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Charles R. Schwab
In spite of the disdain given to discount brokerage by larger investment houses, Schwab took advantage of SEC deregulation in 1975, and went on to build “the Kmart of the stock brokerage industry.” Though discount brokerage at Schwab’s grand scale View Details
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Finance
- October 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
LinkedIn Corporation
By: Francois Brochet and James Weber
The case is set at the end of the first public trading day of LinkedIn, an online professional network company. It provides information on the company's business model, financial statements, competitive landscape, and IPO terms, to help the reader critically assess the...
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Initial Public Offering;
Growth and Development;
Earnings Management;
Risk Management;
Valuation;
SWOT Analysis;
Emerging Markets;
Business Model;
Information Technology;
Competitive Strategy;
Web Services Industry
Brochet, Francois, and James Weber. "LinkedIn Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 112-006, October 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
liquidity events such as initial public offerings and mergers. For example, when speech-recognition supplier ScanSoft acquired Nuance in October 2005, twelve of Nuance's thirteen research and development...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists
overseen the venture. While the five-year time span of the initial project is now officially over, a group of alumnae from the Class of 1976 designated that their class gift support and continue the effort. Harvard Business School...
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- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
nonetheless offer a host of principles (the Reverend Louis Sullivan's Global Sullivan Principles), management standards (the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability's AccountAbility 1000), best practice guidelines (the OECD...
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by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
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A Network for Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The Social Enterprise Initiative is a focal point for the creativity and energy of our worldwide community. This network includes students and alumni with backgrounds in all sectors who seek to engage in socially-driven pursuits at...
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Roger A. Enrico
Enrico helped to transform PepsiCo through a number of major initiatives including the spin-off of its fast food restaurant chains (Tricon), the acquisition of Tropicana, and the initial public View Details
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Food & Tobacco
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
Nonprofit Management, a program offered by Executive Education and the Initiative on Social Enterprise. In addition, several clubs, including Philadelphia and Northern California, have sponsored summer...
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- July 2009
- Teaching Note
Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target (TN)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Teaching Note for [709002].
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Nicole Bucala As a student at HBS, Nicole Bucala (MBA 2015) could not stop thinking ... Activating a Legion of People Bertina Ceccarelli When a company I was working for relocated to Omaha, I knew I wanted t... Alumni Clubs Supporting & Connecting Amelia Angella Local...
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Departments | Employment
work and collaborate with customers to ensure we meet their information needs in the dynamic climate of the information industry, knowledge-creating institutions such as Higher Education, and the changing global economy. More about working in Baker Library Business &...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
Washington, D.C. Business Alone Can’t End Poverty The cover of your March 2007 issue asks the question “Can business end global poverty?” Perhaps you are unaware of the Initiative for Global Development (IGD), a business orga-nization...
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HBX Launched - Annual Report 2014
HBX Launched “Over the last few years, the landscape for online education has changed dramatically. New and more powerful technologies are creating opportunities not only to reach wider audiences, but also to offer engaging, impactful...
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- 17 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Tech for the People
Shireen Santosham (MBA 2008) and Mayor Sam Liccardo immediately supported the idea,” says Tsai, which led to the October 2018 launch of Host Corps. This public/private initiative drew on a concept Airbnb devised to use its platform to...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
and later on in renegotiations. Transparency also leads workers to accept lower initial offers to get in the door, thinking they can renegotiate later, once they learn the salaries of their coworkers, Cullen...
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Jennifer Myers
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
job as CEO of Apple. Regarding Apple, of course, the question is what will Jobs' withdrawal from day-to-day decision-making mean for its future? If leaders often become "cult heroes," to use a term coined by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Spray Canon
to construct.” Taylor Callery Taylor Callery Riley offers the various cryptocurrency-enthusiast communities as an example. “These coins are like social movements: People are getting behind them because they...
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Teresa Danso-Danquah Archives | Social Enterprise
Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and se... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone.
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
ill-prepared entrepreneurial aspirants. Mace's course, The Management of New Enterprises (MNE), was initially offered as a second-year elective in 1947 and saw one hundred students enroll. According to the...
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The Visible Hand of History
Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), which had partnered with HBS in the 1960s and which itself has a strong legacy in this field, I was particularly thrilled to imbibe new ideas and practices at work under the Business History Initiative of HBS...
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