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  • 2015
  • Report

Decoding the Iran Nuclear Deal: Key Questions, Points of Divergence, Pros and Cons, Pending Legislation, and Essential Facts

By: Gary Samore, Graham T. Allison, Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Shai Feldman, Chuck Freilich, Olli Heinonen, Martin B. Malin, Steven E. Miller, Payam Mohseni, Laura Rockwood, James K. Sebenius and William Tobey
On April 2, 2015, the EU (on behalf of the P5+1 countries) and Iran announced agreement on "key parameters" for a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran. The EU-Iran Joint Statement is buttressed by unilateral fact sheets issued by the U.S. and Iran, which provide... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; International Relations; Iran; United States; European Union
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  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

On the upside, every dollar invested in treating those disorders leads to a return of $4 in terms of the ability to work and thus contribute to the economy. Nava Ashraf hopes this study will prompt more like it, both among View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • October 1996 (Revised May 2011)
  • Module Note

Venture Capital and Private Equity: Module II

By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Provides an overview of a module that focuses on the interaction between private equity investors and the firms they finance. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • 25 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

are not aligned. "CEOs should be working with both constituencies, insiders and outsiders," says Sadun. "However, if there are governance issues, there might be the possibility that the CEO is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: Discovering CEO Oral Communication Styles

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson and Tarun Khanna
We demonstrate how a novel synthesis of three methods—(1) unsupervised topic modeling of text data to generate new measures of textual variance, (2) sentiment analysis of text data, and (3) supervised ML coding of facial images with a cutting-edge convolutional neural... View Details
Keywords: Spoken Communication; Business History; Analytics and Data Science; Finance; Performance
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  • March 2009
  • Background Note

Evaluating M&A Deals: Floors, Caps, and Collars

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
As equity consideration has become more popular in acquisitions, so has the use of the "pricing-protection" mechanisms, such as floors, caps, and collars. These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well.... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Equity; Price; Contracts; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • October 1990
  • Article

Bankruptcy, Boards, Banks, and Blockholders: Evidence on Changes in Corporate Ownership and Control When Firms Default

By: S. C. Gilson
In 111 publicly traded firms that either file for bankruptcy or privately restructure their debt between 1979 and 1985, bank lenders frequently become major stockholders or appoint new directors. On average, only 46% of incumbent directors remain when bankruptcy or... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governance; Banks and Banking; Change; Business Ventures; Ownership
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  • Web

Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

1970s, the seeds of change for ARD were in the air. The Small Business Investment Act of 1953 had promoted the creation of small business investment corporations (SBICs) through financial support View Details
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation

What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked on TPG’s impact assessment team, Y Analytics, focused on energy, agriculture, food, and industrial deals. I learned to think deeply about measuring the impact of mission-driven... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2019
  • News

A Model of Drive and Impact

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the View Details
Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers
  • 2015
  • Article

Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits

By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers
We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater supply of unprofitable services (beneficent nonprofits) face lenient regulatory enforcement for mispricing in price-regulated markets. Consequently, beneficent nonprofits exploit such regulatory leniency and exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Business Earnings; Fairness; Governance Compliance
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    George C. Lodge

    Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details

    • November 2017
    • Supplement

    Merging American Airlines and US Airways (B)

    By: David G. Fubini, David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    Exhibit to Merging American Airlines and US Airways (A) case. In February 2013, US Airways announced that it would merge with American Airlines to create the world’s largest airline. Doug Parker, the CEO of US Airways, would become CEO of the new American Airlines... View Details
    Keywords: Airlines; Merger; Takeover; Integration Strategy; Merger Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Governance; Management Teams; Operations; Organizational Culture; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • 28 Sep 2023
    • News

    What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups

    global business in the future. Writing for his Substack newsletter 99% Tech, Lazarow, a managing partner at Fluent Ventures and author of Out-Innovate, notes, “Dalio believes that existing reserve... View Details
    • March 2014 (Revised September 2019)
    • Teaching Note

    Say on Pay: Qualcomm, Inc. Shareholders Vote 'Maybe'

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Charles C.Y. Wang
    This case centers around Qualcomm shareholders' 2012 Say-on-Pay vote and the dispute between the Institutional Shareholder Services and management regarding the appropriateness of the CEO's compensation plan. Was ISS right that Qualcomm CEO's pay was inflated and... View Details
    Keywords: ISS; Proxy Advisor; Investor Communication; Investor Relations; Peers; Say-on-Pay; Benchmarking; Peer Group; Compensation Committee; Board Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • Web

    Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    spanned 16 countries in 2013, promotes the benefits of handwashing to rural communities. So far, Unilever has changed the behaviors of 130 million people. Businesses have the potential to be more effective than View Details
    • 01 Feb 2001
    • News

    Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

    As the Harvard Business School confronts the challenges of the 21st century, the support and guidance of its graduates are more critical than ever. Three advisory boards, staffed by volunteer alumni View Details
    Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
    • Web

    Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Related Topics View Details
    • Web

    Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

    looked for [Lowell] and found that he was President of a university called Harvard... In my family we had never heard of Harvard," Doriot remembered. 2 When the young Frenchman told Lowell of his ambitions to run a factory, Lowell advised... View Details
    • Fast Answer

    Green Business: beginner's resources and toolkit

    Where can I find guides and tools for for first-time environmental startups? Resources on environmental/green business: ABI/Proquest: search for articles on topics related to green/eco/sustainable startups,... View Details