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  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

we were collecting data as events were happening." As it turns out, the actions companies took during those first 90 days of the pandemic depended not only on their cash on hand, but how committed they were to their workers, according to... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

confident in their financial management skills—especially those related to managing cash flow, raising capital, and board governance—than did non-founder alumni.” Self-confidence in financial management and raising capital was especially... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

  PublicationsJoining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know Authors:Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan Publication:Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2021 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine
On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that... View Details
Keywords: September 11; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Decisions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth Management; Digital Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Air Transportation Industry; Tourism Industry; San Francisco
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  • June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details
Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career
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    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    We show that business development companies (BDCs) — closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms — are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    By: Sergey Chernenko, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein
    We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36%... View Details
    Keywords: Financing and Loans; Capital; Credit; Financial Institutions
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    • May 21, 2020
    • Editorial

    Primary Care Is Hurting: Why Aren't Private Insurers Pitching In?

    By: Leemore S. Dafny and J. Michael McWilliams
    Primary care clinicians are the front line for patients with suspected infection. We rely on them to diagnose, triage, and manage patients with potential or confirmed COVID infections. They are also responsible for keeping non-COVID medical conditions under control... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Primary Care; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Insurance
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    • July–August 2014
    • Article

    The Crisis in Retirement Planning

    By: Robert C. Merton
    Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration... View Details
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    • 20 Feb 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Teck Ho, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business

    • Fast Answer

    Company databases: which database to choose?

    strong for non-US companies. Pitchbook HarvardKey  Coverage of early stage companies/deals.  Strong valuation information.  Morningstar equity research and cash flow models available within the 'Research Center'... View Details
    • Web

    Faculty & Research - Leadership

    accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused the company’s culture,... April 2025 Case Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (A) By: Linda A. Hill , James I. Cash and Lydia Begag Joe Mazzulla's leadership... View Details
    • Web

    Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Publications How Do Nonprofits Use Cash Windfalls? Evidence from $5B in Unrestricted Donations By: Jennifer Walsh 2025 | Faculty Research How do nonprofits use unrestricted gifts? Donations to 501(c)(3)'s are increasingly given... View Details
    • Web

    Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

    This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand the key financial levers that drive financial performance Discover how and why finance is concerned with... View Details
    • 14 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Insider Trading Preceding Goodwill Impairments

    Keywords: by Karl A. Muller III, Monica Neamtiu & Edward J. Riedl
    • March 2020 (Revised June 2023)
    • Case

    EyeControl: Inspiring Communication

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Danielle Golan
    Eye-controlled communication device startup EyeControl was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2016 by cofounders with a shared personal connection to locked-in syndrome—a neurological disorder that left sufferers cognitively sound, yet paralyzed, with the exception of eye... View Details
    Keywords: Health Disorders; Communication Technology; Business Startups; Expansion; Finance; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 16 May 2023
    • In Practice

    After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

    crisis. In addition to the operational learnings around banking and ensuring not all of their cash is in one vulnerable place, it was a big wake-up call for many founders in terms of how they do everything to keep their cool with... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services
    • Web

    Student Research - Doctoral

    Towards Understanding Antecedents of Strategic Licensing By: Dafna F. Bearson and Maria P. Roche 18 MAR 2025 | Faculty & Research How Do Nonprofits Use Cash Windfalls? Evidence from $5B in Unrestricted Donations By: Jennifer Walsh 14 MAR... View Details
    • 25 Aug 2014
    • HBS Case

    Starbucks Reinvented

    conference of that size is such an unusual thing to do when faced with a cash crunch," Koehn says. "Schultz understood that what saves and breaks businesses is much more than cash. In the midst of so much turbulence, it's all... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
    • Web

    Leadership - Faculty & Research

    Margolis, Joshua D., Matthew Preble, and Dave Habeeb. "Lisa Su and AMD (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 425-704, April 2025. Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (A) By: Linda A. Hill , James I. Cash and Lydia Begag... View Details