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  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

SchmidtHarvard Business School Brief Case No. 4208 TScientific Glassware is a fast-growing, privately held company that provides specialized glassware for laboratory and research facilities. Excess inventory is tying up extra capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

including commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity funds. Representing one of the largest DIP loans in history, this financing was considered critical to the company's survival. One unique and controversial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

many newspaper companies still run by second-and third-generation family members, so they turned to professional management. 27 According to Nieva de Figueiredo, these agent CEOs realized they had only modest opportunities for wealth accumulation in View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 10 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number of large U.S.-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

great change in recent years has been in China itself. The state-owned enterprises have realized the realities of competition and the need to improve costs and quality significantly. Furthermore, the government has allowed multiple systems to develop so that View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

difficult challenges ahead, he said, will be persuading people around the world that their trust in the private sector, rather than the government, could be well placed. "It becomes a lot more difficult when internal documents show... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference to tell their stories—the ups, downs, and detours that brought them to where they are today. "I moved back home. That's where I started," said Joseph Williams (HBS MBA '99), cofounder of Wakefield James, a firm that purchases and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

MuthuramHarvard Business School Case 113-004 Nalli Silk Sarees Private Limited was a family owned and operated business that retailed Indian ethnic wear. This 83-year-old company had enjoyed impressive growth with a $95 million turnover,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2021
  • Case

Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman and Olivia Hull
Massachusetts General Brigham (MGB) Chief Innovation Officer Christopher Coburn had overseen a period of exciting transformation and growth in healthcare innovation at MGB. In November 2019, the health system was the largest recipient of National Institutes of Health... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion; Innovation; Invention; Gender; Business Startups; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Research; Research and Development; Diversification; Technology; Health Industry; Massachusetts; Boston
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  • February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
  • Case

Kendle International Inc.

By: Dwight B. Crane, Paul W. Marshall and Indra Reinbergs
Candace Kendle and Christopher Bergen, the CEO and COO of Kendle International, Inc., are reviewing ways to finance the growth of their privately-owned company. Kendle is a contract research organization that conducts clinical drug trials for pharmaceutical and... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Financing and Loans; Venture Capital; Stock Options; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; International Finance; Financial Strategy; Management Skills; Private Ownership; Initial Public Offering; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

was highly constrained by the Great Powers of Europe. This resulted in considerable distortions on the economy and society. For example, special legal privileges were given to Europeans and non-Muslim minorities, which was one reason why the Muslim majority was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter competitors. We examine an incumbent's preannouncement strategy when there is uncertainty regarding the commercial viability of a new product opportunity and a threat of rival entry. Each firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

readily identifiable. I am more interested in isolating the opportunities that arise organically and will be developed through private initiatives. Here, I think it is critical to systematically identify what I would call "downturn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

where some industries were centralized, has developed a powerful private sector that "seems well positioned for an entrepreneurial outburst." Vietnam, where all industries were under centralized control, appears to face a more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

privatization have created unprecedented opportunities for firms of all sizes and varieties to compete in larger markets than ever before. In the process, a handful of global organizations have risen to replace formerly state-owned... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

information. We implement an experiment where senders are required to report their private information truthfully but can choose how complex to make their reports. We find that senders use complex disclosure more than half the time. Most... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

essay briefly reconstructs the interwar institutionalist movement, exploring the continuities among heterodox thinkers and the implications for public and private institution building. It seeks to reorient the history of U.S. political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

governments by oil and gas firms, and negative stock price reactions for affected firms at the announcement of regulations mandating disclosure. This suggests that sample firm managers and their investors perceive that there are private... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 27, 2016

post-investment value-added all contribute to value creation, the VCs rate deal selection as the most important of the three. We also explore (and find) differences in practices across industry, stage, geography, and past success. We compare our results to those for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

namely its shift from a supplier and builder of affordable housing to an approach that focuses on demand-side solutions and indirect subsidies to private developers. In addition to a shift from supply-based to demand-based solutions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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