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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
alliance contracts, all of which concern early-stage research at small, biotechnology R&D companies. Staged investment is ubiquitous, but solutions to agency problems vary. The cycle of equity participation in alliances resembles what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
level. This gap has severely limited meaningful cost reduction throughout the system. The paper describes a new (for health care) approach that can accurately measure the costs incurred over the care cycle for a patient's condition.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
far from the remote peninsula on Chappaquiddick Island where he grew up. Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu (MBA 1999) (DC Comics) In this installment of the Poison Ivy story, Dr. Pamela Isley, Poison Ivy’s real name, is now a... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
agreement may represent the culmination of a massive negotiation campaign with multiple, related fronts: financial, shareholder, internal corporate, labor, supplier, political, and regulatory. Complex sales with long cycles and many... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911028-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B): http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911029-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911030-PDF-ENG Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time =/= View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
country, they will be met with violence and inevitably more lives will be lost. I hate that a man’s death must be turned into a spectacle on social media and the 24-hour news cycle for several days, rightfully prompting the mobilization... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
which all 88,000 workers are new, many are temporary, and half are volunteers, an entity that has no preexisting procedures and methods, no institutional memory, no long-term viewpoint, no established corporate culture, and, by definition, no future. "Think of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
to that time, things are more normalized and sane. We’re seeing more experienced, repeat entrepreneurs who have created valuable companies and been through the IPO cycle and the M&A cycle. I think entrepreneurship and innovation are still... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
internalize products' entire life cycle costs into market prices, with the ultimate objective of reducing their environmental burden. This article provides a framework to evaluate the potential for take-back regulations to actually lead... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
have been touched by the powerful winds of change. Widespread recessions are not new, of course. The United States, like most other industrial countries, has been buffeted by business cycles in different forms and to different degrees... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
cycles could leave on rural and postindustrial America. And having taught special education at a high school on New Mexico’s Navajo Nation reservation as part of Teach For America after finishing his undergraduate degree, he understood... View Details
- Web
2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
environment while driving performance. Private Equity throughout Economic Cycles Professor Victoria Ivashina No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info This talk is based on a draft of a book that explores the interplay... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
politicians from politically contested areas are also more likely to turn to toxic loans. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we show that politicians time the election cycle by implementing more transactions immediately before... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
decades, we find that the firm internalized the broader social discourse through iterated cycles of analysis and action, punctuated by evolving beliefs about gender and work. Outside experts and shifting social understandings played... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Art Nature Business
expands his explorations in Solid Geometry . For example, in his 2019 exhibition Portrait of a Room , which was inspired by the water cycle that regulates life on the planet, some of the works change in relation to the climate of the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
responsibilities for public health there is an urgent need to leverage IT infrastructure to meet new challenges. Historically lean funding cycles for public health has not allowed for fundamental information technology-based reach... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
unrestricted reserves outside of the endowment is crucial to providing HBS with sufficient liquidity to finance ongoing campus renewal and expansion projects and to capitalize on emerging strategic opportunities through economic cycles... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
Satchu, Reza, Tom Quinn, and Andrew Kosc. "Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 825-037, July 2024.