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  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

their capital structures and switch capital providers as technology evolution and project systems evolve and scale. Great businesses identify, train, mobilize, and inspire their workforces to achieve tasks that individually seem... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

education imposes on us the responsibility to help educate citizens in such countries who can, we hope, be a driving force for positive change in their communities and governments. Who is allowed to complete the account creation and... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

pretty regular basis. To have him there as the mother lode of business history, if you will, and to watch his work evolve and to see how he involved others in the creation of this work was both fascinating and inspiring, particularly for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

producing vacuum pumps and systems. Its Chinese team was the first to live through the effects of the new pandemic and the restrictions imposed by the government. Learning from its subsidiary in China gave the company tremendous advantages. First, it enabled the View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

nominal and real interest rates in the last four decades, and how their recent trends and their potential evolution in a world characterized by structural changes in the way economies are organized and in geopolitical tail risks might... View Details
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be underwhelmed, try comparing a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage - Course Catalog

Educational objectives This course aims to give students a mastery of all aspects of competitive advantage to make them more effective at diagnosing and developing great strategy. The course examines the role and structure of competitive... View Details

    Pete Rozelle

    When Rozelle became NFL commissioner in 1960, the league was a loose structure of autonomous teams. Rozelle, seeing the potential for professional sports as a big business, made two very important changes: consolidation of the NFL and AFL... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
    • January 2020
    • Article

    How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

    By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
    We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Value Creation; Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making
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    • 01 Jun 2004
    • News

    The Ambidextrous Organization

    in building ambidextrous designs. These aspirations provide an overarching goal that permits exploitation and exploration to coexist. Almost every company needs to renew itself through the creation of breakthrough products and processes,... View Details
    Keywords: ambidextrous manager; ambidextrous organization; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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    Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

    best practices to help mitigate common pitfalls. Families vary significantly in how they structure themselves, but the common link among Families that succeed in building multiple generations of wealth View Details
    • June 1991 (Revised April 1997)
    • Background Note

    Managing the Multibusiness Corporation

    By: David J. Collis
    Lays out some ideas on how to restructure a multibusiness corporation. Identifies sixteen elements of organization design, and then applies contingency theory to argue that these elements need to be aligned with the tasks the corporation uses to create value across its... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Alignment; Corporate Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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    • 15 Aug 2007
    • Op-Ed

    3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

    acting as a catalyst for the creation of these products by banks. Indeed, given the considerable fees involved, banks' business models are being reorientated away from the traditional structuring and holding... View Details
    Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking
    • 04 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

    implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive knowledge flows and active... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 09 May 2022
    • News

    Green House

    In the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) has built an oxymoron: a brand-new, historic home. The recently completed structure combines traditional architecture and the latest in... View Details
    • 13 Jan 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Making Biotech Work as a Business

    productivity are hellishly difficult to sort out. This is due to the difficulty of measuring such amorphous factors as intellectual property creation and the long time lag before any expected return on investment. The sector's tendency to... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
    • December 2017
    • Supplement

    Bega Cheese: Bidding to Bring Vegemite Back Home

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Lauren G. Pickle
    In January 2017, the leadership team of Bega Cheese—the Australian dairy company—was considering a bid for Mondelēz International’s Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) grocery business which included several leading consumer brands (Vegemite—the iconic Australian spread,... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Value Drivers; Discounted Cash Flow (DCF); Dairy Industry; Corporate Scope; Diversification; Consumer Goods; Iconic Brands; Australia; Corporate Finance; Bidding Strategy; Cross Border; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Value Creation; Business Divisions; Capital Structure; Food; Bids and Bidding; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Australia; United States
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    Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

    Educational Objectives This course has two objectives. First, it builds a rigorous approach and toolkit for sourcing, analyzing, negotiating, structuring and managing PE investments. The second goal of the course is to provide students... View Details
    • 20 Aug 2015
    • Blog Post

    AVICII: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE BRAND OF A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR

    and foremost, the entire company is structured around the idea of creation and creativity. While technology runs platform companies like Spotify and Apple, and marketing runs record labels like Capitol and... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
    • 01 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 1

    category Weiner is credited with inventing, it is also more expensive and more artistically risky than anything he has ever done before. Has Weiner finally gone too far, or will he be able to pull this off? This case explores the creation... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel