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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
acquisition of small- and medium-sized companies, Baker first observed the corrosive effect of corruption. "I didn't come out of HBS equipped to deal with it," he recalls. "It was so harmful to the business... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
automobiles; it was up to Huber to figure out what that meant. Primarily the GM leadership was looking to justify GM's earlier multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Hughes Aircraft (which included commercial satellites) View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
part time. ”I have now been to 10 countries in Africa in three years, and often times feel more comfortable here than I do in my other home, the USA.” With the acquisition of two universities (Cavendish in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
173, 2007) Go big or go home. Instead of competing against the “heavies” in a “land grab,” Ario should position itself as a target for acquisition or as a partner. The heavies and the IPO market value... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
complexity that is astonishing, said Sahlman. The International Context According to Kuemmerle, there is one central question guiding his IEF research: how do entrepreneurial managers, and those who finance them, make sensible resource... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
said Howson, who focuses on mergers and acquisitions, project finance, and capital markets in his firm's Beijing office. The creation of domestic capital markets, increasing... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
auditors and audit committees whose mutual survival depends on each other, overly complicated accounting and tax systems, and the nature of the reporting relationships between... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
multinationals as Bharat Forge, Hindalco, Mahindra, and Suzlon will increasingly be making acquisitions and building their brands in Western markets. This book profiles India’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
explained his focus on education and literacy by saying that "education is the key" for a new economy characterized by, and based upon, lifelong learning, multiple careers, and... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save his company. With Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos's recent View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
Mac Bartels (Photo courtesy of Mac Bartels) Just back from the Toronto Film Festival, Eric d'Arbeloff (MBA 1993), copresident of independent film producer and distributor Roadside Attractions, talks to Mac Bartels (HBS 2016) about how he... View Details
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
dreams of consumers, because a brand that’s built on such appeals will find it hard to grow to be a source of pride. Apparently misogyny, xenophobia, and contempt for the disabled have worked as customer View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
moves, and moves fast. At Georgia’s Trust for Public Land (TPL), he led $45 million in land acquisition efforts from 2004 to 2007 for the Atlanta BeltLine—a series of multiuse paths View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
« Back to the top of the page The Midas Touch — Tarrus L. Richardson by Betsy McNair In 1993, at the age of 23, Tarrus Richardson left Salomon Brothers' financial analyst program (where he worked in the firm's Mergers View Details
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Historical Research - India
merchants. Recent acquisitions include various titles related to the East India Company, the land tax in India, steam communications with India and a collection of manuscript documents related to the French... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
Photos by Webb Chappell Related Links Who Was George F. Baker? Priscilla Anderson demonstrating photo conservation techniques. Stepping into the workaday world of Priscilla Anderson is like taking a step back in time. While most professionals spend their days tethered... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
sector. There was a big boom, a few years ago, in these private space enterprises trying to go public through special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). In a SPAC, somebody would start a company with the sole idea of acquiring a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
needles in a haystack, but that’s where crowdsourcing comes in—defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
negotiated business challenges. In three cases, the challenges involved getting everyone on the same page after acquisitions or mergers. They describe the methods they used to counter growing bureaucracies, encourage customer-centricity,... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett