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- May 2018
- Article
Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
By: Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs’ diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion and to build a bottom-up measure...
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Bandiera, Oriana, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work." Review of Financial Studies 31, no. 5 (May 2018): 1605–1653. (Lead article.)
- June 2018
- Article
Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital
By: Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Investing;
Abandonment Option;
Technological Innovation;
Venture Capital;
Investment
Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital." Journal of Financial Economics 128, no. 3 (June 2018): 422–442.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital
By: Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Investing;
Abandonment Option;
Technological Innovation;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment
Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-070, February 2015. (Revised March 2017, Forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics.)
- September 2009
- Article
Structural Homophily or Social Asymmetry? The Formation of Alliances by Poorly Embedded Firms
By: Gautam Ahuja, Francisco Polidoro Jr. and Will Mitchell
Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than richly embedded firms to form alliances, because they lack informational...
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Keywords:
Interorganizational Networks;
Interfirm Collaboration;
Embeddedness;
Networks;
Joint Ventures;
Alliances
Ahuja, Gautam, Francisco Polidoro Jr., and Will Mitchell. "Structural Homophily or Social Asymmetry? The Formation of Alliances by Poorly Embedded Firms." Strategic Management Journal 30, no. 9 (September 2009): 941–958.
- December 2013
- Article
Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: Firm-level Implications of State Equity Purchases
By: Carlos F. K. V. Inoue, Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio
In many countries, firms face institutional voids that raise the costs of doing business and thwart entrepreneurial activity. We examine a particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected...
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Keywords:
Business Groups;
Development Banks;
State Capitalism;
Performance;
State Ownership;
Brazil
Inoue, Carlos F. K. V., Sergio G. Lazzarini, and Aldo Musacchio. "Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: Firm-level Implications of State Equity Purchases." Academy of Management Journal 56, no. 6 (December 2013).
- Article
Leadership Is Associated with Lower Levels of Stress
By: Gary D. Sherman, J. J. Lee, A.J.C. Cuddy, Jonathan Renshon, Christopher Oveis, James J. Gross and Jennifer S. Lerner
As leaders ascend to more powerful positions in their groups, they face ever-increasing demands. This has given rise to the common perception that leaders have higher stress levels than non-leaders. But if leaders also experience a heightened sense of control—a...
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Sherman, Gary D., J. J. Lee, A.J.C. Cuddy, Jonathan Renshon, Christopher Oveis, James J. Gross, and Jennifer S. Lerner. "Leadership Is Associated with Lower Levels of Stress." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, no. 44 (October 30, 2012): 17903–17907.
- October 2022
- Case
Spaceport America, Public Sector Risk-taking, and Political Accountability (A)
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Dava Newman, Rebecca Browder and Angela Acocella
Sitting quietly in the heart of the New Mexico desert in the summer of 2014, Spaceport America (SA) housed little of the activity its supporters anticipated when opening its hangar doors in 2011. Despite $1 million in annual rent from Virgin Galactic, British...
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Keywords:
Funding Sources;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Public Sector;
Business and Government Relations;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Aerospace Industry;
New Mexico
Weinzierl, Matthew, Dava Newman, Rebecca Browder, and Angela Acocella. "Spaceport America, Public Sector Risk-taking, and Political Accountability (A)." Harvard Business School Case 723-011, October 2022.
- 20 Oct 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Global Talent Flows
- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
Innovation in health care treatment seems to far outpace innovation in health care business management. Just ask President Obama—two weeks ago he delayed enactment of a key provision of the new health care law for fear its requirements would swamp small-business...
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
citizenship. Five years later, SEI launched an executive education program on corporate social responsibility. In 2005, SEI convened a research forum on business solutions to global poverty, bringing together academic, business, nonprofit, and View Details
- September 2019 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A)
By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan and Julia Kelley
This case describes the accounting fraud at Tesco Stores Limited (TSL), which was discovered by a senior accountant in TSL’s finance department. The accountant was concerned about TSL’s handling of commercial income, which, according to the accountant, overstated...
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Heese, Jonas, Suraj Srinivasan, and Julia Kelley. "Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-032, September 2019. (Revised December 2023.)
- TeachingInterests
Globalization and Emerging Markets
Globalization and Emerging Markets is designed for students who will be investing, managing a business or nonprofit, or working for a government in an emerging market. The unit of analysis of the course ranges from countries to multinational and domestic companies... View Details
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-422. TransDigm 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,...
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Keywords:
Value Capturing;
Pricing Strategy;
Supplier Power;
Buyer Power;
Porter's Five Forces;
Bargaining Power;
Monopoly;
Aerospace;
Acquisition Strategy;
Value Drivers;
Ethical Behavior;
Regulation;
Growth Strategy;
Business Ethics;
Defense;
Procurement;
Sustainability;
Value-Based Business Strategy;
Acquisition;
Ethics;
Private Equity;
Financial Strategy;
Growth Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Horizontal Integration;
Value Creation;
Competitive Advantage;
Aerospace Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
- 2015
- Working Paper
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility
By: Gary Becker, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Murphy and Jorg L. Spenkuch
We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human capital theory, we derive several novel results. In particular, we show...
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Keywords:
Intergenerational Mobility;
Inequality;
Complementarities;
Human Capital;
Equality and Inequality;
Income;
Family and Family Relationships
Becker, Gary, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch. "A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility." Working Paper, August 2015.
- September 2012 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Shanghai Pharmaceuticals
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
Shanghai Pharmaceuticals (SPH), a vertically integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a rapidly evolving industry, policy, and economic environment. The company—essentially a collection of subsidiaries...
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Conglomerates;
Vertical Integration;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Consolidation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Global Strategy;
State Ownership;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Health Industry;
Shanghai;
United States;
Europe
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Natalie Kindred. "Shanghai Pharmaceuticals." Harvard Business School Case 313-016, September 2012. (Revised August 2015.)
- Web
Donor Societies - Alumni
Alumni and friends who make planned gifts of any amount to HBS are invited to join this Society, named in honor of John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947), a visionary business leader, government official, and philanthropist. If you have already...
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- October 2002 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
The EU's 13th Directive on Takeover Bids: Unlucky for Some?
By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
In the late 1990s, the United States boomed in the context of the so-called New Economy. The countries of the European Union--despite their progress with integration in the form of the Single Market 1992 program and the adoption of a single currency in January...
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Pill, Huw, and Ingrid Vogel. "The EU's 13th Directive on Takeover Bids: Unlucky for Some?" Harvard Business School Case 703-014, October 2002. (Revised November 2002.)
- November 2020
- Case
Wilderness Safaris: Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
This case is an epilogue to “Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa” (2-321-020), which ends with the emergence of the pandemic in March 2020. The final discussion area for that case can be “What should Wilderness Safari CEO Keith...
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Keywords:
Communities;
COVID-19;
Ecotourism;
Travel;
Travel Industry;
Conservation Planning;
Reopening;
Investor Relations;
Project Strategy;
Governance;
Decision Making;
Cash;
Health Pandemics;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Tourism Industry;
Africa
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Wilderness Safaris: Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 321-077, November 2020.
- Third Quarter 2018
- Article
Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey
By: Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim
Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to...
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Keywords:
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Sustainability;
Investment Management;
Investment Strategy;
Metrics;
Standard Setting;
Accounting Standards;
Finance;
Investment;
Information;
Environmental Sustainability;
Governance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Strategy
Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim. "Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey." Financial Analysts Journal 74, no. 3 (Third Quarter 2018): 87–103.
- Web
Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion...
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