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  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

and the availability of limited liability to raise finance for the new business opportunities which appeared at this time. They functioned in part as venture capitalists identifying opportunities View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54559 Harvard Business School Case 118-016 Data Science at Target Paritosh Desai joined Target.com in 2013 as VP of Business Intelligence, Analytics &... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the company received for its Series C round. The case then describes iyzico’s origins View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

for-profit entity, while expanding its lines of business to realms other than insurance. By both exploring the history of the insurance industry and Verisk's unique position within it, the case provides... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-003 ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55258 Summer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Global Business By Andrew Cainey (MBA 1989) Christiane Prange Agenda Publishing Matters of ideology and security have become deeply entwined in China ’s economic and View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

the internet. We wrote a series of Harvard Business School case studies between 2009 and 2011 exploring viral videos—United Breaks Guitars, the JK Wedding Dance, and how Ford... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
  • Research Summary

The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

employees, while maintaining the safety and flexibility to weather an uncertain path ahead. Jeffrey Polzer (@jeffpolzer) is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 2022
  • Chapter

Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation

By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are... View Details
Keywords: Economic Policy; High-growth; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Economic Growth; Policy; United States
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  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as they... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • May 2017 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Unilever and the Kraft Heinz Takeover Bid (A)

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case describes Kraft Heinz Company’s (KHC) February 2017 unsolicited $143 billion takeover offer to acquire Unilever. The offer was made to Unilever CEO Paul Polman by KHC chairman Alexandre Behring, who was also co-founder and CEO of Brazilian-based 3G Capital... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

tender their shares or not. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-079 The Future of GE's Global Growth Organization No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

onset of the crisis. PE-backed companies consequentially experienced higher asset growth and increased market share during the crisis. Business History, the Great Divergence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

the nature of the organization's business and how the organization intends to succeed and outperform competitors. It articulates the critical elements for a company's View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 12 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

growing urgency for versatile business leaders who can operate at the intersection of science and society- and as MS/MBA’s, we are up to that challenge. This summer, I had the... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Geradin Abstract—Many of the largest and most successful businesses today rely on providing services at no charge to at least a portion of their users. For consumers, it is easy to celebrate free service. At... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

First 1,000 Customers, we explored how these two-sided platforms got their start and attracted a significant number of early adopters based on a Harvard Business School case that professor Teixeira wrote... View Details
Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Construction of Wine Culture Since the 1960s, the United States has seen spectacular growth in wine consumption. Al Hisano explores how businesses reinveted the image of wine. This creation of the new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne