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Lauren Weston

Lauren enjoys helping students navigate career paths in investment banking, venture capital/growth equity, and impact investing. In the six years prior to HBS, she worked in a number of roles across capital... View Details
  • March 1998 (Revised March 2001)
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Concordia Electronic Systems Test

By: Thomas R. Piper
The management of an electronics company must decide whether to use a single hurdle rate for all projects or to move to a system of different hurdle rates for each of its two divisions. The divisions differ substantially in terms of risk and seem to have substantially... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Risk and Uncertainty; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Business Divisions; Electronics Industry
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Piper, Thomas R. "Concordia Electronic Systems Test." Harvard Business School Case 298-115, March 1998. (Revised March 2001.)
  • November 1989 (Revised March 1995)
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.--1988

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Set two years after a takeover attempt forced the company to restructure by leveraging up, selling assets, and repurchasing stock. The case affords an opportunity to analyze what effect the restructuring had on: 1) the cost of capital, 2) investment decisions, and 3)... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Restructuring; Assets; Cost of Capital; Investment; Competition; Rubber Industry
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Luehrman, Timothy A. "Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.--1988." Harvard Business School Case 290-016, November 1989. (Revised March 1995.)
  • June 2012 (Revised August 2013)
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Driving Towards a Disruption?

By: Willy Shih and William Noble
As Clayton Christensen drove to the studio to deliver an online executive education class, he pondered the future of management education. How big a threat did online degree programs, corporate universities, and other innovations in the delivery of management training... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Technology; Performance Trajectories; Disruptive Innovations; Business Education; Business School; Internet And Online Services Industries; Disruptive Innovation; Higher Education; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Performance; Education Industry; Boston
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Shih, Willy, and William Noble. "Driving Towards a Disruption?" Harvard Business School Case 612-101, June 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
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A Simple Solution to a Very Old Problem

By: Hoff Stauffer and Jurgen Weiss
The article addresses the problem of fixed cost recovery via variable electricity rates creating disincentives for utilities to engage in energy efficiency. The article provides one solution, which is to decouple fixed cost recovery from sales volumes, with the help of... View Details
Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Decoupling; Electricity; Utilities; Energy
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Stauffer, Hoff, and Jurgen Weiss. "A Simple Solution to a Very Old Problem." Electricity Journal 19, no. 4 (May 2006): 56–59.
  • April 1984 (Revised May 2004)
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Waltham Motors Division

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Loss of a major contract has reduced production volume below the level expected when budget and standard costs were determined. Apparently favorable results for monthly operations result from reduced volume rather than operating efficiency. Rewritten version of a case... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Activity Based Costing and Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Accounting Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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Bruns, William J., Jr. "Waltham Motors Division." Harvard Business School Case 184-169, April 1984. (Revised May 2004.)
  • June 1992
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and William A. Teichner
A group of investors is considering buying the sequel rights for a portfolio of feature films. They need to determine how much to offer to pay and how to structure a contract with one or more major U.S. film studios. The case contains cash flow estimates for all major... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Debt Securities; Contracts; Cash Flow; Valuation; Capital Budgeting; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States
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Luehrman, Timothy A., and William A. Teichner. "Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project." Harvard Business School Case 292-140, June 1992.
  • June 2006 (Revised April 2007)
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Nephila: Innovation in Catastrophe Risk Insurance

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Michael Heinrich
At the cross-section of capital markets and the catastrophe insurance space stands the hedge fund Nephila. Nephila must decide how best to take advantage of the newly presented market opportunities post hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Rita. Nephila has a plethora of... View Details
Keywords: Hedge Fund; Investment Management; Uncertainty; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Disasters; Insurance; Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Bermuda
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Froot, Kenneth A., and Michael Heinrich. "Nephila: Innovation in Catastrophe Risk Insurance." Harvard Business School Case 206-130, June 2006. (Revised April 2007.)
  • January 1994 (Revised April 2011)
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Note on Private Equity Partnership Agreements

By: Josh Lerner
Venture capital by necessity is a long-run investment. Consequently, since the mid-1960s virtually all venture financing has been raised through private partnerships with a ten-year or longer life span. To govern these investments, complex contracts have sprung up... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Investment; Governance; Contracts; Partners and Partnerships
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Lerner, Josh. "Note on Private Equity Partnership Agreements." Harvard Business School Background Note 294-084, January 1994. (Revised April 2011.)
  • March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
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Lehigh Steel

By: V.G. Narayanan and Laura Donohue
Lehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Product; Cost; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Accounting; Corporate Finance; Steel Industry
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Narayanan, V.G., and Laura Donohue. "Lehigh Steel." Harvard Business School Case 198-085, March 1998. (Revised April 1998.)
  • 09 Jun 2011
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Will Groupon Survive Until 2016?

  • November 2011 (Revised December 2013)
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Accretive Health

By: William A. Sahlman and Evan Richardson
Mary Tolan, CEO Accretive Health, examines whether to expand the company's operations in hospital revenue cycle management into the field of Total Cost of Care management. View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Expansion; Service Operations; Health Industry
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Sahlman, William A., and Evan Richardson. "Accretive Health." Harvard Business School Case 812-061, November 2011. (Revised December 2013.)
  • 01 Jun 2012
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Faculty Books

as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a much larger, more influential part of the global economy over the past two decades. The authors—Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor... View Details
Keywords: Professor Amy C. Edmonson; Professor Boris Groysberg; Professor Josh Lerner; Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon; Professor Leslie A. Perlow; Professor of Management Practice Felda Hardymon;; social media; Finance
  • Winter 2013
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Corporate Governance Reform and Executive Incentives: Implications for Investments and Risk-Taking

By: Daniel Cohen, Aiyesha Dey and Thomas Lys
We investigate the mechanism through which the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) was associated with changes in corporate investment strategies. We document that the passage of the governance regulations in SOX was followed by a significant decline in pay‐performance... View Details
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Cohen, Daniel, Aiyesha Dey, and Thomas Lys. "Corporate Governance Reform and Executive Incentives: Implications for Investments and Risk-Taking." Contemporary Accounting Research 30, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 1296–1332.
  • February 2001 (Revised June 2001)
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eSurg (A): Negotiating the Start-Up

By: Jay O. Light and Anthony Massaro
The founders of an online medical supplies firm must negotiate with an established hospital distributor and a venture capital firm. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Negotiation; Internet and the Web; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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Light, Jay O., and Anthony Massaro. "eSurg (A): Negotiating the Start-Up." Harvard Business School Case 201-050, February 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
  • February 1998 (Revised May 1998)
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SITEL Corporation

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Martha Gershun
SITEL has grown extremely rapidly and is now operating worldwide with operations in more than 30 countries. Since many of its locations serve the same customers, the officers are debating the costs and benefits of additional centralization. Some feel that the autonomy... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth Management; Success
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Stevenson, Howard H., and Martha Gershun. "SITEL Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 898-153, February 1998. (Revised May 1998.)
  • May 2018
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Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah
A geriatrician in Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She introduces a new care model, Primary Care Plus, using an interdisciplinary team of a primary care doctor, palliative care... View Details
Keywords: Primary Health Care; Elderly Patients; Integrated Practice Unit; Interdisciplinary Care; Health Care and Treatment; Age; Cost Management; Performance Improvement; Health Industry; United States; Colorado
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Mahek A. Shah. "Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus." Harvard Business School Case 118-053, May 2018.
  • 21 Jan 2013
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Christensen: We are living the capitalist's dilemma

    Robin Greenwood

    Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He is past faculty director of the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; financial services
    • 2017
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    Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World

    By: Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake and Douglas Fearing
    Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile money agents exchange cash for electronic value... View Details
    Keywords: Currency; Mobile Technology; Market Platforms; Developing Countries and Economies
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    Balasubramanian, Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing. "Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-109, June 2017. (Presented at INFORMS 2015 and POMS 2016. Finalist and first runner up, Production and Operations Management College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Award.)
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