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- October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Provident Life and Accident Insurance: The Acquisition of Paul Revere
By: Mihir A. Desai, Frank Williamson, Mark Veblen and Yuming Zou
Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. has made an initial bid to acquire a primary competitor, Paul Revere, from conglomerate, Textron. The due diligence process uncovers a significant block of problematic disability insurance policies. Provident is forced to assess... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Financial Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Business Strategy; Cash Flow; Price; Bids and Bidding; Financial Reporting; Business Conglomerates; Insurance Industry; Service Industry
Desai, Mihir A., Frank Williamson, Mark Veblen, and Yuming Zou. "Provident Life and Accident Insurance: The Acquisition of Paul Revere." Harvard Business School Case 202-044, October 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National Engineering and Environment... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
technological innovations and the development of regional agglomerations. While the increase in innovative outputs can be seen through several measures, probably the clearest indication is in the extent of patenting. Patent applications View Details
- Book Review
Book Review of Identity in Organizations: Building Theory Through Conversations edited by David A. Whetten and Paul C. Godfrey
By: J. Polzer
Polzer, J. "Book Review of Identity in Organizations: Building Theory Through Conversations edited by David A. Whetten and Paul C. Godfrey." Administrative Science Quarterly 45, no. 3 (September 2000): 625–628.
- 02 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-Testing by Sabbaticals
Taking extended leave wasn’t a new idea for Paul Luning (MBA 2011), it was more of a family tradition: his parents credit their extended honeymoon as a defining moment in their lives. Paul took time off when... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 28 Aug 2010
- News
Paul Allen's Company Files Broad Lawsuit Over Patents
- 09 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of Anticorruption Efforts
Keywords: by Paul Healy & George Serafeim
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership
HBS professor Michael Tushman has been named the first incumbent of the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professorship of Business Administration. Tushman is internationally recognized for his work on the relations between technological... View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Seminar
Paul Niehaus, University of California San Diego, Department of Economics
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
them—potentially, at least—a strategic edge that private funds lack. These differences—good and bad—are illustrated by the case of Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). The case, write Gompers and Lerner, "highlights the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
U.S. Innovators Dogged by Money-grubbing ‘Patent Trolls’
The U.S. economy is driven by innovation, but unwelcome “patent trolls” are gunking up the system. Patent reform bills sit idle in Congress as the “trolls” set up companies for the sole purpose, critics say, of shaking down inventors while never creating... View Details
- 22 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?
Keywords: by Paul Healy and George Serafeim
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
When Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999) returned home to India after graduating from Wellesley College in 1988, her father suggested she try working at one of the family holding company’s three hotels. Two years later, when her father died... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment
Keywords: by Juan Alcacer & Paul Ingram
- Fall 2013
- Article
Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?
By: David Drake and Stefan Spinler
Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Sustainability; Environment; Paul Kleindorfer; Management; Environmental Sustainability
Drake, David, and Stefan Spinler. "Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?" Special Issue on the Environment. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 15, no. 4 (Fall 2013).
- March 2024
- Case
Biomanufacturing Decentralization by Stämm
By: Paul A. Gompers, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, cousins Llamazares and D’Alvia founded Stämm, a startup based on the idea of decentralizing biomanufacturing processes and downsizing biotech facilities. After raising its seed and series A rounds, and while finalizing its series B round in... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Selection and Staffing; Technological Innovation; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires
Gompers, Paul A., Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago, and Mariana Cal. "Biomanufacturing Decentralization by Stämm." Harvard Business School Case 824-190, March 2024.
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have cancer. Doctors ran tests and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Now You Can Choose
important topics like American competitiveness. As we begin a new fiscal year, I hope you’ll show your support for the work of the School by making a gift at http://give.hbs.edu or through the mail. Paul... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details