027, August 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • July 2020
      • Technical Note

      Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force

      By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal
      This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth And Maturation; Customers; Customer Focus And Relationships; Customer Relationship management; Innovation And Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Marketing channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Sales; Technology; Information Technology; Internet; Online Technology; Software; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Australia; North And Central America; United States; Illinois; Chicago; California; San Francisco
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      Narayandas, Das, Michael Norris, and Amram Migdal. "Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force." Harvard Business School Technical Note 521-019, July 2020.
      • July 2020
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      Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics

      By: Steven Rogers, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alterrell Mills
      The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial opportunities that come from identifying an underserved market, specifically within the Black community...  View Details
      Keywords: Brands And Branding; Competition; Customers; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution channels; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Macroeconomics; Marketing; Marketing channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Mission And Purpose; Organizational Culture; Product Design; Product Development; Product Positioning; Sales; Social Issues; Social Marketing; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Supply Chain management; Venture Capital; Advertising Industry; Public Relations Industry; Chemical Industry; Beauty And Cosmetics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; North And Central America; United States; New York (city, Ny); New York (state, Us)
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      Rogers, Steven, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Alterrell Mills. "Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics." Harvard Business School Case 321-002, July 2020.
      • July 2020
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      Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

      By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen
      We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education...  View Details
      Keywords: management; Hospitals; Mortality; Education; Health Care And Treatment; Performance Improvement; Business Education; management Practices And Processes
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      Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van Reenen. "Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare." Review of Economics and Statistics 102, no. 3 (July 2020): 506–517.
      • January 2020
      • Case

      Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

      By: Ayelet Israeli, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal
      In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had...  View Details
      Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile Technology; Growth And Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America
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      Israeli, Ayelet, Carla Larangeira, and Mariana Cal. "Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth." Harvard Business School Case 520-068, January 2020.
      • November 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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      Hormel Foods

      By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
      In 2019, CEO Jim Snee is weighing how to shape the image of Hormel Foods, one of the largest U.S. meat and food companies, at a time when the industry faces unprecedented scrutiny. Based in the small town of Austin, Minnesota, the nearly 130-year-old firm is best known...  View Details
      Keywords: Brand Portfolio Strategy; Brands And Branding; Product; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Risk management; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Food And Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China
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      Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Hormel Foods." Harvard Business School Case 520-045, November 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
      • November 2019 (Revised November 2019)
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      eSig: Growth Analysis

      By: Mark N. Roberge and Thomas R. Eisenmann
      eSig, an early-stage startup, offers an electronic signature application as a "freemium" product, i.e., users can upgrade from a free basic version to a premium version by paying a subscription fee. Using 9 months of data from 50,000 user activations, available as a...  View Details
      Keywords: Esignature; Computer Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; management; Marketing channels; Software; Computer Industry; United States
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      Roberge, Mark N., and Thomas R. Eisenmann. "eSig: Growth Analysis." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 817-701, November 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
      • 2019
      • Book

      Operations in an Omnichannel World

      By: Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
      The world of retailing has changed dramatically in the past decade. Sales originating at online channels have been steadily increasing, and even for sales transacted at brick-and-mortar channels, a much larger fraction of sales is affected by online channels in...  View Details
      Keywords: Omnichannel; Omnichannel Retail; Retail; Operations; Operations; management; Supply Chain management; Business Model; Organizational Change And Adaptation
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      Gallino, Santiago, and Antonio Moreno, eds. Operations in an Omnichannel World. Vol. 8, Springer Series in Supply Chain Management. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019.
      • 2019
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      Whether Weather Matters: Impact of Exogenous Factors on Customers' Channel Choice

      By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
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      Gallino, Santiago, Nil Karacaoglu, and Antonio Moreno. "Whether Weather Matters: Impact of Exogenous Factors on Customers' Channel Choice." In Operations in an Omnichannel World. Vol. 8, edited by Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno, 235–261. Springer Series in Supply Chain Management. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      The purpose of this chapter is to explain what the technologies of flow production with stochastic bottlenecks require and reward in organizations. I argue that organizations successfully implementing these technologies are likely to have unified governance and...  View Details
      Keywords: Technology; Organizational Design; management Teams; Business History
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      Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-033, September 2019.
      • September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
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      Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

      By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock
      In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake...  View Details
      Keywords: Facebook; Fake News; Mark Zuckerberg; Donald Trump; Algorithms; Social Networks; Partisanship; Social Media; App Development; Instagram; Whatsapp; Smartphone; Silicon Valley; Office Space; Digital Strategy; Democracy; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Controversy; Tencent; Agility; Social Networking; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Messaging; Monetization Strategy; Advertising; Online Advertising; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Growth And Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Organization; For-profit Firms; Trends; Communication; Communication Technology; Forms Of Communication; Interactive Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Talent And Talent management; Crime And Corruption; Voting; Demographics; Entertainment; Games, Gaming, And Gambling; Moral Sensibility; Values And Beliefs; Initial Public Offering; Profit; Revenue; Geography; Geographic Location; Global Range; Local Range; Country; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues; Globalized Firms And management; Globalized Markets And Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Government And Politics; International Relations; National Security; Political Elections; Business History; Recruitment; Selection And Staffing; Information management; Information Publishing; News; Newspapers; Innovation And management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination; Human Capital; Law; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business Or Company management; Crisis management; Goals And Objectives; Growth And Development Strategy; Growth management; management Practices And Processes; management Style; management Systems; management Teams; Managerial Roles; Marketing channels; Social Marketing; Network Effects; Market Entry And Exit; Market Platforms; Two-sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Monopoly; Media; Product Development; Service Delivery; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Mission And Purpose; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Public Ownership; Problems And Challenges; Business And Community Relations; Business And Government Relations; Groups And Teams; Networks; Rank And Position; Opportunities; Behavior; Emotions; Identity; Power And Influence; Prejudice And Bias; Reputation; Social And Collaborative Networks; Status And Position; Trust; Society; Civil Society Or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customization And Personalization; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Software; Technology Networks; Technology Platform; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Valuation; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry; Entertainment And Recreation Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Journalism And News Industry; Media And Broadcasting Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; California; Sunnyvale; Russia
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      Wells, John R., Carole A. Winkler, and Benjamin Weinstock. "Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World." Harvard Business School Case 720-373, September 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
      • August 2019
      • Case

      Apex Ski Boots

      By: Kate Barasz and John T. Gourville
      Apex Ski Boots has introduced a new ski boot that, due to its radical design, is meeting resistance in the marketplace from many retailers, ski experts, and consumers. The company must decide how best to drive sales in the face of this resistance.  View Details
      Keywords: Go-to-market Strategy; Strategic Change; Marketing Strategy; Distribution channels; Sales; Change management; Sports Industry; Apparel And Accessories Industry
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      Barasz, Kate, and John T. Gourville. "Apex Ski Boots." Harvard Business School Case 520-013, August 2019.
      • July 2019 (Revised March 2020)
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      At-Bay Cyber Insurance

      By: Marco Di Maggio and David Lane
      At-Bay was a cyber insurance startup that offered companies coverage against a wide array of cyber risks—exposure to which the firm was able to quickly assess and price on the basis of technical expertise that traditional insurance carriers lacked. In mid-2019, At-Bay...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Insurance; Disruptive Innovation; Risk management; Product Marketing; Distribution channels; Information Technology; Salesforce management; Insurance Industry
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      Di Maggio, Marco, and David Lane. "At-Bay Cyber Insurance." Harvard Business School Case 220-005, July 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
      • April 2019 (Revised July 2019)
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      Aperture Investors

      By: Krishna G. Palepu, George Serafeim and David Lane
      Aperture Investors is a startup investment firm that seeks to disrupt the asset management industry through competitive differentiation by charging investors primarily when its portfolio managers outperform the marketplace. Headed by Wall Street veteran Peter Kraus and...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Talent And Talent management; Investment; Investment Funds; Asset management; Recruitment; Selection And Staffing; Marketing channels; Emerging Markets; Partners And Partnerships; Motivation And Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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      Palepu, Krishna G., George Serafeim, and David Lane. "Aperture Investors." Harvard Business School Case 119-053, April 2019. (Revised July 2019.)
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