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  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

influencing the cost and availability of money, goods, and services. Macroeconomic forces can conspire to make business more difficult, but they can also present opportunities... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & C. Jason Woodard

    Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News

    Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the... View Details
    • March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
    • Case

    Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things

    By: Frank Nagle
    In 2019, a decade after co-founding Nexleaf Analytics, CEO Nithya Ramanathan faced an important decision that would impact the ability of the small, but growing, not-for-profit organization to thrive for another decade. Their sensor technologies and big data analytics... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Patents; Expansion; Information Technology; Health Industry; Information Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry
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    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Exchange: Help Wanted

    Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Bluestar's Acquisition of Adisseo (A) (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Zhenning Yang
    This case describes the process of acquiring Adisseo of France in 2006 by Bluestar Group, the largest subsidiary of ChemChina (a Fortune 500 company). Adisseo was mainly engaged in production of methionine, a feed additive, while China had no methionine production and... View Details
    Keywords: Internationalization; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Strategy; China; France; Chemicals; China; France
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    • September 2008 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    Boston Teacher Residency: Developing a Strategy for Long-term Impact

    By: Stacey M. Childress, Geoff Eckman Marietta and Sara Suchman
    In June 2008, Jesse Solomon, the founding director of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), faced an important decision about the organization's strategic direction. Since its founding in 2003, 125 of its graduates had joined the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and BTR had... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Teaching; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Business Strategy; Education Industry; Boston
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    • 06 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1

    year of exploring the direct-to-consumer market. Schlesinger considers it a perfect module for their subject and a unique opportunity for all MBA students. “We have all the flexibility in the world to design... View Details
    • 20 May 2024
    • Blog Post

    Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

    had a stint at an autonomous vehicle infrastructure startup. An MBA, he said, was an opportunity to learn a new problem-solving language. “I’ve thought about each step of my life as learning a new language—a dialect View Details
    • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
    • Case

    The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

    By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Brent Kazan
    Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007,... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Testing and Trials; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Miami
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    • Web

    Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

    “Farmers and agricultural lands are a particularly hopeful opportunity to bend the arc of climate change while restoring resiliency to farms and farmers. Slowing climate change... View Details
    • 30 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    January 30, 2018

    in the Istanbul Stock Exchange and to being the country’s largest retail company by market capitalization. Seeing an opportunity to pioneer the format internationally, the company was now also in Morocco... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2013 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Valuing Yahoo! in 2013

    By: Luis M. Viceira and Atul Khosla
    In late July 2013, Danielle Engle, Managing Director of Clairemont Capital, was contemplating what to do about a large investment her fund had in the stock of Yahoo! Inc. In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Decision Making; Investment Activism; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects

    By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
    The evaluation of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet literature suggests that this process is subject to inconsistency and potential biases. This paper investigates the role of information sharing among experts as the... View Details
    Keywords: Project Evaluation; Innovation; Knowledge Frontier; Negativity Bias; Projects; Innovation and Invention; Information; Diversity; Judgments
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    • 19 May 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: May 19

    pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of companies that are not likely to be their future employers. Moreover, we use the Global Settlement as an exogenous shock,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Questioning, Listening & Responding - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    Teaching by the Case Method Questioning, Listening & Responding Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Pre-Class Arrival Diversity and Inclusion Openings Cold Calling Questioning, Listening & Responding Transitions Closings Timing... View Details
    • April 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment

    By: Victoria Ivashina, Michael Harmon and Terrence Shu
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 219-018. This case is a setting to discuss “loan to own” investment strategy that is often pursued by distressed investors. The aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis left many companies with poor liquidity and limited ability to obtain... View Details
    Keywords: Distress Investing; Investment; Debt Securities; Strategy; Restructuring
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    • 18 Nov 2022
    • HBS Case

    What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

    in a business environment awakening to equity and inclusion. One of the first Black portfolio managers, Eddie Brown, founded the eponymous firm in 1983. It was only the second Black-founded investment firm in the US. Its performance in... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
    • Web

    Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research

    about working at HBS and the RA experience is available . While challenging, the opportunity to contribute to the intellectual capital of HBS is greatly rewarding. Additionally, case researchers are... View Details
    • 19 Feb 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 19

    markets, such as the one for patents, generally create profit opportunities for intermediaries. We begin with an overview of the problems that arise in patent markets, and how traditional institutions like... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne