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      • February 2013
      • Case

      18 Months in a Startup: Zaggora.com

      By: Tom Nicholas
      The founders of Zaggora reflected back on a tumultuous year-and-a-half in which they had generated, from just $40,000 in personal savings, a multi-million dollar sportswear enterprise selling Hotpants to women. These were hotpants not of the 1960s hipster variety, but... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Growth Management; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Corporate Finance; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry
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      Nicholas, Tom. "18 Months in a Startup: Zaggora.com." Harvard Business School Case 813-140, February 2013.
      • January 2013 (Revised March 2013)
      • Case

      Beth Stewart: Navigating the Boardroom

      By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
      After rising through the ranks of Corporate America, Beth Stewart has become a corporate director on the board of General Growth Properties. Stewart is struggling with how to address her mounting concerns over the financial health of the growing large publically traded... View Details
      Keywords: Career Management; Women Executives; Women And Leadership; Boards Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Career Planning; Independent Directors; Leadership; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Real Estate Industry; United States
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell. "Beth Stewart: Navigating the Boardroom." Harvard Business School Case 413-094, January 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
      • January 2013
      • Supplement

      EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (B)

      By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
      Brent Grinna has one customer signed up for his alumni-networking mobile app, and is now trying to choose among three possibilities for a CTO. He decided to contract with a friend's company, Dashfire, to create a prototype of the app, and has signed up Brown University... View Details
      Keywords: Start-up; Mobile App; CTO; Hiring; Scaling; Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Mobile Technology; Technology Industry; Massachusetts; Boston
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      Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 813-123, January 2013.
      • December 2012 (Revised January 2015)
      • Technical Note

      Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model

      By: Howard Stevenson, Michael Roberts and Jim Sharpe
      The funded search model is one alternative for individuals who, at some point in their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the funded search, as a means to entrepreneurship through acquisition and describes the path to buy and run a business... View Details
      Keywords: Search Funds; Search; Entrepreneurial Finance; Investor Behavior; Career Planning; Entrepreneurial Management; Fundraising; Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Capital Structure; Borrowing and Debt; Personal Development and Career; Private Ownership; Acquisition; Finance; Leveraged Buyouts
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      Stevenson, Howard, Michael Roberts, and Jim Sharpe. "Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model." Harvard Business School Technical Note 813-119, December 2012. (Revised January 2015.)
      • November 2012 (Revised July 2014)
      • Case

      Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners

      By: Boris Groysberg and Kerry Herman
      Private equity firm XAF Partners, created out of the 2003 merger of Shanghai-based Xuan Partners and AF Group, a spin out of the Shanghai-based, emerging market-focused private equity arm of a large European bank, had grown steadily over the last decade, establishing... View Details
      Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Leading Teams; Producing Managers; Delegation; Giving And Receiving Feedback; Managing Performance; Leadership; Work-Life Balance; Managerial Roles; Talent and Talent Management; Service Operations; Time Management; Performance; Financial Services Industry; Asia
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Kerry Herman. "Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners." Harvard Business School Case 413-032, November 2012. (Revised July 2014.)
      • November 2012
      • Case

      The Universalization of L'Oréal

      By: Rajiv Lal and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      In 2010, half of the world's cosmetics sales came from the so-called emerging markets for the first time; L'Oréal opened three new subsidiaries, in Egypt, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan; and the Paris, France-based cosmetics and personal care powerhouse declared its... View Details
      Keywords: Retailing; Marketing; Cosmetics Industry; L'Oreal; India; R&D; Globalization; Product Development; Research and Development; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry; Latin America; Asia; Middle East
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      Lal, Rajiv, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "The Universalization of L'Oréal." Harvard Business School Case 513-001, November 2012.
      • October 2012 (Revised January 2014)
      • Case

      Building Brand Infosys

      By: Rohit Deshpandé and Vidhya Muthuram
      Infosys Limited was India's second largest exporter of IT services with annual revenues of $7 billion and a market capitalization of nearly $26 billion in 2012. The company, headquartered in Bangalore, India, had built its reputation as the Indian IT bellwether whose... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; India
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      Deshpandé, Rohit, and Vidhya Muthuram. "Building Brand Infosys." Harvard Business School Case 513-003, October 2012. (Revised January 2014.)
      • September 2012 (Revised January 2013)
      • Case

      Martin Smith: July 2012

      By: Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon
      Martin Smith, a recently hired general partner at a Brazil-based venture capital firm, must decide among three deal opportunities. Each has different strengths (management, market, and technology) but each has its own weaknesses as well. He must also consider each deal... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Deal Choice; Venture Capital; Investments; Career Management; Management Teams; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost vs Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Financial Services Industry; Brazil
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      Lerner, Josh, and Felda Hardymon. "Martin Smith: July 2012." Harvard Business School Case 813-067, September 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
      • 2012
      • Chapter

      The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans

      By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
      We document the loan provisions in 401(k) savings plans and how participants use 401(k) loans. Although only about 22% of savings plan participants who are allowed to borrow from their 401(k) have such a loan at any given point in time, almost half had used a 401(k)... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Finance; Retirement; Financing and Loans; Microeconomics
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      Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans." In Investigations in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, 145–172. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
      • 2012
      • Book

      A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs--With Real Success

      By: Gerald Chertavian
      Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Training; Equality and Inequality; Income; Competency and Skills
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      Chertavian, Gerald. A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs--With Real Success. Viking Press, 2012.
      • July 2012
      • Case

      Revenue Solutions, LLC

      By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
      Ari Wasserman and Nick Esayian were both dissatisfied with their future prospects in their current careers. Wasserman, who managed an infomercial business for a direct response consumer marketing company, wanted more flexibility and ownership. Esayian was the CEO of... View Details
      Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Partners and Partnerships; Small Business; Israel; United States
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      Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Revenue Solutions, LLC." Harvard Business School Case 213-032, July 2012.
      • Article

      How to Avoid Executive Stress

      By: Thomas J. DeLong
      When teaching various groups of executives, the author relates the story of a man addicted to prescription drugs and his brother who is addicted to achievement. Each group relates to these two professionally successful men and sees that they live largely on the edge of... View Details
      Keywords: Behavior; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Emotions
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      DeLong, Thomas J. "How to Avoid Executive Stress." Market Leader (Second Quarter 2012), 50–52.
      • February 2012
      • Case

      Henkel: Building a Winning Culture

      By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
      This case illustrates a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 2008, he was... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Measurement; Performance Appraisals; Human Resource Management; Values; Organizational Transformations; Pay For Performance; Strategy Execution; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
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      Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Henkel: Building a Winning Culture." Harvard Business School Case 112-060, February 2012.
      • January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
      • Case

      Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market

      By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy
      This case examines Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s decision to enter the retirement market with their new "Dimensional Managed DC" product, a complete retirement solution that aimed to provide investors with what they really wanted: the same standard of living in... View Details
      Keywords: Retirement; Asset Management
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      Cohen, Lauren, and Christopher Malloy. "Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market." Harvard Business School Case 212-068, January 2012. (Revised March 2012.)
      • January 2012 (Revised February 2013)
      • Teaching Note

      Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market (TN)

      By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and Timothy Gray
      Keywords: Retirement; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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      Cohen, Lauren, Christopher Malloy, and Timothy Gray. "Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 212-069, January 2012. (Revised February 2013.)
      • January 22, 2012
      • Article

      The Power of Mentoring

      By: Gerald Chertavian
      Starting at around age 13, I had a series of weekend and summer jobs — everything from scooping ice cream, making doughnuts and pumping gas to working at the local golf course, where I had to line up carts for the players by 5 a.m. One of my high school teachers... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence
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      Chertavian, Gerald. "The Power of Mentoring." New York Times (January 22, 2012), BU.9.
      • 2012
      • Article

      The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

      By: Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira
      Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions relative to what would arise with early policy resolution. In so doing, it... View Details
      Keywords: Saving; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement; Policy; Government and Politics
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      Gomes, Francisco J., Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira. "The Excess Burden of Government Indecision." Tax Policy and the Economy 26 (2012): 125–163.
      • 2012
      • Article

      Wider dem sauren Mund. Beiersdorfs U.S.-Geschaeft mit der Zahnpastamarke Pebeco

      By: G. Jones and Christina Lubinski
      This article examines the growth and ultimate demise of the toothpaste brand Pebeco, which was created by the German personal care company Beiersdorf in 1903. The brand was an enormous international success, becoming for a time the largest toothpaste brand in the... View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Marketing Strategy; Markets; Change; Customers; Social Psychology; Science; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Germany
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      Jones, G., and Christina Lubinski. "Wider dem sauren Mund. Beiersdorfs U.S.-Geschaeft mit der Zahnpastamarke Pebeco." Hamburger Wirtschafts-Chronik 9 (2012): 141–165.
      • December 2011
      • Case

      Peace, Non-Aligned: The Pragmatic Optimism of Lakhdar Brahimi

      By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
      Describes the background and career of Lakhdar Brahimi in numerous roles ranging from Algeria's ambassador to Indonesia and the Arab League, to serving as that country's foreign minister, and to his many years at the United Nations, with special emphasis on his actions... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Conflict Management; Personal Development and Career; Government and Politics; Algeria
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      Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Peace, Non-Aligned: The Pragmatic Optimism of Lakhdar Brahimi." Harvard Business School Case 912-028, December 2011.
      • December 2011 (Revised January 2012)
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      Pierre Frankel in Moscow (C): Results

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
      After 18 months as the deputy managing director of a global technology company's Russia subsidiary, a young and upcoming French executive prepared to hand over leadership. The executive reflected on what he had achieved and how as he considered next steps. He wanted to... View Details
      Keywords: Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; Moscow
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Matthew Bird. "Pierre Frankel in Moscow (C): Results." Harvard Business School Supplement 312-072, December 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
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