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- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
computer algorithm. Bad News Bears What they discovered was surprising. This wasn't a small number of companies manipulating their earnings calls. "Instead, it seems that nearly every firm finds it useful to... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
about 45 percent of NPE cases occur—mainly because NPEs find that the courts are plaintiff-friendly. NPEs are especially likely to sue firms that are tangled in other lawsuits, as well as firms with View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
with 1,200 employees. Her HBS education regularly gave her opportunities and helped her overcome challenges, Lambert relates. Early in her career she took over a struggling janitorial firm burdened with “every conceivable problem that a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
Thirty years ago it appeared as if biotech would not only revolutionize healthcare, but also radically improve the very process of R&D itself. This hasn't happened. Though some firms such as Amgen have created dramatic breakthroughs,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
William C. Kirby, the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, developed the course to introduce students to a cross section of Chinese industry and commerce while also providing a deeper dive into a particular sector. For much of each day the group of 42... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
work, no matter where they are. "Let's face it," writes HBS Professor Leslie Perlow. "When that phone buzzes, few of us have the mental fortitude to ignore it." In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Perlow explains how a View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the firm and asks the students to come up with a strategy to improve the way in which Sales and Marketing work together. In the (B) case, we see their strategy in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs. Another surprisingly small factor in the industry's development was concern about the environment and sustainable energy. Although government subsidies and other public policies helped jump start large-scale R&D in wind... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
little different for supposedly constrained and unconstrained firms, even though we find important differences in their characteristics and sources of financing. On the other hand, privately held firms (particularly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an improvement that may seem View Details
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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog
Associates How and why investors structure deals How PE firms add value How investors screen and choose investments Getting a deal through the Investment Committee Role of debt providers and where incentives overlap and diverge Different... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
interests of small investors." He also suggests that investors have little ability to judge whether compensation for managers is fair, particularly in an information economy in which it is difficult to assess justification for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
social and environmental concerns into daily operations. In the multimedia case “Burt’s Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability,” HBS associate professor Christopher Marquis uses text exhibits and video interviews to show how the small... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Stetson College of Law, the younger James became CEO of Raymond James in 1970 and set out to build the company. But the bear market of the early 1970s sent the small firm reeling; James retrenched and rode... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Business historians can profit from careful analyses of government and personal archives to reconstruct the early "start-up" phases of firms—and to uncover the role that other organizational forms, such as partnerships, played in allowing these View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
marketing and other expenses to grow the business, and to develop a more accurate estimate of firm value. Using a model for valuing networked customers, Gupta found that in an auction scenario, buyers and sellers had almost equal value... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
On December 6, four firms became the first recipients of the Porter Prize, a new award that recognizes innovation in Japanese companies. Matsui Securities Co., Ltd., and Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd., were named the winners in the... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
seems inevitable—a natural part of "creative destruction." But closer examination reveals a disturbing truth: companies large and small are shuttering more quickly than ever. What does it take to buck this trend? One answer is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne