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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

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    Comparative Corporate Governance

    Dyck's research identifies the important role that institutions external to the firm play in determining corporate governance abuses, financial sector development, and the success of government policies such as privatization. In recent work Dyck develops an empirical... View Details
    • October 2020
    • Case

    TowerBrook: ESG in Action (A)

    By: Victoria Ivashina, Brian Trelstad and Meaghan Conway
    This case is the first of a two-part series that follows Ramez Sousou and his team at TowerBrook Capital Partners as they face a challenging investment decision in February of 2013. Since its founding, TowerBrook has prided itself on its purpose-driven investing... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; Finance; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Value Creation; Investment; Decision Making
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    • November 2009 (Revised October 2010)
    • Case

    AME Learning Inc.

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ann Leamon
    Justin Joffe is about to graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small consulting... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Age; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Family and Family Relationships
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    • May 2025 (Revised May 2025)
    • Case

    Humana Commits to Value-Based Care

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Henry Eyring and David Lane
    In late 2023, CEO Bruce Broussard reviewed health insurer Humana’s transformation into a value-based care ecosystem. Under its CenterWell brand, the several millions of members in Humana Medicare Advantage plans now had access to Humana-provided primary care, home... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Units; Financing and Loans; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Mergers and Acquisitions; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Partners and Partnerships; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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    • June 2012 (Revised August 2014)
    • Supplement

    Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)

    By: Eric Werker and Ian McKown Cornell
    Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Updates the 2006 case to 2012. The subsequent six years only reinforce the message of the original case. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had... View Details
    Keywords: Global Business; Developing Countries; Business Government Relations; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; South Africa
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Multi-Sided Platforms

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
    We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a multi-sided platform (MSP) business model, relative to three traditional alternatives: vertically integrated firms, resellers or input suppliers. These... View Details
    Keywords: Two Sided Markets; Reseller; Business Model; Multi-Sided Platforms; Vertical Integration
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    • November 2015
    • Article

    Multi-Sided Platforms

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
    We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a multi-sided platform (MSP) business model, relative to three traditional alternatives: vertically integrated firms, resellers or input suppliers. These... View Details
    Keywords: Two Sided Markets; Reseller; Multi-Sided Platforms; Vertical Integration
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    • September 2016
    • Article

    Monitoring Global Supply Chains

    By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
    Firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories are increasingly relying on private social auditors to provide strategic information about suppliers' conduct. But little is known... View Details
    Keywords: Monitoring; Transaction Cost Economics; Industry Self-regulation; Auditing; Codes Of Conduct; Supply Chains; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain; Globalization
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    • 29 May 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

    buyout. Others maintain that PE fund managers are better at managing firms and making them more efficient than many corporate executives. Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff professor of investment banking at HBS, has spent much of the past... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 13 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

    Financial data on US companies is easy to come by—if they are listed on the stock market. More than 99 percent of them are not, presenting a challenge for researchers intent on studying how privately held View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

      John F. Batter

      John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It

      By: Malcolm S. Salter

      Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term... View Details

      Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Ownership; Performance Expectations; Economy; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      • 08 Mar 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

      Keywords: by Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder & Michael W. Toffel; Auto
      • 16 Jul 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

      Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
      • January 2018
      • Case

      Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather

      By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia
      It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Venture Capital; Investment Strategy; Investment; Strategy; Ownership; Valuation; Energy Conservation; Equity; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Efficiency; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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      • March 2022
      • Case

      Metric

      By: Christina Wallace, Rebecca Cink and Maria Lappas
      Megan Murday, the founder of Metric, an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) analytics startup, must decide which customer segment to target as a beachhead market. She received positive feedback from a Swiss venture capital (VC) firm, indicating their... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Customers
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      • July 2007 (Revised March 2009)
      • Case

      Berkshire Partners: Purchase of Rival Company (A)

      Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm in Boston, was pleased with their recent investment in the Holmes Group, a home comfort consumer electronics company. The portfolio company was exceeding key financial targets and Berkshire Partners was confident that it would... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Capital Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry; Boston
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      • March 2002 (Revised March 2002)
      • Case

      Note on Regulatory Choices

      For many firms, government interaction is expansive, influencing the conduct of firms and industry structure. The visible hand of government, in the form of a regulatory scheme, plays a role in firm affairs along with the invisible hand of market forces. Deregulation... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance Compliance
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      • February 2020 (Revised June 2020)
      • Case

      From Cradle to Heaven: Taikang Insurance Group

      By: William C. Kirby, Shu Lin, John P. McHugh and Yuanzhuo Wang
      Taikang Insurance Group was a leading Chinese insurance and financial services institution. It operated in the insurance, asset management, and health and senior care industries. Due to China’s underdeveloped social welfare state, Taikang saw an opportunity for the... View Details
      Keywords: Health; Insurance; Strategy; Insurance Industry; China
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