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      • March 2024 (Revised September 2024)
      • Case

      Supercell 2.0: Clash of Plans

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and George Gonzalez
      Founded in 2010, Supercell was a Helsinki, Finland-based mobile gaming company that had developed and launched five global hit mobile games: Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Hay Day, Brawl Stars, and Boom Beach. The company’s early philosophy was that it could produce... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Video Game Industry; Finland
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      Rayport, Jeffrey F., and George Gonzalez. "Supercell 2.0: Clash of Plans." Harvard Business School Case 824-180, March 2024. (Revised September 2024.)
      • February 2023 (Revised February 2024)
      • Case

      Doing Business in Helsinki, Finland

      By: Martin A. Sinozich, Lena Duchene, Tonia Labruyere and Daniela Beyersdorfer
      This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Finland. It highlights Finland's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main... View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Crisis Management; Culture; Environmental Sustainability; International Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; Finland; Europe
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      Sinozich, Martin A., Lena Duchene, Tonia Labruyere, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Doing Business in Helsinki, Finland." Harvard Business School Case 323-079, February 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
      • January 2018
      • Teaching Note

      Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean

      By: Boris Groysberg, Kalle Heikkinen, Michael Norris and James Barnett
      In 2016, after successfully turning around Finnish nonwovens manufacturer Suominen, CEO Nina Kopola faces a decision on the company’s strategy moving forward. View Details
      Keywords: Nonwovens; Female Protagonist; Turnaround; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Pulp and Paper Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; United States; Finland
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      Groysberg, Boris, Kalle Heikkinen, Michael Norris, and James Barnett. "Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 418-053, January 2018.
      • October 2016
      • Case

      Supercell

      By: William R. Kerr, Benjamin F. Jones and Alexis Brownell
      Supercell is a young Finnish smartphone game company with an unusual team structure and company philosophy. It is already one of Finland’s most valuable companies, and despite being only six years old, it has put up some impressive numbers: as of 2016, it has released... View Details
      Keywords: Supercell; Finland; Video Games; Firm Structure; Startups; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Groups and Teams; Video Game Industry; Finland
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      Kerr, William R., Benjamin F. Jones, and Alexis Brownell. "Supercell." Harvard Business School Case 817-052, October 2016.
      • June 2016
      • Case

      Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean

      By: Boris Groysberg, Kalle Heikkinen and Michael Norris
      In 2016, after successfully turning around Finnish nonwovens manufacturer Suominen, CEO Nina Kopola faces a decision on the company’s strategy moving forward. View Details
      Keywords: Nonwovens; Female Protagonist; Turnaround; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Pulp and Paper Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; United States; Finland
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      Groysberg, Boris, Kalle Heikkinen, and Michael Norris. "Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean." Harvard Business School Case 416-047, June 2016.
      • September 2012 (Revised March 2013)
      • Case

      Entrepreneurial Finance in Finland?

      By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Alexis Brownell
      This case describes a new venture attempting to bring early-stage entrepreneurial financing to Finland and other Nordic countries. Entrepreneurship is taking off in Finland, an area that historically has had little venture capital or high-growth start-up activity, but... View Details
      Keywords: Angels; Angel Investors; VC; Micro-VC; Accelerator; Incubator; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Finland; Scandinavia; Europe
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      Kerr, William R., Ramana Nanda, and Alexis Brownell. "Entrepreneurial Finance in Finland?" Harvard Business School Case 813-068, September 2012. (Revised March 2013.)
      • March 2012
      • Case

      Angry Birds

      By: Sunil Gupta and Dharmishta Rood
      Within months of its launch in December 2009, Angry Birds, a mobile game created by a small Finnish company, Rovio Entertainment Ltd., became an international hit. By late 2011, Rovio was not only making Angry Birds games for the iPhone, Android and other mobile... View Details
      Keywords: Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Video Game Industry; Finland
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      Gupta, Sunil, and Dharmishta Rood. "Angry Birds." Harvard Business School Case 512-033, March 2012.
      • April 2010 (Revised May 2011)
      • Case

      Emerging Nokia?

      By: Juan Alcacer, Tarun Khanna, Mary Furey and Rakeen Mabud
      By late 2009, Nokia was grappling with the decision of whether to recover its leading position in the high-profit developed markets, where they were losing market share to the likes of Apple and Samsung, or defend its market leadership in the low-margin, high-volume... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Finland
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      Alcacer, Juan, Tarun Khanna, Mary Furey, and Rakeen Mabud. "Emerging Nokia?" Harvard Business School Case 710-429, April 2010. (Revised May 2011.)
      • March 2010 (Revised February 2013)
      • Case

      Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A)

      By: Juan Alcacer, Rasmus Karl Gustaf Molander and Rakeen Mabud
      The Finnish brewer Hartwall and the Swedish brewer Pripps had to decide how to react to the rapidly changing European political, economic, and business environment in 1989–1990. View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Government and Politics; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Finland; Sweden
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      Alcacer, Juan, Rasmus Karl Gustaf Molander, and Rakeen Mabud. "Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-430, March 2010. (Revised February 2013.)
      • March 2010 (Revised February 2013)
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      Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (B)

      By: Juan Alcacer, Rasmus Karl Gustaf Molander and Rakeen Mabud
      In 1991, Hartwall and Pripps made the decision to found Baltic Beverages Holding (BBH) and invest in the former USSR by buying Estonia's biggest brewery, Saku. View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Estonia; Finland; Sweden
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      Alcacer, Juan, Rasmus Karl Gustaf Molander, and Rakeen Mabud. "Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-471, March 2010. (Revised February 2013.)
      • 2 Oct 2008
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      Creating a High-Value Health Care System: Implications for Finland

      By: Michael E. Porter
      This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, "How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care" Journal of the American... View Details
      Keywords: Health; Finland
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      Porter, Michael E. "Creating a High-Value Health Care System: Implications for Finland." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Helsinki, Finland, October 2, 2008.
      • August 2008 (Revised March 2010)
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      Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik and Jordan Mitchell
      The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Cooperative Ownership; Public Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Finland
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik, and Jordan Mitchell. "Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail." Harvard Business School Case 709-409, August 2008. (Revised March 2010.)
      • 2007
      • Chapter

      The Rationales and Performance of Public Venturing: Survey Evidence from Belgium and Finland

      By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
      Keywords: Public Sector; Public Ownership; Mission and Purpose; Performance; Belgium; Finland
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      Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "The Rationales and Performance of Public Venturing: Survey Evidence from Belgium and Finland." In Essays in Entrepreneurial Finance, by Ant Bozkaya, 95–139. Université libre de Bruxelles, 2007. (Reprinted in Entrepreneurial Finance: Financing of Young, Innovative Ventures (Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009), 95-139.)
      • December 2006 (Revised September 2007)
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      Ponsse: From Finland to Global

      By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
      Finland-based Ponsse Oyj, with 2005 turnover of $250 million, is the only dedicated forest equipment company of size that remained in a consolidating industry. Competitors included global giants such as John Deere and Komatsu. Since his arrival at Ponsse in 2004, CEO... View Details
      Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Capacity; Expansion; Forest Products Industry; Forestry Industry; Russia; Finland; United States; Brazil
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      Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "Ponsse: From Finland to Global." Harvard Business School Case 507-002, December 2006. (Revised September 2007.)
      • December 2004 (Revised April 2008)
      • Teaching Note

      Finland and Nokia (TN)

      By: Michael E. Porter and Orjan Solvell
      Teaching Note to (9-702-427). View Details
      Keywords: Telecommunications Industry; Finland
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      Porter, Michael E., and Orjan Solvell. "Finland and Nokia (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 705-435, December 2004. (Revised April 2008.)
      • September 2004 (Revised December 2004)
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      Metso Paper: Globalization of Finnish Metal Workshops

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Marikka Heikkila and Kalle Lyytinen
      Metso Paper, the world's largest producer of paper machines, aims to transform itself into a knowledge- and information-based service and solution provider for the paper industry by aggressively exploiting information technologies. In the fall of 2002, Jorma Hujala, a... View Details
      Keywords: Production; Customer Value and Value Chain; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Knowledge Management; Machinery and Machining; Expansion; Service Delivery; Manufacturing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Finland
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      Applegate, Lynda M., Marikka Heikkila, and Kalle Lyytinen. "Metso Paper: Globalization of Finnish Metal Workshops." Harvard Business School Case 805-057, September 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
      • December 2002 (Revised November 2003)
      • Case

      Tympani Board, The

      By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Mike Tarkington, a partner at Reality Venture Partners, must recommend a course of action to his colleague, Steve Bonhomme. Bonhomme is trying to decide whom he should put on the board of a company that is acquiring one of Reality's portfolio companies. Reality will... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Equity; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Finland; United States
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      Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tympani Board, The." Harvard Business School Case 803-105, December 2002. (Revised November 2003.)
      • January 2002 (Revised March 2011)
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      Finland and Nokia: Creating the World's Most Competitive Economy

      By: Michael E. Porter and Orjan Solvell
      Finland, with a special language and culture, has developed as a country in between the west (the Nordic region and Europe) and the east (especially its neighbor Russia). In the 1980s, a process started of moving out of an investment-driven economy into an... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Finland
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      Porter, Michael E., and Orjan Solvell. "Finland and Nokia: Creating the World's Most Competitive Economy." Harvard Business School Case 702-427, January 2002. (Revised March 2011.)
      • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
      • Supplement

      ABB: Accountability Times Two (A)

      By: Robert L. Simons
      Describes the complexity of setting and reconciling performance targets in a global, matrix company. The president of the Finnish industry and rail transport company has received targets from two bosses--his regional superior and his business area superior. Each has... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Expectations; Complexity; Multinational Firms and Management; Finland
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      Simons, Robert L. "ABB: Accountability Times Two (A)." Harvard Business School Supplement 192-141, May 1992. (Revised January 2000.)
      • July 1991
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      Finland--1991

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      Keywords: Finland
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      Bower, Joseph L. "Finland--1991." Harvard Business School Case 392-001, July 1991.
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