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  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Strategy; China
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  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

important real-world consequences. The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts Authors: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim, and Devin M. Shanthikumar Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

In it, they advocate focus, immediate funding, and the U.S. government as shareholder. You might think of it as "Buffett Squared." The government would engage "experienced and disinterested professionals—not politicians" to invest in the preferred View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 22 Apr 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Competing with Privacy

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Andres Hervas-Drane; Publishing
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

an array of implications that can be tested with our data. Our contribution is twofold. We disentangle the role of risk aversion and talent in determining how firms select and motivate managers. In particular, risk-averse managers are matched with firms that View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • July 1991 (Revised August 1991)
  • Case

Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (B)

By: Samuel L. Hayes III
Looks at the company's plans for a new debt offering under the Rule 415 shelf underwriting provision--in this instance from the vantage point of the lead investment banker for the deal. The decision-maker must assess the risks of the issuer, the tone of the market, the... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Stocks; Initial Public Offering; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

know we should be saving for retirement, but how much should we be squirreling away? And of the funds our company's plan offers, which should we choose? According to Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton, the defined contribution (DC) plans currently View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • March 2024 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Alexis Lefort
In 2023, Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson was contemplating her growth strategy at a leading U.K.-based cybersecurity venture, launched in 2013 by a group of anti-terror cyber specialists, University of Cambridge mathematicians, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Talent; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Cybersecurity; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Europe; United States
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  • October 2013
  • Article

Corporate Venturing

By: Josh Lerner
For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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  • 03 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

as a company that has thought deeply about its relationship and obligations to employees. The French industrial giant, she says, sees the job offer as the beginning of a long-term relationship focused on mutual growth. Michelin vows “to... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
  • January 2002
  • Article

Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

By: Scott Shane and Toby E. Stuart
The question of how initial resource endowments—the stocks of resources that entrepreneurs contribute to their new ventures at the time of founding—affect organizational life chances is one of significant interest in organizational ecology, evolutionary... View Details
Keywords: Resource Allocation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Research; Company History; Initial Public Offering; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans
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  • 30 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

It seems obvious: If you want to boost innovation from a crowd writing and improving software code, just dangle a cash incentive. When GitHub began offering matching funds to open source software users who snagged outside sponsors in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

establishing that cultural values causally impact the contents of gender stereotypes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-097.pdf Characteristic Timing Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract We use differences between the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

who developed a pair of footless body-shaping stockings and tried to market them to women. When she was met with rejection, she fell back on the approach to failure her father instilled nightly around her childhood dinner table. He... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

not had lower costs of equity (lower stock returns), consistent with a stock market anomaly previously documented in other samples. A calibration suggests that a binding 10 percentage point increase in Tier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

product line. Everybody can understand it,” says Harvard Business School Professor Robert J. Dolan. “Then it got incredibly complicated.” In May, Peloton reported its biggest quarterly loss since its 2019 initial public offering and said... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

business press and savvy business experts such Warren Buffett. It didn’t help when one of the most publicized RLBOs—Refco—collapsed in 2005 shortly after its initial public offering. And on September 21, a 70-million share offering for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

be more rewarding. The book weaves in the stories of high-achieving musicians, philosophers, religious leaders, scientists, and Olympic athletes—some who gracefully jumped to the second curve and others who stumbled, and whose despair watching their glory days recede... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

  Working PapersMarket Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events... View Details

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