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- November 2019
- Case
Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan, Tanvi Deshpande and Shreya Ramachandran
In May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was having a hard time...
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Keywords:
Turnarounds;
Operations;
Management;
Financial Condition;
Problems And Challenges;
Communication;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Transformation;
Apparel And Accessories Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Tanvi Deshpande, and Shreya Ramachandran. "Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-053, November 2019.
- September 2019
- Case
It's All About Family: Esas Group
By: Christina R. Wing and Alpana Thapar
This case describes how Ali Sabancı and his sister Emine Sabancı Kamışlı, shareholders of Esas Group, one of Turkey’s largest family-owned investment firms, worked to grow and professionalize the business. While their father Şevket Sabancı, played an instrumental role...
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Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "It's All About Family: Esas Group." Harvard Business School Case 620-010, September 2019.
- January 2019
- Supplement
Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Jonas Heese, Paula A. Price and Suraj Srinivasan
- November 2018
- Case
Governance Transition at Anadolu Group
By: Paul M. Healy and Esel Y. Cekin
Kamil Yazici and Izzet Ozilhan founded and built Anadolu Group Holding—a family business that grew into a multi-billion-dollar regional powerhouse. For 57 years they were equal partners in running the company. They then handed over a leadership role to a next...
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Keywords:
Family-managed Business;
Professionally-run Company;
Second-generation;
Third-generation;
Governance;
Governance Changes;
Succession Planning;
Corporate Culture;
Shareholders;
Board Of Directors;
Long-term Sustainability;
Conglomerate;
family Business;
Corporate Governance;
Change Management;
Management Succession;
Leadership;
Transition;
Organizational Structure;
Consumer Products Industry;
Turkey;
Central Asia;
Middle East
Healy, Paul M., and Esel Y. Cekin. "Governance Transition at Anadolu Group." Harvard Business School Case 119-048, November 2018.
- January 2018 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Giving Birth to Ovia Health
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Julia Kelley
In late 2016, Paris Wallace, the CEO of Ovia Health, and the rest of the company’s co-founders faced a difficult decision about the best way to grow Ovia Health’s revenue. Founded in 2012, Ovia Health specialized in mobile and web applications in the women’s health...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Market Entry And Exit;
Health Care And Treatment;
Health Industry
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Julia Kelley. "Giving Birth to Ovia Health." Harvard Business School Case 818-004, January 2018. (Revised October 2020.)
- May 2016 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times
By: Rohit Deshpandé, Tarun Khanna, Namrata Arora and Tanya Bijlani
Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947—eight months before India's independence from British rule—and owned by over three million farmers in the state of Gujarat. It is India's largest food product marketing organization, selling 46 products, including...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
Expansion;
Dairy;
India;
Cooperatives;
Milk;
Leadership;
Agriculture;
Agribusiness;
Competition;
Marketing;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry;
India
Deshpandé, Rohit, Tarun Khanna, Namrata Arora, and Tanya Bijlani. "India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times." Harvard Business School Case 516-116, May 2016. (Revised June 2017.)
- April 2016 (Revised June 2017)
- Teaching Note
Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar
By: Jonas Heese, Paula A. Price and Suraj Srinivasan
In spring 2015, Dollar General CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market leader in the U.S. discount retail world. Dollar General operated over 11,500...
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- November 2015 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar
By: Jonas Heese, Paula A. Price, Suraj Srinivasan and David Lane
In spring 2015, Dollar General's CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market leader in the U.S. discount retail world. Dollar General operated over...
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Keywords:
Dollar General;
Family Dollar;
Dollar Tree;
Antitrust;
Board Of Directors;
Corporate Strategy;
Activist Investors;
Federal Trade Commission;
Acquisition;
Valuation;
Corporate Strategy;
Retail Industry;
United States
Heese, Jonas, Paula A. Price, Suraj Srinivasan, and David Lane. "Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar." Harvard Business School Case 116-007, November 2015. (Revised October 2017.)
- February 2015 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
The Board of Directors at Market Basket
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague
The firing of Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demoulas by his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, and directors affiliated with him set off employee protests throughout the grocery store chain. Industry specialists estimated that Market Basket was losing close to ten million...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Organizational Behavior;
Shareholder Votes;
Board Of Directors;
Board Dynamics;
Board Decisions;
Boards;
Grocery;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Business And Shareholder Relations;
Corporate Governance;
Food And Beverage Industry;
New England
Lorsch, Jay W., and Emily McTague. "The Board of Directors at Market Basket." Harvard Business School Case 415-044, February 2015. (Revised April 2015.)
- May 2007 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
Dollar General (A)
By: Willy Shih, Stephen P. Kaufman and Rebecca McKillican
Dollar General Corporation (DG) operates one of the leading chains of extreme value retailers in the United States. 2006 revenues reached $9.2 billion, making DG the 6th largest mass retailer in the country. With revenues growing at 9% annually over the five-year...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
family Business;
Disruptive Innovation;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Retail Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Rebecca McKillican. "Dollar General (A)." Harvard Business School Case 607-140, May 2007. (Revised November 2019.)
- November 2003 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire
By: Geoffrey Jones and Ingrid Vargas
Taught in Evolution of Global Business. Globalization and corporate fraud are the central themes of this case on the international growth of Swedish Match in the interwar years. Between 1913 and 1932, Ivar Kreuger, known as the "Swedish Match King," built a small,...
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Keywords:
History;
International Finance;
Globalized Firms And Management;
Crime And Corruption;
Ethics;
Monopoly;
Business And Government Relations;
Sweden
Jones, Geoffrey, and Ingrid Vargas. "Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire." Harvard Business School Case 804-078, November 2003. (Revised September 2018.)
- February 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Case
Argentina's Financial System: The Case of Banco de Galicia
Describes the development of Argentina's financial system after the "Tequila Crisis" that came about as a result of the speculative attack on the Mexican peso's peg to the U.S. dollar in December 1994. Although Argentina's banking system was strengthened overall due to...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Emerging Markets;
Macroeconomics;
Business Strategy;
Banks And Banking;
Financial Crisis;
family Business;
Acquisition;
Banking Industry;
Argentina
Di Tella, Rafael M., Tarun Khanna, Huw Pill, Alexandra de Royere, and Ingrid Vogel. "Argentina's Financial System: The Case of Banco de Galicia." Harvard Business School Case 702-033, February 2002. (Revised February 2003.)