Publications

2007
Book

A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know

By: David A. Moss

Now more than ever before, executives and managers need to understand their larger economic context. In The Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David Moss leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Money; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

1984
Book

Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program

By: Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Paul R. Lawrence and D. Q. Mills

Keywords: Management; Assets; Higher Education; Programs

May 2022
Case

Maestro Pizza: Coming in Hot!

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro Pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Beautiful credit, the foundation of modern society!” — Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (1873)... View Details

June 2013 (Revised July 2017)
Case

Angus Cartwright IV

By: Kenneth J. Hatten, William J. Poorvu, Howard H. Stevenson, Arthur I Segel and John H. Vogel, Jr.

Judy and John DeRight, looking to diversify their investment portfolios, have retained Angus Cartwright, Jr. to identify prospective real estate acquisitions. Mr. Cartwright has four potential properties that he feels merit an in-depth financial analysis. The case... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Taxation; Balanced Scorecard; Valuation

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

Essentials Professor William Sahlman Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by August 21 $1,850 Certificate Disruptive Strategy... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

demanding than what the minimalist nature of duties of forbearance initially would suggest. 2014 Working Paper Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization and Microfinance Institutions By:... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Social Enterprise Track, 2013 Bluelight John Ikeda, HKS Manoah Koletty, HKS Mustafa Khalifeh Social Enterprise Track Winner Innovative consumer finance for the base of the pyramid. WAVE Hospitality Academy Misan Rewane, HBS Karan Chopra,... View Details

Working Paper

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev

We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Decision Choices and Conditions

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January 2018
Case

Trian Partners' Proxy Contest at Procter & Gamble

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher

In July 2017, activist hedge fund Trian Partners announced that it was launching a proxy fight at U.S. consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble. P&G would be the largest company ever subjected to a proxy fight, as Trian sought to have its CEO, Nelson Peltz, elected to the... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States

January 1975 (Revised April 2009)
Case

Optical Distortion, Inc. (A)

A new product, contact lenses for chickens, is to be introduced by a small firm formed to market the product. An entry strategy must be planned including price, sales force, size, and location. Allows data for computation of economic benefit to farmers. Includes... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Price; Geographic Location; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Sales

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Morgan Hall | About

philanthropist, art collector, and iconic figure in US business. Morgan began his career in 1857, working in international finance in a firm headed by his father. In 1871, with Anthony Drexel, he cofounded Drexel, Morgan & Company, a... View Details

April 2010
Case

Metabical: Pricing, Packaging, and Demand Forecasting Recommendations for a New Weight Loss Drug

By: John A. Quelch and Heather Beckham

Metabical is a new weight loss drug from Cambridge Sciences Pharmaceuticals intended for moderately overweight individuals. In anticipation of final FDA approval, the senior director of marketing, Barbara Printup, prepares for the product launch and must make several... View Details

Keywords: Return On Investment; Forecasting; Pricing Policies; Demand Planning; Marketing Strategy; Price; Consumer Behavior; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Launch; Planning; Brands and Branding; Pharmaceutical Industry

01 Jan 2013
News

Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

classroom with a completely different perspective than I came in with," he recalls. Sant's career path led him through a series of finance positions in the Bay Area before he moved to Washington, DC, for a two-year stint at the Federal... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

October 2017
Case

The Transformation of Microsoft

By: C. Fritz Foley, E. Scott Mayfield and F. Katelynn Boland

In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower margin. Some of these opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Growth; Corporate Finance; Valuation; Growth Management; Communication Strategy; Transformation; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; United States

23 May 2018
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Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

on Wall Street. “That was my introduction to finance and the MBA degree,” she says, noting that back in Cambridge, she began crossing the river to study at Baker Library and attended a conference organized by HBS’s African-American... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

2016
Book

Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal

By: Eugene F. Soltes

From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of corporate titans are regular fixtures in the news. But what drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Corporate Finance