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Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital
responsible for small funds Entrepreneurs who are seeking private financing Families and institutions in the process of raising their first fund or considering private equity investing Angel investors who are looking to formalize their...
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- March 2004
- Case
L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth
By: Rajiv Lal, Walter J. Salmon and James Weber
In mid-2003, CEO Chris McCormick felt L.L. Bean was in a good position to begin to grow again. For nearly 90 years, the company sold clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts through its catalogs and a single retail store in Freeport, Maine. In the three decades prior...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Restructuring;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Cost Management;
Sales;
Performance Improvement;
Diversification;
Distribution Channels;
Resignation and Termination;
Retail Industry;
Web Services Industry
Lal, Rajiv, Walter J. Salmon, and James Weber. "L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 504-080, March 2004.
- 23 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets
- 2008
- Book
On Competition
By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it...
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Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
- December 2016
- Article
Industry Window Dressing
By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou
We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers undertake actions—in the form of sales management—to take advantage of these shortcuts. Specifically, we exploit a regulatory provision wherein a firm’s primary...
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Investor Shortcuts;
Industry Classification;
Opportunistic Managerial Behavior;
Discontinuity;
Management Practices and Processes;
Investment;
Sales
Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou. "Industry Window Dressing." Review of Financial Studies 29, no. 12 (December 2016): 3354–3393.
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
August serves as global head of Oak Hill Advisors' distressed investment activities and has overall management responsibility for the firm. August is currently chairman of the board of directors of OHA View Details
Malcolm S. Salter
Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.
In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
There is an overall expansion of industrial activity after reform, and highly disaggregated trade data indicate higher exports of new goods. These results suggest that the expansion of multinational activity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
that each $1 invested in display and search leads to a return of $1.24 for display and $1.75 for search ads, which contrasts sharply with the estimated returns based on standard metrics. We use these results to show how optimal budget...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Disruptive Innovation
works and determine when to invest in core versus disruptive business models. As you gain insight into the ways that evolving industries, technologies, and competitive forces can affect your business, you will be better prepared to...
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Aligning Strategy and Sales
strategic asset, this sales channel strategy program will help you enable essential company-wide alignment. By aligning strategy and sales, you will explore new ways to help sales professionals meet their numbers, how to improve your company's return on View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities-San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that firms open new satellite offices based on the success rate of venture capital-backed investments in an...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteria that investors use to make these decisions: the gender and physical attractiveness of the entrepreneurs themselves. Across a field setting (three...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2008 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Opportunity Partners
By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing hedge fund and prominent activist investor, has taken a position in a Mexico-based closed-end fund. Following a hard-fought proxy contest in which he advocated for management to eliminate the fund's substantial discount,...
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Keywords:
Investment Activism;
Investment Funds;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Value;
Financial Services Industry;
Mexico
Greenwood, Robin, and James Quinn. "Opportunity Partners." Harvard Business School Case 208-097, January 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
- March–April 2023
- Article
Pricing for Heterogeneous Products: Analytics for Ticket Reselling
By: Michael Alley, Max Biggs, Rim Hariss, Charles Herrmann, Michael Lingzhi Li and Georgia Perakis
Problem definition: We present a data-driven study of the secondary ticket market. In particular, we are primarily concerned with accurately estimating price sensitivity for listed tickets. In this setting, there are many issues including endogeneity, heterogeneity in...
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Keywords:
Price;
Demand and Consumers;
AI and Machine Learning;
Investment Return;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Sports Industry
Alley, Michael, Max Biggs, Rim Hariss, Charles Herrmann, Michael Lingzhi Li, and Georgia Perakis. "Pricing for Heterogeneous Products: Analytics for Ticket Reselling." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25, no. 2 (March–April 2023): 409–426.
- 05 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
- 09 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance?
- 29 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent
despite the investments of Beckham and others, remained relatively small, dwarfed by homegrown sports like football and baseball. Beckham has committed to building US soccer as part of his legacy, the case says, and brands started...
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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: 1) catalysts—events...
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Sean Silverthorne