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  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

industries to truly be off-the-grid in some ways: Not digital-first, not adhering to regular market forces—because it's sports. It's live. And I think now the silver lining for this industry is that opportunity to move away from calling it a sports industry. This is a... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

MaterialsAncora: A Private University in the Health Care of the Poor 306-088 Project Ancora signals the entry of the private sector into primary healthcare for Chile's poor. On a commercial basis, it seeks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
  • Case

Alltech

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech... View Details
Keywords: Alltech; United States; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Animal; Animal Agriculture; Animal Feed; Livestock; Family Business; Vertical Integration; Strategy; Growth; Feed Additives; Feed Supplements; Kentucky; Growth Strategy; Family Businesses; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change Management; Trends; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Intellectual Property; Leadership; Management; Markets; Organizational Culture; Private Ownership; Science; Quality; Risk and Uncertainty; Research; Sales; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Kentucky; Brazil; China
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  • 24 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 24

proxies of expected returns, the implied cost of capital's (ICC) measurement error properties are relatively unknown. Through an in-depth analysis of a popular implementation of ICCs by Gebhardt, Lee, and Swaminathan (2001) (GLS), I show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

Transplantation Network (OPTN). This national registry and waiting list is managed by the private nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which has the unenviable task of making priority and allocation decisions for each new... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
  • 18 May 2017
  • News

Pioneer Spirit

secretary has continued to be a blessing, as I’ve been in the middle of communications between members of our class and HBS for the past 40 years.” Freeman returned to the company after HBS, but after five years decided to put the knowledge he had gained to use in the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003 Authors:Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned companies. Yet, there is little work... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

reformulated in light of the new data, methodology, and findings presented in this study. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-072.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsReal Blue? Viagra and Intellectual Property Rights Law... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Clearing the Air

MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

herding behavior in anonymous risky environments. In an experiment similar to information cascade settings, but with no private information, we find no evidence for conformity. On the contrary, we observe a significant amount of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 14

participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in equilibrium. Firms decide their type and investment in R&D and sell packages composed of a primary good (like software) and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

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2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Private Equity Finance Victoria Ivashina Ted Berk Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Real Estate Investing Dwight Angelini Matt Kelly Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Real Estate Private Equity Nori Gerardo Lietz Spring... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

1977) is chairman and CEO of Buenos Aires-based Velox Group, a privately held organization with a line of supermarkets, banks, and finance companies spanning five South American countries. He notes, "You need to be prescient, nimble, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Web

Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent General Management Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 IFC: Ghana; Africa Rising General Management January 2025 J 3.0 Ted Berk Private... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

City–based startup, offering investors equity in individual CRE properties that its investment team had sourced and vetted. Traditional private equity (PE) funds required investors in CRE equity to accept an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

generalizability of the implicit voice theories identified in Study 1. Studies 3 and 4 develop and test survey measures for five implicit voice theories, using additional samples comprised of more than 300 adults. The analyses establish psychometric View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. We find that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace