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  • October 2017
  • Supplement

Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)

By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case.

Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

Clear Channel 2006

By: Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
The Board of Directors of Clear Channel Communications, a radio broadcasting and outdoor advertising company, has to respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation Offer; Privatization; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

limit their equity exposures in politically risky countries by sharing ownership with local partners and by serving foreign markets with exports rather than local production. The residual political risk borne by parent companies leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

same 501(c) (3) as the central organization. Branches are managed and controlled by the central organization, with local staff operating the branch but reporting directly to the central office. Local branches may have their own advisory boards, but the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • Web

Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Family Business Strategy Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 OWN: The Power of Company Ownership Strategy Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 John Batter Law, Management and Entrepreneurship General Management, Entrepreneurial Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Law, Management... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

starts a premium vodka business, bringing in his cousin at an early stage, but with no initial discussion of the eventual split of equity or managerial control between the two. The article offers each man's case for his ownership stake in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2008
  • Case

Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (A)

By: Paul W. Marshall, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
In late November 2000, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., the once-monopolized telecom operator owned by the Taiwanese government, was on its way to privatization. Mr. C.K. Mao, Chairman of the company, who headed the job only three months earlier, after its prior chairman... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Employee Relationship Management; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Privatization; Competition; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan
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  • November 2018
  • Teaching Note

The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-077. This teaching note provides the back up analysis for the various alternatives to be considered in choosing the optimal investment structure for the real estate acquisition. It contrasts the interests of the tax exempt investors... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Alternative Investment Structures; Taxation; Private Equity; Property; Acquisition; Conflict of Interests; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

or Visa), each of which may or may not be inclined to provide access. Some of the data, such as banking information, is not controlled by the business owner. This is why Open Banking initiatives in Europe and the United Kingdom, which gave View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

diagnose the problem and treat it. The rescue bill calls for the government to auction banks’ distressed mortgage assets to “try to restore the price discovery process so we can figure out what these things are actually worth.” Light... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Operations Management) Susanna Gallani Robert Huckman Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Business, Government & the International Economy Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Business and Geopolitics Jeremy Friedman Spring 2026 Q3 1.5... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

insurance (for such individuals, another function of the Connector is deciding “affordability,” that is, how much those individuals should be subsidized and how much they should pay out-of-pocket). This uninsured-care fund previously had been bankrolled by the state... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

ownership by dir-ectors. Stobaugh chaired the 1995 National Asso-ciation of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission, which recommended changes in the selection and compensation of boards, including setting stock View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
  • 06 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 6

services into three new content areas—news, music, and popular bloggers. Each potential area of Daqi's expansion offered extensive benefits, such as major growth opportunity, as well as risks, including private lawsuits, government... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

and recovery to be associated with increases in orders from Hugo Boss's retailer customers Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity Authors:Robin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

suggesting that they reliably differ in their risk acceptance; and 3) risk acceptance appears to entail different psychological constructs when the decision problem involves co-occurring gains and losses. The New Governance Paradigm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace