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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
account is one that frames the purpose of the for-profit corporation in terms of its function in allowing members of society to meet their wants and needs by coordinating labor and capital in the production of goods and services. August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
partner of Gobi Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in China, must decide how to manage his firm's largest investment after the departure of the CEO. Tom has temporarily stepped in as CEO, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2024
- Supplement
Hakluyt: from Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors (B)
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Lena Duchene
This case is a continuation of an earlier study chronicling Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt)’s transformation from an obscure boutique to a global corporate advisory firm with an outsized reputation. In August 2024, the firm faced a pivotal moment as managing partner Varun... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Equity; Stock Shares; Corporate Governance; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Management Succession; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consulting Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London
Fuller, Joseph B., and Lena Duchene. "Hakluyt: from Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 825-087, October 2024.
- May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Teaching Note
Lind Equipment
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 212-012. Lind Equipment, a Canadian manufacturer and distributor of industrial electrical safety equipment, was purchased in December 2007 by Brian Astl (HBS 2006) and Sean Van Doorselaer. Lind’s performance was negatively impacted by the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler, 1989). Or it can stem from shocks to bank capital, which affects the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
The system won the first annualHBS Association of Nigeria New Venture Competition for the West Africa region last year. Workers at a Nestlé distribution center in Lagos unload maize produced by one of Kola Masha's Babban Gona farms. But... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or national government can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
condemnation and sanctions plague Russian adventurism in Ukraine, Putin retains control of Donbass and Crimea and threatens to take more. How should the West (specifically, the United States) support Ukrainian democratic capitalism and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
recalls. “There was a cult of youth, and I realized that I should work for myself because I wasn’t going to find an appropriate position at that point.” Bemis, who had experience as a venture capitalist, decided to focus full-time on... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Your Way through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky (MBA 2009) Portfolio We love talking about starts and finishes, even though the middle stretch is the most important and often the most ignored and... View Details
- October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
- Supplement
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
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Business Earnings; Revenue Recognition; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Financial Condition; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Investment Activism; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Business History; Executive Compensation; Resignation and Termination; Annual Reports; Contracts; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry; Accounting Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-422, October 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
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locations, academics, venture funds, and other cities. The strategic sprint focused on 1) improved use of technology to achieve New York's policy goals, 2) growing the urban tech sector (market size, job creation), and 3) establishing New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
emeritus Tom McCraw, the School’s Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, has made the analogy between McArthur and Dwight Eisenhower — a style of “hidden-hand” leadership that few understand, let alone master. In a book published after McArthur’s retirement in 1996 — The... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
factors: business operations, venture financing, technology, suppliers, people to recruit, and customers. The structure and composition of CIC floors has only a modest influence on these immigrant versus native differences. Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
islands.) But the delays and costs involved nearly killed the company, which survived only with support from the WPTO. Capital expenditures for sources of marine energy are another stumbling block. The equipment that is required to... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
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
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
performance chemicals. Simultaneously, Dow had signed a joint venture agreement with Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait, a deal that would generate $7 billion in cash that could be used to finance the all-cash offer to buy... View Details
- 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
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
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
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
country, manufacturing capacity, supply chains, and money, lots of money. As the head of the United Kingdom’s new Vaccine Taskforce, Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) has a bird's-eye view of the whole process. A life science venture capitalist... View Details