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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
venture capital firm. Furthermore, each of the investors in Greylock's first fund participated in all succeeding partnerships. Elfers was among the first to pioneer the limited partnership structure of the modern venture capital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
is a powerful distinction to be drawn between two potentially profitable cross-border functions that firms can perform: arbitrage, which involves capitalizing on differences or distance between countries, and replication, which involves... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
Organizing Multinational Companies: Building a Collaborative Advantage
By: Morten T. Hansen and Nitin Nohria
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
size of stock markets across countries and on the ownership structure of railways and other companies in France. In one of his books he argues that France was the largest "financial democracy" in the world, because of the large... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
far less open about revealing information about their activities. In many cases, it is extraordinarily difficult to find information about firms which are opaque to outsiders. In both countries, there is a particular distrust between the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
business model and analyzes how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. The research supports prevailing explanations of business groups, which identify the role of institutional voids, government policies, and contact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
to those funds. An alternative in more recent times is what Viceira calls “private equity in public markets.” In these cases, investment funds adopt processes similar to private equity firms but without taking a public company private.... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
channel institutions. As a result, channel managers can evolve and change their fulfillment of customer needs without having to change channel structure all at once. Of course, the institutions have to be trained, coached, compensated,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
structure with management and ownership formally represented in different organs. In the case of La Nación, the newspaper is owned by a corporation (La Nación S.A.), but the Saguier family, descending from its founder, controls both its... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
like a tragic situation that potentially could be solved with a bit more insight into how people actually make decisions, the structure of their constraints, and what really affects their behavior." Thus launched an academic career in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
played in accelerating innovation. We know that small, entrepreneurial firms are the source of much of the innovation in the economy—but our work suggested that in many industries the emergence of those View Details
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
communication patterns to determine why those people—and not others—play such important bridging roles. We think this work will give insight into how individuals can plot the course for more successful careers and how firms can guide the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
- Supplement
Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Business Earnings; Revenue Recognition; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Financial Condition; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Investment Activism; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Business History; Executive Compensation; Resignation and Termination; Annual Reports; Contracts; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry; Accounting Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-422, October 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
firms do to upgrade their IT-based business processes? Unfortunately, there is no easy answer. "It's not just about writing a check to an IT vendor," McElheran explains. "There's a complicated assembly of processes and people and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- May 2012
- Case
Quietly Brilliant: Transformational Change at HTC
By: Michael L. Tushman and Kerry Herman
The case examines smartphone maker HTC's 2006 decision to become a branded company. The case focuses on the cultural and organizational shifts HTC underwent to successfully make the transition from an ODM, founded in 1997, to a leading branded manufacturer (7% market... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan
Tushman, Michael L., and Kerry Herman. "Quietly Brilliant: Transformational Change at HTC." Harvard Business School Case 412-070, May 2012.
- January 2001 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Diageo plc
A major U.K.-based multinational is reevaluating its leverage policy as it restructures its business. The treasury team models the tradeoffs between the benefits and costs of debt financing, using Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the savings from the interest tax... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Multinational Firms and Management; Capital Structure; Restructuring; United Kingdom
Chacko, George C., Peter Tufano, and Joshua Musher. "Diageo plc." Harvard Business School Case 201-033, January 2001. (Revised August 2003.)
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
results illustrate how firms redesign their organizational structure through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their environment. We discuss several possible interpretations of these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2012
- Teaching Note
Kent Chemical: Organizing for International Growth (Brief Case)
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Laura Winig
Teaching Note for Product #4409 View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
of these firms face various issues—including management of exchange rate risk, how to structure their internal capital markets, how to do capital budgeting worldwide, and how to respond to varying regulatory... View Details