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  • 31 Oct 2019
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    John D. Macomber

    John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

    Keywords: building materials; construction; energy; green technology; infrastructure industry; real estate; transportation; utilities; waste management; insurance industry
    • 21 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.

    called emotional contagion. Goldenberg’s past research shows that negative sentiments tend to spread faster than positive ones on social media, particularly when expressed by public figures. Achieving a sense of calm On an individual... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings

    By: Juliane Begenau and Berardino Palazzo
    Among stock market entrants, more firms over time are R&D intensive with initially lower profitability but higher growth potential. This sample-selection effect determines the secular trend in U.S. public firms’ cash holdings. A stylized firm industry model allows us... View Details
    Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Market Entry and Exit; Supply and Industry; Research and Development
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    Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo. "Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 23249, March 2017. (Revised February 2017. Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-130, May 2016)
    • 2012
    • Report

    Better Outcomes, Lower Costs: A Conversation with Dr. Atul Gawande

    By: Mark R. Kramer
    In the face of increasing health care costs and uncertainty about health care quality in the United States, community-based collective impact initiatives driven by regional funders offers a new way to improve patient outcomes at the local level. Collectively,... View Details
    Keywords: Community Foundations; Health Outcomes; Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Cost Management; United States
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    Kramer, Mark R. "Better Outcomes, Lower Costs: A Conversation with Dr. Atul Gawande." Report, FSG, 2012.
    • 30 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors

    Keywords: by Sharon P. Katz; Financial Services
    • 06 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

    International Business and Economics and Eunice Eun of Yale School of Management. It is currently in-press at Academy of Management Discoveries. Where does the conversation go when the call ends? Perlow and her colleagues didn’t set out to examine post-meeting... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
    • Case

    Provident Life and Accident Insurance: The Acquisition of Paul Revere

    By: Mihir A. Desai, Frank Williamson, Mark Veblen and Yuming Zou
    Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. has made an initial bid to acquire a primary competitor, Paul Revere, from conglomerate, Textron. The due diligence process uncovers a significant block of problematic disability insurance policies. Provident is forced to assess... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Financial Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Business Strategy; Cash Flow; Price; Bids and Bidding; Financial Reporting; Business Conglomerates; Insurance Industry; Service Industry
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    Desai, Mihir A., Frank Williamson, Mark Veblen, and Yuming Zou. "Provident Life and Accident Insurance: The Acquisition of Paul Revere." Harvard Business School Case 202-044, October 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
    • 06 Jul 2020
    • Blog Post

    A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

    To our Women in Investing Community and Supporters, When we initially outlined our commitments for 2019-2020 as Women in Investing (WII) Co-Presidents, we centered the upcoming year around three key ideas: growing the club’s presence on... View Details
    • 07 Jun 2024
    • Video

    Latin American Businesses Acting on Advancing Economic Equality

    • December 1985 (Revised August 1994)
    • Case

    Metromedia Broadcasting Corp.

    Describes the market for high-yield, or "junk," bonds and includes summaries of academic research on the risk/return characteristics of high-yield securities. Describes the role of Drexel Burnham Lambert in the primary and secondary markets for high-yield debt.... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Instruments; Capital Markets; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    Mason, Scott P. "Metromedia Broadcasting Corp." Harvard Business School Case 286-044, December 1985. (Revised August 1994.)
    • January 2002
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    Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

    By: Scott Shane and Toby E. Stuart
    The question of how initial resource endowments—the stocks of resources that entrepreneurs contribute to their new ventures at the time of founding—affect organizational life chances is one of significant interest in organizational ecology, evolutionary... View Details
    Keywords: Resource Allocation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Research; Company History; Initial Public Offering; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans
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    Shane, Scott, and Toby E. Stuart. "Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups." Management Science 48, no. 1 (January 2002): 154–170. (

    Winner of Greiff Research Impact Award presented by Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies​

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      Mihir A. Desai

      Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

      • July 2011
      • Case

      Teach Plus: Mobilizing a New Generation of Teacher Leaders

      By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
      This case profiles the evolution of Teach Plus, a non-profit organization founded on the premise that in order for public schools to continuously improve urban student achievement, teaching must become a career that motivates and retains effective early career... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Decision Making; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching; Cambridge; Boston
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      Thomas, David A., and Stephanie J. Creary. "Teach Plus: Mobilizing a New Generation of Teacher Leaders." Harvard Business School Case 412-027, July 2011.
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      Building a Corporate Culture of Health

      By: Robert S. Huckman
      This stream of Professor Huckman's work involves developing and implementing a survey of U.S. corporations regarding their commitments to developing a “culture of health” aimed at improving well-being for employees, consumers, communities, and the environment. This... View Details
      • October 1995 (Revised July 1996)
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      Aspen Technology, Inc.: Currency Hedging Review

      By: Peter Tufano
      The chief financial officer of a rapidly growing U.S.-based software firm that sells its process-control software to industrial users around the globe must review the goals, strategies, and policies of the firm's currency hedging program. This review is prompted by... View Details
      Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Applications and Software; Investment; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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      Tufano, Peter, and Cameron Poetzscher. "Aspen Technology, Inc.: Currency Hedging Review." Harvard Business School Case 296-027, October 1995. (Revised July 1996.)
      • January 2001
      • Case

      Accrue Software, Inc.

      In 2000, Accrue is one of three survivors of the initial consolidation of the Web traffic analysis software industry. However, entry from CRM software providers and consultants, as well as ASPs offering Web analysis services, has introduced new threats to Accrue. Newly... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Competitive Advantage; Software; Web Services Industry
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      Silverman, Brian S. "Accrue Software, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 701-057, January 2001.

        HBX: Sustainable Business Strategy

        Climate change. Income inequality. Institutional collapse. Sustainable Business Strategy is a flexible, 3 week, highly-interactive online course designed to provide participants with the tools they need to build thriving businesses while... View Details

        • 11 Apr 2023
        • Op-Ed

        The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

        When you enter an organization as its new leader, forget about plotting out the first 90 days. Focus on the first 90 hours. Why are those initial hours on the job so important? Because you don’t get a second chance to make a first... View Details
        Keywords: by John Quelch
        • February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
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        Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

        By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
        Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details
        Keywords: SPACs; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Green Technology; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; City; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Technological Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Market Timing; Industry Growth; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Design; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Air Transportation; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Green Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Germany; Munich; Brazil; United States; Florida
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        Mojir, Navid, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, and Emer Moloney. "Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff." Harvard Business School Case 522-084, February 2022. (Revised September 2022.)
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