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February 1996 (Revised November 1998)
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Brown Group, Inc.--The Dividend Decision

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Restructuring; Investment Return

22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

projects like that together. Impact I was able to see the nuts and bolts of what goes into launching and running a successful charter school and came away with the realization that there's a real need for people who have a background in View Details

September 2018
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ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction

By: Frank V. Cespedes, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal

ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund and provides oil field services in Argentina. In 2016, an industry-wide unforeseen oil and gas demand slump drove ProdEng’s average service rates down by more than 37%, with EBITDA margins falling from 50% to 24% in the... View Details

Keywords: Pricing; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Marketing; Price; Strategy; Latin America; Argentina

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May 2002
Supplement

Jafco America Ventures: Reflections by Barry Schiffman, President

Presents Barry Schiffman, president and CIO of JAFCO America Ventures, as he reflects on the nature of the venture capital business, critical success factors, and some of the strategic decisions JAFCO faced. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship

February 1999
Article

The Persistence of Shocks to Profitability

By: Anita M. McGahan and Michael E. Porter

In this study, we use data for 1981 through 1994 on a large sample of U.S. companies to examine the persistence of incremental industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific effects on profitability. Our results indicate that the incremental effects of industry on... View Details

Keywords: Profit; System Shocks; Strategy

Oct 20 2016
Interview

Taking a Holistic View of Negotiation

June 2025
Supplement

Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty

06 May 2015
News

Advocating for affordable housing

Laurie Gould (MBA 1996) puts the skills she gained at HBS to work at Viva Consulting, the practice she launched to promote community development. (Published May 2015) View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

Finance in Emerging Markets–China offers a detailed analysis of China’s capital markets, ranging from the macroeconomic environment and political context to detailed microlevel study. Knowledge-Based View Details

Keywords: curriculum

Career Coach

Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

Founder and Managing Partner of MKH Capital Partners, Annette has built the firm and spearheads MKH’s investment strategy and firm management. Prior to MKH, Annette was a Partner at Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm,... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship

01 Feb 2002
News

HBS Expands Global Presence

the need to integrate multiple cultures in their management structure. The introduction of the Euro has also had a strong impact both on corporate finance and, not surprisingly, on the strategy of banking... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

culture, leadership, and strategy of Uber in Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Blake J. Harris covers a classic business battle in Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation; besides being a video game culture... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

01 Mar 2015
News

Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

for the first time in nine years, we asked former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors Kirk Sykes (OPM 26, 1998)—current president and managing director of the Urban Strategy America Fund—to field your... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

30 May 2018
News

HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach

job within Allstate’s leadership development program in Chicago. She later pivoted to personal finance startup NerdWallet in San Francisco, where she realized that colleagues who had the internal strategy... View Details

August 2007
Article

Vive La Resistance: Competing Logics and the Consolidation of U.S. Community Banking

By: Christopher Marquis and Michael Lounsbury

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Competition; Consolidation; Banking Industry; United States

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February 1996
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Indianopolis: Implementing Competition in City Services

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Roger Atherton

Mayor Stephen Goldsmith of Indianapolis introduces competition to provide city services and implementation of new bidding procedures and work practices in the Department of Transportation. Exhibits show how work methods changed and work control procedures control work... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Business Strategy; Welfare; Transportation; Change; Cost Management; Service Industry

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