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      Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community

      By: Shane Greenstein, Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin
      Threadless, an online apparel company and artist community which Jake Nickell founded in 2000, continued to maintain its status as a top company in the online apparel industry during its second decade. From 2010 to 2020, Threadless continued to operated its...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Invention; Leading Change; Management; Marketing; Product Launch; Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Networks; Sales; Strategy; Adaptation; Technology; Software; Technology Platform; Apparel And Accessories industry; Technology industry; North America
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      Greenstein, Shane, Karim Lakhani, and Christian Godwin. "Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community." Harvard Business School Case 621-056, February 2021.
      • February 2021
      • Case

      Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO

      By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
      During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion....  View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Restructuring; Borrowing And Debt; Private Equity; Bonds; Investment Return; Institutional Investing; Profit Sharing; Business History; Management Style; Private Ownership; Performance Effectiveness; Value Creation; Financial services industry; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom, and John Masko. "Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO." Harvard Business School Case 821-016, February 2021.
      • February 2021
      • Case

      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 And Development Strategy; Growth Strategy; Platform; Platforms; Two Sided Markets; Two-sided Market; Two-sided Marketplace; Two-sided Markets; Two-sided Platforms; 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; 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.
      • February 2021
      • Case

      China Rapid Finance: The Collapse of China’s P2P Lending Industry

      By: William C. Kirby, Bonnie Yining Cao and John P. McHugh
      Keywords: Financial Services; P2p Lending; Government And Business; Regulation; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Strategy; Financial services industry; China
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      Kirby, William C., Bonnie Yining Cao, and John P. McHugh. "China Rapid Finance: The Collapse of China’s P2P Lending Industry." Harvard Business School Case 321-124, February 2021.
      • February 2021
      • Supplement

      HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics (C)

      By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and John P. McHugh
      Keywords: Global Business; China; Conglomerate; Airline Industry; Coronavirus; Coronavirus Pandemic; Financial Risk; Debt; Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Global Strategy; Restructuring; Air Transportation industry; Financial services industry; China
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      Kirby, William C., Billy Chan, and John P. McHugh. "HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-123, February 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
      On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskey’s in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science....  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Cash Flow; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Brands And Branding; Consumer Products industry; Food And Beverage industry; service industry; United States; California
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling." Harvard Business School Case 721-419, January 2021.
      • January 2021
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      Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
      On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskey’s in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science....  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Cash Flow; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Brands And Branding; Consumer Products industry; Food And Beverage industry; service industry; United States; California
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 721-852, January 2021.
      • January 2021
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      Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and the Cost of Capital (Abridged)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
      In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to...  View Details
      Keywords: Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost Of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; industrial Products industry; United States; Denmark; Republic Of Ireland
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      Esty, Benjamin C., E. Scott Mayfield, and Daniel Fisher. "Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and the Cost of Capital (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 221-070, January 2021.
      • January 2021
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      Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital (Abridged)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
      In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to...  View Details
      Keywords: Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost Of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; industrial Products industry; United States; Denmark; Republic Of Ireland
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      Esty, Benjamin C., E. Scott Mayfield, and Daniel Fisher. "Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 221-708, January 2021.
      • January 2021
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      Juno (A): Leveraging Student Power

      By: Joshua Schwartzstein and Kathleen L. McGinn
      In March 2020, Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal were in the midst of preparing the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup, Juno. Both current MBA students at Harvard Business School, the duo founded Juno in 2018 to leverage student bargaining power...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices And Conditions; Decisions; Cost Vs Benefits; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing And Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Agreements And Arrangements; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Types; Financial services industry; Education industry; North And Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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      Schwartzstein, Joshua, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Juno (A): Leveraging Student Power." Harvard Business School Case 921-032, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Supplement

      Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power

      By: Joshua Schwartzstein and Kathleen L. McGinn
      In March 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to pitch banks in anticipation of their annual auction while negotiating directly with private lender Eager. Responses from the majority of private lenders—including Juno’s 2019 partner—were not...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices And Conditions; Decisions; Cost Vs Benefits; Judgments; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing And Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Types; Financial services industry; Education industry; North And Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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      Schwartzstein, Joshua, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power." Harvard Business School Supplement 921-033, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Supplement

      Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power

      By: Joshua Schwartzstein and Kathleen L. McGinn
      In May 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to hold the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup. Five lenders submitted bids, and the co-founders ultimately opted to select Eager Bank as their partner for the 2020-2021...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices And Conditions; Decisions; Cost Vs Benefits; Judgments; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing And Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Agreements And Arrangements; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Types; Financial services industry; Education industry; North And Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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      Schwartzstein, Joshua, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power." Harvard Business School Supplement 921-034, January 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement

      By: George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon
      We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability diminishes for firms with large disagreement between raters. Relation between news and...  View Details
      Keywords: Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg Disclosure; Esg Ratings; Esg Reporting; Esg Disclosure Metrics; Sustainability; Investments; News; Disagreement; Rating Disagreement; Ratings; Finance; Accounting; Investment; Financial services industry
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      Serafeim, George, and Aaron Yoon. "Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-079, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      Andela: Africa's AWS for Talent

      By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
      Five years after the company’s founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa’s greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an...  View Details
      Keywords: Education In Africa; Entrepreneur; Remote Work; Software Engineering; Edtech; Entrepreneurship; Education; Software; Engineering; Growth And Development Strategy; Africa
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      Elkins, Caroline M., Tarun Khanna, and Joyce J. Kim. "Andela: Africa's AWS for Talent." Harvard Business School Case 321-113, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      The FIRE Savings Calculator

      By: Michael Parzen and Paul J. Hamilton
      This case follows Carol Muñoz, a member of the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) lifestyle movement. At the age of 45, Carol is considering retiring and living off the $1 million she has accumulated. Using Monte Carlo simulation, Carol forecasts the...  View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Forecasting And Prediction; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Personal Finance; Saving; Risk And Uncertainty; Diversification; Theory; Financial services industry
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      Parzen, Michael, and Paul J. Hamilton. "The FIRE Savings Calculator." Harvard Business School Case 621-087, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      Digital Transformation 2.0: CEO Elie Girard at Atos

      By: Tsedal Neeley and James Barnett
      Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of Atos—multinational IT giant—to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation. Noticing that customers’ digital needs were evolving to become even more specialized and global in scope, he made a bold first step as...  View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Change; Leadership; Technology industry
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      Neeley, Tsedal, and James Barnett. "Digital Transformation 2.0: CEO Elie Girard at Atos." Harvard Business School Case 421-024, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      'GEnron?' Markopolos versus General Electric (A)

      By: Jonas Heese and David Lane
      In August 2019, Harry Markopolos—the forensic accountant known for uncovering Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme—alleged that General Electric had committed accounting fraud totaling $38 billion, coining the term “GEnron” for perceived similarities with the 2001 accounting...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Statements; Communication; Energy; Financial Condition; Insurance; Performance; Planning; Business And Shareholder Relations; Risk And Uncertainty; Value; Insurance industry; Financial services industry; Energy industry
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      Heese, Jonas, and David Lane. "'GEnron?' Markopolos versus General Electric (A)." Harvard Business School Case 121-005, January 2021.
      • December 2020
      • Case

      Urban Company

      By: Krishna G. Palepu
      Urban Company is an India-based market platform that helps customers book home services and at home beauty services. The company differentiated itself by investing heavily in building customer trust. Rather than merely positioning itself as a lead generating...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Market Platforms; Emerging Markets; Strategy; service Delivery; Trust; Technology industry; service industry; India
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      Palepu, Krishna G. "Urban Company." Harvard Business School Case 121-041, December 2020.
      • December 2020
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      George Soros: The Stateless Statesman

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Grace Ballor
      Keywords: Philanthropy; Democracy; Hedge Fund; Populism; Philanthropy And Charitable Giving; Finance; Financial services industry; Europe; Hungary; North And Central America; United Kingdom
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Grace Ballor. "George Soros: The Stateless Statesman." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 321-094, December 2020.
      • 2020
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      Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

      By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
      The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications...  View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media
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      Silk, Alvin J., and Ernst R. Berndt. "Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28161, December 2020.
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