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  • February 2018 (Revised March 2019)
  • Case

Sandlands Vineyards

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Gregory Saldutte
Approximately 80% of the wineries in the U.S. break even or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the cost of equity). Tegan Passalacqua is a successful, young, Californian winemaker who specializes in making... View Details
Keywords: Wine; Winery; Vineyard; Market Attractiveness; Porter's 5 Forces; Capital Investment; Industry Attractiveness; Performance Analysis; Agriculture; Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Food; Supply Chain; Industry Structures; Five Forces Framework; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; California; Napa Valley
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  • December 2014
  • Other Article

Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity—Online Appendix

By: Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda
Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Private Equity; Performance Productivity
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    Nori Gerardo Lietz

    Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. She presently teaches Real Estate Private Equity and Starting a Private Investment Firm.

    Nori Gerardo Lietz is the founder of Areté... View Details

    • August 2005 (Revised April 2006)
    • Case

    Kemps LLC: Introducing Time-Driven ABC

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Kemps is making a strategy shift: from being focused on fulfilling customer requests to becoming the best cost dairy producer in the industry. Its existing manufacturing cost system, however, fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Relationship Management; Cost Accounting; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Earnings Management; Business Strategy; Time Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Decisions; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 11 Aug 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection

    Keywords: by Robert F. Engle & Emil N. Siriwardane
    • September 2009 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    Mercury Athletic: Valuing the Opportunity

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
    In January 2007, West Coast Fashions, Inc., a large designer and marketer of branded apparel, announced a strategic reorganization that would result in the divestiture of their wholly owned footwear subsidiary, Mercury Athletic. John Liedtke, the head of business... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Sensitivity Analysis; Cost of Capital; Restructuring; Valuation; Cash Flow; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Finance; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • 2009
    • Chapter

    Do Private Equity-owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Private Ownership; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity
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    • January 2018 (Revised April 2021)
    • Case

    Capital Allocation at HCA

    By: W. Carl Kester and Emily R. McComb
    In early 2017, HCA Holdings, an investor-owned hospital management company, faced a strategically important capital allocation decision. After the exit of its private equity sponsors in 2016, HCA had to determine how best to allocate its substantial annual free cash... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Allocation; Cash Distribution Policy; Dividends; Share Repurchases; Growth Strategy And Execution; Growth Investing; Capital Expenditures; Debt Management; Debt Reduction; Debt Policy; Hospital Management; Investor-owned Hospital Chains; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; United States
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    • September 2008 (Revised December 2011)
    • Case

    Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur

    By: Noam T. Wasserman and Antony Uy
    Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his first four ventures, two were sold, one went public, and in the last he decided to close the venture and return unused capital to his investors. With the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Equity; Selection and Staffing; Groups and Teams
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    • Web

    Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

    Race, Gender and Equity at Work Race, Gender and Equity at Work Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board Diversity RGE Blog Filters Read posts from Author HBS... View Details
    • January 2013 (Revised June 2017)
    • Case

    The Perfect Storm: What Happens When the Market Moves Four Standard Deviations?

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
    Adam Carter was the portfolio manager for Tate Modern Finance III, L.P. (“Tate” or the “Fund”), the third in a series of U.S. commercial real estate debt funds sponsored by the London-based Tate Partners. The Fund was capitalized with $700 million of equity... View Details
    Keywords: CMBS; CLO; Repo Financing; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Financing and Loans
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    • 20 Apr 2021
    • Cold Call Podcast

    What Went Wrong with the Boeing 737 Max?

    Keywords: Air Transportation
    • 19 Aug 2022
    • Blog Post

    Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future

    difficult it is to align on transmission planning and cost allocation rules with so many competing resources, state policies, and economic interests at play. It leads to literal gridlock in more ways than one. Transmission is the... View Details

      Christina R. Wing

      Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

      • 30 Sep 2022
      • News

      News from the Gender Initiative: Q+A with Robin Ely and Colleen Ammerman

      • 05 Sep 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Global Currency Hedging

      Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros & Luis M. Viceira; Financial Services
      • August 2011 (Revised October 2014)
      • Case

      High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital (A)

      By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
      Late in 2010, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan and his team closed in on the decision of whether or not to issue contingent capital, which Swiss regulators would require by 2019. There were a number of substantial issues facing Dougan and his team, including whether... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Institutions; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; International Finance; Financial Liquidity; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland
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      • 22 Dec 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

      subjects such as the "fairness of my boss." The underlying theme in such conversations, though, is the strength and appropriateness of the organization's culture. Organizations with clearly... View Details
      Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler
      • April 2003
      • Tutorial

      ABC Pen Factory Tutorial

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      To preview this online product, Authorized Faculty can call our customer service department at 1-800-545-7685 or 617-783-7600. Illustrates, via a guided audio tour accompanied by dynamically changing spreadsheets, the role for activity-based cost systems. The numerical... View Details
      Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants
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        Erik Stafford

        Erik Stafford joined the faculty at HBS in July 1999, where he has taught finance in the required and elective curricula of the MBA Program and in the CFA Investment Management Workshop.

        Erik's research efforts focus on investment management, capital... View Details

        Keywords: financial services