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  • November 2005 (Revised November 2006)
  • Supplement

Pine Ridge Winery, LLC Global Environment (B)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Lauren Barley
Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Complements to the Case Method

Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate

(Illustration by Peter Arkle) What is really at stake when we talk about patents? Lauren Cohen: Innovation is the future of the US economy. Given that the value of firms is shifting toward intellectual... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Research Brief: Capitol Gains

FOR MORE INFORMATION Legislating Stock Prices Psst looking for a hot stock tip? Forget the Wall Street Journal. Try the Congressional Record. HBS professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, with Dartmouth's Karl Diether, analyzed the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Post-Grad Ponderings

diplomas. And of course, as all HBS alumni know, this is just the beginning of the story. Lauren Lockwood, MBA What got you through your degree? “Being involved in a lot of things.” HBS experience in one word: Motivating. Next stop:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • January 2013
  • Case

Apple Inc. and the iPhone 4 Antenna Issue

By: Francois Brochet, Krishna G. Palepu and Lauren Barley
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  • October 2011 (Revised August 2017)
  • Case

PunchTab, Inc.

By: Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr and Lauren Barley
PunchTab was a Silicon Valley startup, founded in 2011, that was developing an Internet-based turnkey customer loyalty program for website owners, mobile applications developers, and brands. Founder/CEO Ranjith Kumaran must make strategic decisions about how to fund... View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Funds; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; San Francisco
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  • December 2008 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

Proteus Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Lauren Barley and Ginger Graham
Proteus is a healthcare start-up that has developed technology to embed electronics for computing and sensing in existing medical devices and drugs. The technology could potentially change the basis of competition in the pharmaceutical industry. The company is... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Rights; Negotiation Deal; Business Strategy; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • January 2011
  • Case

Aardvark

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Lauren Barley
Aardvark is an online social search service that allows users to pose questions and receive answers from other users in their extended social network. The case explores the process that Aardvark's founders used to design and develop their product based on intensive... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entrepreneurship; Product Design; Product Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web
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  • August 2007 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

Texas Pacific Group--J. Crew

By: Michael J. Roberts, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley
Describes Texas Pacific Group's purchase and operation of J. Crew, the catalog and specialty clothing retailer. Highlights the issues involved in financing such a transaction, and then focuses on the operational challenges of turning around the business, and of TPG's... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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  • April 2010
  • Case

Talent Agencies

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Toby E. Stuart and Lauren Barley
The case overviews the talent agency industry in Hollywood in 2009. Focuses on the role of the talent agent, the dynamics of professional service firms, the challenges facing agencies in light of major changes in the entertainment industries, and a possible merger... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Problems and Challenges; Change; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Los Angeles
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  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal

raised $95 million for fellowships, helped by the work of an alumni and friends Fellowship Advisory Board, formed in 2003. “When I was a student, it was assumed you would earn a good living when you graduated and quickly repay your... View Details
Keywords: HBS; MBA; Fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

MBAs Chosen for Leadership Fellows Program

Ten new MBAs have taken positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations with the help of the School’s Leadership Fellows program. Now in its sixth year, the program provides fellows with one-year appointments at a competitive salary, supported in part View Details
Keywords: fellowships; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Art purchased on this year's trip

"Invasion" by Amy Wilson, Courtesy Bellwether Gallery "Awake from Your Slumber" by Amy Wilson, Courtesy Bellwether Gallery "Untitled" by Bill Henson, Courtesy Robert Miller... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2010
  • News

Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business

Appropriations Committee, Byrd was a master at bringing home the bacon for his constituents, prompting one watchdog group to denounce him as the "King of Pork." By one estimate, he steered $2.26 billion to West Virginia between 2000 and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

No Sweat

When he’s not researching empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and portfolio choice, Assistant Professor Lauren Cohen’s fondness for heavy lifting moves into the physical realm. Here he works out with an 800-pound tire while... View Details
Keywords: weightlifting

    Whitney Stevens

    Having inherited his fathers labor problems, Whitney Stevens’ early years at his family’s company were dominated by struggles with textile unions. Though the family strongly opposed the organizations, Whitney was forced to acquiesce and... View Details
    Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

      Sidney Kimmel

      eighties, Kimmel was able to orchestrate a massive turnaround for the company by delivering a line of affordable, yet professional and upscale line of women’s clothing with designer Rena Rowan. He further solidified the future of the firm... View Details
      Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
      • 14 Jan 2016
      • Blog Post

      Liberal Arts Major Pursues an MBA

      I could prove myself before being swallowed whole by the swarm of finance wizards. I can’t help but smirk when I think back on this vivid memory, as I couldn’t have been more misguided in my anxiety. It was a matter of hours, not days,... View Details
      • 21 Aug 2017
      • Blog Post

      A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

      and more efficiently?—with in-the-weeds tactical questions—would more people click here if the button were red? Much of the innovative work going on at DoIT was spearheaded by Lauren Lockwood (HBS 2014), and... View Details
      Keywords: Consulting