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30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

site, where only their stuff appears. But we also propagate Dell's listings through to MSN auctions, so people can bid on them from within MSN. Sahlman: My sense is that many of the people who are engaged in e-commerce ventures are not... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808112 SKS Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 208-137 Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

disclosure policy should focus not only on what information to disclose, but also on how and where to design disclosure Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

statements about their commitment to long-term success. To understand the disconnect, we examine how S&P500 companies are actually allocating capital and show that firms are in fact plowing substantial amounts of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
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Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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06 Nov 2012
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Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

Portfolio for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs, as his most influential professor, and says she plays an important ongoing role as an advisor to INRIX. He has also had many business interactions with classmates, and notes that INRIX’s first three View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

21 Jan 2014
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intermediaries in the market for ideas. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1966530 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-005 Non-Equity Financing for Entrepreneurial Ventures No abstract available.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

initiative with domestic, international, and U.N. fronts; and 3) launching a new venture requiring internal, capital-raising, licensing, and industrial partnering deals. The need to negotiate multiple, related deals is not new to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2010
News

Lords of Strategy

customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2025
News

Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

CSC fits into IBM's broader corporate citizenship portfolio and IBM's globalization strategy. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409106 Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A) Harvard Business School Case 809-062 A View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2024
Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

outcomes, but using the scalability and capital access of the for-profit form of activity), the corporate social responsibility activities of a traditional for-profit business, and even governmental organizations. There is an hypothesis... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
News

Made in the USA

includes a dozen years at General Foods, “our strengths were highly flexible assets and a deeply skilled workforce. Our niche clearly was in products where skilled cheese making was more important than capital investment for high... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

23 Feb 2010
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supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

empowers the Black community. “The idea came to me after I saw many of my Black classmates become discouraged by being left out of recruiting processes altogether or repeatedly rejected from the small pool of coveted roles in venture... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Burlington, Massachusetts-based, Rochester Shoe Tree Company, the country's leading manufacturer of private-label shoe care products, where he directed all new business ventures and substantially increased the firm's base business. Last... View Details

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Market Makers Bid for Success

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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

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Smart Moves

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Lords of Strategy

Heartland

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Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

Made in the USA

First Look: Feb. 23

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Class Acts