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  • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Case

National Storage Affiliates: The REIT IPO Decision

By: Charles F. Wu, Max de la Bruyére and Gregory D. Himmel
In 2015, two years after founding National Storage Affiliates (NSA), Arlen Nordhagen and Tamara Fischer had an important decision to make. Should they proceed with NSA’s IPO? Although they had targeted to receive $15–17 a share, it was now apparent that the figure was... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry
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    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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    • 29 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 29, 2008

    decision would require a 76% shareholder approval. When Augstein died in 2002, however, his co-owners exercised the option the same bylaws gave them to buy a 0.5% stake each from Augstein's heirs, who thus lost their veto rights. In... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 20 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 20, 2008

    despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 17 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

    related discipline of survival psychology shine a light on the present moment and contains wisdom for how leaders can manage the unrolling crisis. “As CEOs in this crisis, we have no option but to become the wartime CEO, however... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • 11 Aug 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements

    Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell
    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Sam Walton: Great From the Start

    learn that the store was a real dog." The rent for this "dog" was 5 percent of sales. This sounded fine to Walton; but after signing the lease, he discovered that this "was the highest rent anybody'd ever heard of in... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
    • 12 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

    Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    internet exposure, Instagram followers, admiration of strangers. You fill in the blanks. You know what I'm talking about, worldly rewards, right? But that's wrong. The real formula for satisfaction that endures is all the things that you... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    sentiment in the US stock market More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to explain the well-known weak empirical relationship... View Details
    • 16 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16, 2008

    behavior. We examine the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest that recency bias, elicited by... View Details
    • Web

    Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market... View Details
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    and Infrastructure 27 MAR 2024 | Climate Rising This episode in our climate adaptation series features HBS Professor John Macomber. John discusses how companies and governments need to incorporate climate resilience as they develop and finance View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Nayely Martinez

    “Paso a paso,” my Mom happily said as we stared at my first Kindergarten report card, the first step towards our theory that education would be the way up and out of poverty. “Paso a paso,” my Dad quietly reminded us, as we stepped into a... View Details
    • 17 Feb 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

    their idea, but a little humility and a lot of discovery work can determine whether there’s a winning solution and save a lot of wasted time and money building the wrong thing. If fundraising is also a consideration, being able to have View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • 22 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22

    provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

    meets its moment Stavros believed that enfranchising workers as owners would lead to higher productivity and morale—and build wealth in blue-collar communities. But, early versions of the idea met mixed results. Stock options or employee... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 09 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever—A Case Study

    free-market economy, and proclivity toward trade protectionism, the United States has always been a major host economy for foreign firms. It has certainly been the world's largest host since the 1970s, and probably was before 1914 also. 6 Given that most View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
    • 09 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 9

    markets, and the theory of market design. Publisher's Link: http://www.amazon.com/Auctions-Market-Mechanisms-Their-Applications/dp/3642309127 Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century Authors:Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 13

      PublicationsDriven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership Author:Paul R. Lawrence Publication:Jossey-Bass, forthcoming (2010) Abstract The author applies the four drive theory of human behavior (to acquire, to defend, to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace