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  • June 2014 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

Molycorp: Financing the Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. Yet it had just reported lower... View Details
Keywords: Convertible Debt; Uncertainty; Competition; Startup; China; Supply ＆ Demand; Growth; Rare Earth Minerals; Discounted Cash Flows; Mining; Payoff Diagrams; Option Pricing; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Financial Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Vertical Integration; Valuation; Metals and Minerals; Mining Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Canada; California
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  • 09 Mar 2015
  • News

Face to Face: Meet Jean-Claude Biver, the maverick head of LVMH Watches

    Teresa M. Amabile

    Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

    • 22 Jul 2015
    • News

    The Kids of Working Moms Are All Right

    • 20 Jul 2018
    • News

    Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?

      Certificate in School Management and Leadership

      Certificate in School Management and Leadership is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School, powered by HBS Online.  CSML is designed to provide preK-12 school leaders at all stages of their careers with... View Details

        Gerald C. Chertavian

        Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

        • 05 Dec 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

        S. Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David T. Neal, Foster Provost, and Rom Schrift Abstract—In today’s turbulent business environment, customer retention presents a significant challenge for many service... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • October 2018 (Revised September 2022)
        • Case

        Stock-Based Compensation at Twitter

        By: Jonas Heese, Zeya Yang and Mike Young
        Olivia Nash, an analyst at leading hedge fund BlueShark Capital Management, had just finished listening to the hour-long earnings call for Twitter’s Q4 2017 results. Was Twitter doing well? That depended on which numbers she chose to believe. According to Generally... View Details
        Keywords: Twitter; Non-GAAP Disclosure; Stock-based Compensation; Earnings Management; Corporate Disclosure; Compensation and Benefits; Stocks; Measurement and Metrics
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        • June 2013
        • Teaching Note

        A Politician in a Leather Suit and the Paradox of Japanese Capitalism

        By: Karthik Ramanna
        Two lost decades later, capitalism in Japan embodies peculiar contradictions—preserving wealth and social stability in the face of declining economic power. Scant transparency in Japanese corporate practices plays an important role in this phenomenon. Sometimes... View Details
        Keywords: Japan; Tokyo; Economic Systems; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Corporate Governance; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Tokyo
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        • April 1996 (Revised June 1996)
        • Case

        City Year Enterprise

        City Year, a national, nonprofit, youth-service corps, decided to diversify its funding base by seeking opportunities to gain "earned income." In 1995, the initiative, dubbed "City Year Enterprise," had already launched its first project, a collaboration with the... View Details
        Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Social Entrepreneurship; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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        • 09 Jan 2016
        • News

        Amy Cuddy: big fan of tales of small towns

          Lauren H. Cohen

          Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government

            Archie L. Jones

            Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

            • 11 Oct 2016
            • First Look

            October 11, 2016

            Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about earnings in entrepreneurship, this option... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

              Jeffrey F. Rayport

              Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

                Jeffrey T. Polzer

                Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

                • June 1991 (Revised December 1997)
                • Case

                Takeover of the Norton Co., The

                By: Thomas R. Piper
                After a decade of mediocre performance, the Norton Co. enters 1990 with the prospect of increased sales in the next few years. Yet Norton is pursuing slow growth industries, and a lower than expected earnings announcement at the beginning of 1990 has depressed earnings... View Details
                Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Goals and Objectives; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Revenue; Bids and Bidding; Business Processes; Ownership Stake
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                • 27 Nov 2019
                • News

                Beware Footnote Mischief

                • 03 Apr 2019
                • News

                Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?