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- February 2017
- Article
The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups
By: Noam Wasserman
Does the degree to which founders keep control of their startups affect company value? I argue that founders face a "control dilemma" in which a startup's resource dependence drives a wedge between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of... View Details
Keywords: Founders; Entrepreneurial Management; Value Creation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups
Wasserman, Noam. "The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 2 (February 2017): 255–277.
- September 2004
- Article
Rethinking Mergers and Acquisitions: How to Involve R&D in Company Growth
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
- Research Summary
Overview
Chu's research is focused on business and low income sectors, particularly in the use of commercial platforms to deliver what has traditionally been considered public responsibilities. In the last three decades, business models have emerged to meet the underserved... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Microfinance; Base Of The Pyramid; Role Of Profit And Social Impact; Private Sector Development; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Health Industry; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia; Africa
Africa Rising: A Historical Perspective
Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent economic boom has raised hopes and expectations to lift the regions’ ‘bottom millions’ out of poverty by 2030. How realistic is that goal? We approach this question by comparing the experiences of three front-runners of region-specific... View Details
- Web
Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
University Press, 1997, p. 27. John Heard, Diary, 1891. HC: FP-4, p. 37. Lockwood, p. 22. Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Köll, and Alexis Gendron, “Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century,” HBS No.... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda
By: Markus Menz, Sven Kunisch and David J. Collis
During the past five decades, scholars have studied the corporate headquarters (CHQ)—the multidivisional firm's central organizational unit. The purpose of this article is to review the diverse and fragmented literature on the CHQ and to identify the variables of... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Headquarters; Corporate Parent; Corporate Center; Multidivisional Firm; Multibusiness Firm; Multinational Corporation; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Business Divisions; Business Headquarters
Menz, Markus, Sven Kunisch, and David J. Collis. "What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-016, August 2013.
- October 2006
- Article
Location Choices across the Value Chain: How Activity and Capability Influence Collocation
By: Juan Alcacer
There has been a recent revival of interest in the geographic component of firm strategy. Recent research suggests that two opposing forces—competition costs and agglomeration benefits—determine whether firms collocate in a given geographic market. Unexplored is (1)... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Sales; Research and Development; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Markets; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Telecommunications Industry
Alcacer, Juan. "Location Choices across the Value Chain: How Activity and Capability Influence Collocation." Management Science 52, no. 10 (October 2006): 1457–1471.
- Video
Naguib Sawiris
Naguib Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom TMT Investments, details the establishment of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development in 2001 which aims to combat poverty in Egypt through education, job creation and training in fields such as nursing. View Details
- 2011
- Teaching Note
Kingdee
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Jin Zhang and Ziqian Zhao
Keywords: Business Ethics; Competitive Strategy; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Venture Capital; China; Applications and Software; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Jin Zhang, and Ziqian Zhao. "Kingdee." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
- Aug 2011 - 2011
- Conference Presentation
Institutional Heterogeneity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Biodiesel Fuel Sector
By: Shon R. Hiatt
- 2015
- Book
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
By: Shane Greenstein
In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from... View Details
Greenstein, Shane. How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network. Princeton University Press, 2015.
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
privacy to employee and customer safety, as well as crisis management, compliance, and internal audits.” “We all make risk-based decisions every day. The same is true in my View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
Business of Sports course and has conducted research for both professional teams and leagues. In a new HBS working paper, he and Isao Okada—a... View Details
- 26 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming Them
- January 1998
- Case
Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Valuation; Investment Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Consolidation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
Sebenius, James K., and David T. Kotchen. "Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (B)." Harvard Business School Case 898-141, January 1998.
- 06 Aug 2024
- Cold Call Podcast