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12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes more complicated, demanding... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

06 Oct 2003
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The Problem with Hedge Funds

volatility increases, as it has recently. But it also shows that there isn't sufficient volatility to justify a big increase in demand for stocks for hedging purposes.283 In today's market, long-term View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

May–June 2021
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Capturing Value in Platform Business Models that Rely on User-Generated Content

By: Hemang Subramanian, Sabyasachi Mitra and Sam Ransbotham

Business models increasingly depend on inputs from outside traditional organizational boundaries. For example, platforms that generate revenue from advertising, subscription, or referral fees often rely on user-generated content (UGC). But there is considerable... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Network Effects; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Risk and Uncertainty

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01 Jun 2023
News

Buy Big, Sell Small

kirana-store experience. “I always wondered why so many kiranas fail, and I decided to dig deeper into that,” she explains. An angel investor in her travel venture introduced Shruti to Manish Kumar, an expert in consumer-goods retailing,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap

Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

16 Jul 2020
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Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

contactless curbside pickup options. Investors are helping shore up distribution networks by injecting cash into distributors to keep products flowing. Franchisees are being offered more generous payment terms. Every player in the fragile... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

its new President Laurie Patton faced the challenge of students calling for divestment from fossil fuels, trustees opposed to it, and a series of day to day administrative challenges that demanded her immediate attention. How does change... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Venturing Forth

Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Research - Private Capital Project

only to institutional investors like pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and large family... October 2024 Case Continuation Fund Dilemma By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu 2024 Working Paper Bank Runs and Interest... View Details

February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
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TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details

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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Hanson , Erik Stafford & Luis M. Viceira OCT 2012 (REVISED JUN 2015) | Harvard Business School Case 213-051 View Details H Partners and Six Flags By: Robin Greenwood , Julie Messina & Jared Dourdeville MAY 2013 (REVISED JAN 2015) | Harvard Business School Case 213-122... View Details

13 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

Internet channel, we study the introduction of a retail store and find evidence of cross-channel synergy, as the presence of a retail store increases demand in the catalog and Internet channels over time. Read the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Digital Innovation - Alumni

live our lives, HBS is elevating and expanding faculty research on the breadth and depth of this digital transformation. HBS Live Online classrooms In response to growing demand for online learning, HBS built two new virtual classrooms on... View Details

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Mark R. Kramer When it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility" and investors applying... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

our moment. A second force affecting the speed and direction of global capitalism comes from the demand side. There are millions-soon to be billions-of consumers, voters, and other actors, most obviously "millennials," who want... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

space race have been blessed somewhat by the glamour of it all. Investors enthusiastically, maybe too much so, backed a host of startups including those headed by superstar names like Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. Rich... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

massive growth in world FDI in mining. As petroleum consumption grew with new uses, the search for oil became worldwide. Oil was the only fuel that could drive the new motor car, while the demand for rubber tyres for cars created an... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

03 Mar 2003
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Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

starting the venture subsequently drops out. When the venture gets financing or is ready to go public, this partner returns, perhaps with an inflated view of what his or her contribution was, demanding equity. This problem can be... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

largest investors in fossil fuel development around the world. In contrast, Walden Mutual supports lending to our region's most sustainable farm, food, and natural resource businesses.” Nisha Desai MBA 1997 | Founder & CEO, Intention... View Details

19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

a large stake in Dell, Inc., accused Dell of trying to steal the company, and urged shareholders to rebel and demand a "leveraged recapitalization" instead. This case presents the information the Dell board worked with as it... View Details