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  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

and progressive middle management. Rather than pursue shareholder profits, Anheuser-Busch suddenly became focused on stakeholder capitalism and the vague mandates of environment, social, and governance... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

future performance and cost of capital and (ii) to critically assess the implied assumptions underlying the market's expectations. The case is best suited for a course on business valuation at all levels (undergraduate, MBA, executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2024
  • Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
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  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

Finding it difficult to avoid the second debate, the paper examines the extent to which prevailing accounts of corporate purpose (e.g., shareholder primacy, stakeholder theory, corporate citizenship) support attributing responsibilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Keepers of the Flame

the right over some of the world's great capitals to host the Games' one-hundredth anniversary. From his sixth floor office, Frazier overlooks the Georgia Dome, an important Games venue, and Ted Turner's Cable News Network headquarters.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Open Market

first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

supporting and leading to its promise: "for the benefit of mankind." The core constitutes a hub around which the essential award-granting institutions, as well as the Nobel Foundation and other related entities and stakeholders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • News

The Value of Valleys

here at HBS. Then actually got called up by one of my portfolio companies that I had led as a private equity investor and ran M&A and strategy. So that was my coming out of that. What I found most interesting about the story is I left Parthenon View Details
  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

Large numbers of entrepreneurs are self-deploying in this space and will be, and large amounts of capital are being deployed and will be. More companies are finding themselves trying to solve public problems. There are a lot of lessons in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

high levels of entrepreneurial activity, which in turn gave me a large enough sample to work with. Second, it is not an industry where venture capital activity is very high, making it a good setting to study growth in the absence of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either debt or equity. This paper examines the investor protections included in corporate bylaws that enabled corporations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

emerging markets. Companies are now taking seriously the need to be truly global. How do we develop leadership able to work in diverse markets with ever more demanding stakeholders (employees, customers, communities) around the world? How... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

entry is an important trait of well-functioning capital markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

health care marketplace and make competing on value central to their strategy. All stakeholders in the health care industry—regulators, providers, insurers, employers, and patients themselves—have roles to play in creating real... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January 2023
  • Case

Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant

By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; ESG Reporting; Acquisition; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Human Capital; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Distribution Channels; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Customer Ownership; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Reputation; Human Needs; Social Issues; Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

From Where We Stand

and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

and potential often fail for one simple reason―the enormous challenge for investor relations and fundraising professionals to raise the necessary capital to make the fund profitable. Marketing Alternative Investments builds on the... View Details