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  • 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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    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

    • 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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    • 2011
    • Book

    Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

    By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell
    Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the role that public... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Sources; Innovation and Invention; Climate Change; Policy; Competition; Demand and Consumers; Finance; Energy Industry
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    • 23 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 23

    (forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2003 (Revised February 2011)
    • Case

    Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (A)

    By: Boris Groysberg and Anahita Hashemi
    Soon after the death of the firm's legendary founder, the individuals then serving as chairman and as president--Lewis A. Sanders and Roger Hertog, respectively--talked about the future of their firm. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a private investment firm, had grown... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Competitive Advantage; Valuation
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    • 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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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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      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

      • 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
      • 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
      • 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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      • 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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      • 19 Nov 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      LEED-ing by Example

      parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
      • October 2018
      • Case

      Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance

      By: Ramana Nanda, Raffaella Sadun and Olivia Hull
      Accomplice, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, is raising its second fund in November 2017. Since 2009, the firm has followed a seed-led investment model, investing in tech companies at the earliest stages, often when products and business models are... View Details
      Keywords: Early Stage Finance; Seed Finance; Scouts; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Networks; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Technology; Financial Services Industry; Massachusetts; Boston; Cambridge; United States
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