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  • February 2014 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

Go Beyond Investing

By: Lynda Applegate, Vincent Dessain, Emilie Billaud and Daniela Beyersdorfer
In 2013, Brigitte Baumann, founder of the Pan-European angel investing provider Go Beyond Investing, reflected on the evolution of her venture and the way forward. Her company, which offered deal flow and training to novice and experienced angel investors and ran... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Investment; Business or Company Management; Growth Management; Leadership; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Switzerland
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Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production

By: Ofer Arazy, Johaness Daxenberg, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Oded Nov and Irene Gurevych
Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing co-production community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current theories struggle to explain how high-quality knowledge is developed in these settings and how... View Details
Keywords: Wikipedia; Knowledge Production; Organizational Structure; Knowledge; Information Publishing
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    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
    • 16 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

    process has a number of built-in, even cultural, aspects that resist change," Fox writes. "These include an irregular and erratic flow of weapons systems appropriations; the very nature of cutting-edge, highly risky research and... View Details
    Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
    • May 2020 (Revised June 2020)
    • Case

    TransDigm's Acquisition and Integration of Arkwin Industries

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher
    In May 2013, TransDigm, a company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and civilian aircraft, announced it was buying Arkwin Industries for $286 million in cash (3 times Arkwin’s sales of $91 million). Having acquired... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Value Creation; Strategy; Acquisition; Integration; Talent and Talent Management; Aerospace Industry
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    • 18 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: December 18

    CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting

    By: Karthik Ramanna
    This paper provides an accounting-based conceptual framing of the phenomenon of corporate accountability reporting. Such reporting is seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective,... View Details
    Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; For-Profit Firms; Framework; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Research; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues
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    • 08 Dec 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

    In the new book International Strategy: Context, Concepts, and Implications, Harvard Business School Adjunct Professor David J. Collis presents a comprehensive guide to a topic of ever-increasing relevance for managers across all sectors... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • March 2011
    • Case

    Semiconductor Manufacturing International Company in 2011

    By: Willy Shih and Jia Cheng
    When David Wang took over as the CEO of SMIC, he knew that if he was to capitalize on the company's strategic location in the China market, he would have to transform the company mindset and its operating structure from its roots in the manufacturing of DRAMs to the... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Market Entry and Exit; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Customization and Personalization; Semiconductor Industry; China
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    The Panama Canal

    The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy.  It makes three general arguments.  First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details

    • Web

    FAQs - Alumni

    (GHG) emissions . HBS has received requests to provide carbon credit recommendations to offset travel emissions as some don't deliver their expected GHG reductions. HBS is sharing a link to the CNaught offset platform as they curated a carbon credit portfolio for HBS... View Details
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    Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    Preparing to Teach Prior to each class session, instructor preparation involves careful planning of both content and process which includes: getting started , developing an instruction style, knowing your students, and planning the class session. Class View Details
    • 16 Jul 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

    Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus
    • 2003
    • Conference Paper

    Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction

    By: John D. Macomber
    Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and... View Details
    Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Technological Innovation; Construction; Design; Performance Improvement; Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Management; Adoption; Business Model; Capital Structure; Supply Chain
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    • 26 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

    forthcoming Management Science Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 24 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

    Contending with that value maximization approach is "stakeholder theory" which says that managers should make decisions so as to take into account all of the interests of all stakeholders in a firm. (Stakeholders, he notes,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
    • 07 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 7, 2007

    This relationship between the tax preferences of institutional shareholders and firm payout policy could reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating to low-dividend paying-firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

    in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    create value. Topics covered include: Basic analytical skills and principles of corporate finance. Functions of modern capital markets and financial institutions. Standard techniques of analysis, including capital budgeting, discounted cash View Details
    • Web

    Help - Alumni

    Current qualifying programs include: Advanced Management Program (AMP) Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) General Management Program (GMP) Joint Program with Harvard John A. Paulson School of... View Details