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Darrin Rahn

Many people do not think of being a young agriculture entrepreneur as their first business venture. But for Darrin Rahn, making hay was in fact his first foray into business. He was born and raised on a family farm in northwestern View Details

Keywords: CPG

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Honors & Awards - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and Business, Poland, 2019 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2018 Incheon National University, South Korea, 2017 Université Laval, Canada, 2015 Adelphi University, USA, 2014 Universidad Católica, Paraguay, 2013 University of Puebla, Mexico, 2012 View Details

February 2024 (Revised June 2024)
Case

Can Families Conquer Private Equity? Pritzker Private Capital

By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan

Anthony (Tony) Pritkzer, Paul Carbone, and the Pritzker Private Capital (PPC) team wondered how to approach the firm’s next phase of growth. PPC was a private equity firm that offered a differentiated approach to the family capital market. Back in 2016, the partners... View Details

October 2023
Supplement

Rheaply: Circularity For Every Business Supplement 1

By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani

Pitch deck explaining the early vision of the company that was presented by the CEO to potential investors. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Mission and Purpose; United States; Chicago; Illinois

01 Jan 2012
News

Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

Founding Partner, Asset Management Company Download Johnson profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1928 Born, Quincy, Illinois 1950 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 1962 Launches Draper... View Details

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

detailed in Cohen’s new working paper, The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from 1930s Crop Failures, co-written by HBS finance professor Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen, an assistant finance professor at the University of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

one of its ventilator models, we revised our options and consulted experts across the globe to find a cheap, feasible, and scalable solution to this problem. At this point, I was approached by a professor at the University of Illinois... View Details

March 2021
Supplement

CashDrop (B1)

By: Rembrand Koning, Paul A. Gompers and Sarah Gulick

After the events in CashDrop A, Flores-Martinez received two concrete offers from VC funds for his startup business, CashDrop. This case describes the tensions between the two funds: a traditional VC fund who would offer Flores-Martinez a prestigious platform, and a... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Illinois

November 1993
Case

George Halas: Estate Planning and the Chicago Bears

By: Henry B. Reiling

Keywords: Sports; Personal Finance; Sports Industry; Financial Services Industry; Chicago

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November 2011 (Revised December 2012)
Case

Making Lemonade in Chicago's Troubled Neighborhoods

By: Nicolas Retsinas, Jazzmin Lamas and Lisa Strope

This case focuses on the complexities of building a real estate investment company in two Chicago low-income neighborhoods, Roseland and Englewood, during the foreclosure crisis in 2011. View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Investment Management; Financial Management; Social Issues; Investment; Real Estate Industry; Chicago

June 2009 (Revised November 2020)
Case

Busse Place

By: Arthur I Segel, William J. Poorvu, Richard Kessler, Justin Seth Ginsburgh and Eric Fleiss

Busse Corporate Center's largest tenant recently declared bankruptcy, leaving the building 38% occupied and significantly overleveraged. In a depressed suburban Chicago office market, Hannah Sanchez, the leasing agent, has to negotiate lease proposals with three... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Mortgages; Investment; Leasing; Property; Real Estate Industry; Chicago

December 2006 (Revised November 2008)
Case

West Wacker Drive: To Build or Not to Build?

In 1980, Thomas J. Klutznick, president of a Chicago-based development company, was considering whether he should build a Class A building on a second-rate site outside the Central Loop or not. He had a promising design, but the economic conditions, concurrent... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Interest Rates; Geographic Location; Risk Management; Urban Development; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Chicago

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March 2005
Case

Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), The

By: George C. Chacko, Anders Sjoman, Daniela Beyersdorfer and George Robert Nelson

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBEO) must decide how to respond to new competition in the market for financial options. Options have typically been a very liquid asset class, despite the fact that many single-name options are listed on the CBOE, the second largest... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; Chicago

July 2002
Teaching Note

MAC Development Corporation (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Teaching Note for (2-802-140), (9-806-703), and (9-806-706). View Details

Keywords: Construction Industry; Chicago

February 2001 (Revised December 2002)
Case

Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Analyzes Marshall Field's efforts to develop a market for mass retailing in late 19th-century Chicago. Examines Chicago's expansion in the 1860s and, within this context, how Field struck out on his own to, build a wholesale and retail business. Concentrates on the... View Details

Keywords: Fluctuation; Industry Growth; Corporate Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Society; Distribution Industry; Retail Industry; Chicago

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

developing in-house advertising capabilities, especially in technology-oriented and creative industries. Working with Silk on the study were Sharon Horsky of Bar-Ilan University and Steven C. Michael (HBS PhDBE '93) of the University of View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Wide Audiences: Footnotes 41 Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism , 1945–1960 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 199. 42 Fisher, Steel Making in America , 11. 43 See... View Details

18 May 2023
News

Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes

wasn't comfortable with her bringing home Black teammates to celebrate Thanksgiving with the family. Wilfong wanted to use her money to help others who didn't come from the same background. Wilfong found that purpose on her drive between her suburban View Details

Keywords: April White

5 Oct 2018
Other Presentation

Voting Trusts and Antitrust in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer and Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Illinois