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- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
respond? The business ran on a radically new model in which a stable of 10,000 freelance contributors supplied content, the Internet's search engines brought it 75 million readers each month, and advertising generated revenue. It took the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- June 2025
- Case
Assessing the Offers for Seven & i Holdings
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
In the fall of 2024, the board of Seven and i Holdings Company (7&i, the parent company of 7-Eleven convenience stores in the US, Japan, and other countries) received multiple offers to buy the company. Two successive (and unsolicited) offers came from Alimentation... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Valuation; Value Creation; Bids and Bidding; Financial Strategy; Negotiation Offer; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Finance; Business Conglomerates; Leveraged Buyouts; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan; Canada
Esty, Benjamin C., Nobuo Sato, and Akiko Kanno. "Assessing the Offers for Seven & i Holdings." Harvard Business School Case 225-108, June 2025.
- March 2024 (Revised June 2025)
- Teaching Note
CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub
By: Frank Nagle and Maria P. Roche
This teaching note is the companion to case N9-624-010 CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub, which takes place in late 2021. The case briefly describes the history of both GitHub and Microsoft with a particular focus on open source software (OSS)—software... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1636719 Cases & Course MaterialsReSource Pro Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr, Elisabeth Koll, and David LaneHarvard Business School Case 812-031 Matt Bruno, founder and general manager of ReSource Pro,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
diagnostic market. Although sales were strong, Radiometer remained focused on its future. The market for blood gas analysis was growing slowly, driven mainly by new technologies that threatened to displace... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Writing this letter in early spring, I want to provide a midyear update on Alumni Board activities and point out some exciting new developments that will have a direct impact on you. As you know, this year the Board is addressing three... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
we want to convey." Marketing efforts will include creating new publications targeted at specific audiences, as well as sending HBS representatives to colleges and universities to discuss business-education... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
are discovering, articulating, and institutionalizing the management practices that will keep companies innovative and entrepreneurial in the new millennium. While I cannot possibly list all the presentations, I hope the following samples... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
closer match between content and audience interest. Zhu has other research in the works related to ad-sponsored business models, including one with Robert Seamans at New York University that considers how ad-sponsored free newspapers... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
As you read this, the HBS campus will again be bustling with students as well as with alumni returning for fall reunions. During the summer break, the Board of Directors remained active, holding its annual executive committee meeting in View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
find new and important ways to add value for our alumni constituency. The Alumni Association Board of Directors meets three times a year on campus, as well as at each annual Global Alumni Conference. At these meetings we hear about View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
to be coupled with very low life satisfaction. Thus, people may work hard to maintain or increase their income in part because they overestimate the hedonic costs of earning low levels of income. Capital Market Driven Corporate Finance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
OPM Honors Marty Marshall with Professorship
Last fall, graduates of the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) honored one of their favorite professors by endowing a new HBS chair: the Martin Marshall OPM Professorship of Business Administration. A member of the HBS faculty for... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
engage in instrumental networking influences how dirty this networking makes them feel. Three laboratory experiments and a survey study of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
Samuel Hayes and Hugo Uyterhoeven, two longtime HBS faculty members, retired in June. Summaries of their distinguished careers follow. Samuel L. Hayes, III, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, joined the HBS faculty in 1972. An expert on capital View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
questions in a new working paper, Because We're Partners: How Social Values and Relationship Norms Influence Consumer Payments in Pay-What-You-Want Contexts, written with Vicki G. Morwitz, the Harvey Golub Professor of Business Leadership... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
We are poised on the cusp of a new millennium, with all the promise and possibility such a milestone implies. At HBS, our mission for the 21st century - to educate leaders - is rooted in the traditions established by those who founded the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
attempt to define the characteristics of "good" programs in order to understand how best to structure, deliver, and price new ones. Benchmarking against sister institutions will help define what the market... View Details