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  • February 2010 (Revised January 2014)
  • Supplement

CommonAngels (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kaitlyn Simpson
This case discusses changes in CommonAngels' investment model and organization between 2005 and 2009. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Organizational Structure; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry
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  • February 2023
  • Article

National Models of Climate Governance Among Major Emitters

By: Johnathan Guy, Esther Shears and Jonas Meckling
National climate institutions structure the process of climate mitigation policymaking and shape climate policy ambition and performance. Countries have, for example, been building science bodies, passing climate laws and creating new agencies. Here we provide the... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Regulation; Policy; Analytics and Data Science; Climate Change
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  • 23 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals

Keywords: by Matthew Lyle & Charles C.Y. Wang
  • November 2022
  • Article

Hate Crime Towards Minoritized Groups Increases as They Increase in Sized-Based Rank

By: Mina Cikara, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
People are on the move in unprecedented numbers within and between countries. How does demographic change affect local intergroup dynamics? In complement to accounts that emphasize stereotypical features of groups as determinants of their treatment, we propose the... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice; Minority; Hate Crimes; Reference Dependence; Prejudice and Bias; Attitudes; Demographics
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  • 09 Nov 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Robert A. Miller, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

  • April 2003
  • Case

Energis (A)

By: John R. Wells
Describes the history of Energis, one of the United Kingdom's major alternative telecommunications network service providers (altnets). Tracks the company from its birth as a diversification move by the National Grid, the U.K.'s leading electricity distributor, through... View Details
Keywords: History; Change Management; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Structure; Industry Structures; Telecommunications Industry; United Kingdom
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  • August 2006 (Revised February 2009)
  • Case

Medco Energi Internasional

In late 2004, Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of the publicly traded Indonesian oil company Medco Energi Internasional, is striving to regain majority control of the company his brother Arifin founded in 1980. The Asian financial crisis of 1999 led to a major restructuring that... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Family Business; Restructuring; Financing and Loans; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Indonesia; Singapore
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  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

these problems without solving the other may be a costly outcome, but it is not an informed choice. The world must have much better, low-cost, zero-carbon emission alternatives to meet the world’s urgent need for on-demand,... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-105.pdf Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon P. Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2006 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

Anthem, Inc.

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Describes the U.S. Health Care industry and WellPoint's background, market growth strategies, and potential as an investment option. View Details
Keywords: Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health; Industry Structures; Organizational Design; Health Industry; United States
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  • May 2022 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

LOOP: Driving Change in Auto Insurance Pricing

By: Elie Ofek and Alicia Dadlani
John Henry and Carey Anne Nadeau, co-founders and co-CEOs of LOOP, an insurtech startup based in Austin, Texas, were on a mission to modernize the archaic $250 billion automobile insurance market. They sought to create equitably priced insurance by eliminating pricing... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Price; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
    • July 2019
    • Case

    LaCroix Sparkling Water

    By: Tomomichi Amano, Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
    Launched in 1981 as an “all occasion” sparkling water brand, LaCroix Sparkling Water has had a number of ups and downs as a brand. After being purchased by National Beverage in 1996, the brand was re-positioned as a new, colorful, fun alternative to the other sparkling... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Industry Structures; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • November 2004 (Revised April 2005)
    • Case

    Deutsche Bank: Finding Relative Value Trades

    Deutsche Bank's Fixed Income Research Group is looking for yield curve trades to pitch to clients as well as for their proprietary trading desk. The group has data on recent bond trades and a proprietary term structure model, which they can use to develop trading... View Details
    Keywords: Bonds; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Institutional Investing; Banking Industry; Germany
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    • January 15, 2019
    • Article

    Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

    By: Josh Baron
    The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details
    Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage
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    • August 2024 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    Novo Nordisk Foundation

    By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
    In 2024, Novo Nordisk A/S was one of the most profitable firms in the world, thanks largely to just two GLP-1-based drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. Unusually, this incredibly profitable firm was controlled not by individual private shareholders, but by a non-profit... View Details
    Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Diabetes; Obesity; Foundation; Non-profit Management; Profit; Corporate Governance; Business or Company Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Expansion; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Denmark; Europe
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    • 13 Apr 2023
    • HBS Seminar

    Bhaven Sampat, Columbia

    • January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
    • Case

    Return Logic, Inc. (A)

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz
    Follows three graduating HBS students as they build a business-to-business Internet venture and highlights the challenges they confront in structuring financing terms with venture capitalists. Requires students to carefully read a six-page term sheet to identify which... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Internet and the Web; Negotiation Deal; Entrepreneurship
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    • 18 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

    depreciation schedules for investment can be different for tax and accounting purposes, creating a tool for fiscal stimulus. I think this rationale has outlived its usefulness for several reasons. For starters, these different definitions... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Group Rank

    By: Marco E. Tabellini
    People are on the move in unprecedented numbers within and between countries. How does demographic change affect local intergroup dynamics? In complement to accounts that emphasize stereotypical features of groups as determinants of their treatment, we propose the... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice; Minority; Hate Crimes; Reference Dependence; Demographics; Rank and Position; Prejudice and Bias; Crime and Corruption
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