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About - Business & Environment

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 in Sustainable Finance... 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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  • 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
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman

    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
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    Accounting & Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    Jonas Heese Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management and Organizational... View Details
    • 22 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

    What does it take to put a price tag on open source software (OSS), a resource so critical to the global economy that some 96 percent of commercial programs include some code created, tinkered with, or distributed for free by public-facing tech forums? A new paper... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

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

    Keywords: by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman

      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
      • 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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        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

          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

            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
            • 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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            • 22 Apr 2013
            • Working Paper Summaries

            Competing with Privacy

            Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Andres Hervas-Drane; Publishing
            • February 2010
            • Case

            Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)

            By: Richard G. Hamermesh
            Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
            Keywords: Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Multinational Firms and Management; Logistics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trade; Equity; Corporate Finance; United States; Europe
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              Arthur I Segel

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              Keywords: federal government; real estate

                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