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- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
When I was 17, I moved to the US to study. Back home in Greece, the country was succumbing to a financial crisis. I questioned whether I would ever be able to move back to my country. Many years later, I find myself as Director of... View Details
- December 1961 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
Plowman Poultry Farm
A poultry farmer wanted to expand production greatly and sought a large extension of his line of credit from his bank in addition to his existing loan on which he had not made payment. The Board of Directors must review a detailed account of events leading to this... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Commercial Banking; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Hayes, Samuel L., III. "Plowman Poultry Farm." Harvard Business School Case 262-003, December 1961. (Revised January 1994.)
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
business leaders had to have demonstrated at least four consecutive years of top financial performance, and/or they had to have led a business or service that changed the way Americans lived, worked, or interacted in the twentieth... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
Gerald Nanninga, after citing a number of conditions for the idea's introduction, even ventured to describe the path by which the practice will be implemented this way: "It would start at places where people already do almost... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
day. If participants reached their weight loss goal by the end of the trial, they got to keep the money, thus doubling their deposits. But if they failed to reach the goal, they lost all the cash. Meanwhile, a control group of participants entered a weight loss program... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- December 2010
- Compilation
VCPE Strategy Vignettes I
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope
These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, the general partners must decide whether to invest in an intriguing opportunity that lies outside the firm's carefully developed... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Projects; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Investment Portfolio; Business or Company Management; China
Lerner, Josh, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon, and Lisa Strope. "VCPE Strategy Vignettes I." Harvard Business School Compilation 811-043, December 2010.
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace safety infractions, and View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
through financial panics, forecasting offered the idea that economic activity was not simply random, but followed discernable patterns that could be predicted. In a country whose population was moving from agriculture to industry,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
beliefs as well as how a customer's beliefs affect its order quantities. We identify two dimensions of supplier performance: consistency, the probability that a supplier delivers in the current period conditional on availability in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
1-3). In our final two studies, we highlight two boundary conditions for this effect: identifying a specific gift and using money as a gift. When gift recipients request one specific gift, rather than providing a list of possible gifts,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2006
- Case
Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion
By: Nancy F. Koehn and Erica Helms
Explores the creation and subsequent rise of Bumble and bumble, a trend-setting hair-care company. Analyzes the vision and achievements of the founding entrepreneur, Michael Gordon, and charts the evolution of the company within the $230 billion global beauty industry.... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Financial Condition; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Distribution; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Fashion Industry
Koehn, Nancy F., and Erica Helms. "Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 806-084, February 2006.
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
social impact frames on venture evaluations did not apply to men, was not due to perceptions of increased competence, and was not conditional on the gender of evaluators. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that social impact framing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
markets froze. To make matters worse, PIC cancelled the joint venture with Dow in December 2008. As a result, Dow was hurt on three fronts: first, it lost an important funding source for the proposed acquisition; second, Dow's financial... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Strömberg Publication:The Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
harshest months of the lockdown. The level of control Sandra and her coworkers have over their working conditions may sound like a reasonable baseline for all workers. Indeed, access to dignified work, democratized governance, and a job... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
at coping with industry change is not just due to such commonly cited barriers as insufficient resources, he says. "Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia, or management's tendency to respond to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boomor Bust?
"vulture capitalists." These entrepreneurs' frustrations are understandable: Most financiers do not understand the fragile growth process that start-ups experience. But entrepreneurs themselves have also contributed to their own... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
learning, can reorient research about the link between identity-group-based diversity and performance. How to Make Finance Work Authors:Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Once a sleepy old boys'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
exposure to workplace attributes that contribute to poor health. We used General Social Survey data to estimate differential exposures to workplace conditions, results from a meta-analysis that estimated the effect of workplace conditions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel