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  • March 2006 (Revised September 2006)
  • Case

Irizar in 2005

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell
In June 2005, Koldo Saratxaga, the leader of Basque-based luxury coach manufacturer Irizar, decided to leave after 14 years at the helm of the worker-owned cooperative. Under Saratxaga's stewardship, Irizar was saved from near bankruptcy in 1991 and has become a highly... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Resignation and Termination; Leadership Style; Production; Quality; Luxury; Competitive Advantage; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; South Africa; China; India; Mexico; Brazil
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  • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business

Early in February 1934, two and a half months after the end of prohibition, Jack Sindler sat with a friend in Boston's Ritz Hotel bar enjoying a drink. Sindler worked for the Converse Rubber Co., and he was always inventing something. He held several patents for rubber... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Production; Market Entry and Exit; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Acquisition; Growth and Development; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Boston
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  • October 1998 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Preview Travel (A)

By: William A. Sahlman, Nicole Tempest, Daniel H Case III and Robert Keller
Preview Travel was a leader in the online travel industry, having generated $80 million in bookings in 1997 and growing at a 34% compound annual growth rate per quarter. This case describes the evolution of Preview Travel's business plan and financing strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Internet and the Web; Business Plan; Capital; Financial Strategy; Travel Industry; United States
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    Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick - Or Keep You Well

    For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too... View Details

    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from French Elections

    By: Kevin Dano, Francesco Ferlenga, Vincenzo Galasso, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
    In theory, free and fair elections can improve the selection of politicians and incentivize them to exert effort. In practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these two forces compound each... View Details
    Keywords: Political Parties; Incumbent Politicians; Democracy; Political Elections; Competitive Advantage
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    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Are Licensing Markets Local? An Analysis of the Geography of Vertical Licensing Agreements in Bio-Pharmaceuticals

    By: Juan Alcacer, John Cantwell and Michelle Gittelman
    As the value chain of the pharmaceutical industry disaggregates, upstream discovery is increasingly carried out by small research-specialized firms while downstream development, testing and marketing is conducted by global pharmaceutical firms. Licensing plays an... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Rights; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      ULI Report Provides Wildfire, Energy, and Economic Resilience Strategies to Sonoma County

      Sonoma County, Calif., can enhance its ability to withstand and recover from wildfires by re-envisioning its land use, energy, and housing policies through a cooperative... View Details

      • 07 Apr 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: April 7, 2009

      a self-reported measure. Overall, we find that debt literacy is low: only about one-third of the population seems to comprehend interest compounding or the workings of credit cards. Even after controlling for demographics, we find a... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Capstone | MBA

      cellular signaling. Recently, it has been appreciated that these drugs can provide benefits to patients with severe mental health disorders including depression and addiction. This project described an approach to modify these psychedelic View Details
      • 2022
      • Book

      Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well

      By: Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
      For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too clear, Healthy... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Buildings and Facilities; Health; Health Pandemics; Safety
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      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

      By: Eric D. Werker
      This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent or more over a period of 8 years or longer. Using a measure of real GDP reported in the World Development Indicators, we... View Details
      Keywords: Growth; Liberia
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      • 10 Nov 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: Nov. 10

        Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established markets, aspiring providers of new... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • May 2017
      • Teaching Note

      Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

      By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
      Partners Group (PG), a Swiss-based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Private Equity
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      • 24 Jan 2024
      • Op-Ed

      Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago

      Stonecipher that turned Boeing’s culture from excellence in aviation design, quality, and safety into emphasizing short-term profit and distributing cash to shareholders via stock buybacks. McNerney compounded the problem through his... View Details
      Keywords: by Bill George; Air Transportation; Transportation; Aerospace
      • Web

      Faculty & Advisors | MBA

      Alexion Pharmaceuticals from 2017-2019. At Biogen, Paul oversaw rapid growth in the company as it expanded it's products and pipeline. During his tenure as CFO, Biogen grew total return to shareholders at a 20% compound annual growth rate... View Details
      • Research Summary

      AIDS in Africa: Life, Death and Property Rights

      By: Debora L. Spar
      In the final years of the twentieth century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--the plague of AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought... View Details
      • April 2007 (Revised October 2007)
      • Background Note

      An Overview of Project Finance & Infrastructure Finance - 2006 Update

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
      Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance, and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2002 to 2006. Examples of project-financed investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon... View Details
      Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure; Investment; Projects; Trends
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      • 10 Feb 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: February 10, 2009

        Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds Authors:John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract The covariance between U.S. Treasury bond returns and stock returns has moved considerably over time. While it... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Article

      The Role of Interactivity in Local Differential Privacy

      By: Matthew Joseph, Jieming Mao, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
      We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in sequence, but they cannot return to... View Details
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      Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal

      By: James K. Sebenius
      Prior to the "interim deal" reached in November 2013, Iranian nuclear negotiators could—and did—play for time while the regime rapidly added more centrifuges and increased production of enriched uranium. That is no longer the case. For the first time in years, the... View Details
      Keywords: International Relations; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Iran; United States; Iran; United States
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