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  • January 2025
  • Technical Note

Note on Estate Planning

By: Christina R. Wing, Maryann G Bell and Kara A Perusse
Crafting a comprehensive estate plan is not just about ensuring the smooth transfer of assets; it is about leaving a lasting legacy and protecting your loved ones from unnecessary stress and complications after you are gone. Estate planning is a particularly important... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Transition; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Planning
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  • January 2012 (Revised November 2012)
  • Supplement

Ultimate Fighting Championship: License to Operate (B)

By: George Serafeim and Kyle Welch
The case describes the financial performance and business development of UFC after the change in ownership that happened in 2000, until 2004, when the owners are considering exiting the business. View Details
Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry
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  • 24 Sep 2021
  • News

The Growth Engine Too Many Companies Overlook: Employees

  • 20 Oct 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Pol Antras, Davin Chor & Paola Conconi
  • October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
  • Case

Blethen Family and the Seattle Times Company (A), The

By: John A. Davis and Cathy Quinn
Frank Blethen, the fourth-generation publisher of The Seattle Times, ponders the challenges facing this family business. This case reviews the long history of this business and family and asks whether family ownership and management are in the interests of both the... View Details
Keywords: History; Management; Business or Company Management; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Family Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • December 1993 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Marriott Corporation (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Charles A. Nichols
Marriott Corp.'s chairman and CEO must decide whether to recommend a restructuring of the company to the board of directors. The proposal he is considering would split the Marriott Corp., a premier hotel developer, owner, and manager, into two separate companies by a... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Restructuring; Governing and Advisory Boards; Decision Making; Ethics; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Accommodations Industry
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  • October 2018
  • Supplement

JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (B)

By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
The case outlines JetBlue's decision to disclose according to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards and the ESG metrics they began reporting. Data on resulting changes in institutional ownership are also provided. View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Metrics; Leadership And Change Management; Airlines; Innovation; Purpose; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Sustainability Reporting; Change Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Financial Reporting
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  • Research Summary

Family Business Management

John Davis is developing cases and other course materials on family business management for the Executive Education program Families in Business: From Generation to Generation, Families in Business/China, the Owner/President Management... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries

By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman
We study how trade policy affects firms' ownership structures. We embed an incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Policy; Vertical Integration; Business and Government Relations; Boundaries; Ownership; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net

By: Gareth Olds
This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of entrepreneurship. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 created a five-year “waiting period” for legal... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Welfare or Wellbeing; Immigration
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    Bohan Li

    Bohan is a doctoral student in Health Policy Management. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 with a double major in Chemistry and Economics. Post-graduation, Bohan spent 4 years as a management consultant advising both payers and providers,... View Details
    • November 2010 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    Magna International, Inc. (A)

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Yuhai Xuan
    Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a 0.65% economic interest in the company but has 66% of the votes via a... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Restructuring; Cost vs Benefits; Governance Controls; Ownership Stake; Family Ownership; Auto Industry; Canada
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    • 2009
    • Article

    India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007

    By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
    Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
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    • October 2007 (Revised February 2010)
    • Case

    Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy

    By: Stuart C. Gilson and Belen Villalonga
    In 2002, a massive accounting fraud and corporate looting scandal involving the founding Rigas family made Adelphia the 11th largest bankruptcy case in history, and the third-after WorldCom and Enron-among those triggered by fraud. Set in 2005, when Adelphia is... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Restructuring; Crime and Corruption; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Family Ownership
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    • August 2007
    • Case

    New York Magazine

    By: Guhan Subramanian and David Chen
    Describes the events surrounding the sale of New York Magazine to Bruce Wasserstein in 2003. Wasserstein's last-second cash bid of $55 million surprised other potential buyers and allowed him to win ownership of the magazine. View Details
    Keywords: Journals and Magazines; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Deal; Publishing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • 27 Oct 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Stock Price Fragility

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & David Thesmar
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Stock Price Fragility

    By: Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar
    We investigate the relationship between ownership structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. An asset is fragile if its owners collectively have to buy or sell. Such assets are susceptible to non-fundamental price movements. An asset can be fragile because... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Stocks; Price; Market Transactions; Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; United States
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    • Article

    Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

    By: Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna and Ashutosh Varshney
    It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive data on enterprise ownership from the Economic Censuses of 1990, 1998, and 2005, we document substantial caste... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Entrepreneurship; Rank and Position; India
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    • 18 Nov 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Anusha Chari
    • Research Summary

    India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005 (with Anusha Chari)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    Using firm-level data this paper analyzes, the transformation of India’s economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly-listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details