Publications

October 2022
Background Note

Note on Cyberattacks and Regulatory Regimes

By: Frank Nagle, George A. Riedel, William R. Kerr and David Lane

Describes common types of cyberattacks on enterprises and their costs, as well as the fragmentary regulatory regimes through which U.S. states and regulatory agencies at the start of 2021 attempted to encourage disclosure of cyberattacks and to pursue enforcement... View Details

Keywords: Regulations; Regulatory Agencies; Cyberattacks; Governance; Corporate Disclosure; Cybersecurity; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States

12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

Abstract This book presents new research on the historical impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile. The authors focus on the role of entrepreneurs and firms. The Role of Venture Capitalists in the Acquisition of Private Companies Authors: Paul View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern Financial System David Moss Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

http://hbr.org/2012/03/enriching-the-ecosystem/ar/1 Reviving Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner and William Sahlman Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract New enterprises don't... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

regional events. Among those alumni offering observations about the role of HBS in their lives have been: Harold M. Brierley (MBA 1968), William A. Chen (MBA 1995), James Dinan (MBA 1985), Trevor Fetter (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

October 2022 (Revised September 2023)
Case

SolarWinds Confronts SUNBURST (A)

By: Frank Nagle, George A. Riedel, William R. Kerr and David Lane

On December 12, 2020, SolarWinds learned that malware had been inserted in its software, potentially granting hackers access to thousands and thousands of its 300,000 customers. General Counsel Jason Bliss needed to orchestrate the company response without knowing how... View Details

Keywords: Cyberattacks; Cybersecurity; Corporate Disclosure; Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Legal Liability; Information Technology Industry; United States

01 Dec 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

communication lines open! A list of new Board members appears below. Don't hesitate to let us know how we can help to meet your needs as HBS alumni. Best wishes, and let's make a date to assemble in Cleveland for what promises to be the best ever U.S.-based Global... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

Profile

Georges F. Doriot

counseled his students to regularly read the obituaries in The New York Times before they read anything else “in order to learn from the lives of great men.” Even after he stopped teaching in 1966, Doriot’s presence continued to be felt at HBS. View Details

May 2016
Case

BionX

By: William A. Sahlman, Robert F. White, Ruth Page and Hunter Ashmore

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

selection," wrote Daniel A. Shanoff (HBS '02) in the September 17 edition. "We sweated the early-term cold call. The common metaphor we all bank on— that HBS is our own little oasis away from the 'real world'— was pierced. It's hard to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

innovator. In this playbook, Schultz makes the case for not raising outside money, finding mentors, and doing every job before hiring others and also discusses how to pivot when things go wrong and why failure is an outdated concept. What It Takes: Lessons in the... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

and even a required course, The Entrepreneurial Manager? William Kerr is the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff-MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, unit head of Entrepreneurial Management, co-director of HBS’s Managing the Future... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

January 2014
Case

Maricopa, Inc.: Finding the Right Treatment for Growth

By: William A. Sahlman, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joseph B. Fuller and Shikhar Ghosh

The founders of 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 products had caught on with customers, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Financial Condition; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Planning; Fashion Industry; Iowa

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

Authors:David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/11/kfcs-radical-approach-to-china/ar/1 Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy: A Tale of Utah War Intrigue, 1857–1858 ―A. G. Browne’s The Ward of the Three Guardians By William P. MacKinnon (MBA 1962) (Editor) and Kenneth L. Alford (Editor) University of Utah Press Fact, Fiction, and... View Details

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1934217 Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions in Grand Strategy By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This paper proposes an approach for modeling strategic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

a comprehensive approach to understanding the drivers of firm location choices by modeling not only the impact of location and firm heterogeneity, but also the strategic interaction among firms. August 2013 Harvard Business Review How Google Sold Its Engineers on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2016 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Hyperloop One

By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda, Robert White, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga

This case explores the attempt of Shervin Pishevar, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, to shepherd hyperloop, a futuristic pod-in-tube transportation technology, from concept to transformative reality via Hyperloop One and Sherpa Capital, both companies he... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Startup; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Finance; Transportation; Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Transportation Industry

November 2012 (Revised December 2017)
Case

TerraPower

By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda, Joseph B. Lassiter III and James McQuade

John Gilleland, CEO of TerraPower, returned to his office after a lengthy meeting with potential investors. It was October 2012, and TerraPower was in the process of raising a $200M Series C round to finance the ongoing development of its next-generation nuclear... View Details

Keywords: Nuclear Power; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financing and Loans; Venture Capital; Energy Industry; United States; China; India