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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
available at this time. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 916-003 Launching Yelp Reservations (A) This case presents a multi-party negotiation among Yelp, current View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
to do so. He has an offer from Havas, a leading global advertising company interested in acquiring V&S, which would give V&S access to unprecedented resources. However, Winsor and the V&S team have concerns about how their innovative processes may be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://hbr.org/product/an-entrepreneur-s-new-product-development-journey/an/513098-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-434 Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up? (A) Southwire, a leading maker of cable based in rural Georgia, has View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
partners investing at the same VC firm at the same time. Furthermore, our estimates suggest the partner's human capital is two to five times more important than the VC firm's organizational capital in explaining performance. Download... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- January 1997 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Fojtasek Companies and Heritage Partners, The: March 1995
By: Samuel L. Hayes III and Josh Lerner
The Fojtasek Companies, a family business, faces several financing choices to address generational succession issues. Several buyouts have expressed interest in acquiring the firm outright; an investment bank has proposed a leveraged recapitalization; and a private... View Details
Keywords: Family Ownership; Financing and Loans; Private Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment Banking; Partners and Partnerships; Management Succession; Capital Structure; Financial Strategy
Hayes, Samuel L., III, and Josh Lerner. "Fojtasek Companies and Heritage Partners, The: March 1995." Harvard Business School Case 297-046, January 1997. (Revised November 1997.)
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align your supply chain View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
partner rather than a competitor for global trade and resources Dealing with Asia, and especially China, requires a more nuanced point of view because understanding of language, culture and business practice can be easily misunderstood... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
relatively low market capitalization. It also evaluates the costs and benefits of the traditional finite-life fund structure and introduces the concept of a secondary transaction as a means to transition fund shares between existing and new limited View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
and shared value creation. Through its open innovation model, the company has catapulted to the cutting edge of electric mobility and distributed power generation, partnering with the likes of Google and Tesla. Under the leadership of Mr.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
that help people solve problems in their daily lives. That investment focus on manufacturing would go against the private equity trend, another factor he considered. But he knew few, if any, general partners at major private equity firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
important lessons about mixing family and business. Now looking to raise venture capital, Thiers has just received an email from a general partner at a top venture capital firm, proposing another meeting and asking her to bring to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
representatives, and presumably his parent company Alphabet, Inc., that Sidewalk Labs’ plan to construct “the first truly 21st-century city” on the Canadian city’s waterfront was a sound one. Along with much excitement and optimism, strains of concern had emerged since... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
partnerships, particularly between and among Leonardo, Christie's auction house, the sellers, the experts who attributed the painting to Leonardo, and the celebrities used to market it, are dissected to understand how brand meaning and value transfer from one View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
non-university partners are associated with the Institute. Innovative and multi-disciplinary research projects are being carried out in diverse fields such as environmental monitoring, human/robotic communication, digital archaeology,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean region. Describes his biography and values, the models he established for excellent financial performance and corporate social and environmental responsibility at the bank, and his attempt to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
post-merger integration in a cross-border acquisition, and more general issues related to currency hedging and international taxation. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/210017/ Shenzhen Development Bank Harvard Business School Case 210-020 Weijian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
whether they are talking to the "right other side." He recalls a time in his own corporate career when "we spoke to 10,000 entrepreneurs a year to get to 10 deals." “Sometimes your partners need to tell you it's not... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
corporate center and how to incentivize subsidiary executives. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710436-PDF-ENG Corporate Strategy at Berkshire Partners Julie M. Wulf and Scott WaggonerHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 213-013 MC Tool Two partners acquired MC Tool in October 2007 for $5 million. The company was a machine shop that manufactured parts for a wide variety of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
his partners began reviewing the company's inventions. The first opportunity they uncovered was Advanced Workstation Products (AWP). Xerox's high-end printers actually were complex computer systems that contained extensive networking... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough