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  • March 1992 (Revised June 1992)
  • Case

Thermo Electron Corp.

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
George Hatsopoulos, CEO at Thermo Electron Corp., is considering whether to issue shares in a subsidiary via an initial public offering (IPO). The company has developed an unusual corporate structure in which subsidiaries fund new ventures by raising debt and equity in... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Business Subsidiaries; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters; Initial Public Offering; Capital Structure; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 17 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

acknowledged both. While stabilizing the economy is a satisfying challenge, "the kind of public attention you get can be negative," he said. "I don't like my kids reading some of the stuff that's written about me But policy makers have to accept that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2021
  • Video

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations: The Loss of Dreams

  • 04 Mar 2020

Uncovering and Pricing Climate Risk in Long-Term Investments

  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

the temptation just not to bother protecting people's privacy. But I would hope that the virtuous marketer would resist that temptation." To read more: For detailed accounts of research by Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

ones—lots of growth opportunities. The 1998 merger of BP and Amoco, for example, led to the disposal of 12 oil-storage terminals scattered across North America. The terminals were purchased by the Williams... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
  • 04 Oct 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go

Wasserman. "After interviewing seven or eight founders, I was struck by the fact that a far more critical moment in a founder's life is when that person is told he can no longer lead the company he started." With the help of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology
  • 08 Feb 2018
  • Op-Ed

What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan

fair. To someone who holds this view, the case for more progressive taxation is self-evident, especially in an environment like ours of high and rising inequality. In contrast, the right tends to emphasize that we are “together by... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

that eight of the 10 most-read HBS Working Knowledge stories of the year were COVID-focused. Readers sought insights from HBS faculty about everything from managing large-scale remote work to leading during a crisis. The year was also marked View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 02 Jul 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

decision-making and even to the future and viability of capitalism. One debate concerned the primacy of profit as a goal. Deaver Brown led this argument by saying, "Profit is the only legitimate goal of a corporation ," pointing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • News

Will a Kinder, Gentler CEO Be More Effective?

  • 27 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

Source: FangXiaNuo The topic of creativity tends to conjure conversations about individual geniuses whose artistic or scientific contributions have rocked history—the Ludwig Van Beethovens, the Emily Dickinsons, or the George Washington... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • September 1988
  • Case

Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (D)

Reveals that Vicks chose a multi-condition positioning for the product. Describes testing of name and concept, and extensively reports on a four-city test market. Students are expected to evaluate both the design and results of the test, and face options ranging from... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Health Industry
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  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

Thought, one of the organizations that has received a grant from the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund. Photo by Noelia Castillo/Elevated Thought The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • News

Trump uses the pandemic to push far-right agenda

  • 07 Dec 2016
  • HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

competitive with someone who is personally advising you, and at a fraction of the cost,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. Viceira explores... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 02 Jul 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

Waterman), Level 5 Leadership (described by Jim Collins as centered around personal humility and professional will), servant leadership (defined by Robert Greenleaf in terms of service to others as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the Harvard framework (Figure 11.1), which was developed by William Sahlman 1 and Howard Stevenson 2 is described in Chapter 12. Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from making bad... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson