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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 private View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary...
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Martha Lagace
- September 2005 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Spyder Active Sports - 2004
By: Belen Villalonga, Dwight B. Crane and James Quinn
David Jacobs founded a high-end ski apparel company in 1978. He successfully built and grew the company, establishing a major international brand that appealed to ski racers and other active skiers. In 1995, he sought external financing to support further growth of the...
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Private Ownership;
Private Equity;
Financial Liquidity;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Valuation;
Brands and Branding;
Wealth;
Family Business;
Financing and Loans;
Globalization;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Sports Industry;
Colorado
Villalonga, Belen, Dwight B. Crane, and James Quinn. "Spyder Active Sports - 2004." Harvard Business School Case 206-027, September 2005. (Revised April 2007.)
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
problems valuing the business, which seemed at times to resemble more of a holding company or conglomerate than anything else, nor that most consumers barely knew that Unilever as such existed. There was, in fact, coherence to Unilever...
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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
contexts (Coase, 1937; Williamson, 1981; Ouchi, 1980). The underrepresentation of democratic models compared to hierarchy would thus seem to reflect, in part, a triumph of this economic logic (e.g., Hansmann, 1996). What does the balance of arguments look like,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
reorganization, managers can steer firms into liquidations that harm junior creditors, employees, and customers. Under Section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code, judges may grant that request without creditor consent if managers present a...
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by Rachel Layne
- February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
KangaTech
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused...
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Startup;
Technology Commercialization;
Prototype;
Business Startups;
Technological Innovation;
Sports;
Health;
Commercialization;
Research and Development;
Decision Making;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technology Industry;
Sports Industry;
Health Industry;
Australia
Lakhani, Karim R., Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik, and Steven Randazzo. "KangaTech." Harvard Business School Case 619-049, February 2019. (Revised August 2019.)
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
other side. Sometimes negotiators stretch the truth unintentionally, falling prey to what Bazerman and his colleagues call “bounded ethicality” by engaging in unethical behavior that contradicts their values without knowing it. Why does...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Location Strategies to Strengthen Competitive Advantage No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715418-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-416 Why Do Firms Go Abroad? Strategies to Create...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
non-democracies. The Value of First Impressions: Leveraging Acquisition Data for Customer Management By: Padilla, Nicolas, and Eva Ascarza Abstract— Managing customers effectively is crucial for firms' long-term profitability. By...
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Dina Gerdeman
- September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Icahn Enterprises: Ponzi Scheme or Sound Investment
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
Icahn Enterprises, a publicly traded limited partnership founded and operated by famed activist investor Carl Icahn, had earned above market returns for over a decade. Between 2018 and early 2023, it had a compound annual return of 31%. Icahn invested in undervalued...
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Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and James Weber. "Icahn Enterprises: Ponzi Scheme or Sound Investment." Harvard Business School Case 124-013, September 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University...
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by Avery Forman
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Publications August 2013 hfm (Healthcare Financial Management) Improving Value with TDABC By: Kaplan, Robert S. Abstract—The article discusses the benefits of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) combined with outcomes measurement...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
Sloan, who not only were interested in leadership by virtue of having practiced it, but also had the ability to step back from everyday responsibilities of the firm and to think about leadership conceptually and developmentally. Q: Pop...
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- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
through a process of valuation. Is the proposed investment justified? How much should you pay? But after an acquisition, it’s fairly common for the stock of the acquirer to fall, indicating that it likely overpaid and transferred value...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to...
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Martha Lagace
- April 2016 (Revised June 2017)
- Teaching Note
Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar
By: Jonas Heese, Paula A. Price and Suraj Srinivasan
In spring 2015, Dollar General CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market leader in the U.S. discount retail world. Dollar General operated over 11,500...
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- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49388 Enabling Versus Controlling By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—In an increasing number of industries, firms choose how much control to give professionals over the provision...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
(The accompanying teaching note is available to instructors to help them run the exercise.) Thomke, who has worked with global firms on upping their customer experience game, has taught the class in the HBS executive education programs,...
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