Publications

November 1997
Case

Comptronics Associates, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak

The acquirer wants the acquired company to be accounted for as a pooling of interests. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Accounting

September 2016 (Revised November 2016)
Case

Rose Electronics Distributing Company

By: Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Itamar Frankenthal was evaluating bank loan proposals to finance his acquisition of Rose Electronics Distributing Company (“Rose”). He contacted 40 small and large banks that lent in the region and that outreach and follow-up calls resulted in nine term sheets received... View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry

spring 1991
Article

Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott

By: George P. Baker and Karen Wruck

Keywords: Learning; Leveraged Buyouts

April 1988
Article

Nihon Kigyou no Kokusai Teikei Senryaku: Data ni Motozuku Genjou Bunseki (International Collaboration Strategy of Japanese Firms: New Findings from Data Analysis)

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Hiroshi Kobayashi

Keywords: Cooperation; Strategy; Business Ventures; Information; Theory

December 1997
Article

What is the Optimum Amount of Organizational Slack? A Study of the Relationship Between Slack and Innovation in Multinational Firms

By: Ranjay Gulati and Nitin Nohria

Keywords: Organizations; Relationships; Business Ventures; Innovation and Invention

Article

Stacking the Deck: The Effect of Upper Echelon Affiliations for Entrepreneurial Firms

By: Ranjay Gulati and Monica Higgins

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Entrepreneurship; Business Ventures

Article

Internal Differentiation Within Multinational Corporations

By: S. Ghoshal and N. Nohria

Keywords: Business Ventures; Global Range

2006
Article

Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Business Ventures

April 2007
Article

The Structure, Size, and Performance of Corporate Headquarters

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold

Keywords: Size; Performance; Business Ventures

February 2003
Article

The Geography of Opportunity: Spatial Heterogeneity in Founding Rates and the Performance of Biotechnology Rirms

Keywords: Opportunities; Performance; Business Ventures; Biotechnology Industry

July 1989
Case

Merger Negotiations Between Farmland, Cenex, and Land O'Lakes (A)

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

01 Apr 2001
News

Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni

summer and permanent jobs. Held in the Seattle area on Presidents’ Day weekend, the event provides students with a firsthand look at the Seattle business community. Students tour a variety of companies and attend a View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

November 2021
Article

Borrower Leakage from Costly Screening: Evidence from SME Lending in Peru

By: Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn, Benjamin N. Roth, Claudia Ruiz-Ortega and Rodolfo Stucchi

We provide evidence that commercial lenders in Peru suffer leakages in their loan approval process. Leveraging a discontinuity in the loan approval process of a large bank, we find that receiving a loan approval from the bank causes loan applicants to receive offers... View Details

Keywords: Information Spillovers; SME Lending; Financial Inclusion; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Small Business; Information; Peru

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January 2020
Case

Lunchclub: Algorithmic Networking

By: Scott Duke Kominers and George Gonzalez

Algorithmic networking startup Lunchclub coordinates in-person meetings between professionals who would have been unlikely to meet. The company faces marketplace design, growth, and monetization challenges: The executive team has to refine Lunchclub's marketplace... View Details

Keywords: Monetization Strategy; Networking; Business Startups; Marketplace Matching; Market Design; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Industry

June 2019 (Revised July 2019)
Case

Building a Meritocracy at Alghanim Industries

By: Paul M. Healy, Susanna Gallani and Esel Çekin

Building on his father’s legacy, Omar Alghanim (MBA 2002) had been working on strengthening a performance-driven culture based on meritocracy in the family business, Alghanim Industries. The task had been particularly challenging because of traditional Middle East... View Details

Keywords: Meritocracy; Social Norms; Family Business; Organizational Culture; Performance; Diversity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Middle East; Kuwait

1993
Chapter

The Strategy of a Merger: Fleet and Bank of New England

By: D. B. Crane and J.C. Linder

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; New England

December 2010
Article

An Exploration of Technology Diffusion

By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn

We develop a model that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the diffusion of... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Income; Technology Adoption; Macroeconomics; Innovation and Invention

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September 2002 (Revised March 2003)
Technical Note

Technical Note on Equity-Linked Consideration, Part 2: Announcement Effects

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The announcement of merger or acquisition conveys new information to the capital markets. Shareholders and portfolio managers assess the news and trade on the basis of their new appraisals of value. Thus, from the actual Pstks of the two companies one can infer from... View Details

Keywords: Announcements; Price; Acquisition; Business and Shareholder Relations

September 2002
Case

KaBOOM!

By: James E. Austin and Jose Miguel Porraz

KaBOOM! is a nonprofit organization developing playgrounds in partnership with corporations and communities. It has grown since 1995 to a national organization that has built 338 playgrounds in partnerships with over 40 companies. This case deals with the nature of... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Growth and Development