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Donella Rapier Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 2 Results SEI25 Series: Donella Rapier (MBA 1992), President and CEO, BRAC USA Donella Rapier 28 Feb 2019 This post is part of... View Details
- October 1999 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank
Wit Capital brings democracy to the IPO process via the World Wide Web. This case encourages debate about the role service will play in this technology-intermediated investment bank and the sources and sustainability of its competitive advantage. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Service Delivery; Competitive Advantage; Investment Banking; Web; Banking Industry
Hallowell, Roger H., and Tonicia C. Hampton. "Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank." Harvard Business School Case 800-145, October 1999. (Revised November 1999.)
- April 2010
- Supplement
The Auction for Travelport (B)
By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal
This short case presents the epilogue of The Auction for Travelport (A). Blackstone decided to bid on its own, acquired Travelport for $4.3 billion and subsequently went on to acquire another GDS, Travelspan, for $1.4 billion. It then merged the two GDSs and partially... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Private Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions; Industry Structures; Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Market Transactions; Change; Auctions; Travel Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Misha Sanwal. "The Auction for Travelport (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-475, April 2010.
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Silicon Valley’s burgeoning venture capital industry. Founding U.S. Venture Partners in 1981 provided Bowes the opportunity to help create, rather than merely finance, initiatives at their earliest stages. The firm has shaped the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
to the Times, is “to invigorate private-sector initiatives in these industries, then in a host of supplier companies, and eventually throughout manufacturing.” Commented Bloom, “I am deeply afraid that if you lose the ability to make... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- January 2009
- Teaching Note
VMWare Inc., 2008 (TN)
By: Andrei Hagiu
Teaching Note for [709435]. View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Primary Capital Market Transactions and Index Funds
By: Marco Sammon and Chris Murray
We document the effects of mechanical buying by CRSP-index-tracking funds on post-IPO returns and IPO deal structure. Leveraging a difference-in-differences-style design built on a 2017 CRSP rule change, we find that expected index fund demand leads fast track IPOs to... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Investment Return; Price; Market Transactions; Financial Markets
Sammon, Marco, and Chris Murray. "Primary Capital Market Transactions and Index Funds." Working Paper, August 2024.
- November 2008
- Case
Adnexus Therapeutics, Inc.: Considering the Exit
By: Vicki L. Sato and Rachel Gordon
Dr. John Mendlein, CEO of Adnexus Therapeutics Inc. (Adnexus), a private biotechnology company, must decide whether to pursue acquisition talks with Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) after a successful six-month collaboration or continue with Adnexus' planned IPO. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Initial Public Offering; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
Sato, Vicki L., and Rachel Gordon. "Adnexus Therapeutics, Inc.: Considering the Exit." Harvard Business School Case 609-015, November 2008.
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Resources - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Resources Webinar: Confronting Climate Change: From Business as Usual to Business as Vital This webinar, developed by the HBS Business and Environment Initiative and HBS Sustainability, explores how business... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
contribution asset plans, such as 401(k)s. In 2019, BlackRock created the Emergency Savings Initiative to help Americans cover unexpected emergency expenses, a reality exacerbated by the pandemic. Spearheaded by Deborah Winshel (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Profile
Mark Gundersen
Whether on his own or within a team, Mark Gundersen loves to solve problems. So when a college friend told him about a microfinance initiative in Nicaragua, he was eager to jump on board. "It was World Relief, a nonprofit founded by... View Details
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Site Credits - The Art of American Advertising
Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education Faculty & Research Initiatives & Projects MBA Resources Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for full access.) HBS... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Enterprise Initiative 25th anniversary blog series, which highlig... Bay Area Alumni Discuss the Role of Technology in Social Change, for Good or for Ill Elaine MacDonald 10 Apr 2019 On March 14, 2019, over 20 Bay Area HBS alumni gathered... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
Finance, and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), founder and CEO of Year Up. The initiative tackles training for the nearly two-thirds of American workers who lack a four-year college degree. Palandjian’s Social Finance is designing the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Health Care a Top Priority at HBS
The HBS Healthcare Initiative is one of five interdisciplinary areas of interest that is a priority of the School (along with the Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Social Enterprise, and Global initiatives). Its director, Cara Sterling, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
A faculty symposium, "Breaking New Ground: Initiatives in Management Education, 1980 - 1995," was held October 9-11 at HBS to honor former Dean John H. McArthur for the many initiatives in research and... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
me in.” His exploration of ancient, indigenous traditions led Sprinkles to apprentice to become initiated as a healer in the way of ancient Huichol and Nahua cultures in 2000 and 2006, respectively. Today, he and his wife, Annie Eagan,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
business press and savvy business experts such Warren Buffett. It didn’t help when one of the most publicized RLBOs—Refco—collapsed in 2005 shortly after its initial public offering. And on September 21, a 70-million share offering for... View Details
- November 7, 2019
- Article
WeWork’s Saga Is a Cautionary Tale about Golden Parachutes and CEO Pay
While the WeWork saga has dealt another blow to already-low public confidence in business, it should also strengthen cries for fundamental changes to a system that offers supersized compensation for undersized performance. View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Change; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Accountability; Initial Public Offering
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "WeWork’s Saga Is a Cautionary Tale about Golden Parachutes and CEO Pay." CNN.com (November 7, 2019).