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  • April 1998
  • Case

Responding to 21st Century Financial Crisis

By: Huw Pill
During the 1990s, financial crises appear to have been almost annual events. Examples abound: the collapse of S & Ls in the United States; currency mayhem in Europe; Mexican devaluation and banking crisis; Japanese banks teetering on the verge of default; currency and... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Financial Crisis
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Pill, Huw. "Responding to 21st Century Financial Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 798-090, April 1998.
  • 31 May 2016
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Sandra Sucher, Harvard Business School

  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
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Runa

By: Paul Gompers and Carla Larangeira
In early 2022, Courtney McColgan, founder and CEO of Runa, a human resources and payroll Software-as-a-Service platform, faced an unexpected tech market downturn. Founded in 2018, Runa catered to small and medium-sized businesses in Mexico, offering an affordable and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Volatility; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Leadership; Management; Venture Capital; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Growth and Maturation; Latin America
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Gompers, Paul, and Carla Larangeira. "Runa." Harvard Business School Case 224-047, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
  • June 2003 (Revised August 2003)
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Pension Policy at The Boots Company PLC

By: Luis M. Viceira and Akiko M. Mitsui
In early 2000, the trustees of the pension scheme at Boots considered a proposal to move 100% of the pension assets into a bond portfolio, which would be passively managed. The Boots Co. PLC was a leading retailer of cosmetics and toiletries in the United Kingdom, and... View Details
Keywords: Performance Productivity; Employees; Asset Management; Capital Structure; Investment Portfolio; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
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Viceira, Luis M., and Akiko M. Mitsui. "Pension Policy at The Boots Company PLC." Harvard Business School Case 203-105, June 2003. (Revised August 2003.)
  • 25 Aug 2014
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Starbucks Reinvented

untested arenas that define the company as it exists today. "This case distills 20 years of my thinking about the most important lessons of strategy, leadership, and managing in turbulence in the frame of a very relevant... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

    Mitchell B. Weiss

    Mitch Weiss is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the... View Details

    • 25 Nov 2019
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    When Your Passion Works Against You

    entrepreneurs who came across as passionate about their projects received more offers. In fact, just a slight increase (one standard deviation) in how much passion the entrepreneur expressed created a 40 percent boost in the likelihood that View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • February 2002
    • Case

    NeuroTherapy Ventures: Catalyzing Neurologic Innovations

    Discusses the impact of limited market size on epilepsy therapies and shows how an early-stage venture fund can catalyze faster development of new treatments. View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Commercialization; Innovation and Management; Business Startups; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Chesbrough, Henry W. "NeuroTherapy Ventures: Catalyzing Neurologic Innovations." Harvard Business School Case 602-124, February 2002.
    • October 2020
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    IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

    By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou and Christopher J. Malloy
    Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015, we show that mutual fund managers gather information on a very particular subset of firms and insiders, and their surveillance is very persistent over time. This tracking... View Details
    Keywords: Tracked Trades; Return Predictability; Institutional Trading; Insider Trading; Institutional Investing; Information; Investment Portfolio; Decisions; Management
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    Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy. "IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice." Journal of Financial Economics 138, no. 1 (October 2020): 118–137. (Winner of the First Prize, Crowell Memorial Award for Best Paper in Quantitative Investments, PanAgora Asset Management, 2019.)
    • 06 Nov 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

    Corporate-sponsored venture funds first appeared in the 1960s, about two decades after the first flowering of the venture capital industry. Ever since, they have mirrored the cyclic nature of the industry as a whole. But there are... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
    • June 2010 (Revised December 2010)
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    Hôpital de Pontoise

    By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Simon Harrow
    In 2010, Andre Razafindranaly, managing director of a large French public hospital, considers which organizational structure will help them adjust to the changing health sector environment. The move from global budget to activity-based funding has led his and many... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Leading Change; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Health Industry; France
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    Bohmer, Richard M.J., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Simon Harrow. "Hôpital de Pontoise." Harvard Business School Case 610-100, June 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
    • July–August 2013
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    Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative

    By: Donald L. Laurie and J. Bruce Harreld
    The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue growth—launch a slew of initiatives in high-potential areas; appoint some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses—is a recipe for failure, according to the authors.... View Details
    Keywords: Failure; Growth and Development Strategy
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    Laurie, Donald L., and J. Bruce Harreld. "Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 82–90.
    • 17 Feb 2014
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    Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

    a 401(k) program. Boeing threatened to move construction of the 777X jetliner to another state without the concession. Funding The Future Even so, companies are still on the hook for paying benefits to those employees who have already... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services
    • 03 Jun 2014
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    ‘Victims’ of churn are accessories to the crime

    • November – December 2007
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    Fundamentally Flawed Indexing

    By: Andre F. Perold
    A new theory of finance is being advanced as providing definitive proof that holding stocks in proportion to their market capitalizations is an inferior investment strategy. The claim is that capitalization weighting necessarily invests more in overvalued stocks and... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Stocks; Financial Management; Valuation
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    Perold, Andre F. "Fundamentally Flawed Indexing." Financial Analysts Journal 63, no. 6 (November–December 2007). (Winner of Graham and Dodd Best Perspectives Award For excellence in financial writing​.)
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    Implications of Limits of Arbitrage (with James Choi)

    In this project we investigate the relationship between limits to arbitrage facing mutual fund managers and asset pricing anomalies. We measure changes in the limits to arbitrage by computing the average of slopes on current and past returns in quarterly... View Details
    • September 2018
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    ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction

    By: Frank V. Cespedes, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
    ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund and provides oil field services in Argentina. In 2016, an industry-wide unforeseen oil and gas demand slump drove ProdEng’s average service rates down by more than 37%, with EBITDA margins falling from 50% to 24% in the... View Details
    Keywords: Pricing; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Marketing; Price; Strategy; Latin America; Argentina
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    Cespedes, Frank V., Maria Fernanda Miguel, and Mariana Cal. "ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction." Harvard Business School Case 819-003, September 2018.
    • September 2006 (Revised February 2011)
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    Empemex

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
    Studies an entrepreneurial venture in Mexico City. The protagonists, two MBAs from HBS, started a pawn shop chain funded from their private equity office after finishing business school. This is timed at a point where the protagonists have to decide how to grow the... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Mexico City; United States
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    Applegate, Lynda M., and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Empemex." Harvard Business School Case 807-031, September 2006. (Revised February 2011.)
    • September 2002
    • Case

    Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (A): The Freedom Agenda

    Describes efforts in Seattle Public Schools, under the leadership of Superintendent Joseph Olchefske, to replace the district's centralized budgeting process with school-level budgets. Olchefske's decentralization effort, referred to locally as the Freedom Agenda,... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Operations; Education; Education Industry; Seattle
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    Leschly, Stig. "Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (A): The Freedom Agenda." Harvard Business School Case 803-037, September 2002.
    • October 2013 (Revised November 2013)
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    Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    The credit boom that preceded the 2007-2009 financial crisis led to several lending practices that exposed banks to large risks. In particular, when the financial crisis unraveled, there were several billion dollars' worth of leveraged buyout (LBO) loans that were... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Markets; Investment; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    Ivashina, Victoria, and David Scharfstein. "Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio." Harvard Business School Case 214-037, October 2013. (Revised November 2013.)
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