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- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
unavailable at this time. Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract We study the effect of bank loan supply through the business cycle using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
before. And anarchy has always yielded back to law and order. In this excerpt from her new book, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet, Spar looks to history to put the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- September 1992
- Case
Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market
First case in a series of six cases that follow the experience of a cable television company as it adjusts to the rapid rise and precipitous decline of the stock market in the late 1980s. In this case Don Jones, the company's founder and owner, sees the rise in public... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Financial Markets; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Wealth; Business Cycles; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market." Harvard Business School Case 293-036, September 1992.
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling Harvard Business School Case 808-087 Montague has developed a major innovation that creates a new sub-category in the bicycle industry: a full-sized,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
dalliances of leaders, a kiss is never just a kiss. “A board’s oversight over culture and respect in the workplace has become much more important than it was prior to #MeToo.” A series of Harvard Business School case studies unfurls the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
After a cancer patient's first 30 days in the American medical system, the bills start stacking up—right next to the pile of paperwork explaining benefits. "It's very hard for patients to match these things up," says Dr. Thomas W. Feeley, who recently joined... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
in the magnitude and sign of bond risk premia. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-095.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsIdentifying Firm Capital Structure Bo Becker Harvard Business School Case 211-072 Students are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
PublicationsCapitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business Authors:Joseph Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract The spread of capitalism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2024
- Teaching Note
Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?
By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Making; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Business Cycles; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Market Timing; Expansion; Diversification; Valuation; Value Creation; Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation Offer; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
preclude considering the option of knocking down and starting all over again if that's what is best for the business ... (but) Kaplan & Foster [authors of the book] seem to be recommending destruction for its own sake." Readers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
PublicationsHarder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Authors:Austin, Robert D., Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Being a great leader today is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
hopped in lateral cycles and the upward flow of creative offensive schemes stopped at the college level, with most teams running similar, risk-averse offenses, and innovation taking root slowly.” This conservative approach to hiring seems... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
essential to develop the self-awareness, compassion, emotional intelligence, and authenticity required to be inspired human beings and inspiring leaders. Book: http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781609940072&PG=1&Type=AUTH&PCS=BKP View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
effort. Because the positive upward cycle is attributed to one's own actions, people begin to believe that it will never end: assertions are made that the laws of the universe have changed, that business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
There is nothing small about the research practiced by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Esty. He studies the financing of some of the largest projects in the world: the Eurotunnel, Hong Kong Disneyland, and the Airbus A380, to... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
This brings us full cycle to some of our original questions about consumer generated marketing. Is it really something "new under the sun"? Is it, for marketers, a disruptive technology in its own right, something offering... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett