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  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

School Case 314-115 School of One: Reimagining How Students Learn (B) This supplements the "A" case. Joel Rose and Chris Rush decide to spin-off from School of One to found New Classrooms Innovation Partners. Rose and Rush... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

include higher growth for one's own business, through incorporating additional ideas into the business. Another benefit is higher profits from one's ideas, through licensing and spin-off ventures that turn underused technology into... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

business opportunity. For example, in an equity spin-off, a diversified firm's businesses are split apart into independent entities, each with its own common stock. Spin-offs can make sense when a high-growth business is being held back... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

as spin-offs from existing NGOs. Both set out to avoid mission drift. But each took a different tack in hiring new employees. BancoSol hired employees based on their previous experience and proven capabilities. Because the mission... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

already." Such is the pace of business development that "Starting New Ventures" has spawned its own spin-off this year, a separate course focused on launching technology ventures. That has let Hart's class focus more on... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

of NiSource's recent proposal to pursue a tax-advantaged spin-off its pipeline business. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-001 Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A) The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

fewer risks for fear of making mistakes and thus losing their job? Also of interest to us is whether companies adjust their strategies based on noncompete enforcement. We might expect, for example, that unsanctioned spin-offs will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

to meet GE Capital’s obligations as a “SIFI”—systemically important financial institution—in the wake of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. No path forward was clear. A divestiture, either through a spin-off or sell-off, would reduce GE’s size and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

Harvard Business School Case 406-033 In 2005, Tad Piper reflects on the successful spin-off from US Bancorp of Piper Jaffray, the investment bank founded by his grandfather. Profiles the development of Piper Jaffray from a Midwestern... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806092 Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...? Harvard Business School Case 806-064 Endo Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1997 as a leveraged buyout spin-off from DuPont Merck.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

spin-off announcement, the stock price barely reacted. The case protagonist, Robb LeMasters (MBA ’05), managing director at Blue Harbour, joined the new company, BWX Technologies board of directors, to help guide it after the spin-off.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

the circumstances leading up to the Boeing Company's decision to spin-off its Wichita Division. This case is intended to be taught with two notes: "On the Use of Capital Efficiency Metrics," HBS No. 612-034, and "Modularity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

only with its own equipment. The establishment of XTV was driven by two events in 1988. First, several senior Xerox managers were involved in negotiating and approving a spin-off from Xerox, ParcPlace, which sought to commercialize an... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 10 Mar 2017
  • News

The Business of Lego Batman

I pitched a business plan of basically the LEGO Universe and how we're going to expand this universe. And so my pitch was basically that we had the team movie in the first movie with LEGO one. So that's my Avengers, so to speak. And then we're going to have View Details
Keywords: LEGO; Lego