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  • February 2008
  • Teaching Note

DermaCare: Zapping Zits Directly (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh
Teaching Note for [808064]. View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Health Care and Treatment; Financing and Loans; Venture Capital; Advertising; Distribution; Health Industry
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  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

Maricopa, Inc., a startup that sold proprietary hair-care products directly to salons, were preparing a board presentation to address the young company's inability to meet financial projections. While the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2001 (Revised March 2001)
  • Case

Apax Partners and Dialog Semiconductor: March 1998

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner, Antonio Alvarez-Cano and Borja Martinez
Apax Partners is considering a complex buyout of a semiconductor manufacturer. The firms must assess in a compressed timeframe the complex technological, financial, and operational risks that the proposed transaction poses. View Details
Keywords: Market Transactions; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Time Management; Production; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • August 2001
  • Case

Charmed Technology

By: Youngme E. Moon
Charmed Technology, a California start-up known primarily for its high-profile fashion shows featuring "wearable" computers, has just released its first product. The "CharmIT" is being billed as the world's first affordable, wearable computer for consumers. The key... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Resignation and Termination; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Luxury; Information Infrastructure; Value Creation; Computer Industry; Fashion Industry
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  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

operations. Through its financial incentives, personal and professional development initiatives, and worker-appreciation programs, NatureSweet had cultivated a truly unique, uplifting workplace culture in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

high-pressure realities of the research and development of new products for the US military. 1 Georges F. Doriot to Alice and Lewis Strauss, 17 May 1928, Lewis L. Strauss Papers - Early Career Name and... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge vault about building a business in a down economy, motivating the troops, and other current topics. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6232.html. Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards? Why do... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • Web

Alumni Career Journey: Margot Zuckerman (MBA 2024) – Integrating Climate into Business (and Government) Priorities - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable View Details
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

All in a Day's Work

through a day on the job to find out: Mardie Oakes, an HBS Service Leadership Fellow at Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution, and Paul Sternhell, an entry-level manager at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the firm is defined by a single-minded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • November 1998 (Revised July 1999)
  • Case

Merrill Lynch's Acquisition of Mercury Asset Management

By: Andre F. Perold, Imran Ahmed and Randolph B Altschuler
In the Spring of 1998, Merrill Lynch faced an array of challenges and opportunities related to its global asset management business. The firm had recently completed its $5.3 billion cash acquisition of U.K.-based Mercury Asset Management, a transaction that made it one... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Asset Management; Currency; Financial Strategy; Global Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Retirement; Japan; Europe; United Kingdom
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  • 22 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

Entrepreneurial success may depend on more than a great idea, plenty of connections, and financial backing, new research suggests. The entrepreneur’s job security may also play a significant role. Uncertain job prospects, such as those... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2022
  • Case

Abu Issa Holding: Navigating the Qatar Blockade

By: Mark Egan and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case follows Ashraf Abu Issa, CEO and chairman of Abu Issa Holding (AIH), as he contemplated the fate of his company’s regional expansion. AIH was a Qatari diversified holding company, whose primary business was luxury retailing and distribution. Abu Issa had set... View Details
Keywords: Luxury Retail; Expansion; Equity; Business Divisions; Growth and Development; Market Entry and Exit; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates
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  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

than $100 million. These transactions are large enough to require the help of a financial adviser and attract both strategic and financial bidders. The sale process described is that of a private auction,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2024
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

products and services, large companies have bought into the success of the trend by making bold “100% sustainable” statements about their business models. However, concerns over greenwashing – a term referring to misleading claims about... View Details
  • Profile

Patrick Chun

a social-enterprise business that marketed handmade luxury goods sourced directly from artisans in developing countries. Consumers would get unique accessories, and the craftsmen would get a higher share of the profits via our direct... View Details
  • Web

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established after the war. Located in Boston,... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

about the first ninety days? Michael Watkins: Leaders, regardless of their level, are most vulnerable in their first few months in a new position. They lack detailed knowledge of the challenges they will face and what it will take to succeed in meeting them. And, they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

venturehe had created to develop software for the emerging handheld device market. In Hawkins, Dubinsky found a product and technical genius, and in Dubinsky, Hawkins found a savvy businesswoman who had a... View Details