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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Private Equity Finance Course Number 1440 Professor Victoria Ivashina Senior Lecturer Ted Berk Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Career Focus This is an advanced corporate finance course focused on private equity (PE) investing. The course...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
technologies. The Individualized Corporation by Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett (HarperBusiness) In an economy of explosive global growth and rapid technological advancement, traditional corporate organizations and management...
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Robert Binstock
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
as a separate marketplace, because each has its own legal requirements, cultural traditions, and business methods, and most have their own currencies. The dramatic changes in strategic thinking and organizational relationships have made...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
and elsewhere. Yet the book shows that these entrepreneurs contributed significantly to the growth of environmental awareness among consumers, business leaders, and others. However the Earth's environmental health has continued to...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Education Sector Opportunities at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
business planning, strategy, resource acquisition, and organizational growth — and offers useful insights for anyone who wants to grow a business. As the authors note, the basic challenges men and women...
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- July 1990 (Revised October 1992)
- Case
Consolidated Equipment Co.
A mature company seeks to rejuvenate itself with internal R&D and external acquisitions. It has developed a DCK model for analyzing the value of a proposed acquisition. A rewritten version of an earlier case by J.K. Butters.
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Valuation;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Research and Development;
Acquisition;
Capital Budgeting
Hayes, Samuel L., III. "Consolidated Equipment Co." Harvard Business School Case 291-007, July 1990. (Revised October 1992.)
- October 2000 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Rob Waldron at SCORE! Educational Centers (Abridged)
By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie L. Woerner
Describes Rob Waldron's actions upon assuming leadership of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Examines the issue of acquiring and growing a small, privately-owned company into a professional organization, especially regarding corporate...
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Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Making;
Education;
Human Resources;
Recruitment;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Private Ownership;
Education Industry
Thomas, David A., and Stephanie L. Woerner. "Rob Waldron at SCORE! Educational Centers (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 401-018, October 2000. (Revised January 2002.)
- September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Fares Khrais and Marilyn Morgan Westner
This case is written to help students explore how companies can maintain and develop trust while innovating, how to identify and respond effectively to warning signs that they may not be as trusted as they believe, and how being trusted can aid in expanding and growing...
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Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Culture;
Trust;
Technology Adoption;
Innovation and Invention;
Banking Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., Fares Khrais, and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 324-022, September 2023. (Revised June 2024.)
- June 2021
- Teaching Note
Amazon: Cult or Culture?
By: Boris Groysberg, Kerry Herman and Amy Klopfenstein
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-008. Amazon was one of the first entrants in e-commerce. Under the leadership of founder Jeff Bezos, Amazon had expanded beyond books to manufacturing and selling a wide range of products and services globally. Bezos had built a...
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- May 1992 (Revised August 1996)
- Supplement
NIKE in Transition (C): A Second COO
After two years of stunning financial results, Knight again appoints a new COO, Dick Donahue. Are Knight and Nike ready for a new COO? How does Donahue differ from Woodell? Will his personality, style, and agenda fit with the new Nike Knight has created? Also describes...
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Policy;
Growth and Development;
Leadership Style;
Management Succession;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Structure;
Strategy;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "NIKE in Transition (C): A Second COO." Harvard Business School Supplement 392-107, May 1992. (Revised August 1996.)
- April 2012
- Case
Man Group (A)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Thomas M. Clay
The Man Group was a huge and successful UK-based hedge fund and fund of funds manager. Through acquisitions, the company had consciously diversified its portfolio of investment products. In 2007 Man had to decide whether or not to spin off its brokerage business. Man...
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Asset Management;
Investment Funds;
Financial Crisis;
Decisions;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Diversification;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom;
Europe
Pozen, Robert C., and Thomas M. Clay. "Man Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 312-128, April 2012.
- October 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (A): Becoming Truly Global
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Since the 1980s, Procter & Gamble had leveraged its purpose, values, and principles (PVP) to create a global company. When P&G faced difficult times in 2000, the new CEO, A.G. Lafley, leveraged the PVP to drive P&G's turnaround, integrate global operations, and guide...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Values and Beliefs;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Leading Change;
Growth Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Matthew Bird. "Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (A): Becoming Truly Global." Harvard Business School Case 309-030, October 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- March 2015
- Case
Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste
By: David F. Drake, Janice H. Hammond and Matthew G. Preble
The global consumer goods company Unilever was on pace to hit a number of aggressive targets by 2020 as part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's chief supply chain...
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Food Waste;
Sustainable Business And Innovation;
Sustainable Supply Chains;
Sustainable Operations;
Organization Alignment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Operations;
Supply Chain Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Food;
Agribusiness;
Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Forest Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Retail Industry;
North and Central America;
Europe;
Asia;
Africa;
Latin America;
India
Drake, David F., Janice H. Hammond, and Matthew G. Preble. "Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste." Harvard Business School Case 615-040, March 2015.
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
Summing Up Is "identity" a victim of competitiveness? A recent study of organizational behavior published by Timothy Kieningham and Lerzan Toksoy shows that employees' perceptions of their employers' levels of commitment to them...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
important role model in Rosabeth Moss Kanter, her professor for an organizational behavior elective. "The subject matter was fascinating, and I really admired her as a high-ranking tenured faculty member who was also a woman," she says....
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- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
especially as the government did not want a rate hike that could potentially hinder economic growth and increase its already large fiscal debt burden. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review literature from two separate bodies of literature. Research in psychology and organizational behavior on candidate-employer negotiations sheds...
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Martha Lagace
- December 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
Alibaba Group
By: Julie M. Wulf
Teaching Note for 710436.
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
Technology Adoption Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:In Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf. Elsevier, forthcoming Abstract We present a tractable model for analyzing the relationship between economic View Details
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Sean Silverthorne