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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
authors call for a greater sense of urgency from corporate boards, policymakers, and risk practitioners to resolve the many challenges facing today’s private and public sector organizations. They offer insights into specific risk domains... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
of a team with many top people, larger private investors, and operating managers. Like many others, I've been through some world crises, dislocations, and transitions. In fact, after focusing most of my last 10-plus years as their only... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
innovative design, supply logistics, and the need for superior customer service, and it’s easy to understand why David A. Birnbaum (MBA 1974), a private jeweler, would sound this cautionary note: “Luxury sounds very intriguing, but you... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management, Finance, General Management Archie L. Jones , Emily R. McComb , Brian Trelstad , Gerald Chertavian Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation Entrepreneurial Management Satish Tadikonda Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course:... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
while growing up in fully staffed ambassadorial residences and being transported in limousines with darkened windows and little flags on the hood seems strange in retrospect, the multicultural upbringing had an impact that Lo has only... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
companies, hoping to empower black workers. In 1999, it had purchased a 5% stake in LeisureNet, a white-owned and -run South African company that operated health clubs globally and was seeking a BEE partner. Surve hoped to eventually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
understanding, especially of my peers,” Johnson says of the experience, which in the end was a resounding success. In the case, Johnson privately wonders if she can transition from the intensity and engagement of “defending freedom” to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
was undergoing the non-tradable share reform. Its current controlling shareholder, private equity firm Newbridge Capital LLC, needs to negotiate with its diverse minority shareholders to find a compromise on the terms of the conversion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held chain's 850 business services and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chairman of the privately held S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (more popularly known as SC Johnson Wax), thinks of the story as more than a charming anecdote. "In my dreams I fantasize that someday Johnson Wax will be able to conduct a... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Business School Case 311-021 Six vignettes drawn from decided cases explore legal and business issues in hiring, firing, promoting, and demoting employees, with an emphasis on protected classes, pretext, and anti-discrimination laws in the setting of start-ups and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
commit scarce resources. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117114-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-424 The Quiet Ascension of LA Fitness In 2016, LA Fitness was the largest chain of non-franchised fitness View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
entrepreneur—would take him far away from Calhoun, he returned in 1997 to give his three daughters the opportunity to grow up in the close-knit community he remembered from his childhood. He continued his work across the private and... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Social Enterprise Initiative's blog. JULY 29 In the fall of 2019, Brian Sykes (MBA 2020) and Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020) launched HBS's Black Investment Club to address underrepresentation of Black investors in VC, PE, and investment... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
projects, and the implications of global markets and extreme valuations for what a company must achieve. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817052-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-025 Bayern Munich in China In 2015, German football... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
agents, and this tension presents a boundary condition for when a group decision is superior to an individual decision. We test the implications of the model for a particular phenomenon in venture capital: private angel investments by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Past Issues - Alumni
Now, serving as the nexus for a community of farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers, she feels entirely at home. Work of Art Trading private equity for the arts, Jason Price is incubating a world-class art center in New Haven,... View Details