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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out graduates fixated on shareholder... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
M-Paisa—there was the question of establishing any cell phone service at all. A little over a decade ago, Afghans had two options for making a call: walk across the border to another country, including Pakistan or Tajikistan, or use an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
incomplete-contracts model in which vertical integration raises output at the expense of lower private benefits. A key implication is that higher prices should result in more integration, since the organizational goal becomes relatively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
on the stock and one who is bearish. Students are asked to consider the arguments and the analytical approaches employed by each. Is Tesla a good investment or not? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218033... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
business plan for Exchange.com, an online marketplace for rare and hard-to-find items he founded upon graduating and sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in stock seven months later. Leschly counts himself among the new network... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
initial investments in the form of equity, WTI focused primarily on lending money to start-ups, charging them interest and receiving warrants that could later be converted to stock in the case of a liquidity event. Most initial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
initiatives will fail. Opening space for a mutually acceptable nuclear deal-that avoids both military conflict and a nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable Iran-requires relentlessly and creatively worsening Iran's no-deal options while... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management, and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
stores, TCS went public in late 2013. Since its IPO, same store sales have suffered, and the company's stock in early 2016 was trading well below its IPO price. As such, the company's culture and Foundation Principles were being put to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
January following the April application intake, i.e. you must begin working within eight months of applying for GO: ASIA. You are not sponsored for, nor are you being reimbursed for your MBA tuition or MBA-related expenses currently as an... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
was very successful at growing the business and establishing its leadership position. He was compensated with a mix of salary and options, and he did not own any equity in the company. The options were set so that if Talent Partners... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
to technological race Sometimes content is unreliable (spoof files) Decentralized—makes it hard No anonymity Itunes Strengths Weaknesses Legal Customers must pay for content (relatively expensive at $0.99) Easy to use Restrictions on... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
public, going over investment projects, dividends, and share buybacks, dwelling more on this or that depending on the audience. For road show meetings, the IR group prepares comprehensive descriptions of selected investments and projects to show how difficult,... View Details
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which you care intensely or about a “great negotiator” whom you wish to study in depth. Since, inevitably, the class sessions won’t cover your specific areas of greatest interest in the kind of depth you might wish, the paper option... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Dollar General Corporation's acquisition by private equity sponsor KKR, which took the company private in 2007. Although the proposed merger generated a 30% premium over the stock price at the time, and the enterprise value to EBITDA... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
was enough to spur the innovation, offering inventors a "seal of approval" they could then use to show investors that their idea had merit. "When you think about the cost of launching a new innovation, it is clearly an View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space.” (courtesy Joseph Landon) Joseph Landon VP and CFO, Planetary Resources “Everything we consider precious on earth is available in limitless quantities in space.” (courtesy Joseph Landon) Which is fine for small satellites, but what about the bigger, more View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace