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  • 09 Aug 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Shareholder Activism on Sustainability Issues

Keywords: by Jody Grewal, George Serafeim, and Aaron Yoon
  • 03 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

In August, mega venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced a $350 million investment in residential real estate company Flow—the single largest investment the VC titan had ever made. But a bigger... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

domestic and imported inputs. Value data for imports and exports of services are too aggregated and valuations are questionable, while price data for service exports and imports are almost non-existent. Foreign direct View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Strategy - Faculty & Research

industrial giant into a globally integrated investment and trading firm. Originally focused on commodity trading, Mitsui gradually shifted toward strategic investments across industries, owning or... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

reserves to "manage" reported earnings, the recategorization of investments to enable gains to be booked on the company's income statements, the reorganization of business structures to conceal business failures, the use of... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • HBS Case

How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

whether we should adopt AI—but rather, when and how to do so,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Wu’s recent case study and background note, AI Wars and the Generative AI View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

available materiality classifications of sustainability topics, we develop a novel dataset by hand-mapping sustainability investments classified as material for each industry into firm-specific sustainability ratings. This allows us to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and General Management) John Dionne Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Sara Fleiss Spring... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

the level of new investment. But, in the case of investment centers, Economic Value Added, or EVA, is likely to be the most effective single-period measure because it is designed to encourage only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2008
  • Case

Thoma Bravo - Citect Corporation Take-Private

In 2006, Citect Corporation, a publicly traded Australian software company, was the target of a takeover battle between a financial sponsor and a strategic buyer. Thoma Bravo, the U.S.-based private equity firm, had to decide on its acquisition strategy in the face of... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Privatization; Valuation; Australia
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  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711452-PDF-ENG BlackRock Solutions Kenneth A. Froot and Scott WaggonerHarvard Business School Case 211-082 The BlackRock Solutions case examines the different functions and economics of a global asset manager's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2014
  • Article

How to Outsmart Activist Investors

By: Bill George and Jay W. Lorsch
We offer opinions on how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm PepsiCo is... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism
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  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

Business School Case 215-020 Dogs of the Dow This case describes the Dogs of the Dow investment strategy, value investing, and using dividend yields as a means to determine intrinsic value. It also describes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2009 (Revised November 2011)
  • Case

The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (A)

By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
"Bear Stearns & Co. burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday, March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Crisis; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Competition; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
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  • 17 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

and the investing world. However, having grown up in mainland China, studied in the US and Europe, and gained an undergraduate degree in Foreign Service, I firmly believe that there is a bigger world out there, and that I should venture... View Details
  • May 2010
  • Supplement

Tremblant Capital Group Exhibits (CW)

By: Robin Greenwood
Brett Barakett, CEO and founder of Tremblant Capital Group, a New York-based hedge fund, must decide what to do with his fund's position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40 percent in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Stocks; Investment Funds; Consumer Behavior; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; New York (state, US)
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    Nitin Nohria

    Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

    As Dean, building on... View Details

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    • 04 Jun 2024
    • Blog Post

    Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

    Before becoming a Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017) was a prospective lawyer, an investment manager, a nonprofit leader, and a tech program manager. Beyond her professional roles, Ramirez is... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • December 1998
    • Case

    Retail Financial Services in 1998: Travelers

    By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
    Provides an overview of Travelers Group's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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    • December 1998
    • Case

    Retail Financial Services in 1998: Merrill Lynch

    By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
    Provides an overview of Merrill Lynch's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the following... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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