by Peter Jacobs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and cosmetics companies with $1.7... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 May 2022
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Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell

Peter Wendell In 1982, with almost a decade of experience at IBM under his belt, Peter Wendell went "searching for the country's next IBMs," as he puts it. Enlisting the help of some friends (including... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance

May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
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Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure

By: Arthur I Segel, Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu and Elizabeth C. Williamson

In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village ("ST /PCV") complex. The property had recently been abandoned by its owners and had come... View Details

Keywords: Property; Risk Management; Opportunities; Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Acquisition; North and Central America

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Peter Browning and Continental White Cap, Video

Contains a presentation by Browning to a class of MBA students in March 1986, in which he describes how he handled the first year of his efforts to revitalize the Whitecap Division of Continental Can (1984-85). View Details

Keywords: Restructuring

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September 2007 (Revised April 2013)
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Peter Welz: When a Marquee Prospect Plays Hardball (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel

Describes the hardball tactics facing Peter Welz, who seeks to negotiate a make-or-break contract with a vastly larger potential client. Welz's counterpart team is led by Preston Spitzer, a notoriously tough player who fully understands his side's massive advantages in... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Competitive Advantage

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Peter O. Crisp papers | Baker Library

Peter O. Crisp papers Venrock Associates Pocantico Conference attendee caricature, 1985 October 1. Peter O. Crisp papers. Peter O. Crisp was a founding partner of Venrock... View Details

06 Apr 2015
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Spire's Peter Platzer: the boss who never fires anyone

11 Feb 2019
HBS Seminar

Peter Belmi, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Book Review

Review of The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia by Lawrence Peter King

By: Doug Guthrie

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07 Apr 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Peter Tufano

24 May 2022
Blog Post

Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

View Video Peter James Kiernan (MBA 2022) has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day celebration, held this year on Wednesday, May 25. Class Day honors graduating students, and typically takes... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

produce daily. Tisch held a conference call with her operations chiefs at 5 a.m., and by 8 a.m. she was on the phone with Mayor Eric Adams while parked outside a DSNY facility. Striding into a garage the size of a football field to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Dec 2005
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Connecting with Clubs

by interacting with Alumni Relations, and by attending the annual club Officers’ Roundtable meeting at HBS. As an Alumni Board member, and now as board president, I know my experience with the clubs in... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
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Job One: Alumni Engagement

membership in HBS clubs and associations. Our committee work has examined a number of School-supported efforts designed to engage alumni and students. The Student Outreach Committee, chaired by Bennie Wiley (MBA ’72), has recommended ways... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper

01 Sep 2005
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Make Plans for Washington GLF

behalf. A great place to start is the HBS Global Leadership Forum held last June 21–23 in London. It was the latest in a series of global events initiated more than a decade ago by the Alumni Board and was initially called the Global... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
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Ears to the Ground

to drastically decrease gun use. In a recent study, cities that employ the system saw a 28.8 percent drop in gunfire on average; Fall River, Massachusetts, for example, saw shootings drop by 58 percent. But efficacy hadn’t led to... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs