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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52539 2017 The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers Paul R. Lawrence: A Career of Rigor, Relevance, and Passion By: Tushman, Michael Abstract—Paul R. Lawrence was one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
developed a database of the CEOs of the same companies to find out everything I could about them from a demographic and career management standpoint. What part of the country were they from? What was their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
clamor for accountability, it is tempting to accept the popular normative view that more accountability is better. But is it feasible, or even desirable, for nonprofit organizations to be accountable to everyone for everything? The challenge for leadership and View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
turn, that education helped to facilitate new social networks—the opportunity to associate with individuals of influence and access to new career prospects. The Civil Rights and Affirmative Action legislation of the 1960s and the Title IX... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
books about leadership. First, Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World by Donald Sull and Kathy Eisenhardt distills years of research down to several core principles, accompanied by a wealth of real-life examples, to help us all make sense of View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the venture capital industry who were on... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least 2011. In addition, we examine changes in domains’ tendency to “diversify” their pool of nameservers—how frequently domains employ DNS View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- July 2024
- Case
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
Satchu, Reza, Tom Quinn, and Andrew Kosc. "Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 825-037, July 2024.