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  • 31 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

capital markets of society. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307057 Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 807-026 In May 2005, Steve Bollinger was about to become president and chief operating View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2007 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise

By: Robert F. Higgins, Rosie O'Donnell, Sophie LaMontagne and Brent Kazan
In mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder sat in his office and thought about how to best finance his company's growth. Over the previous five years as founder and CEO of D2Hawkeye, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based healthcare analytics company, Kryder had grown the firm from a... View Details
Keywords: Strategy Development; Strategic Positioning; Strategic Vision; Venture Capital; Small Business; Investment; Growth Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Business Strategy; Service Industry; Health Industry; Waltham
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New Interest in Incentive Financing

By: Samuel Hayes
The article presents the findings of a study on incentive financings as they apply to institutional investors, particularly life insurance company investors. The author made contact with investment officers in 29 insurance companies, and have collected a considerable... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Financing and Loans; Institutional Investing
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  • 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

comparative historical analysis of consumer lending in the United States and France, I argue that national differences in the regulation of consumer credit had their roots in the historical conditions by which the small loan sector came... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2012 (Revised December 2017)
  • Case

TerraPower

By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda, Joseph B. Lassiter III and James McQuade
John Gilleland, CEO of TerraPower, returned to his office after a lengthy meeting with potential investors. It was October 2012, and TerraPower was in the process of raising a $200M Series C round to finance the ongoing development of its next-generation nuclear... View Details
Keywords: Nuclear Power; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financing and Loans; Venture Capital; Energy Industry; United States; China; India
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  • 01 Nov 2017
  • What Do You Think?

What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

subsequently had their autos repossessed—management made provision to reimburse only those customers taking out auto loans in the last five of the twelve years, according to the Federal Office of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking
  • 09 Apr 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

carefully, can open a box full of unintended consequences that ultimately harm rather than help the organization. The financial crisis of 2008 was partially fueled by origination bonuses paid to bank loan View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

participation in the empire. Churchill’s wartime government announced the Colonial Development and Welfare Act, committing £55 million in grants and loans for its subjects’ material improvements. But universal rights and self-rule were... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

Jordan brand and served as president of the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team? Probably not, says HBS Professor Francesca Gino, who coauthored the case with HBS Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson and HBS Professor Frances X. Frei, as well as Alicia Dadlani, director of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

spectrum, he continued, is Buffalo Wild Wings, which traditionally consists of 75 percent dine-in business. “Some of our Jimmy John’s restaurants also rely heavily on office lunches and universities. They’re down more. It’s going to take... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines By: Karlan, Dean, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Benjamin Roth Abstract—A debt trap occurs when someone takes on a high-interest rate loan and is barely able to pay back the interest, and thus... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

an associate at KSW Partners LLC (“KSW”), was asked by Katherine Scott, the partner for whom he worked, to recommend a proposed structure to acquire a prominent office building in San Francisco for their most recent fund. Caelan was asked... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

or Co-locate? Autonomy versus Learning Effects at the United States Patent Office By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Cirrus Foroughi, and Barbara Larson Abstract—While employees might prefer work arrangements that offer greater autonomy, such as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

delivers food to victims CEO Takeshi Niinami of Lawson, a chain of convenience stores, watched out his Tokyo office window as skyscrapers swayed. Just minutes before the tsunami reached the Tohoku shore, he sent an order to employees:... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

off. While he acknowledges that ignoring data seems “pretty provocative,” McDonald quotes Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos: “Data tells you what happened in the past, not the future.” 4. Crowd sequence to accelerate innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 23 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11

economic, and other variables, Nguyen’s analysis found that the FBI referred 15 percent fewer white-collar cases for prosecution in judicial districts whose corresponding FBI field offices had a larger portion of Muslim residents. In... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

one-year assignment following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The office was underfunded and had perverse incentives embedded throughout the system. Sullivan's new vision to rectify the challenges was not readily accepted by judges and lawyers... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 21 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

relative availability of credit is the Federal Reserve's Senior Loan Officer Survey (SLOS). This survey shows that demand for small business loans tightened significantly in... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing
  • 17 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

single-purpose backgrounds made it hard for them to adjust to the hybrid model. Those with social work experience and those with a financial background ended up resenting each other to the point of constant fighting, such that the organization could hardly operate.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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