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- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division Series in a humiliating three straight games. Within a matter of weeks, Sox general manager Theo Epstein had launched one of the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
relationships are moving to performance-based pricing—they are paid based on achieving certain client advertising and/or marketing goals. The contractor who rebuilt the 1995 earthquake-damaged freeway in Los Angeles received enormous... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
School, is an expert on global supply chain and co-wrote an HBS case study, revised in 2019, on Dollar General, one of the largest dollar store operators, shortly before it was acquired by New York investment firm KKR. Shih discusses the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
ongoing viability. (Exclusions included the 1980 Moscow Games and 2016 Rio Games, which were deemed too recent to present a clear picture.) The cost of constructing Olympic stadiums when combined with the necessary infrastructure and transportation View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Business of Aesthetics to second-year MBA students and select applicants from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The course looks at the role of aesthetics in strategy, organizational structure, succession planning, and investment... View Details
- September 2009 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
United Way
By: Allen S. Grossman and Cathy Ross
After United Way CEO Brian Gallagher began shifting the organization's focus from old-school fundraising to community impact, Gallagher and local leaders like Elise Bulk, CEO of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, faced a series of challenges regarding how to best... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Alignment; Los Angeles
Grossman, Allen S., and Cathy Ross. "United Way." Harvard Business School Case 310-014, September 2009. (Revised September 2012.)
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
platform, AngelList, for example, allows these private angel investors to pool their money and invest in larger equity stakes in companies than a single angel investor might be... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
she persuade angel investors that she had a business worth investing in? The case details her interactions with the angel investors and explores the role of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
allows many people to search for and retrieve codified knowledge without having to contact the person who originally developed it. That opens up the possibility of achieving scale in knowledge reuse and thus of growing the business. Take the example of Randall Love, a... View Details
- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (TN)
Teaching note to 706442. View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
he was able to recruit employees and mentors who were inspired by the authenticity of his passion. Besides, financial and non-financial resources are not mutually exclusive. In Cotopaxi’s case the social mission resonated with for-profit investors, who became more... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED standard and investments in green building expertise by local suppliers. These findings suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
higher risk projects and new ventures. This has a domino effect on the venture capital providers and subsequently on the angel investor community. Each group is concerned that there will not be an investor willing to fund or buy into a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
same time, the Los Angeles Rams “morphed from a plodding exemplar of mediocrity” to an explosive conference winner, also with the help of a modern, creative offensive system, helmed by the youngest coach in NFL history, Sean McVay. The... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence Across Countries By: Lerner, Josh, Antoinette Schoar, Stanislav Sokolinski, and Karen Wilson Abstract—This paper examines investments made by 13 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
firms had “slack,” but not through changing investments or accruals. These incentives are driven by the prestige associated with the index rather than capital market benefits. Back-of-envelope estimates suggest that the index accounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
venture funding, up from 4 percent in 2004, according to data from PitchBook.) Murray is Kearney's thesis adviser. Huang, whom Brooks met in the initial stages of their research, studies the role of "gut feel" in investment... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
every once in a while. He still receives royalty checks in the millions of dollars each year from a $40,000 investment he made in a pet business, which he thought had no chance of succeeding. HBS professor Thomas Eisenmann, who moderated,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Hellman, and Ilkin IlyaszadeHarvard Business School Case 811-100 The case study provides an overview of the angel investment practices and describes government policies towards View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne