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Lehman Brothers
Nicholas, Tom; Chen, DavidCase HBS-810106-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2008, the U.S. financial system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What would be the firm's legacy? And how, if at all, had its activities changed the course of American history?Starting at €8.20
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TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
Esty, Benjamin C.; Fisher, DanielCase HBS-720422-EStrategyTransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown at compound annual rates in excess of 20%. But in early 2017, investors, customers, and government officials began to question the implementation, sustainability, and ethics of the ...Starting at €8.20
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Gillette: Cutting Prices to Regain Share
Esty, Benjamin C.; Fisher, DanielCase HBS-720378-EStrategyAfter losing market share to low-priced competitors such as Harry's and Dollar Shave Club for several years, Gillette decided to fight back by launching new products and increasing advertising. When these efforts failed to stem the losses, Gillette decided to cut the prices on its razors and blades in April 2017. Bonnie Herzog, an equity analyst at Wells Fargo, must assess how the recently announced price cuts are likely to affect Gillette's earn...Starting at €8.20
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Fixing Facebook: Fake News, Privacy, and Platform Governance
Yoffie, David B.; Fisher, DanielCase HBS-720400-EStrategyMark Zuckerberg founded Facebook based on the idea that connecting people was a fundamentally good thing-and a way to turn a handsome profit. But from the beginning, Facebook received criticism both for how it handled user privacy and how it curated user-generated content. These two issues coalesced in the aftermath of the 2016 United States presidential election, after Facebook's role in the spread of political misinformation and the leak of Fac...Starting at €8.20
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Fixing Facebook: Fake News, Privacy, and Platform Governance, Teaching Note
Yoffie, David B.; Fisher, DanielTeaching Note HBS-720417-EStrategyTeaching note for case 720400.Starting at €0.00
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Intellectual Ventures Update 2020
Yoffie, David B.; Fisher, DanielCase HBS-720438-EStrategyAfter raising $6 billion and buying 60,000 patents, Intellectual Venture was confronted with a changing legal environment. A number of important legal decision, including the Supreme Court's so-called "Alice" decision, IV had to shift strategy. IV sold off a substantial portion of its IP portfolio, and refocused its efforts on trying to innovate, using its acquired technologies.Starting at €8.20
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The American Dream in History
Nicholas, Tom; Chen, DavidCase HBS-808134-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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The Indian Removal Act and the
Nicholas, Tom; Medoff, Ari; Smith, RavenCase HBS-812079-EEconomicsNative Americans were subjected to a protracted and painful process of forced removal from their land. The case provides "first hand" evidence on the debate over Indian removal as it took place during the early nineteenth century. The first document is excerpted from Andrew Jackson's First Annual Message to Congress in 1829 and the second document from Jackson's Second Annual Message in 1830, the year the Indian Removal Act was passed. The third ...Starting at €8.20
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Kleiner-Perkins and Genentech: When Venture Capital Met Science
Hardymon, G. Felda; Nicholas, TomCase HBS-813102-EEntrepreneurshipGenentech is a rare success story in the biotechnology industry. Hundreds of billions of dollars of venture capital have been invested without the expected transformational effects. Established in 1976, Genentech was to develop the new science of recombinant DNA into viable therapeutic products with mass market appeal, something that most scientists agreed was at least a decade away. The founders, Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson had limited fina...Starting at €8.20
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Samuel Colt: An American Gun Maker
Nicholas, Tom; Verkamp, CaseyCase HBS-815061-EEntrepreneurshipSamuel Colt not only perfected and patented the technology for a gun that could fire multiple times without reloading, but he also developed and applied early principles of mass production more completely than anyone had done before. Until the nineteenth century, weapons manufacture, like most industries, had been the exclusive domain of skilled craftsmen, whose families had typically been in the trade for generations. Colt substituted specialize...Starting at €8.20