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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
into any one deal. Syndication allows venture groups to undertake transactions that otherwise they would need to pass on, due to concerns about lack of diversification. Are there costs of syndication?... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
interest rates and all the transactional features of a checking account, in addition to a compelling impact story. “The opportunity for you is to put your money where it’s being utilized in a really productive way from an ecological,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
fall with a celebration in Mexico City, with University President Drew Faust in attendance—was founded that same year to support Mexican students accepted to the University’s graduate and postgraduate programs. To date, the organization has provided financial... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
a missed opportunity. “Blockchain platforms are mini-economies written in code,” she explains. These digital systems are intended to help people carry out transactions and create value. And who better to help guide the implementation of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
over speed in the fulfillment process. Walden aims to build a community of home cooks who are connected to local farms in a meaningful way, not simply a transactional purchase. The Question: With year-over-year growth at 75 to 100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
through Shopify and social channels with influencer gifting. Consider investing in a PR/marketing agency if you aren’t good at content curation and creation. Then, after you have a brand identity and foothold, you can also consider wholesale or consignment. The View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in the financial services industry.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
started the company in 1982, one of the founding principles was that although we need the lowest price from our suppliers, we will make every aspect of the transaction as easy as possible. We pay faster than anybody else, we don’t pass on... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
become effective activists and philanthropists through their everyday activities, at little or no cost to them," explains the friendly and low-key Scher, seated in an office whose walls are lined with posters and photos from scores of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
twitch in a series of transactions by corporations and the public that can be qualified only as speculation. Men talk of squeezing the water out of securities but seem never to conceive of getting rid of the wind in their own prosperity... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
consumer products. And by the way, last point on this: I think the cost of creation of a product that reaches 100 million consumers is one 10th or maybe one 50th, the cost that it would take to do so in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption raised... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
pay back ill-gotten gains from option exercises that preceded accounting restatements — and longer vesting would be great. Another significant step would be to expense stock options, which would make their costs more evident and more... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
entrepreneur; your Airbnb host is an entrepreneur; your Etsy craftsperson is an entrepreneur. Because of technology, individuals don’t need to work for a company, and the cost of entry is just plain easier. “Number two: Everything at the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
brittle page from the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection provide a slow-motion close-up of a 50-plus-year span when American business expanded from small, local exchanges within a day’s horseback ride to transactions spanning multiple states and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
essential investing guidelines. In this book, you’ll also find eye-opening discussions of: whether bonds are an appropriate investment vehicle for long-term investors; the costs of excessive liquidity in the typical portfolio; and the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
2017, McDonald’s estimates that it lost 500 million transactions to competitors. “We needed to understand: Was the underperformance structural? That we’re in a bad spot, in the wrong part of the market? Was that driving it? Or was it that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
management. The authors provide first-hand accounts of M&A transactions that they led or were involved in, assessing each from an insider perspective and outlining the key success factors and pitfalls. The book concludes with practical... View Details