Publications

October 1998 (Revised November 1999)
Case

Farallon Capital Management: Risk Arbitrage (A)

By: Andre F. Perold and Robert Howard

Farallon Capital Management, an investment firm that specializes in risk arbitrage, has taken significant long and short positions in MCI Communications and British Telecommunications, respectively, in the belief that the proposed merger of these firms will be... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital; Capital Markets; Investment; Management; Risk Management; Strategy; Financial Services Industry

March 2011 (Revised November 2011)
Supplement

Harmonic Hearing Co., Faculty Spreadsheet (Brief Case)

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Craig Stephenson

January 2009
Case

Financial Profile: Michelle Grey

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence

October 2008
Course Overview Note

The Devil Wears Prada (General Version) (TN)

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence

Keywords: Fashion Industry

May 2008 (Revised June 2010)
Teaching Note

Laurence Longren: End Game (TN)

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence

Teaching Note for [808-076]. View Details

January 2000 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Cachet Technologies

By: Paul A. Gompers and Howard Reitz

Describes the decision facing Danny Lewin, Jonathan Seelig, and Tom Leighton, the founders of Cachet Technologies, an MIT spin-out. The firm has done poorly in the annual MIT business plan competition and the founders have to decide whether to continue. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Business Startups; Business Plan; Failure; Cooperative Ownership; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry

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February 1998 (Revised May 1998)
Case

SITEL Corporation

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Martha Gershun

SITEL has grown extremely rapidly and is now operating worldwide with operations in more than 30 countries. Since many of its locations serve the same customers, the officers are debating the costs and benefits of additional centralization. Some feel that the autonomy... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth Management; Success

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July 1992
Case

Riverside and DEC: Riverside Lumber Confidential Instructions

By: Howard Raiffa and Thomas T. Weeks

A two-party, integrative, negotiation exercise involving several pre-specified issues to be resolved. Each party is given a pre-specified scoring system in monetary units. Side payments, within limits are possible. Face-to-face negotiations take place with no... View Details

Keywords: Natural Environment; Government and Politics; Pollutants; Negotiation Types; Negotiation Process; Forestry Industry

June 1988
Supplement

Ken Brown, Video

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Dolores Mullin

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1986
Other Unpublished Work

Block Grants and the Accountability of Capital Spending

By: Dutch Leonard and Howard L. Frant

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Capital; Spending

Web

Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

presentations. The course guests have historically included some of the leading private investors in the world, including Howard Marks, Barry Sternlicht, John Grayken, Ken Caplan, Mike Fascitelli, and Karsten Kellwig, among many others.... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers

Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) “Every entrepreneur is selling all the time—to customers, investors, employees, and strategic partners,” observes Thomas Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students

businesses, assisting entrepreneurs, and helping companies bring new products and jobs to the U.S. economy. Its principals include Howard E. Cox, Jr. (MBA ’69), general partner; William Elfers (MBA 3/’43), founding partner; Daniel S.... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

A Remarkable Life Story

and pushing her toward HBS. Fitzhugh first mentored Lambert at Howard University, where he was a professor and she a student. “I came to appreciate the shrewdness in his approach to me,” she relates. “Just as in his teaching of the case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Professional Services

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Books

Jane Wei-Skillern, James E. Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson (Sage Publications) This book presents HBS research and cases about international and U.S. organizations in the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors. It... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Sep 2010
News

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

panel discussions on the Kosovo and Aceh/Indonesia negotiations. Sebenius and Malhotra are members of the HBS Negotiations, Organizations & Markets Unit, which has a legendary history built by distinguished past practitioners such as game theorist View Details

Keywords: Nobel Peace Prize; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government; National Security and International Affairs; Government

June 1984 (Revised March 1993)
Background Note

Securities Law and Public Offerings

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts

Describes the relevant securities laws which pertain to the public offering of securities, as well as the business issues and process of a public offering. View Details

Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Capital Markets; Initial Public Offering; Public Administration Industry

September 1983 (Revised July 1998)
Case

Heather Evans

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts

Focuses on the efforts of Heather Evans, a second-year MBA student, and her attempts to start her own dress business. Examines the business plan and the process of acquiring control over the financial and human resources necessary to implement the plan. View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Investment; Human Resources; Strategic Planning; Apparel and Accessories Industry