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HBR Classics - Alumni

visit our help page .) For free online access to the most recent issues of the Harvard Business Review, register with your HBS email address by following the procedures outlined here . For information on... View Details
  • May 2012 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

McKesson

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice physicians remain independent. The company, with $122 billion in 2010 revenues, just made its first foray into... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Industry; Health Care Policy; Organizational Transformations; Health Services; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Service Operations; Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Policy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement

By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decisions; Cost; Investment; Investment Return; Profit; Revenue; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Performance Efficiency; Strategy
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  • December 2012
  • Case

Trouble Brewing for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Michael Norris
In October 2011, noted hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital delivered a presentation at an investors' conference analyzing the business and accounting quality weaknesses of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Until then Green Mountain had exhibited rapid... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Fraud; Accounting Quality; Accounting Red Flags; Accounting Restatements; Accounting Scandal; Accounting Information; Financial Accounting; Financial Analysts; Financial Analysis; Financial Intermediaries; Hedge Funds; Financial Ratios; Financial Statement Analysis; Valuation Methodologies; Earnings Quality; Accounting; Quality; Earnings Management; Valuation; Crime and Corruption; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Investment Funds; Financial Statements; Food and Beverage Industry
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

that matters for your business and budget Identify ways to create and measure value in order to evaluate and pitch potential projects Examine how capital markets work and how... View Details
  • July 2020
  • Supplement

Instabeat—Crossing the Finish Line

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika was just 21 years old when she launched her startup, Instabeat, which had developed the first real-time bio-feedback device for swimmers to monitor and improve their performance. It had been an extremely testing 10-year journey to... View Details
Keywords: Start-up; Wearables; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Strategy; Operations; Management; United States; Lebanon
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  • March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
  • Teaching Note

OpenInvest

By: Boris Vallee and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolio to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapon manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ... View Details
Keywords: Socially Responsible Investing; Investing For Impact; Robo-advisors; Investment; Values and Beliefs; Customization and Personalization; Technology; Financial Services Industry
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  • 29 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

inclusion. I believe in the power of innovative and human-centered technology that can alleviate poverty by providing vulnerable populations with access to financial services including insurance, savings, or... View Details
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Klarman Hall | About

basis of health and disease, supporting the Jewish community and Israel, expanding access to services and enrichment opportunities in Greater Boston, and ensuring a healthy democracy. In view of the... View Details
  • August 2016
  • Teaching Note

The Role of Real Estate in Endowment Portfolios: The Case of Christ Church College

By: Arthur I. Segel and Alexander W. Schultz
The case centers on Christ Church’s Treasurer, James Lawrie, who is contemplating his options for investing a portion of the College’s endowment in real estate. Approximately 1/3 of the total $690 million endowment was allocated towards real estate, much higher than... View Details
Keywords: Portfolio Allocation; Oxford; England; Real Estate; University Endowment; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Property; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry; England
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  • 2014
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Payout Policy

By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin Schmalz
We survey the literature on payout policy, with a particular emphasis on developments in the last two decades. Of the traditional motives of why firms pay out (agency, signaling, and taxes), the cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets

By: Christopher Marquis and Mia Raynard
We review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined the strategies by which organizations navigate institutionally diverse settings and capture rents outside of the marketplace. We synthesize this body of research under the umbrella term... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Organizations; Emerging Markets
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Contact Us - Alumni

Help Contact Us 12ms Alumni Records Access to HBS account including help with username, password, two-step verification (Duo), logging into email, or compromised accounts. Contact: 617.384.5977 (option 1) or... View Details
  • May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 212-006. In 2008, Jay Davis (HBS’ 08) and Jason Pananos (HBS’ 08) formed Nashton Partners and raised $500,000 from investors to fund their search. After 30 months of searching, and exhausting the money they raised to fund their search, Davis... View Details
Keywords: Search Fund; Acquisition; Capital Structure; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Partners and Partnerships
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  • November 2006 (Revised June 2010)
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SUN Brewing (B)

In July 2004, Shiv, Nand, and Uday Khemka are discussing their holdings in SUN Interbrew, a leading Russian beer producer that is part of the family's global portfolio of businesses. SUN Interbrew has been operating as a joint venture since 1998, when the Khemka... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Ownership Stake; Family Ownership; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Russia
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Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology under Network Effects

By: Deishin Lee and Haim Mendelson
We study how a commercial firm competes with a free open source product. The market consists of two customer segments with different preferences and is characterized by positive network effects. The commercial firm makes product and pricing decisions to maximize its... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Product Launch; Network Effects; Open Source Distribution; Adoption; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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  • 08 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath

Takeover. Watch the video below to learn more or follow us on Instagram @hbsadmissions for access to the full takeover.  View Video The MBA Oath As a business leader I... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Why Get an MBA?

that pursuing an MBA would best equip me to embark on this journey. In 2013, after careful introspection, I decided to leave a job I greatly enjoyed to earn my MBA and improve... View Details
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Alumni - Global

Alumni News Seeding Startups How entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) is helping to grow the startup ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest Re: Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987); By: April White 01 Sep 2023 HBS Alumni Bulletin Made in Italy MBA... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

Nelson Peltz in 2012. He wanted to split Kraft’s global business by spinning off its North American grocery products unit, which Rosenfeld wound up leading as an international business renamed Mondelez. Without the ability View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage