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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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28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

in-house education program on improvement science that emphasizes rapid cycles of small-scale change. Their finding that an accumulation of small changes can add up to significant gains is leading the way for health-care reform that is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

earlier in their life cycles than ever before. It was so easy to reach liquidity in such a short time that a lot of people believed that was the norm. We're now going back to the viewpoint that it's going to take five or ten years when... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

spotty, thanks to continuing internecine rivalries within the Republican Party.Trump's comparative advantage is in social media. He used controversial tweets, sometimes incorporating personal attacks, to dominate the news cycle during the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

supply. "It's a very cyclical business," he said. "But even a down cycle can provide opportunity for people with their eyes wide open." Constantini said he favors the hotel and assisted-living businesses. "I would... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

not central to the big problem we're facing now," he said. Instead, he placed much of the blame on global investment cycles created by the Federal Reserve Board's stimulus policies in the wake of the global financial crisis.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

are very exquisite in design and consumers also have very high expectations of the [look] and materials," he said. And companies must be fleet of foot to keep up with changing consumer demands. Duan said that since 2000, the updating View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery and religion. We then profile the characteristics of inventors and their life View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

the world of startups. It also describes how certain industries, like energy, are poorly suited to the investment profile of traditional venture capitalists. The product development cycle is too long and the capital required to develop... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

restaurant reviews with Yelp's algorithmic indicator of fake reviews. Using this imperfect indicator as a proxy, we develop an empirical methodology to identify the points in the life cycle of a business during which review fraud is most... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

vulnerable are economic interventions to capture by politicians, how are captured resources used, and how costly are the resulting distortions? This paper answers these questions in the context of the credit market in India. Integrating theories of political budget... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

It's the most wonderful time of the year—or that's how the song goes. But this year's decline in retail sales has resulted in definitely uncheery employee layoffs and payroll cuts, a trend that is likely to continue. While the vicious View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

instance. The essay also features the leading proponents of this program, especially Charles Hook of ARMCO, and reasons for its eventual decline. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50915 Wesley Mitchell’s Business View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

12 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 12

performance improvement. We highlight implications for institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-001.pdf Issuer Quality and the Credit Cycle Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

deciding between pursuing a community- or a market-based innovation model: The nature of the innovation problem at hand. Where the firm is in its technology life cycle may drive its choices. Mature technologies are amenable to markets,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

March 2024
Supplement

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)

By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn

In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina

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22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

together, we interpret our results such that those individuals most sensitive to business cycles are enticed to lower the quality threshold, the bar, for turning existing ideas into new ventures during downturns, resulting in negative... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

key components: It is organized into "integrated practice units" that focus on a particular disease, as well as the conditions associated with that disease. It measures outcome based on the patient's condition before, during, and after care. It measures costs based on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

simple steps that don't require long cycles of implementation." In his remarks, Paul Deninger of Broadview examined some of the forces of change at work in manufacturing today, including an influx of communications technologies,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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