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Tools | New Venture Competition
Solara provides an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation. Team: Rea Savla, MBA 2024; Vishesh Mehta Play Video duration: 1:32 2024 New Venture... View Details
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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge
necessary to protect the legal rights, including the intellectual property rights, of Harvard Business School or the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Personal Information Collected and Use of Information We do not intentionally... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
has also begun helping employers meet their workers’ complex care issues by offering an upgrade from existing solutions such as elder care services or employee assistance programs (EAP), the latter of which essentially provide access to a... View Details
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Accessibility | About
disabilities. Moving forward, Harvard expects University Information Technology and University Digital Content to conform to applicable Digital Accessibility Standards to the fullest extent possible. “Accessibility is about more than View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
industry consider peer-to-peer services as marketing tools rather than the enemy? Should online pricing be different from in-store pricing? What happens when broadband makes it as easy to illegally download an entire CD as an individual... View Details
- February 2002
- Background Note
Mediating in the Wake of Disaster: The MIT Settlement
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
In 1997, MIT freshman Scott Kruger died from alcohol poisoning after a ritual fraternity ceremony. His death sparked national controversy over the responsibility of universities for their students. For his parents, though, the pain was personal and almost solely... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Negotiation Deal; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Situation or Environment; Framework; Legal Services Industry; Legal Services Industry
Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "Mediating in the Wake of Disaster: The MIT Settlement." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-188, February 2002.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Show Me The Money — Or Not
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Related Links The Best-Laid Plans A Growing Drumbeat With a total of $150,000 in cash awards and in-kind legal and accounting services up for grabs, the financial upside of... View Details
- Fast Answer
Reshaping Competition
Congressional Research Services reports: research and analysis to support Congress in their legislative, oversight, and representational duties. Link goes directly to search results for reports on antitrust. HeinOnline:... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
University of Pennsylvania? Wadhwani: My research focuses on the historical development of banking services for ordinary Americans. In the early nineteenth century, banks primarily served the commercial financing needs of merchants, and a... View Details
- June 1999
- Background Note
Competition Between the Professions: Law Firms vs. Accounting Firms
By: Ashish Nanda
Discusses the emerging competition between law firms and accounting firms. View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "Competition Between the Professions: Law Firms vs. Accounting Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 899-301, June 1999.
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time professional... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
compensation consultants who legitimize outrageous pay; accountants and attorneys who see no evil; legal vote buying; and rampant conflicts of interest. They discuss what happened, or failed to happen, in the boardrooms of Lehman... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
legacy of this unfortunate war.” The book closes as one would hope: with proposals for change. The eighteen measures include political and legal modifications to make war authorization more difficult, greater transparency on actual war... View Details
- October 2012 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Slater & Gordon (S&G), a midsized Australian law firm with a high-growth consolidation strategy, had an initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for May 2007. Due to a series of regulatory changes in Australia in recent years, the IPO provided an opportunity for S&G to... View Details
Keywords: IPO; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Law Firm; Value Drivers; Growth Strategy; Revenue Recognition; Roll-up; Consolidator; Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Consolidation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Corporate Governance; Business Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Legal Services Industry; Australia
Esty, Benjamin C., and E. Scott Mayfield. "Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited." Harvard Business School Case 213-019, October 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
- September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Summit Distributors (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Cost Accounting; Cash Flow; Interest Rates; Economic Systems; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Statements; Valuation; Accounting Audits; Financing and Loans; Legal Services Industry; Legal Services Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Amy P. Hutton. "Summit Distributors (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-053, September 1992. (Revised March 1997.)
- Portrait Project
Rod Norman
My life goal is to take the Civil Rights Movement to a new level! As a Black male growing up in Atlanta, I believed I was heir to the social change and service legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King's... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
In his pathbreaking 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations, HBS professor Michael E. Porter emphasized the strategic importance of clusters, which he defined as "geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
(which are often legal and unavoidable), while maintaining a strong anti-corruption and anti-capture stance. HBS professor Lou Wells, with many years of experience working on mining agreements and as a negotiator in Africa and Indonesia,... View Details