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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
sentence. It makes rereads enjoyable; there’s always more to explore and contemplate. The book that helped me read something like Simulacra and Simulation is How to Read a Book. It made me realize that reading is an intensely informative debate with the author, and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
of disruptive forces (disintermediation, disaggregation, and decoupling), which have figured prominently in industries disrupted by digitalization, are reshaping the structure of demand for executive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
attract more capital. It’s a challenge that we’re addressing with an $18 million capital campaign structured like an IPO.” So far, says Chertavian, Year Up has managed to raise $14 million — and counting. Charley Ellis (MBA ’63) The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
leadership, finance, and operations skills that senior health-care professionals need to transform care delivery in their organizations. Presented in three one-week modules offered over a nine-month period, the program is structured... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Group formation increases individual payoffs, and group structure is robust to varying levels of reciprocity and transitivity. Increasing population size increases group size more than group number, and manipulating baseline trust in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
discussion of how ownership concentration constrains restructuring alternatives, how hedge fund investors might confront controlling shareholders, and how the mispricing of agency costs can give rise to ownership structures that allow for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 2016
- Case
IC Group A/S
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details
Keywords: IC Group; IC Companys; Carli Gry; InWear; Mads Ryder; Niels Martinsen; Premium Fashion; Fast Fashion; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Profit; Revenue; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Business or Company Management; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution Channels; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Product Positioning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Web Sites; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Scandinavia; Denmark; Sweden; Norway
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "IC Group A/S." Harvard Business School Case 716-446, March 2016.
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
most suited to one's objectives; and 3) in by far the longest part of the discussion, 10 nuts-and-bolts suggestions for structuring and producing an excellent negotiation case study. Download the Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
than one million rooms and 7% of worldwide room supply. In the previous decade the growing ubiquity of internet-based commerce had facilitated the rise of technology platforms such as Expedia and Airbnb. The case enables students to explore the forces that might lead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
have a career, and by the time I entered my freshman year of college I had decided to go to Wall Street." The HBS experience played a key role in shaping and focusing the early ambitions of these five classmates. "Educationally - that is, the thought process, methods... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Africa; United States
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Amram Migdal. "Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment." Harvard Business School Case 318-003, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Club, recently organized a conversation about systemic racism in the fitness industry with help from summer intern Alexandra Horvitz (HBS 2021). Titled “Reimagining Fitness: Designing an Anti-Racist Industry,” the online event was hosted... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
get involved in their communities. “Long-term profitability is driven by bringing long-term value to many, many people,” he said. JULY 20 Amira Polack (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of fitness app Struct Club, recently organized a conversation about systemic racism in the... View Details