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- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
opportunity for the HBS MBA program. The case presents data on the HBS MBA program, including career and professional development statistics so that students are able to assess the cost of receiving an HBS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2021
- Article
Mutual Funds as Venture Capitalists? Evidence from Unicorns
By: Josh Lerner, Sergey Chernenko and Yao Zeng
The past decade saw the rise of both “founder-friendly” venture financings and non-traditional investors, frequently with liquidity constraints. Using detailed contract data, we study open-end mutual funds investing in private venture-backed firms. We posit an... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Governance
Lerner, Josh, Sergey Chernenko, and Yao Zeng. "Mutual Funds as Venture Capitalists? Evidence from Unicorns." Review of Financial Studies 34, no. 5 (May 2021): 2362–2410.
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
salinity; and poses strategic choices for a start-up company operating at the intersection of business, agriculture, and climate change. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709019 CalPERS'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
what can be done to reverse that trend. In doing so, they take aim at some misconceptions about what keeps voters home, and show the surprising effectiveness of door-to-door canvassing at getting more people to the polls. Voting is not... View Details
- November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
Asea Brown Boveri (Condensed)
By: Robert L. Simons
The merger of Asea AB and BBC Brown Boveri required a restructuring of operations and a change in organizational cultures. Competitive success also necessitated the benefits of scale while remaining "local" for political and customer-responsiveness reasons. The case... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Cost vs Benefits; Competitive Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry
Simons, Robert L. "Asea Brown Boveri (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 199-027, November 1998. (Revised December 1998.)
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
commoditized. As consumers, we see this in the ever-decreasing retail selling price of flat panel TVs. The screen sizes get bigger, the resolution moves from HD to Ultra HD to 4K, and the prices keep dropping. This happens in spite View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
Development program (CCDev), where it would partner with private New Space companies to share the cost burden of near-Earth activities like supplying the International Space Station. NASA has always had... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 1990 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The company has committed to major improvements in quality, cost, and on-time delivery performance. Despite strong senior management support, however, the actual rate of improvement was disappointing until a new measurement philosophy was introduced. The new approach... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Performance Improvement; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Business or Company Management; Cost Management; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Semiconductor Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System." Harvard Business School Case 190-061, March 1990. (Revised June 1993.)
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
on clean energy and the carbon markets Craig Lund (MBA 2008) 1366 Technologies Lexington, MA Develops innovative manufacturing solutions for silicon cell manufacturers that dramatically cut the cost of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
president of the bank. They wanted to run the bank. They didn't just want to write a book. They wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize. When Asif and I were working on our first business, SupplierMarket, we were funded by Sequoia, KKR, all... View Details
- August 2011 (Revised October 2014)
- Supplement
High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital (B)
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
The B case describes the process and terms of the very successful offerings of contingent capital in February 2011, as well as The Basel Committee's preliminary decision not to allow contingent capital to count as Tier 1 equity. View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Financial Crisis; Finance; Capital; Financial Instruments; Leadership
Rose, Clayton S., and Aldo Sesia. "High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 312-008, August 2011. (Revised October 2014.)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
rise of private equity here and abroad hasn’t gone unchallenged. The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether buyout deals involving multiple private-equity firms are anticompetitive. In... View Details
- August 1999 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Catanese and Vulcan (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Sanjay Pothen
A small CPA firm puts in a new performance measurement system, and profits increase by 350% in less than a year. This case illustrates the reasons for improved profitability as well as the sustainability of levels of growth, the opportunities, and the threats that... View Details
Narayanan, V.G., and Sanjay Pothen. "Catanese and Vulcan (A)." Harvard Business School Case 100-021, August 1999. (Revised May 2001.)
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
teams of almost 300 biotechnology companies that went public between 1979 and 1996. Even more than firm age, size, product stage, and receptivity of the equity markets, Higgins... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
sales and cost trends that helped them weave an end-to-end picture of their business’s financial health? This future is appealing because it responds to the fundamental need of... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
a huge amount of operating costs. “They have a phone number and an email for customer service, and that’s about it,” says Viceira. “The main way they communicate with customers is through a blog.” Secondly, much View Details
- Article
Investor Activism and Takeovers
By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor
Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely explained by the ability of activists to force target firms into a takeover: In... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Public Ownership
Greenwood, Robin, and Michael Schor. "Investor Activism and Takeovers." Journal of Financial Economics 92, no. 3 (June 2009): 362–375.
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
the operating decisions of the waste-to-energy firm. Our analyses suggest that if the social planner's objective is to maximize landfill diversion, offering a subsidy as a per kilowatt-hour for electricity is more View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Digging Into Data: Making A Career Change
financial services roles interestingly remained within the sector but switched their focus. The vast majority moved from private equity into the investment management / hedge fund space. And, 43% of students... View Details