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  • November 2014
  • Case

Ardian—The Sale of Diana

By: Paul A. Gompers and Michael Roberts
The case focuses on a European private equity firm—Ardian—and the process it uses to sell one of its portfolio companies, and the decisions around that sale. Key issues include the choice of an auction or acceptance of a pre-emptive bid, and the role of the portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Spin-out; Exit; Sale; Private Equity; France
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Gompers, Paul A., and Michael Roberts. "Ardian—The Sale of Diana." Harvard Business School Case 215-033, November 2014.
  • March 2009 (Revised April 2011)
  • Course Overview Note

Growing, Financing, and Managing Family and Closely Held Firms: Overview of the Course

By: Belen Villalonga
Most companies around the world are controlled by their founding families, including more than half of all public corporations in the U.S. and Europe and more than two thirds of those in Asia. These companies are the subject of the Financial Management of Family and... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Valuation
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Villalonga, Belen. "Growing, Financing, and Managing Family and Closely Held Firms: Overview of the Course". Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 209-137, March 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
  • February 1994
  • Case

Alpha-Beta Technology, Inc.: Pioneering Carbohydrate Technology

Alpha-Beta was founded in 1988 by two scientist-entrepreneurs with ten patents on carbohydrate technology. In 1991, the company faces critical questions about how to focus its product definition from among several promising, but risky, choices. How should they analyze... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Design; Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry
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Teisberg, Elizabeth O. "Alpha-Beta Technology, Inc.: Pioneering Carbohydrate Technology." Harvard Business School Case 794-093, February 1994.
  • 20 Dec 2018
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Consumer Rating Algorithms Score Big with Businesses, Governments

  • March 2023
  • Article

Attracting the Sharks: Corporate Innovation and Securities Class Action Lawsuits

By: Elisabeth Kempf and Oliver Spalt
This paper provides novel evidence suggesting that securities class action lawsuits, a central pillar of the U.S. litigation and corporate governance system, can constitute an obstacle to valuable corporate innovation. We first establish that valuable innovation output... View Details
Keywords: Class-action Litigation; Turnover; Lawsuits and Litigation; Innovation and Invention; Risk and Uncertainty
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Kempf, Elisabeth, and Oliver Spalt. "Attracting the Sharks: Corporate Innovation and Securities Class Action Lawsuits." Management Science 69, no. 3 (March 2023): 1323–1934.
  • December 2014 (Revised June 2016)
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Cameron Trebbi at Taylor Lowell, LLP

By: Karthik Ramanna
Cameron Trebbi is a senior executive overseeing accounting policy at a large global auditing firm. His role is to lobby the firm's position with various accounting rule-making bodies worldwide. The firm is close to acquiring as new audit clients a consortium of Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Lobbying; Thin Political Markets; Accounting; Business and Government Relations; Accounting Industry; China; United States
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Ramanna, Karthik. "Cameron Trebbi at Taylor Lowell, LLP." Harvard Business School Case 115-026, December 2014. (Revised June 2016.)
  • November 1996 (Revised August 1997)
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Project "Dial-Tone"

By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
Bob Hellman, a partner in a West Coast middle-market buyout firm, is attempting to simultaneously acquire and merge three disparate firms in the rapidly consolidating telemarketing services industry. Hellman must value the individual companies as well as the combined... View Details
Keywords: Complexity; Private Equity; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Deal; Strategic Planning; Investment; Opportunities; Valuation; Service Industry
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Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. Project "Dial-Tone". Harvard Business School Case 897-003, November 1996. (Revised August 1997.)
  • 2018
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Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business

By: Sunil Gupta
Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted entire industries and incumbents have often struggled in this new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve efficiency,... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Information Technology; Transformation; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Organizational Structure; Digital Strategy
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Gupta, Sunil. Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2018.
  • February 2021
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Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession

By: S. Bernstein, T. McQuade and R. Townsend
We investigate how the deterioration of household balance sheets affects worker productivity, and, in turn, economic downturns. Specifically, we compare the output of innovative workers who experienced differential declines in housing wealth during the financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: Great Recession; Household; Financial Condition; System Shocks; Employees; Performance Productivity
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Bernstein, S., T. McQuade, and R. Townsend. "Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession." Journal of Finance 76, no. 1 (February 2021): 57–111.
  • October 2012 (Revised February 2014)
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Logoplaste: Global Growing Challenges (TN)

By: Juan Alcacer
The case follows Logoplaste in its transformation from a small player in the plastic container industry in Portugal to a mid-sized global firm with operations in 11 countries. The case summarizes Logoplaste's history, with an emphasis on the milestones of its global... View Details
Keywords: R&D; Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Operations Strategy; Global Strategy; Competition; Operations; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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Alcacer, Juan. "Logoplaste: Global Growing Challenges (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 713-446, October 2012. (Revised February 2014.)
  • November 2011
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Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation

By: Chen Lin, Yue Ma and Yuhai Xuan
This article examines the impact of the divergence between corporate insiders' control rights and cash-flow rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments estimation of an investment Euler equation.  Using a large sample of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Social Enterprise; Reputation; Cash Flow; Annuities; Investment; Investment Funds; Financial Reporting; Accounting Audits; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Lin, Chen, Yue Ma, and Yuhai Xuan. "Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation." Journal of Financial Economics 102, no. 2 (November 2011): 416–431.
  • September 2005
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Managerial Foresight and Attempted Rent Appropriation: Insider Trading on Knowledge of Imminent Breakthroughs

By: Gautam Ahuja, Russell W. Coff and Peggy M. Lee
In order to establish a competitive advantage, firms must acquire or create resources at a price below their value in use. Absent pure luck, this requires managers to exercise foresight about a resource's future value and/or complementarities with pre-existing... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage
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Ahuja, Gautam, Russell W. Coff, and Peggy M. Lee. "Managerial Foresight and Attempted Rent Appropriation: Insider Trading on Knowledge of Imminent Breakthroughs." Strategic Management Journal 26, no. 9 (September 2005): 791–808.

    Benjamin C. Esty

    Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

    Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
    • February 2010
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    Managing Know-How

    By: Deishin Lee and Eric J. Van den Steen
    We study how firms can use a knowledge management system to optimally leverage employee-generated know-how. In particular, we consider the following practical strategic questions for the manager of a knowledge-intensive firm: should her firm develop a formal knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Employees; Information; Knowledge Management; Outcome or Result; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Motivation and Incentives; System; Value
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    Lee, Deishin, and Eric J. Van den Steen. "Managing Know-How." Management Science 56, no. 2 (February 2010): 270–285. (Articles in Advance published online on November 25, 2009.)
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    Revitalizing Businesses

    By: William E. Fruhan
    William E. Fruhan, Jr. is exploring how firms act to enhance shareholder value when competitive pressures or takeovers threaten their operations. The approach most frequently taken involves fixing businesses that can be fixed and advantageously divesting those that... View Details
    • 2009
    • Case

    Blaine Kitchenware, Inc.: Capital Structure: Brief Case No. 4040.

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
    A diversified mid-sized manufacturer of kitchen tools contemplates a stock repurchase in response to an unsolicited takeover. The company must analyze its debt capacity and optimal capital structure,while considering associated changes in firm value and stock price.... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Structure; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Taxation; Stocks; Consumer Products Industry
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    Luehrman, Timothy A., and Joel L. Heilprin. "Blaine Kitchenware, Inc.: Capital Structure: Brief Case No. 4040." Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2009.
    • 14 Nov 2011
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    The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Process and Performance

    Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim; Accounting
    • 18 Mar 2014
    • News

    Can Design Save Silicon Valley?

    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Are Licensing Markets Local? An Analysis of the Geography of Vertical Licensing Agreements in Bio-Pharmaceuticals

    By: Juan Alcacer, John Cantwell and Michelle Gittelman
    As the value chain of the pharmaceutical industry disaggregates, upstream discovery is increasingly carried out by small research-specialized firms while downstream development, testing and marketing is conducted by global pharmaceutical firms. Licensing plays an... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Rights; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Alcacer, Juan, John Cantwell, and Michelle Gittelman. "Are Licensing Markets Local? An Analysis of the Geography of Vertical Licensing Agreements in Bio-Pharmaceuticals." In Location of Biopharmaceutical Activity, edited by Iain M. Cockburn and Matthew J. Slaughter. National Bureau of Economic Research, forthcoming.

      Choosing the Right Customer

      All companies claim that their strategies are customer driven. But when “customer” means any number of entities in a company’s value chain—consumers, suppliers, retailers, even internal units like R&D—managers tend to lose focus, and their firms become... View Details

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