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  • March 2006 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

International Place (A): Boston Real Estate Playoff

First International Place, one of Boston's premier office buildings, was the subject of a control contest in 2005, as the New York real estate firm Tishman Speyer purchased the mortgage on the property through a sealed bid auction process and then sought to foreclose... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Mortgages; Auctions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy
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  • 26 Jul 2011
  • News

The Debate Continues: Do You Prefer Superstar Individuals or Effective Teams?

  • 18 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

that Uber was charging people in poor neighborhoods systematically higher prices than those in richer areas. Whether it's purposeful or not, we don't know for every company, obviously, but we believe that it’s likely not intended. That said, the problem for the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne

    Jim Matheson

    Jim joined the HBS Faculty in 2019 and teaches the EC courses Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a faculty affiliate of the Business & Environment Initiative.  He is an active investor, and Board director & advisor for... View Details

    • 30 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Future of IT Consulting

    say, a product firm. Consequently, a product firm may not be attractive to various knowledge workers who prefer to work in the consulting environment. A fourth driver is the demand for process and behavior change that IT implementation... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
    • 02 Jan 2011
    • News

    There's Reason to Be Optimistic

    • 08 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 8, 2010

    by overseas Chinese in China. Our paper takes advantage of a large dataset—over 50,000 firms over a period of eight years—that is comprised of two types of foreign firms with investments in China—those owned... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2010
    • Supplement

    Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Customer Lifetime Value Analysis (CW)

    By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
    Customers are increasingly being viewed as assets that bring value to the firm. Customer lifetime value is a metric which allows managers to understand the overall value of their customer base and relate it to three customer strategies firms employ: asset acquisition -... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Framework; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Value
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      Benjamin C. Esty

      Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

      Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services

        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        • Research Summary

        Overview

        By: Jorge Tamayo
        Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

        Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
        • October 2024
        • Article

        Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011).

        By: Timo O. Vuori and Michael Tushman
        We studied Nokia’s decision to adopt the Windows platform in 2011 to induce new theory on the emotional dynamics of incumbent firms’ strategic decision making at platform transitions. We find that platform companies’ entry into an established industry activates a... View Details
        Keywords: Emotions; Technology Adoption; Corporate Strategy; Transition
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        • May 1998 (Revised May 1999)
        • Case

        Biopure Corp.

        By: John T. Gourville
        It is early 1998 and Biopure Corp., a small biopharmaceutical firm with no sales revenues in its ten-year history, has just received government approval to release Oxyglobin, a revolutionary new "blood substitute" designed to replace the need for donated animal blood... View Details
        Keywords: Segmentation; Marketing Strategy; Engineering; Budgets and Budgeting; Sales; Transformation; Markets; Debates; Product Launch; Pharmaceutical Industry
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        • 29 Mar 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850

        Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
        • 09 Oct 2001
        • Research & Ideas

        Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

        In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring,... View Details
        Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
        • March 2006
        • Module Note

        Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World

        By: Alan D. MacCormack
        Describes the second module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The course... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Perspective; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Managerial Roles; Product Design; Business Startups; Organizational Design
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        • 2022
        • Article

        Dynamic Pricing Algorithms, Consumer Harm, and Regulatory Response

        By: Alexander MacKay and Samuel N. Weinstein
        Pricing algorithms are rapidly transforming markets, from ride-sharing apps, to air travel, to online retail. Regulators and scholars have watched this development with a wary eye. Their focus so far has been on the potential for pricing algorithms to facilitate... View Details
        Keywords: Competition Policy; Regulation; Algorithmic Pricing; Dynamic Pricing; Economics; Law And Economics; Law And Regulation; Consumer Protection; Antitrust Law; Industrial Organization; Antitrust Issues And Policies; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Competition; Policy; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Microeconomics; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Law
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        • May 2003
        • Case

        Renault-Nissan Alliance, The

        By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan
        On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, the board of directors of Renault-Nissan BV (RNBV) met for the first time to discuss the state of the alliance between Renault SA and Nissan Motors-two of the world's largest automakers. RNBV was a 50/50 joint venture company established in... View Details
        Keywords: Joint Ventures; Global Strategy; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Business or Company Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Auto Industry
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        • January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
        • Case

        Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

        By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
        Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Innovation And Invention; Investment; Ownership; Science; Science Bassed Business; Markets; Relationships; Capital; Private Equity; Technological Innovation; Investment Return; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Science-Based Business; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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        • 2020
        • Working Paper

        Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

        By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
        Recent work argues that experimentation is the appropriate framework for entrepreneurial strategy. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of experimentally testing... View Details
        Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance
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