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09 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

feared and loathed in some quarters, celebrated in others. With nearly $120 billion in assets under management in 2014, and big players like Icahn Enterprises managing $22.3 billion, Pershing Square managing $13.4 billion, and Third Point managing $8.3 billion,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2011
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an acquisition is to fundamentally change a company's growth trajectory. In those deals, the acquirer uses the target's business model as a platform for growth. Because the business models with the most transformative potential are often... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609027 Kmart and ESL Investments (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-044 A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2009
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tax authorities. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=884812 Cases & Course MaterialsAderans Harvard Business School Case 209-090 Steel Partners is a U.S.-based hedge View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2010
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investment by two prominent hedge funds when the liquidity crisis caused the hedge funds to withdraw from the transaction. Dole must now... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2014
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Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was in the midst of raising capital for the CACSFF, a vehicle designed to promote the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2011 (Revised September 2015)
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Hassina Sherjan

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Pippa Eccles

Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions. The first was to educate young women through a non-profit... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Innovation Leadership; Development Economics; Growth and Development; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry; Afghanistan; United States

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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

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16 Jun 2020
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Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

to give them a better chance of surviving. In contrast, industries with increasing customer demand—grocery stores, online entertainment, teleconference providers, and their suppliers—need to adjust to this directional reality at a slower,... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

15 Jan 2008
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addition to its traditional investment management business. The private equity industry is rapidly institutionalizing, with firms raising funds over $10 billion and some considering public offerings. A sale... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2009
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http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509050 Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1) Harvard Business School Case 109-013 Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2014
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Publications December 2014 Journal of Political Economy Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 May 2013
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entertainment industry really works-and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large. Publisher's link: http://www.blockbusters-thebook.com/ 2006 Journal of Economic Perspectives The Investment Strategies of Sovereign... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2017
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Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal

In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details

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18 Nov 2022
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What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

2021, the firm had 36 employees and $18 billion in assets. That year, its flagship small-company fund outperformed 99 percent of competitors. “An important question for organizations is how to avoid group thinking in teams. ” As Brown... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

01 Oct 2001
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How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

appropriately staged over a number of years. This situation could be said to characterize the mainframe computer industry during the 1980s, when business customers moved away from mainframes towards UNIX-based "open... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

17 Mar 2015
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Business School Case 215-026 Longbow Capital Partners Longbow Capital Partners is a value-oriented long/short hedge fund focused on stocks in the energy sector. In January 2011, Longbow had invested in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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