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- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
Industrial Era, product innovation and operations management predominated. Product innovation ensured the continuous flow of new products that would sustain growth or market share or both. Operations management ensured that View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- September 1992 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
The Carried Interest
By: Henry B. Reiling
Makes the point that general partners and others frequently contract to receive a share of any profits that the venture they manage generates. This practice raises the question of whether the value of this contract right should be taxed when it is received or only when... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Profit Sharing; Taxation; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Partners and Partnerships
Reiling, Henry B. "The Carried Interest." Harvard Business School Case 293-043, September 1992. (Revised August 2010.)
- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
and eventually drafting up the business case (where I get to apply my net present value and weighted average cost of capital skills from first-year finance classes!). I’ve... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- September 2014 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
Whole Foods: The Path to 1,000 Stores
By: David F. Drake, Ryan W. Buell, Melissa Barton, Taylor Jones, Katrina Keverian and Jeffrey Stock
The case examines the operations strategy of Whole Foods, one of the largest natural grocery chains in the United States. In late 2013, Whole Foods was expanding rapidly, with a publicly-stated goal of growing from 351 to 1,000 domestic stores by 2022. It was also... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; Food; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Drake, David F., Ryan W. Buell, Melissa Barton, Taylor Jones, Katrina Keverian, and Jeffrey Stock. "Whole Foods: The Path to 1,000 Stores." Harvard Business School Case 615-019, September 2014. (Revised June 2016.)
- October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)
By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn
Fund manager Janet Curie asked for a recommendation about the pharmaceutical company Catalent. The company seemed like a solid investment. However, a pair of research reports issued over the previous two months complicated this narrative. GlassHouse Research, a short... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Government Legislation; Conflict of Interests; Announcements; Blogs; Debates; Investment; Trust; Business and Shareholder Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Accounting Industry; United States
Pacelli, Joseph, ZeSean Ali, and Tom Quinn. "Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-024, October 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Capital Regulation By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose three core principles that should inform the design of bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep... View Details
- December 2013 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Viva Macau (A)
By: Dante Roscini and G. A. Donovan
A fast-growing Macau-based airline backed by private US investors faces a dramatic expropriation in the wake of the first change of head of government since the former Portuguese colony became a Special Administrative Region of China. The case allows students to... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Air Transportation; Ownership; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Emerging Markets; Venture Capital; China; Macau
Roscini, Dante, and G. A. Donovan. "Viva Macau (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-024, December 2013. (Revised August 2015.)
- March 2024
- Case
Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan
Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Transition; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ownership Stake; Expansion; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Estonia; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Singapore
Gompers, Paul A., Elena Corsi, and Orna Dan. "Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?" Harvard Business School Case 224-076, March 2024.
- Career Coach
Erika Osterling
services across different businesses and geographies, leading to a global P&L role. In her most recent role as Executive Director at Russell Reynolds, she advised CEO, C-Suite leaders and board of directors View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2005 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
The MCI Takeover Battle: Verizon versus Qwest
By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
MCI's board of directors is considering competing bids from Verizon and Qwest. Qwest, a smaller company with a weaker balance sheet, is offering almost a billion dollars more. But Verizon, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, has a history of... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Valuation; Telecommunications Industry; United States
Baker, Malcolm P., and James Quinn. "The MCI Takeover Battle: Verizon versus Qwest." Harvard Business School Case 206-045, November 2005. (Revised October 2012.)
- January 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
Medtronic: Navigating a Shifting Healthcare Landscape
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley and Alee Hernandez
Medtronic is adapting its strategy to changes in healthcare competition and payments. It has decided to develop new relationships with payers, hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of... View Details
Keywords: Value Based Health Care; Bundled Payments; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value Creation; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; Netherlands
Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley, and Alee Hernandez. "Medtronic: Navigating a Shifting Healthcare Landscape." Harvard Business School Case 718-471, January 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 1993 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Liability Management at General Motors
By: Peter Tufano
An analyst at General Motors charged with managing the structure of the automaker's debt must decide whether and how to modify the interest rate exposure of the firm's most recent debt offering. The analyst must take into consideration GM's liability management policy... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Financial Management; Interest Rates; Risk Management; Auto Industry; North America
Tufano, Peter. "Liability Management at General Motors." Harvard Business School Case 293-123, March 1993. (Revised July 2008.)
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
resolution is a critical and underappreciated aspect of global capitalism today. CME viewed a local partner as a substitute for a local presence—I think this is a critical mistake. Finally, it's an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technology would provide the country with greater agricultural production, a major source of exports, without the need to convert additional areas of the Cerrado or Amazon to farmland. However, producers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights
to start immediately? What’s the bottleneck? Independent Studies: I had the opportunity to work with Professor Jeff Bussgang diving into YCombinator - we work with hundreds of YC companies at Pilot! Finance: At a successful startup, the... View Details