Publications

01 Dec 2016
News

Case Study: Sweat the Technique

tracking markets. —John Lamb (MBA 1980) The big market for Nix is the low-cost analog sensor. At $5 per sensor, the price point will drive rapid adoption View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2015
Teaching Note

CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence

By: Leslie John, John Quelch and Robert Huckman

Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence (515010). The case finds Helena Foulkes, Executive... View Details

August 2005 (Revised April 2007)
Case

DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp.

By: Paul M. Healy

Compares two companies in the information capture software industry. Asks students to analyze and compare the performance of two companies (one in the United Kingdom and the other in the United States) from the perspective of a buy-side analyst reporting to the manager... View Details

Keywords: History; Financial Management; Environmental Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Financial Reporting; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Economic Growth; Fair Value Accounting; Information Industry; Information Industry; United Kingdom; United States

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

Asian privatizations in the 1980s and 1990s-a process that showed that large positions can be exited over time without diluting the value View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

as important as rewarding investors is using the power of business to build a better society. Roundtable members committed to building up local communities, investing more in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

August 2003 (Revised December 2004)
Case

Peninsula Community Foundation

By: James E. Austin, Jane Wei-Skillern and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

After leading the Peninsula Community Foundation (PCF) through a period of tremendous growth, its president, Sterling Speirn, is facing the prospect of a decline in the foundation's asset base for the first time in the foundation's history. In addition, the fact that... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Product Positioning; Planning; Alliances; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Valuation; Financial Services Industry

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

industry experts who estimated the returns to be significantly lower than professional venture investing due to less investor diversification and capital limitations that prevent investment View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

product line within Xerox. He had the support of Xerox's chief executive officer, David Kearns, for establishing the new internal structure. This structure would work much like... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

25 Feb 2020
News

Case Study: The Credit Bureau

There’s no need to give these firms a share of the revenue because there are many ways to reach the end customer. —Sergio Rattner (MBA 2001) I believe View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

September 1998 (Revised July 1999)
Case

Integral Capital Partners

By: Andre F. Perold and Markus Mullarkey

Integral Capital Partners is a small firm with a very distinctive approach to investing in high-technology stocks. The firm invests privately in small start-ups as well as in publicly traded companies, and it develops important financial and advisory relationships with... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Value Creation; Venture Capital; Asset Management; Partners and Partnerships; Public Sector; Private Sector; Business Startups; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry

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24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

development. “Everybody says, ‘It normally takes 10 years to develop a vaccine. How come you are doing it in a year?’” Bingham says. Her answer: unprecedented funding and unheard-of cooperation. It’s a vital... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

net-zero emissions by 2040. In the interim, we are targeting absolute GHG reductions of more than 40 percent by 2030. From the way we source our... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Case Study: On the Record

Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight... View Details

Keywords: April White

July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
Case

Propel

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra

In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the... View Details