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      ASICS: Chasing a 2020 Vision
      2020 Vision
      When it comes to setting personal goals, Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA ’98) aims high: Her ambition is to become, like another notable HBS alum,...
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      • December 2020
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      Tencent: Combining Technology and Culture

      By: Elie Ofek, Billy Chan and Dawn H. Lau
      Tencent, one of the largest Internet conglomerates in China, had a vision to become a "Tech+Culture" firm. With dominant market shares in online games and social networking, it had built a vast Internet-based entertainment ecosystem, and was now focused on cultural...  View Details
      Keywords: Media Franchise; Marketing; Market Entry And Exit; Product Launch; Strategy; Culture; China
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      Ofek, Elie, Billy Chan, and Dawn H. Lau. "Tencent: Combining Technology and Culture." Harvard Business School Case 521-066, December 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      Community-First Public Safety

      By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
      How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short...  View Details
      Keywords: Race; Law Enforcement; Governance; Decision Making; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul
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      Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "Community-First Public Safety." Harvard Business School Case 821-005, November 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      The 1,000-Year Plan: Lee Kum Kee and Sustaining a Family Culture

      By: Lauren Cohen, Dawn H. Lau and Billy Chan
      The Lee family, whose Hong Kong-based Lee Kum Kee company has established itself as a legend within the Chinese and Asian sauce world, sets out to create a daring new vision of what family legacy means. With the family business having been established in 1888, and by...  View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Mission And Purpose; Values And Beliefs; Business And Community Relations; Organizational Structure; Strategic Planning
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      Cohen, Lauren, Dawn H. Lau, and Billy Chan. "The 1,000-Year Plan: Lee Kum Kee and Sustaining a Family Culture." Harvard Business School Case 221-047, November 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Building India's 2.0: PayNearby

      By: Lauren Cohen and Spencer C. N. Hagist
      Headquartered in Mumbai, India, FinTech startup Nearby Technologies has seen its flagship brand, PayNearby, rapidly flourish across most of its target market within just four years. The unprecedented success of its payment app, which allows users to access banking...  View Details
      Keywords: Fintech; Developing Markets; Payments; Finance; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Competitive Strategy; Banking Industry; India
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      Cohen, Lauren, and Spencer C. N. Hagist. "Building India's 2.0: PayNearby." Harvard Business School Case 221-027, September 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Apple Bets on Augmented Reality

      By: Rory McDonald, David Lane and Mel Martin
      In 2020, augmented reality (AR) was still a nascent technology with blockbuster potential, one which Apple was actively developing as its iPhone franchise waned. But the emergence of AR was uneven, including the disappointing Google Glass and the unexpected viral...  View Details
      Keywords: Augmented Reality; Industry Structures; Product Development; Commercialization; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Technology; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry
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      McDonald, Rory, David Lane, and Mel Martin. "Apple Bets on Augmented Reality." Harvard Business School Case 621-007, September 2020.
      • September 2020 (Revised October 2020)
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      Moderna (A)

      By: Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer and Kerry Herman
      In summer 2020, Stephane Bancel, CEO of biotech firm Moderna, faces several challenges as his company races to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. The case explores how a company builds a digital organization, and leverages artificial intelligence and other digital...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Vaccine; Digital Organizations; Organizational Structure; Operations; Management; Health Pandemics; Research And Development; Goals And Objectives
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      Iansiti, Marco, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer, and Kerry Herman. "Moderna (A)." Harvard Business School Case 621-032, September 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
      • September 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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      Catalys Pacific

      By: Joshua Lev Krieger
      In 2019, BT Slingsby founds Catalys Pacific, the first biotech “venture creation” fund in Tokyo. After convincing some of the biggest Japanese pharmaceutical firms to invest, BT hopes the fund can make a big splash and transform biotechnology innovation in Japan. After...  View Details
      Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Biotech; Health Care; Entrepreneur; Innovation; International Business; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Innovation Strategy; Venture Capital; Strategy; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Tokyo
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      Krieger, Joshua Lev. "Catalys Pacific." Harvard Business School Case 821-035, September 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • September 2, 2020
      • Article

      What Really Prevents Companies from Thriving in a Recession

      By: Ranjay Gulati and Mark Wiedman
      Even in the best of times, many companies fail to fund and staff new opportunities. As decades of research have shown, leaders fear threats to their status and power and so become attached to existing businesses and budgets, regarding them as entitlements and as a...  View Details
      Keywords: Recessions; Resource Allocation; Budgets And Budgeting
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      Gulati, Ranjay, and Mark Wiedman. "What Really Prevents Companies from Thriving in a Recession." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (September 2, 2020).
      • September–October 2020
      • Article

      When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?: How to Sell Stakeholders on a New Strategy

      By: Rory McDonald and Robert Bremner
      To succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and entrepreneurs realize they need to change direction. How that shift is communicated can have a huge impact on a...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Strategy; Change Management; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Communication Strategy; Business And Stakeholder Relations
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      McDonald, Rory, and Robert Bremner. "When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?: How to Sell Stakeholders on a New Strategy." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 5 (September–October 2020): 98–105.
      • August 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Sesame Workshop (C): Mission Critical Responses to Global and National Crises

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
      Teaching Note for Case No. 321-016. Beginning in March 2020, Sesame Workshop navigated a global pandemic, which caused unemployment, businesses shutdowns, school closures, and remote work environments along with a racial justice crisis, with a renewed mission that led...  View Details
      Keywords: Pandemic; Children; Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Crisis Management; Mission And Purpose; Education; Leadership; Education Industry; Media And Broadcasting Industry
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Joyce J. Kim. "Sesame Workshop (C): Mission Critical Responses to Global and National Crises." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 321-042, August 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968

      By: Amar Bhidé
      This case history analyzes how the founders of McKinsey & Co. built one of the world's leading management consulting firms by developing a “system” of professional norms, approach to serving clients, personnel policies, organization, governance, and ownership. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Mckinsey & Co.; Company History; Professional Norms; vision; Organizations; Business History; Business Model; Strategy; Consulting Industry
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      Bhidé, Amar. "Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 95-010, January 1995. (Revised July 2020.)
      • July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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      Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads

      By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
      For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,...  View Details
      Keywords: Buildings And Facilities; Business Growth And Maturation; Construction; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms And Management; Housing; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Family And Family Relationships; Urban Development; Customization And Personalization; Real Estate Industry; Maharashtra; India; United States
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      Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 621-018, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • 2020
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      Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead

      By: Joseph L. Bower, Dutch Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
      Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass...  View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Business And Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
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      Bower, Joseph L., Dutch Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead. Updated and expanded ed. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
      • June 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work

      By: Christopher Stanton, William R. Kerr, James Palano and Kendall Smith
      This case touches on the topics of project-based work, agile methodology, and skill and talent management through Catalant's evolution as a company. Catalant’s journey to becoming a software platform and talent marketplace provides context for students to explore new...  View Details
      Keywords: Talent And Talent Management; Transformation; Business Startups
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      Stanton, Christopher, William R. Kerr, James Palano, and Kendall Smith. "Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-105, June 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project

      By: Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers
      The digital era promised to deliver a centralized repository of all pre-existing knowledge through mass digitization. However, concerns about cannibalizing demand for physical works have led publishers and authors to block the realization of this vision. We investigate...  View Details
      Keywords: Digitization; Copyright; Books
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      Nagaraj, Abhishek, and Imke Reimers. "Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project." Working Paper, June 2020.
      • May 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Shiseido: Reinvesting in Brand

      By: Jill Avery
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-026. Shiseido was in the midst of a six year corporate turnaround, trying to reverse the effects of decades of under-investment in R&D and marketing that had led to a vicious cycle of declining customer support and brand value. Would...  View Details
      Keywords: Brand Management; Marketing Roi; Brand Portfolio Strategy; Growth Strategy; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands And Branding; Growth And Development Strategy; Beauty And Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Japan; Asia
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      Avery, Jill. "Shiseido: Reinvesting in Brand." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 520-116, May 2020.
      • April 2020 (Revised June 2020)
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      SpaceX, Economies of Scale, and a Revolution in Space Access

      By: Matthew C. Weinzierl, Kylie Lucas and Mehak Sarang
      From the time he transformed the world of online banking, Elon Musk established himself as a bold innovator. After selling X.com to PayPal in 2002, he founded a series of revolutionary start-ups, starting with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). Hoping to "make...  View Details
      Keywords: Space Tech; Space Access; vision; Economies Of Scale; Technological Innovation; Emerging Markets; Commercialization; Finance; Aerospace Industry
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      Weinzierl, Matthew C., Kylie Lucas, and Mehak Sarang. "SpaceX, Economies of Scale, and a Revolution in Space Access." Harvard Business School Case 720-027, April 2020. (Revised June 2020.)
      • April 2020 (Revised August 2020)
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      WeWork—November 2018

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Patrick Sweeney and Alex Gachanja
      In May 2017, SoftBank announced the official launch of the Vision Fund — which promptly became the largest technology-focused investment fund in the world, with nearly $100 billion in capital under its management. Reports from a few months prior hinted that SoftBank...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Valuation; Corporate Governance
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      Gompers, Paul A., Patrick Sweeney, and Alex Gachanja. "WeWork—November 2018." Harvard Business School Case 220-075, April 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
      • March 2020
      • Case

      Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire

      By: Ayelet Israeli, Danilo Tauro and Sarah Gulick
      This case provides a post-mortem of the advertising technology (adtech) company Sizmek. Sizmek grew via multiple acquisitions, with the vision of becoming an integrated adtech company that could leverage AI to buy digital media, while creating and serving display and...  View Details
      Keywords: Online Advertising; Insolvency And Bankruptcy; Mergers And Acquisitions; Software; Internet; Competition; Marketing; Advertising Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Europe
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      Israeli, Ayelet, Danilo Tauro, and Sarah Gulick. "Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire." Harvard Business School Case 520-087, March 2020.
      • March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
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      Generation Investment Management

      By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta
      By January 2020, sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation), founded in London in 2004, had grown from a shared vision among seven founders to a 90-person firm managing $27 billion in public and private equity. Throughout its history,...  View Details
      Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Finance; Equity; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
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      Gandhi, Vikram S., and Sarah Mehta. "Generation Investment Management." Harvard Business School Case 820-033, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
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