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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
by increasing property taxes by 23.5 percent, but is roundly rejected by 69 percent of the voters. So should the partnership return to its usual work of facilitating downtown revitalization projects and pitching Columbus as an attractive site for View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916414-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-007 The Hain Celestial Group Hain Celestial manufactured natural and organic food and personal care products to be sold to retailers of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Hiring International Students
Long-Term Employment The H-1B category is the most common long-term work visa but it may be just one option for you. In fact, each year more than 25,000 US companies employ at least one international worker in H-1B status. Common View Details
- November 1996 (Revised August 1997)
- Case
Project "Dial-Tone"
By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
Bob Hellman, a partner in a West Coast middle-market buyout firm, is attempting to simultaneously acquire and merge three disparate firms in the rapidly consolidating telemarketing services industry. Hellman must value the individual companies as well as the combined... View Details
Keywords: Complexity; Private Equity; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Deal; Strategic Planning; Investment; Opportunities; Valuation; Service Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. Project "Dial-Tone". Harvard Business School Case 897-003, November 1996. (Revised August 1997.)
- August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Calera Corporation
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Thomas J. Steenburgh and Lauren Barley
Brent Constantz, founder, CEO, and president of Calera Corporation, felt a surge of optimism as he gazed at the recently commissioned prototype flue gas processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Product Design; Product Development; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Green Technology Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Lauren Barley. "Calera Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 810-030, August 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
- November 2021 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Advent International and Walmart Brazil's Deal
By: Victoria Ivashina, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
Advent International, one of the world’s leading private equity firms, must decide whether to acquire Walmart’s subsidiary in Brazil or not. Although Walmart Brazil is losing cash at a rapid pace, Advent thinks it has a solid plan to recover the company’s finances.... View Details
Ivashina, Victoria, Ruth Costas, and Pedro Levindo. "Advent International and Walmart Brazil's Deal." Harvard Business School Case 222-047, November 2021. (Revised February 2022.)
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
economics," says Shawn A. Cole, an associate professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. "A frequent criticism of bankers in the recent crisis is that they took a lot of incentive pay in the years leading up to the... View Details
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
whether a digital subscription was a substitute for or complement to the print subscription. When a company saw increased print subscriptions after creating a paywall, the paywall was found to have a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Five Steps to Jump Start Your MBA Recruiting at HBS
functional or industry experience? What skill sets would add value to your team? Our Resume Book Database can help you find candidates that fit this profile. Companies also often work with relevant... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
the layoffs one by one? What rationale did they provide to the employees? What kinds of benefits did they offer them? What kind of reactions did people have, and how did the managers handle those reactions? What happened inside the View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
J. Hughes Norton III
witnessed the sports business explode from mom-and-pop status into a $150-billion industry. But he's never seen anything like Tigermania. "Wherever Tiger goes in the world, it's like the Beatles have landed," says Norton, shaking his head... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
little or no control over which companies the fund manager or plan fiduciary selects for the portfolio. Indeed, View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Original Article There is a body of research that seeks to relate economics to human biology. It's usually associated with the notion that the life cycles of businesses parallel stages of biological life: birth, rapid growth, maturity,... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
example, some companies choose to have a career coach on retainer that employees can work with, or they will hire career coaches for employees on an ad-hoc basis for discussions around career progression,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
Business as usual is no longer acceptable, was the message of 200 corporate leaders on August 19, when the Business Roundtable issued a "Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation." No longer should... View Details
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Team - Case Method Project
teaching at Harvard Business School (twelve times) and the American Risk and Insurance Association’s Annual Kulp-Wright Book Award for the “most influential text published on the economics of risk management... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
The U.S. Job Search for International Students
truly a random lottery, the size or type of company has no bearing on a student’s likelihood of receiving the visa. What is more important is that the job closely aligns with the student’s unique skill set.... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
source of inferences about and precursors to perceived justice. The study offers implications for the management of queues as well as other artifacts. Cases & Course MaterialsChoicePoint (A) Harvard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
how to finance growth. Building The Team—finance And Founders In the second part of the course, students consider the questions they'll face after making the key choice not to run the company alone: Who should the cofounder(s) be? Is it a... View Details
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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
your value statement to align with the board's focus and organization's needs. + – Highlight Relevant Expertise Board experience - for-profit or non-profit Fundraising experience Industry knowledge and contacts M&A experience IPO... View Details