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- May 2010 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita
By: William W. George and Natalie Kindred
Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's robust, unconventional internal culture. When Thiry joined DaVita in 1999, breaking an important promise to his...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Experience and Expertise;
Employee Relationship Management;
Leadership Style;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Personal Development and Career;
Integration;
Health Industry
George, William W., and Natalie Kindred. Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita. Harvard Business School Case 410-065, May 2010. (Revised May 2011.)
- September 3, 2020
- Article
How to Measure a Company’s Real Impact
By: Ronald Cohen and George Serafeim
Impact transparency will reshape capitalism. By shifting the pursuit of profit away from negligently creating problems to purposefully creating valuable solutions for the world, it will redefine success, so that its measure is not just money, but the positive impact we...
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Keywords:
Impact;
Impact Investing;
Impact Measurement;
Impact Investment;
Impact Investment Funds;
Accountability;
Accounting Information;
Corporate Performance;
Sustainability;
Social Impact;
Capitalism;
Accounting;
Corporate Accountability;
Performance;
Measurement and Metrics;
Social Enterprise;
Society
Cohen, Ronald, and George Serafeim. "How to Measure a Company's Real Impact." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 3, 2020).
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50652 How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? By: Gompers, Paul A., View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 1986 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
Congoleum Corp. (Abridged)
Describes the development and terms of the largest leveraged buyout up to the date of the case. The main problem is to value the positions of the various participants: lenders, equity holders, investment bankers, and management. This is an abridged version of an...
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Management;
Negotiation Participants;
Valuation
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Congoleum Corp. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 287-029, October 1986. (Revised February 2008.)
- January 2018
- Article
The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial
By: Leslie K. John, Andrea Troxel, William Yancy, Joelle Y. Friedman, Jingsan Zhu, Lin Yang, Robert Galvin, Karen Miller-Kovach, Scott Halpern, George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp
Purpose: We tested the effects of employer subsidies on employee enrollment, attendance, and weight loss in a nationally-available weight management program.
Design: A randomized trial tested the impact of employer subsidy: 100%; 80% 50% and a hybrid 50% subsidy... View Details
Design: A randomized trial tested the impact of employer subsidy: 100%; 80% 50% and a hybrid 50% subsidy... View Details
Keywords:
Affordable Care Act (ACA);
Subsidies;
Weight Loss;
Obesity;
Incentives;
Behavioral Economics;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior;
Health Disorders;
Health Care and Treatment;
Compensation and Benefits;
United States
John, Leslie K., Andrea Troxel, William Yancy, Joelle Y. Friedman, Jingsan Zhu, Lin Yang, Robert Galvin, Karen Miller-Kovach, Scott Halpern, George Loewenstein, and Kevin Volpp. "The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial." American Journal of Health Promotion 32, no. 1 (January 2018): 170–176.
- May 2020
- Article
Tackling Climate Change Requires Organizational Purpose
By: Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim
Unchecked climate change presents a profound threat to economic growth and political stability but despite widespread public concern about the issue, global emissions of greenhouse gases have not declined. Indeed current “business as usual” predictions imply that...
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Keywords:
Corporate Purpose;
Purpose;
Sustainability;
Environment;
Climate Change;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Leadership
Henderson, Rebecca, and George Serafeim. "Tackling Climate Change Requires Organizational Purpose." AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (May 2020): 177–180.
- April 2019 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Aperture Investors
By: Krishna G. Palepu, George Serafeim and David Lane
Aperture Investors is a startup investment firm that seeks to disrupt the asset management industry through competitive differentiation by charging investors primarily when its portfolio managers outperform the marketplace. Headed by Wall Street veteran Peter Kraus and...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Talent and Talent Management;
Investment;
Investment Funds;
Asset Management;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Marketing Channels;
Emerging Markets;
Partners and Partnerships;
Motivation and Incentives;
Financial Services Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., George Serafeim, and David Lane. "Aperture Investors." Harvard Business School Case 119-053, April 2019. (Revised July 2019.)
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Professor Laura Alfaro + More Info – Less Info Fueled by a series of recent political events and actors, anti-globalization has been growing. From the rise of political platforms pinning blame on openness to imports and immigration to the...
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- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 1986 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
Centex Telemanagement, Inc.
Contains a description of the events surrounding the financing of Centex Telemanagement, Inc. by Sierra Ventures, a venture capital fund. The case is written from the perspective of the venture capitalists and is designed to teach students about the process of venture...
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Venture Capital
Sahlman, William A. "Centex Telemanagement, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 286-059, January 1986. (Revised March 1993.)
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
relationship, it remains difficult to determine which firms any given piece of legislation will affect, and how it will affect them. By observing the actions of legislators whose constituents are the affected firms, we can gather insights...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2016
- News
Even A Company Known For Overworking People Is Embracing Sleep
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
(iStockphoto/400tmax) While summarizing comments to this same question asked about Jack Welch in last month’s column (shown below), I received word of Frances Hesselbein’s death. Welch was regarded by many as the greatest CEO of the 20th...
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Schwartz
for new challenges. Following a yearlong sabbatical, he joined the legendary hedge fund and private equity firm founded by financier and philanthropist George Soros. The firm appeals to Schwartz’s twin...
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- Web
Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
evolution of the process as brilliantly envisioned and developed by Edwin Land and his dedicated project team. It required successful outcomes in a number of arenas, all of which would need to coalesce into an interrelated, sequentially...
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- February 2010
- Case
Saginaw Parts Co. and the General Motors Corp. Credit Default Swap
This two-page case demonstrates how to unbundle the cost of credit extensions from product prices by observing the price of a credit default swap. It also explores how credit default swaps work, and how trade creditors are treated under U.S. bankruptcy law. Finally it...
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Keywords:
Trade;
Credit;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Laws and Statutes;
Risk Management;
Auto Industry;
United States
Fruhan, William E. "Saginaw Parts Co. and the General Motors Corp. Credit Default Swap." Harvard Business School Case 210-056, February 2010.
- July 2013
- Article
Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the...
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Keywords:
Technology Transfer;
Innovation;
Ethnic Networks;
Patents;
Diasporas;
Ethnicity;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Research and Development;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Foley, C. Fritz, and William R. Kerr. "Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity." Management Science 59, no. 7 (July 2013): 1529–1544.
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
patents granted by the USPTO in 2001-2003. We show that examiner citations account for 63% of all citations on the average patent and that 40% of patents have all citations added by examiners. We use...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly fresh look at how and when individual leaders really can make a difference. View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
James Sharpe | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Howard E. Cox Greylock Michael Danzi US Labs William Donaldson Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. Draper Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, III Draper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot Dunphy...
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