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  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 26 Mar 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Brian Kahin, MIT

  • Web

Activities, Government & Clubs - MBA

Gaming and Game Industry Club General Management & Operations Club German-Speaking Society Global Business Club Golf Club Government & Public Policy Club Greater China Club H HBS Show Health & Wellness Club Health Care Club Heard on the... View Details
  • Program

Building a Legacy

opportunities Apply frameworks for evaluating unique investment opportunities for family real estate, niche assets, emerging markets, public market ideas, and startup/venture-backed investments Determine whether (and how) to pursue... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

Handbook for Banking and Governance, edited by James Barth, Chen Lin, and Clas Wihlborg. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Abstract In this chapter, we examine the characteristics of acquisition of private firms by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
  • Case

StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara. 08 Nov 2024 Op-Ed How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis by John Macomber Africa faces escalating climate risks that threaten its people and businesses. While governments and... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

$25,000 of annual revenue Private foundations After removing these and a few other special cases for which tax data were not available, we were left with 1,625 organizations. Of these, 1,190 organizations disclosed the size of their... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
  • January 2002 (Revised July 2002)
  • Case

Vialog Corporation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz
Traces the origin of Vialog Corp.--from its founding in 1996 through a roll-up of several independent teleconferencing companies in 1997 and its initial public offering (1999) and eventually to a potential merger or acquisition in June 2000. The company has grown... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Exit or Shutdown; Internet and the Web; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Initial Public Offering; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Processes; Information Technology Industry; Europe
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    Joseph B. Lassiter

    Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

    Keywords: private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds)
    • 06 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

    led investment strategy and developed their “Innovation Fund,” focused on funding the next generation of philanthropy technology. Ben also forged Charity Navigator’s first partnership with the private... View Details
    • March 2004 (Revised May 2005)
    • Case

    Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Indra Reinbergs
    Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Business Model; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; Belgium; France; Sweden; United States; Europe
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    Women on Boards

    ranging from division head to CEO—or who are retired from such positions Women in senior executive roles who currently sit on nonprofit or private boards who wish to serve on public corporate boards in any... View Details
    • 24 May 2022
    • Blog Post

    Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

    out of the private and public sectors throughout his life. “I have always loved serving my community,” said Kiernan. “I think your career should be the intersection between something you’re passionate about,... View Details
    • May 2023
    • Article

    Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency

    By: Zoë B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
    The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received... View Details
    Keywords: Pay Transparency; Online Labor Market; Privacy; Wage Gap; Corporate Disclosure; Wages; Negotiation
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    • 11 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 11, 2009

    even in the absence of property rights, SOEs may significantly improve performance, and document 42 Indian state-owned laboratories over 1993-2006—starting from a base of negligible U.S. patents—being granted more patents than all domestic View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Business & Environment

    Against Climate Change Re: Rebecca Henderson 11 Nov 2024 | World Economic Forum How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis Re: John Macomber 08 Nov 2024 | HBS Working Knowledge Faculty & Research How Robust Is Your... View Details
    • 12 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 12, 2008

    provides a rich description of Enterprise Risk Management in action and shows how Hydro One executives arrive at a shared understanding of the risk profile of the company. In the narrative a diverse group of managers (the chief executive, the chief financial officer,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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