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- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones, or their foothold on success. Those who do this most effectively involve their families in work decisions and activities. They also vigilantly manage their own human capital, endeavoring to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 1986 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Mike Finkelstein (B)
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Charles Bryan and Ken Leet
Following his successful turnaround of WTXX, Waterbury, Mike Finkelstein joined Odyssey Partners with a mandate to build a communications company. From 1982-1985, he acquired three more stations, financing each as an independent partnership. However, increasing... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Cash; Business or Company Management; Bonds; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Alignment; Acquisition; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Communications Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y., Charles Bryan, and Ken Leet. "Mike Finkelstein (B)." Harvard Business School Case 287-021, August 1986. (Revised May 2005.)
- August 2024 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?
By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli, Sabrina T. Howell and Karina Souza
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 unprecedent crypto momentum as a window of... 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; Financial Liquidity; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; South America; Brazil; Sao Paulo; United States
Kluender, Raymond, Emanuele Colonnelli, Sabrina T. Howell, and Karina Souza. "Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?" Harvard Business School Case 825-047, August 2024. (Revised November 2024.)
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
knowledge-intensive multinational corporation suggest that reluctance to speak up, even with pro-organizational suggestions, is driven by specific implicit theories about speaking up in hierarchies. Study 2 uses open-ended survey... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
vertically integrated,” he notes. “Studios used to be stand-alone companies that were run like fiefdoms. Now they’re run like major corporations answering to shareholders.” Skyrocketing fees for star actors coupled with the high marketing... View Details
- May 2025
- Case
'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation
By: Lauren Cohen, Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan
Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and was among... View Details
Keywords: Foundation; Impact Investing; ESG; Family Business; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Sector; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Issues; Sustainable Cities; Financial Services Industry; Minnesota; United States
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
your bearings or deviating from your beliefs and values. Because they know your life story, they are able to perceive how prior events in your life or your motivations may be influencing your decisions today. In addition, in your group... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
reinsurers may one day cease to exist in their current form, reinsurance will go on.) They should also act more like risk-taking investors and less like risk-averse corporations, their capital fluctuating "with people's decisions... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Brexit is Not Better for Britain Britain rarely has referendums, and for good reason. They call for binary decisions on complex issues, and voters have all sorts of reasons for voting one way or another. It is unprecedented that British... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
issues, dynamic pricing; and automated vehicles. Improving mass transit systems that connect to other forms of transportation. Making the US easier for foreign visitors to enter. An infrastructure bank to make targeted strategic... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
shareholders. These results suggest that the domestic operations of U.S. multinationals were not financially constrained and that these firms were reasonably well-governed. The results have important implications for understanding the impact of U.S. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
George Floyd’s murder and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement further sharpened corporate America’s determination in working toward inclusion. Businesses have committed millions of dollars to advancing equity. Millions likewise... View Details
- September–October 2013
- Article
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel
Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Practice; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
Pierce, Lamar, and Michael W. Toffel. "The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring." Organization Science 24, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 1558–1584. (Winner of the NBS Research Impact on Practice Award from the Academy of Management (AOM) and Network for Business Sustainability (NBS))
- April 2012
- Article
The Predictive Value of Accruals and Consequences for Market Anomalies
By: Francois Brochet, Seunghan Nam and Joshua Ronen
We revisit the role of the cash and accrual components of accounting earnings in predicting future cash flows using out-of-sample predictions and market value of equity as a proxy for all future cash flows. We find that, on average, accruals improve upon current cash... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Value; Equity; Markets; Cash Flow; Information Management; Accrual Accounting; Earnings Management; Corporate Governance; Stocks
Brochet, Francois, Seunghan Nam, and Joshua Ronen. "The Predictive Value of Accruals and Consequences for Market Anomalies." Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance 27, no. 2 (April 2012).
- July 2007 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
ABRY Fund V
By: Nabil N. El-Hage, Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
In January 2006, Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media industry and... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Venture Capital; Customer Relationship Management; Asset Management; Private Equity; Judgments; Competitive Strategy; Media; Corporate Finance; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Financial Services Industry
El-Hage, Nabil N., Richard S. Ruback, and Leslie Pierson. "ABRY Fund V." Harvard Business School Case 208-027, July 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked these questions, he opts for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
that it would meet criterion #1, so I focused on that in my conversations with the firms during the recruiting process. This decision was a challenging pivot because of the full-time consulting recruiting season timing, but I was... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- Web
Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
navigate and shape an environment in which competition, technology and regulation are constantly changing. We will look at a variety of financial institutions and financial service providers including banks, nonbank financial intermediaries, insurance companies and... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneurial landscape.” For example,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
Lambert sold Centennial One, the building services company she started in her Maryland garage 25 years earlier had twelve hundred employees and annual revenues of $20 million. Although her family and friends had initially been surprised by her View Details