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  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

work with us, and yet we have never missed a delivery." That's largely because people truly want to be part of crowdsourcing projects, said HBS Associate Professor of Business Administration Karim Lakhani. "There is this thing, this... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

received extraordinary support from its oversized Scientific Advisory Board; it had developed and secured a strong intellectual property portfolio that creates high barriers to entry for any new market entrants; and, it had $13 million of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

isolate the effects of channel expansion. We argue for advantages to using zip code level data for methodological and consumer data privacy reasons. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-043.pdf Multinational Firms, FDI... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at http://www.nber.org/data/chat. We discuss the main aim of CHAT, its scope and limitations, as well as several ways in which we have used the data so far and ways View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2019
  • Supplement

Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters: Video Supplement

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Since its founding eight years earlier, Hidrovias do Brasil (“Hidrovias”), an integrated logistics provider serving corporate customers exporting products from South America via the Atlantic Ocean, had grown to 900 employees and $253 million in annual revenues.... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Finance; Leadership; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Human Capital; Growth and Development; Private Equity; Shipping Industry; Brazil
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  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

company they are thinking about joining, and not to fear getting to know others in the workplace. "Most of us are better at stopping ourselves rather than pushing ourselves out there when we feel... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
  • 27 Oct 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

outcomes, but using the scalability and capital access of the for-profit form of activity), the corporate social responsibility activities of a traditional for-profit business, and even governmental... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

option when they look at their financial returns and decide to share some of the wealth with their employees or their communities. That's what John Tu and David Sun did when they sold 80 percent of their company, Kingston Technologies,... View Details
Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson
  • 08 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

Michael French and Andrew Popp) We asked BHR coeditor Walter A. Friedman, whose book Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America has contributed to the literature, to help us understand why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

agency in the period and published a great range of economic statistics in his weekly newsletters. As a forecaster, he was best known for advising investors in the month prior to October 1929 that a "crash" was coming that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

a learned ability to capitalize when opportunities to communicate arose, as well as to discern when situations offered a chance for discussion.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
  • January 1997 (Revised November 1997)
  • Case

Fojtasek Companies and Heritage Partners, The: March 1995

By: Samuel L. Hayes III and Josh Lerner
The Fojtasek Companies, a family business, faces several financing choices to address generational succession issues. Several buyouts have expressed interest in acquiring the firm outright; an investment bank has proposed a leveraged recapitalization; and a private... View Details
Keywords: Family Ownership; Financing and Loans; Private Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment Banking; Partners and Partnerships; Management Succession; Capital Structure; Financial Strategy
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  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

the CEO of the African Capital Alliance (ACA), a private equity firm based in Nigeria. ACA has spent more than a year arranging a $500 million consortium bid to acquire and recapitalize Union Bank, Nigeria's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

Financial, LLC was a modern merchant bank that provided high quality advisory services and capital to small- and mid-sized inner city businesses. Next Street was a for-profit business that aimed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 1997 (Revised November 1997)
  • Case

NAACP, The

By: James E. Austin, Paul Barese, Stephanie L. Woerner and Elaine V. Backman
In February 1995, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the largest civil rights organization in the United States, was in the midst of a crisis. The executive director had been fired due to financial improprieties amid charges of... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Capital; Governance Controls; Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Rights; Leadership; Management; United States
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  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

uninsured and the middle class. For $70 dollars a month, you get 24/7 access to a doctor. And the reason I told you about who they are is this is not naïve or idealistic—this is a team that can execute.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 26 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

to Rohingya refugees since the violence in Myanmar erupted in August 2017. The organization considers the refugees’ mental health needs “acute.” "The global flow of goods and capital ties together all... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 18 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

performance doesn’t merit higher rewards. This creates a ripple effect, where other senior partners become resentful, disenchanted, and leave their jobs, causing instability that spooks potential investors and could lead to a firm’s... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

organizations to climb the value chain and access higher-margin businesses with powerful incumbents. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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