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  • Research Summary

The Appropriability of Reputation in Franchises Selling Brands

We develop a multi-market model in which there are two kinds of firms: brands and small firms (or agents). Firms interact with short lived clients in the market for goods (or services) and with each other in the market for franchises. The model is one of adverse... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

that looks at both the H1-B restrictions and the executive orders that Donald Trump issued in April 2017. We found that led to an erosion of $100 billion of valuation for US companies. Finally, the US is losing a policy battle related to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

extension,” Dolan says. “Foley pioneered the interactive-exercise market, and [people] give him credit for that. Innovation is great, but if you haven’t figured out a renovation strategy [for the long term], you can drive yourself into a ditch.” Peloton’s View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
  • Web

Accounting & Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Jonas Heese Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Yuan Zou Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General... View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Equity; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Deal; Ownership Stake; Value
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  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Cold Call Podcast

Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Interview

Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Brian Kenny and Nicole Tempest Keller
Angel City Football Club (ACFC) was founded in 2020 by venture capitalist Kara Nortman, entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, and actor and activist Natalie Portman. As outsiders to professional sports, the all-female founding team had rewritten the playbook for how to build a... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Gender; Franchise Ownership; Business Model; Sports Industry
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  • January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In November 2023, the board of OpenAI, one of the most successful companies in the history of technology, decided to fire Sam Altman, its charismatic and influential CEO. Their decision shocked the corporate world and had people wondering why OpenAI had designed a... View Details
Keywords: AI; AI and Machine Learning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leadership
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  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

when launching a new technology venture, the strategic complexities of multi-layer distribution channels, difficulties attaining reimbursement from third-party payers (particularly Medicare), and valuation issues when significant capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy

    In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details

      Stuart C. Gilson

      Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit.  His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

      Keywords: investment banking industry; legal services

        Randolph B. Cohen

        Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; investment banking industry

          Luis M. Viceira

          Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

          Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
          • March 2024
          • Supplement

          Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)

          By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn
          In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
          Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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            Daniel W. Green

            Daniel Green is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. He teaches the Finance II course to MBA students.

            Professor Green’s research focuses on corporate finance, capital markets, and financial intermediation.  His current... View Details

            Keywords: asset management; banking; private equity (LBO funds); investment banking industry

              Erik Stafford

              Erik Stafford joined the faculty at HBS in July 1999, where he has taught finance in the required and elective curricula of the MBA Program and in the CFA Investment Management Workshop.

              Erik's research efforts focus on investment management, capital... View Details

              Keywords: financial services
              • Web

              Japan - Global

              illustrates some of the valuation mechanics of valuing an LBO, which involve adjusting the target company’s capital structure and cost of capital to account for the influx of new debt on the balance sheet. March 2025 (Revised March 2025)... View Details
              • Web

              About - Business & Environment

              Economics of Climate Change and Sustainability focusing on the implications of climate change for firms’ valuations and financial regulation. He is also an External Advisor to McKinsey & Co and the World Bank Group and External Lecturer... View Details
              • 22 Apr 2013
              • Working Paper Summaries

              Competing with Privacy

              Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Andres Hervas-Drane; Publishing

                William A. Sahlman

                William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

                Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

                Keywords: airline; beverage; biotechnology; broadcasting; clothing; communications; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; electronics; energy; entertainment; fiber optics; financial services; food processing; furniture; grocery; health care; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; information; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; medical supplies; motorcycles; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; publishing industry; real estate; recreation; restaurant; retailing; semiconductor; service industry; soft drink; software; telecommunications; toy; transportation; travel; venture capital industry; video games