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  • October 2012 (Revised February 2019)
  • Case

Whaling Ventures

By: Tom Nicholas and Jonas Peter Akins
Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there were about 900 whaling ships in the world and 700 of these were American. Rates of return on capital were high compared to benchmark investments, at... View Details
Keywords: Whaling; Organization Design; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Finance; Organizational Design; Industry Growth; History; United States
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  • December 1996
  • Case

Hydro-Quebec: In Pursuit of the Great Whale

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Keywords: Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Canada
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  • April 2015
  • Case

Who Owns the Whale? (Abridged)

By: Thales S. Teixeira and David E. Bell
Judge William Wright considers the case of the dispute of a whale carcass wherein several whaling ships claim ownership based on each one's contribution to its killing. The judge must weigh in the differing efforts and costs of three ships who each played a role at... View Details
Keywords: Whaling; Attribution; Norms-of-ownership; Transaction Costs; Deadweight Losses; Free-rider Problem; Advertising; History; United States; United Kingdom
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  • April 2015
  • Case

Who Owns the Whale?

By: Thales S. Teixeira and David E. Bell
Judge William Wright considers the case of the dispute of a whale carcass wherein several whaling ships claim ownership based on each one's contribution to its killing. The judge must weigh in the differing efforts and costs of three ships who each played a role at... View Details
Keywords: Whaling; Attribution; Norms-of-ownership; Transaction Costs; Deadweight Losses; Free-rider Problem; Advertising; History; Advertising Industry; North America; Europe
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  • 2019
  • Book

VC: An American History

By: Tom Nicholas
An exploration of venture financing in America, from its origins in the whaling industry to the rise of Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital (VC) created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. The VC industry arose from the United States’... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; History; United States
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  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715442-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-107 Who Owns the Whale? Judge William Wright considers the case of the dispute of a whale carcass wherein several View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

for whales is the randomness of what they will find inside, which can be similar to the draws of gambling, the paper notes. The authors find that whales were more likely to rapidly open one box after... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting
  • 25 Jan 2021
  • Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

match what the US accomplished during this period? Friedman: For one thing, the US benefitted by its vast geographic scale, which allowed for waves of innovation to spread in clusters across the country. This is evident in New Bedford and the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

men home safely. Once he arrived at the whaling station on South Georgia Island in May of 1916, he had to find a boat to get through the ice, get back across those perilous waters—some of the most dangerous waters to sail in in the world,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Whaling Ventures Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter AkinsHarvard Business School Case 813-086 : Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

differences, due to essentially geographic factors, in absolute costs/availability: Spices, to take just one example, could be grown in the East Indies but not in Northern Europe. The same was essentially true of the global whaling fleets... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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