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- May 1985 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Comdisco, Inc.
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Rita J. Seymour
Comdisco, the largest independent dealer and lessor of computers and peripheral equipment, needs financing in order to match its market's growth of 20-30% per year. The company has access to two types of risk capital, but there are substantial costs and risks... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Capital Structure; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Rita J. Seymour. "Comdisco, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 285-109, May 1985. (Revised October 2001.)
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
deployment to a challenging context is associated with human capital development. Managers initially deployed to more challenging contexts were not, however, more likely to break into the upper echelons of the organization. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains require is provided by booming... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in... View Details
- February 2008
- Teaching Note
DermaCare: Zapping Zits Directly (TN)
Teaching Note for [808064]. View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
upfront capital investments. The more developed the local financial markets, the easier it is for credit constrained entrepreneurs to start their own firms. The increase in the number of varieties of intermediate goods leads to positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
technology will not be fully realized, however, if companies simply make their existing online services available through wireless devices. Successful players in the m-commerce market space will take a much broader view of the technology, the market and consumers.... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
marketing economies. However, few production economies exist, as the firm produces beer through a standardized, mass production process—far different than the craft of winemaking. The firm cannot distribute beer and wine on the same... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
expenditures on education per capita and led to higher literacy rates and to more schools per children. The resulting distribution of human capital across states persists until today. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do about It. Government has played similar catalytic roles in creating hubs of innovation is places such as Tel Aviv and Singapore. Such success stories... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
trustworthiness vary systematically across different stakeholder types and provide strong support for the validity of the depth and locus dimensions. Working PapersSovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances Authors:Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens significantly, suggesting increased entry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
more than 20 case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: aligning organizational design, human View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Online Video Harvard Business School Case 709-447 In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online distribution venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation (Fox) is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
influence over the corporate tax strategy. They then reconstructed insider holdings portfolios and built-in capital gains in order to get a precise estimate of their incentives. There were three measures for determining which executives... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
problem for the consortium is how much to raise its previous bid. A reasonable bid must be based upon how much value the private equity consortium can create through improvements in Hertz's global operations on the one hand, and a more efficient View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
rising real per capita income). Capital formation (investment) and the development of human resources are key to this process. Q: Were you surprised by anything you've discovered? A: I am constantly surprised—surprised about corruption... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
but you really need to reimagine what the right customer experience is and what the right cost base is to make this capital efficient for shareholders. Best Buy is a good example. Best Buy has taken most of its commodity TVs and said we... View Details