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  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

associated with excellence in certain product categories. Venezuelan chocolate maker Chocolates El Rey does little international business because consumers associate premium chocolate more with Belgium or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • April 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Glossier: Co-Creating a Cult Brand with a Digital Community

    By: Jill Avery
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-022. Flush with cash from its Series C fundraise, cult beauty brand Glossier considers its next phase of growth, facing critical decisions on how to allocate its capital to support various marketing communications and distribution... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Crowdsourcing; CRM; Startup; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Customer Relationship Management; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Social Media; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
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      Lynda M. Applegate

      Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

        Meg Rithmire

        Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details

        Keywords: real estate
        • Article

        The Role of Lockups in Initial Public Offerings

        By: Alon Brav and Paul A. Gompers
        In a sample of 2,794 initial public offerings (IPOs), we test three potential explanations for the existence of IPO lockups: lockups serve as (i) a signal of firm quality, (ii) a commitment device to alleviate moral hazard problems, or (iii) a mechanism for... View Details
        Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Quality; Moral Sensibility; Compensation and Benefits; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Stock Shares; Going Public
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        • 20 Aug 2024
        • Interview

        Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports

        By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Brian Kenny and Nicole Tempest Keller
        Angel City Football Club (ACFC) was founded in 2020 by venture capitalist Kara Nortman, entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, and actor and activist Natalie Portman. As outsiders to professional sports, the all-female founding team had rewritten the playbook for how to build a... View Details
        Keywords: Brands and Branding; Gender; Franchise Ownership; Business Model; Sports Industry
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          Robert C. Merton

          Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

          Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

          Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
          • November 2012 (Revised September 2013)
          • Case

          The JOBS Act of 2012

          By: Lena G. Goldberg
          This Note summarizes the potential of the Jobs Act of 2012 to change the way in which emerging growth companies, or EMGs, access capital markets. Described as among the most significant change to US securities laws in over 20 years, the Jobs Act may reduce the burdens... View Details
          Keywords: Laws And Regulation; Crowdfunding; IPO; Quiet Period; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Law; North and Central America
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          • 31 Mar 2023
          • Research & Ideas

          Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

          Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, conducted the research with Katherine Baicker of the University of Chicago and Mark Shepard, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School.... View Details
          Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

            W. Carl Kester

            Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

            Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
            • October 1997 (Revised November 1997)
            • Case

            NAACP, The

            By: James E. Austin, Paul Barese, Stephanie L. Woerner and Elaine V. Backman
            In February 1995, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the largest civil rights organization in the United States, was in the midst of a crisis. The executive director had been fired due to financial improprieties amid charges of... View Details
            Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Capital; Governance Controls; Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Rights; Leadership; Management; United States
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            • 2016
            • Working Paper

            Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory

            By: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino
            This working paper examines the historical origins, evolutionary paths, and long-term resilience of diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. It aims to come up with a new theoretical understanding of... View Details
            Keywords: History; Diversification; Business Divisions; Theory; Oceania; North America; Europe
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            • 06 Feb 2023
            • Blog Post

            Meet the Black Investment Club

            early-stage venture capital while at HBS, Coates is an active member of the Boston innovation ecosystem from the investor side as a Venture Fellow, now Managing Partner, at... View Details
            Keywords: Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital
            • 08 Jun 2010
            • First Look

            First Look: June 8

            Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510063-PDF-ENG Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts G. Felda Hardymon and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-098 Creative Capital provides grants to individual artists... View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace
            • 22 Jul 2014
            • First Look

            First Look: July 22

            Proceedings Crime and Punishment: The Reputational Consequences of Withdrawals from Venture Capital Syndicates By: Zhelyazkov, Pavel Ivanov, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—Traditional research has long treated... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • 23 Nov 2020
            • Blog Post

            We Rise

            When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted View Details
            • August 2018 (Revised June 2019)
            • Case

            Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment

            By: Victoria Ivashina and Mike Harmon
            This case is a setting to discuss “loan to own” investment strategy that is often pursued by distressed investors. The aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis left many companies with poor liquidity and limited ability to obtain credit. One of these companies was Pierre... View Details
            Keywords: Distress Investing; Investment; Debt Securities; Strategy; Restructuring
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            • 07 Nov 2017
            • First Look

            New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

            justice and national liberation, a fateful step in light of the transformation of the world wrought by decolonization. As capitalism stumbles through yet another global crisis today, what parts of Lenin’s... View Details
            Keywords: Carmen Nobel
            • 22 Sep 2020
            • Research & Ideas

            Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

            Knowledge. [Image: alvarez] Related Reading Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought Research Paper: Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation Your... View Details
            Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne