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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
…and They Will Come
At HBS this spring, the world-renowned architect A. Eugene Kohn is teaching Design, Construction & Development Risk in Commercial Construction, an MBA elective. Kohn is the founder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), a View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
who was terminally ill, asked Wright when he was going to go into business for himself. "That was the catalyst—after my dad died, I walked in and quit my job." In 1989 Wright began establishing endorsement opportunities for Bay Area athletes, and in 1992... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
meetings with representatives of firms such as Kleiner Perkins, Summit Partners, and Pacific Venture Group. "At Pacific Venture," says Weil, "Managing Partner John S. Lewis (MBA '74) had just raised a new $100-million fund focused on... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- April 1997
- Case
ABB Germany
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Describes Europe's most famous postwar multinational merger between Asea of Sweden and Brown Boveri of Switzerland. Gives background on both companies and focuses particularly on BBC's geographic organization, its corporate culture, and the relationship between its... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Multinational Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Geographic Location; Rank and Position; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Sweden; Switzerland; Germany
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "ABB Germany." Harvard Business School Case 397-096, April 1997.
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
VCPE Database Comparison | Baker Library
really helpful verticals and emerging spaces, detailed contact and valuation info. Intuitive interface, basically NO downloading Great for VCPE firms and fund-specific info. Great contact info for firms. Skews to the PE end of the VCPE... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
Agency (KBRA). When the firm lured away Moody’s executive Jerome Fons, whom Becker knew, “I contacted him to say this might be a fantastic opportunity to write an exciting case about this topic.” Enter Jules Kroll, widely recognized as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Advantage: A Framework for Understanding Corporate Environmental Management," by HBS associate professor Forest Reinhardt. "Does it pay firms to be Œenvironmentally friendly?'" Reinhardt writes. "It makes more sense...to ask when it pays,... View Details
- June 2005 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
TCL Multimedia
By: Tarun Khanna, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and David Lane
TCL considers the underlying logic behind the globalization of one of China's most prominent companies. TCL, and similarly prominent companies in China, are in the forefront of China's emergence as one of the world's preeminent economic powers. Allows a discussion of... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Success; Business Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; China
Khanna, Tarun, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and David Lane. "TCL Multimedia." Harvard Business School Case 705-502, June 2005. (Revised February 2006.)
Frederick C. Crawford
Inheriting a struggling firm in 1933, Crawford set upon a path to rebuild and diversify Thompson Products. He expanded the traditional auto parts product line to include key applications for the aircraft and aerospace industry. A strong... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- November 2004
- Case
Deere & Company
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
John Deere & Co. wants to improve shareholder value and provide incentives to do so. The task is difficult in a volatile agriculture and construction industry. It also wants to be more global and provide machinery that traces commodities from the field to the consumer. View Details
Charles E. Merrill
the first established broker to predict the Great Crash of 1929 and the only one that liquidated his firm’s stock portfolio. At his death, his firm boasted 115 offices with 400,000 clients and had become the largest brokerage View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
about 800 companies waiting to go public as a result of the moratorium, but it’s likely that China’s stock markets will see only mid-sized companies with little name recognition outside of China going public on the mainland, with the major Chinese View Details
Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details
Keywords: Finance
William K. Coors
Under Coors' leadership, the brewery underwent a period of massive growth. Though it was a regional brewery, it held the top market share in 10 of the 11 western states in which its product was distributed, becoming the 4th largest brewer in the United States in the... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
standards and data. Many governments around the world have begun assigning prices to carbon dioxide emissions, but it’s unclear if they can agree on a common global standard. Without industrywide measures, firms have been taking their own... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Equitas Microfinance: The Fastest-Growing MFI on the Planet
By: V.G. Narayanan and V. Kasturi Rangan
Founded as a for-profit microfinance company, Equitas had acquired nearly a million clients in the short two years since it was founded. The founder, Vasu, and his management team wished to accelerate the already impressive spurt to three million clients in the next... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; India
Narayanan, V.G., and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Equitas Microfinance: The Fastest-Growing MFI on the Planet." Harvard Business School Case 510-104, March 2010. (Revised April 2013.)