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  • February 2019 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

Quiksilver Inc. and Oaktree Capital Management

By: Kristin Mugford and Mike Harmon
Sports lifestyle company Quiksilver filed for bankruptcy in September 2015. Oaktree is considering an additional investment in the company to facilitate the restructuring. Students must consider whether Oaktree should invest given the risks of the turnaround... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Acquisition; Restructuring; Debt Securities; Transformation; Decision Making; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return; Crisis Management; Negotiation; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; France; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911033-PDF-ENG Sidoti & Company: Launching a Micro-Cap Product Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 411-072 It is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way

join a start-up and the lessons she learned. 1. No pressure, no diamonds.In the cash-strapped environment of a start-up there is pressure to deliver direct results; there's no hiding behind the delayed consequences and layers of management of a bigger company. As my... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail
  • Web

Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Reza Satchu Founder Launch Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 The Founder Mindset Entrepreneurial Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 David Scharfstein Managing and Innovating in View Details
  • October 2019 (Revised December 2019)
  • Supplement

Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (B)

By: Debora L. Spar and Olivia Hull
Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Science-Based Business; Marketing Strategy; Business Plan; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Integration; Health; Health Industry
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  • 08 Jun 2021
  • News

New Funding for Female Founders

Ventures, Defy Partners, Greycroft, and Lerer Hippeau. Prima said it will use the funding to continue product development and support operations. The company sells its products online and through retail... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
  • 02 Dec 2018
  • News

A Chance to Thrive

HBS opened many doors. “The imprimatur of HBS is powerful. People are willing to give you a shot if you have an HBS degree,” she observes. While the School might have helped launch her career, Zollar’s track record speaks to her ability... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • News

Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine

Growing up in Washington, DC, David Bradley (MBA 1977) aspired to be a politician, not a businessman, but figured he should have a strong financial base in order to launch his political career. In 1979, he... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2014
  • News

Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement

became a “pain point” for her. “That’s when they need us the most,” says Goldstein, a 20-year vet of the Boston startup scene. Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at the Launch Lab. (Video) In early 2013, Goldstein took the idea for... View Details
  • March 1974 (Revised June 1996)
  • Case

First National City Bank Operating Group (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch
Growth in the banking field has produced new demands on the "back office." Traditional management practices in check processing and paper handling operations have resulted in ten years of cost increases and quality loss. New manager of the operating group faces an... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Banking Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Invest in the New Abnormal

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong The novel coronavirus did more than disrupt jobs, supply chains, and financial markets, says HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé. The pandemic has also upended how... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Japan Research Center Names New Executive Director

In August, Nobuo Sato (MBA ’82) assumed his duties as executive director of the Japan Research Center (JRC) in Tokyo. Sato’s business career has spanned three decades, most recently encompassing fifteen years at Egon Zehnder International, where he View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Funding His Purpose

left each meeting feeling like a better person,” Letelier recalls. Letelier launched SITAWI Finance for Good in 2008 to recapture that feeling—and to introduce new financial tools into Brazil’s nonprofit and... View Details
  • February 2011 (Revised August 2012)
  • Teaching Note

Emotiv Systems Inc.: It's the Thoughts that Count (TN)

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
Teaching Note for 510050. View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Decision Choices and Conditions; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Marketing Channels; Price
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  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    Eugene M. Patterson

    Though educated and trained as a lawyer, Patterson eventually joined the family business, expanding it from its tobacco equipment roots to include many other consumer products, most notably automated bowling equipment, as well as various defense industry View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 10 May 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

    out if this new strategy has paid off for investors and their portfolio companies. Nanda and colleagues present their findings in a paper scheduled to appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Financial Economics, titled Cost of... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services
    • 07 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Rocket Science Retailing

    useful to predict sales and replenish its inventory for PCs. Buyers monitor the sales of a certain product line soon after it is launched and update their forecasts based on those observations. They expedite... View Details
    Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
    • 10 Jan 2020
    • Blog Post

    Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail

    have to be a success story. If your company is doing a turnaround and you want to hire smart MBAs to help right the ship, that will draw students in.” HBS students are eager to make an impact and to join leaders with a genuine purpose. Honestly discussing your... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 01 Apr 2002
    • News

    Back on Course

    Stephen Julius (MBA '88), who is English, and Stephen Heese (MBA '88), his Yank buddy, were classmates at HBS, divided by a common language perhaps, but united in their love of quality boats. Last year, the two men took the helm of Chris-Craft, the 128-year-old company... View Details