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- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
America's Largest Foreclosure faculty namesHarvard Business School Case 211-106 In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village (ST/PCV)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
strong complementarity, but it can arise for other reasons as well. Transaction cost economics and property rights theory advise that strong complements should be placed under unified governance, for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
work while she dedicated herself to finding the right learning situation for Katie. Eventually, she came to the conclusion that homeschooling would be the best choice. But several of the experts she consulted disagreed. Katie would... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
put luggage on wheels and they changed the nature of how people travel. Now I drag it around. Those were two things that existed, right? It wasn't a new technology. It wasn't some new intellectual property... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
Means, whose 1932 book The Modern Corporation and Private Property has been lauded as the most important business book of all time, our paper unveils new research on the legal framework underpinning fiduciary duty around the world. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
was one of the first days of his tenure, and already novice HBS Dean John McArthur was facing a group of fired-up students with a bone to pick. Where, the students wanted to know, was the Starting New Ventures course, listed right there... View Details
- 18 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
A Peek Inside Peek Weekend
case in 2017. Anne Dickinson Meltz (Wellesley College) When I first decided to apply to Harvard Business School’s Peek program, I had certain thoughts on my mind. I was thinking about whether or not an MBA program was right for me. I was... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Fundamental principles of intellectual property rights and agricultural subsidies are described, along with the challenges of creating and operating multilateral institutions.... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
early to commercialize it," says Anquetil. "The company was not a great success." He knew he was missing something: formal business training. "I had picked up some knowledge along the way, but I wanted the right knowledge," he says. "HBS... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
16 million internet properties pass through the company’s network, which acts like a neighborhood watch for the internet—spotting potential threats but also helping websites run faster and better. It was named one of the world’s most... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
but they are very concerned about competitors' ability to benefit from LEGO Group's R&D investments or alternately interfere with its freedom to operate. The case frames important intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
various courses by getting regularly from industry problems which are current and illustrative?” By 1923, two-thirds of the School’s courses were taught by the case method, supported by field-based research that had already begun to influence business scholarship and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
My wife and I had so many conversations about what we wanted to do because we felt like we could be comfortable right where we were. We were settling into our life in Louisiana and we had a baby. But we also felt like it would be an... View Details
- 26 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access
other part of diversity and part of the human experience. Landon Hollingsworth (MBA/MPA-ID 2024): And it is a facet of a person's identity. It's not a condition. It's not something to be solved. It's something to be celebrated. Teresa Danso-Danquah: If 1 in 4 people... View Details
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Institutional Voice | About
endeavor requires a commitment to the values of free inquiry, intellectual expertise, and productive argument among divergent points of view. The University and its leaders have a responsibility to speak out to protect and promote this... View Details
- January 2011
- Supplement
Matrix Capital Management (C)
By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-060, January 2011.
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Werker's study. "Legal rights were weaker, it took more time to register property [and] more money to start a business, and there were higher corporate taxes and informal payments to government... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma
By: Dante Roscini and John Masko
In August 2019, the leadership of Hester Pharmaceuticals (Hester) had a problem. Italy promised to be a key market for their new breakthrough oncology drug Akrozumab, but for almost two years, its single-payer healthcare system had been unable to agree with Hester on a... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Price; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Monopoly; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Human Needs; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Italy
Roscini, Dante, and John Masko. "Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 721-001, January 2021. (Revised June 2021.)