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- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR
understanding, we connect and mobilize. BEI, and HBS, are catalysts. And today we name the primary environmental challenge for business and society: climate change. Second, the Initiatives model that BEI...
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- February 2018 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Timothy J. Becker, Ricardo Andrade and Sayiddah F. McCree
In January 2018, Caelan Langan, an associate at KSW Partners LLC (“KSW”), was asked by Katherine Scott, the partner for whom he worked, to recommend a proposed structure to acquire a prominent office building in San Francisco for their most recent fund. Caelan was...
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Keywords:
Real Estate;
Alternative Investment Structures;
Property;
Acquisition;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Management;
Taxation;
Policy
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, Timothy J. Becker, Ricardo Andrade, and Sayiddah F. McCree. "The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate." Harvard Business School Case 218-077, February 2018. (Revised December 2019.)
- May 2016
- Article
'Both/And' Leadership
By: Wendy K. Smith, Marianne Lewis and Michael Tushman
Leaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes—contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as "either/or" choices. There are innovation paradoxes, in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the mandate to sustain the tried and...
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Smith, Wendy K., Marianne Lewis, and Michael Tushman. "'Both/And' Leadership." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 5 (May 2016): 62–70.
- 2019
- Article
Go-Shops Revisited
By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
A go-shop process turns the traditional M&A deal process on its head: rather than a pre-signing market canvass followed by a post-signing “no shop” period, a go-shop deal involves a limited pre-signing market check, followed by a post-signing “go shop” process to find...
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Keywords:
Go-shop Process;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Negotiation Process;
Negotiation Deal;
Performance Effectiveness;
Technological Innovation
Subramanian, Guhan, and Annie Zhao. "Go-Shops Revisited." Harvard Law Review 133, no. 4 (February 2020): 1216–1279.
- Web
The Gift of Global Talent
Gas Restoration William R. Kerr 29 Oct 2018 | Bloomberg Radio Global talent fosters innovation and collaborative patents Sari Pekkala Kerr & William Kerr 28 Oct 2018 | LSE Business Review America’s Need for...
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- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
go back and haggle over the minutes of a meeting,” says Thomke, whose recently released book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments encourages companies to test new business...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2014
- News
Clayton Christensen: Do We Need A Revolution In Management?
- 14 Nov 2016
- News
Why Big Data Isn’t Enough
- 25 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS
Greetings! My name is Alonso Lucero, and I’m currently a first year student at HBS. Prior to HBS, I worked in consulting, social impact venture capital, and data analytics. I chose to attend Harvard Business School for three primary...
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- Web
Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities - Recruiting
accessibility reports, and tools to improve access to employees of all abilities. “Their whole business model is that they want accessibility to be a key metric and they will come in to assess spaces for...
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- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
If the ongoing social networking revolution has you scratching your head and asking, "Why do people spend time on this?" and "How can my company benefit from the social network revolution?" you've got a lot in common with Harvard View Details
- June 2010
- Background Note
A Note on Corporate Entrepreneurship: Challenge or Opportunity?
This note provides an overview of the rationale and the challenges associated with building new businesses within established companies. It provides a framework for understanding why corporations pursue entrepreneurial ventures and the various levers that they employ....
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Keywords:
Business Plan;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Problems and Challenges;
Opportunities
Chakravorti, Bhaskar. "A Note on Corporate Entrepreneurship: Challenge or Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Background Note 810-145, June 2010.
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
"Is it better to be loved or feared?" Machiavelli asked. At Harvard Business School, Professor Scott Snook uses this classic quote to help students become more effective leaders. Using two of the most successful college...
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- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely basis. Alert to this change, a European rival added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids, forcing quick decisions from clients—and winning new View Details
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by Peter Jacobs
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
technologies and the eventual creation of a regulatory structure to prevent entrepreneurial chaos. LR: To follow up on that, Professor Spar, you've created a four-phase model of how companies develop along the technological frontier—from...
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by Jim Aisner
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a...
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 04 Dec 2023 My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service Rhea Choudhury Author MBA Students tag Nonprofit / Government Student & Alumni Stories Summer Internships Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service...
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- August 2007
- Case
Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Andrea M.A.F. Minardi
Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue them. He was approaching an American private equity fund to raise money. Describes Alecrim's challenge in creating SAT...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Private Equity;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Utilities Industry;
Brazil
Applegate, Lynda M., and Andrea M.A.F. Minardi. "Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo." Harvard Business School Case 808-062, August 2007.
- April 2020 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A)
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Emma Salomon
GitLab is arguably one of the world’s largest “all-remote” companies. Started in 2011 and with more than 1,000 employees at present, it has no physical offices and all employees, including the entire C-Suite, work remotely from all parts of the world. The case...
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Keywords:
Remote Work;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Adoption;
Value Creation;
Business Model;
Organizational Structure
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Emma Salomon. "GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A)." Harvard Business School Case 620-066, April 2020. (Revised February 2023.)
- 27 Oct 2021
- News