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  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

incumbent advantage. But did it really? As Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth and Texas A&M professor Brit Grosskopf demonstrate in recent research, the devil is in the details. And the devil gave Paramount, not NBC, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 04 Oct 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

large crowds. Have the changes in the underlying behaviors affecting many industries become so ingrained in employees, consumers, and everyday life that they will not revert to what they were before? The evidence is mixed. One can argue that the basics of human... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this article, Davis discusses when to make changes at the top. No one needs convincing that the... View Details
  • Research Summary

Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
  • July 2021
  • Case

Bessemer Venture Partners: Century Fund

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
In July of 2021, Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) contemplated the future of its growth investing practice, known as “Century.” While still relatively new as a focused initiative, BVP’s growth investing already had significant momentum. The fund’s investment pace had... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Institutions; Growth and Development Strategy; Investment Banking; Competitive Strategy; Public Sector; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Acquisition
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  • 16 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

The importance of naming and addressing institutional racism has many people focusing on what can be done—as individuals and as employers—to improve diversity, inclusion, and understanding in an organization. Below are several resources and recommendations from experts... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • May 2011
  • Article

The Hollow Science

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The financial meltdown made clear that the executives of many major financial institutions were operating with inadequate or distorted information about the values and risks of their firms' assets. It's fair to say that business scholars bear some... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Information; Knowledge Acquisition; Risk Management; Practice
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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

matched in ambition by its goals, which include nothing less than creating an economic growth engine that can support the world’s youngest and fastest-growing continental population, says Mark Tatum (MBA 1998), the NBA’s deputy... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

an HBS initiative on Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values. Professor Palepu has a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Helsinki School of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 23 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

says Katie Coffman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of the study. “What we are saying is that certain aspects of sponsorship don’t work exactly how we’d want them to work, at least in the lab.” The findings... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • December 2006
  • Case

Southern Company's Investment in CEMIG

In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Privatization; Investment; Acquisition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Utilities Industry; Brazil
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  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

Kerry blasted "Benedict Arnold CEOs" for using tax advantages to do exactly that. We asked Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai, an expert on international and corporate finance, to guide us through the complicated U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

multiple needs not only possible, but profitable. We conclude by emphasizing the role of business schools in socializing business leaders and how these schools, by incorporating a more stakeholder-centric... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

2003), president of the HBS Club of Japan, ended the program. During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting edge of addressing the... View Details
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry 100 years later. I first model the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Business History; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry
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  • January 2025
  • Case

Arsenal Capital Partners' Refinancing of Pinnacle

By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu
Arsenal Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Pinnacle, a leading producer of high-performance adhesive technologies, has experienced rapid growth under Arsenal’s ownership. Over just two years, Pinnacle's EBITDA increased from $13.5 million to $60 million. By mid-2021,... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth Management
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  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

social sector, and it can guide businesses in bringing together the various actors in their ecosystems to help remedy some of the world's most urgent problems. In the process, companies will find economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 15 Jan 2015
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

High Impact Women Entrepreneurs: Insights from Pioneers who are Changing the Game

During this webinar, Professor Lynda Applegate, faculty chair of the HBS Owner/President Management program, will discuss new research that is developing profiles and case studies on women entrepreneurs who founded new ventures that have become successful high-growth,... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

result. The findings by Harvard Business School Associate Professor Elisabeth Kempf come at a time of heightened political discord and polarization among Americans. The research sheds new light on how the same dynamics are unfolding in... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

economies. We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne