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- May 2001
- Article
Empirical Strategies in Contract Economics: Information and the Boundary of the Firm.
By: George P. Baker and Thomas Hubbard
Baker, George P., and Thomas Hubbard. "Empirical Strategies in Contract Economics: Information and the Boundary of the Firm." American Economic Review 91, no. 2 (May 2001).
- January–February 2017
- Article
Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
An increasingly popular route to success as a small business owner is “acquisition entrepreneurship”—buying and running an existing operation. If you’re considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you... View Details
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 1 (January–February 2017): 149–153.
- June 19, 1991
- Article
What Went Wrong With the LBO Boom
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts
Stein, Jeremy. "What Went Wrong With the LBO Boom." Wall Street Journal (June 19, 1991).
- February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Mara Group
By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess
Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Pulp and Paper Industry; Real Estate Industry; Shipping Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Africa
Soltes, Eugene, and Sara Hess. "Mara Group." Harvard Business School Case 114-060, February 2014. (Revised December 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- December 2012 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Crafting a Founder Agreement at HealthCraft
By: Noam Wasserman, Janet Kraus and Yael Braid
HealthCraft's three founders are about to craft their founding agreement and split the equity among themselves. Uncertainty lingers over each member's future contributions, though—how is the team to devise a durable and effective split? Ever since consultant Kevin... View Details
Wasserman, Noam, Janet Kraus, and Yael Braid. "Crafting a Founder Agreement at HealthCraft." Harvard Business School Case 813-101, December 2012. (Revised February 2014.)
- August 1984
- Article
Kourigyou ni okeru Atarashii Data Kanri System no Kousou: Bumon-betsu ROI no Kaihatsu to Bunseki (A Plan for a New Data Management System in the Retailing Industry)
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Kourigyou ni okeru Atarashii Data Kanri System no Kousou: Bumon-betsu ROI no Kaihatsu to Bunseki (A Plan for a New Data Management System in the Retailing Industry)." Hitotsubashi bijinesu rebyū [Hitotsubashi Business Review] (August 1984).
- July 2005 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Family Governance at the Cousin Consortium Stage (VHS)
By: Courtney Sampson and John A. Davis
Sampson, Courtney, and John A. Davis. "Family Governance at the Cousin Consortium Stage (VHS)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 805-161, July 2005. (Revised August 2005.)
- March 1986 (Revised February 1987)
- Case
Air Canada: Organizing for Public Relations and Media Relations (A)
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Roy V. Eales
Greyser, Stephen A., and Roy V. Eales. "Air Canada: Organizing for Public Relations and Media Relations (A)." Harvard Business School Case 586-144, March 1986. (Revised February 1987.)
- 2005
- Book
Restoring Trust in American Business
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Leslie Berlowitz and A. Zelleke
Lorsch, Jay W., Leslie Berlowitz and A. Zelleke, eds. Restoring Trust in American Business. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
- April 1997
- Case
Restructuring in Transformers
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "Restructuring in Transformers." Harvard Business School Case 397-100, April 1997.
- 16 Sep 2021
- News
Dean Datar on Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
Courtesy Patrick McGinnis Courtesy Patrick McGinnis Dean Srikant Datar recently spoke to author, podcast host, and venture capitalist Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) about design thinking and innovative problem solving as part of a... View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- News
A Wider Frame
Portraiture Project launched, Coit (with a successful career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist behind him) was selected to be the project’s artist. Since then, he has contributed 26 portraits that more fully capture the full range... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction
“Lionrock is my revenge against addiction,” says Peter Loeb (MBA 1991), cofounder and chief executive of Lionrock Recovery, the largest online addiction recovery program in the US and Canada. “This venture is part of my healing.” A... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A legacy of social and environmental respect
ultimately brought him to Cambridge for a transformational experience. “It gave me the courage to become an entrepreneur,” he says. In 2010, Parija founded Blue Lines Shipping Group, a highly successful venture that enables him to finance... View Details
- 1997
- Chapter
Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott
By: George P. Baker and Karen H. Wruck
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts
- 2024
- Working Paper
Case Studies of the Emulation of Chinese Entrepreneurial Business Models
By: Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Yang
This working paper presents four short case studies of emerging market businesses whose founders emulated Chinese firms. These examples are part of a more systematic pattern, documented extensively in Lerner et al. (2024), in which businesses developed in China were... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona, and David Yang. "Case Studies of the Emulation of Chinese Entrepreneurial Business Models." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-017, September 2024.