Publications

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

have little time to cook. Recently, the organization did a study to understand whether a family on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—formerly known as the Food Stamp Program—could make it through the month eating at Daily... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

harbor this knowledge transfer that it moves from one geography to another” A migrant from India himself, Choudhury argues that debate is too narrow. “Instead of seeing migrants through the lens of whether they create jobs or not, we... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

19 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

free and still build a strong business model through add-on products and services that they may charge for. Q: How do online companies walk the line between community-building and monetization strategies? Should one or the other come... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology

Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law

Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law

October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
Supplement

Dulcie Madden (C)—A Final Chance?

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Cash Flow; Success; Failure; Acquisition; Business Model; Technology

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

postadoption behavior varies depending on customer acquisition method and dynamic states. At the total usage level, in one context (an annotation and note-taking service), customers who heard about the service View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

from the people they set out to serve. "The way a traditional relationship works makes you jump through hoops to fill out the paperwork. We go to providers and say, 'Set your own rate, set a fair rate, set it based on what kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

September 2022 (Revised November 2023)
Case

Wordle

By: Karen G. Mills, Christina Wallace, Ebehi Iyoha, Gabriella Elanbeck and Morgane Herculano

After sourdough bread, countertop chive gardens, and vaccine selfies came a pandemic-era trend that everyone seemed to be in on: one daily chance to guess a five-letter word and crow about your success on social media via little green and yellow squares. From a... View Details

Keywords: Games; Innovation; General Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Trends; Entrepreneurship; Bids and Bidding; Consumer Behavior; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Technology Industry

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

economies to land politics. Dalian, benefitting from early access to foreign capital, consolidated control over urban territory through the designation of a development zone, which realigned local economic interests and introduced dual... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

complexity that is astonishing, said Sahlman. The International Context According to Kuemmerle, there is one central question guiding his IEF research: how do entrepreneurial managers, and those who finance them, make sensible resource View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

April 2006 (Revised May 2009)
Case

Inverness Medical Innovations - Born Global (A)

Ron Zwanziger has just started his third company, having just sold the last one for $1.3 billion to Johnson & Johnson. As part of the deal with J&J, certain assets were transferred to the new company, Inverness Medical Innovations, which, at the time of its creation,... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Waltham

May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
Case

Technical Data Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman

Describes a decision confronting the president of a small company about selling some or all of the shares in his company to another firm. Technical Data Corp. provides analytical services to professional bond market traders over a system of computer terminals operated... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Valuation; Negotiation Tactics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Information Industry; Service Industry