Publications

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

connect him to HBS alum and former TB12 Strategic Advisor, Danny Haluska (MBA 2018) to learn more about the company’s path forward. “TB12 was nearing an inflection point, going from an enigma happening in Foxborough, Massachusetts to... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Aug 1998
News

A Roaring Success in the Windy City

at the 112-year-old company. Bain Capital founder and former Massachusetts senatorial candidate W. Mitt Romney (MBA '74, JD '75) noted that much of Bain's business comes from companies that need help after resisting for too long the... View Details

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

requiring more exams and more years of training. Occupational licensing is oftentimes at the state level, so if you are licensed in Massachusetts it’s not obvious if you can work in Nevada. And there are a lot of costs attached to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

March 2022 (Revised December 2022)
Case

Perch

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Stacy Straaberg and Julia Kelley

In May 2021, Perch CEO Chris Bell needed to decide whether his e-commerce aggregator company, which bought and scaled Amazon Marketplace brands, should acquire up to three acquisition targets. The prospective acquisitions, Web Deals Direct, HomeCo, and Future Brands,... View Details

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Cross-Registration | MBA

only in MBA Program Elective Curriculum (2nd Year) courses and is contingent upon meeting the following criteria: Students must be in good standing at their home school. Students must be enrolled in a graduate level degree program at one of the following: Harvard... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

Obama, by contrast, is the most liberal U.S. senator. When it comes to the presidential arena, of course, HBS alumni are well-represented in the Republican Party, including President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) and former Massachusetts... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average South End family's income. In Massachusetts as a whole, one recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

20 Nov 2015
News

Room to Grow

values of local, sustainable, healthy food, they can have a huge economic, environmental, and health benefit throughout their institutions.” The University of Massachusetts at Amherst—the largest institutional food operation in the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

June 2015 (Revised January 2016)
Case

To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home

By: Charles F. Wu, Steven Hirsch, Beatrice Liem, Kevin Ryan and Derrick Snyder

Peter and Kate Rose are a young couple looking to buy their first home in the Boston area. They have narrowed down a target list to three homes, but are also considering whether it makes sense to buy a home in the first place. They must make decisions regarding which... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Assets; Investing; Personal Investing; Brokerage; Housing; Property; Private Ownership; Investment; Real Estate Industry; United States; Boston; New England; Massachusetts; North America

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

also inform infrastructure investors—or even abutters of projects—who want to see their funds go directly to X bus or Y power plant or Z interchange. Consider the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Commuter Rail stop, which is... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

December 1995
Teaching Note

Bourland Companies, The TN

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

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Keywords: Real Estate Industry; Massachusetts; North and Central America

February 1995 (Revised September 1995)
Case

The Bourland Companies

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

Michael Bourland, the president of the Bourland Companies, needs to refinance two properties, an office building in southern New Hampshire and a retail property in Massachusetts. He is considering three alternatives: a renewal of a bank mini-perm, a 15-year mortgage... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Property; Mortgages; Family Business; Financial Management; Family Ownership; Real Estate Industry; Massachusetts; North and Central America

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

current challenges and increase the country's prosperity over the next decade. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706491 Massachusetts General Hospital and the Enbrel Royalty Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

Massachusetts Water Resource Authority, installing and maintaining renewable energy systems across the state. I also worked for a non-profit think tank, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), on renewable energy policy and convening of... View Details

2014
Working Paper

The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano

Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts

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January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
Case

Juno (A): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In March 2020, Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal were in the midst of preparing the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup, Juno. Both current MBA students at Harvard Business School, the duo founded Juno in 2018 to leverage student bargaining power... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

to HBS alumni." As it happens, Light's chair honors an industry pioneer from the 1950s to 1960s (an era that Light identifies as the "first burst" of success for the mutual fund). During those years, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. (MBA '25) led the View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

December 2020 (Revised March 2022)
Teaching Note

Forecasting ClimaCell

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Christopher Stanton and James Barnett

A weather technology startup, ClimaCell considers the R&D trade-offs and financing implications of pursuing a proposed contract with a major automobile maker, rather than continuing its focus on building a scalable, all-purpose weather prediction engine. View Details

Keywords: Weather; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Startups; Research and Development; Finance; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Making; Strategy; United States; Israel; Massachusetts; Colorado