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    Paul A. Gompers

    Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
    Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry

      Brian J. Hall

      Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

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        W. Carl Kester

        Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management

          William A. Sahlman

          William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

          Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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            Richard G. Hamermesh

            Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

            Keywords: health care
            • Program

            Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

            industry models, from venture capital to growth equity to buyouts, as well as the key issues related to investment criteria, management strategies, and decision-making processes. For executives with significant experience in the private... View Details
            Keywords: Finance; Finance

              Josh Lerner

              Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on... View Details

              Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
              • 17 Oct 2017
              • First Look

              First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

              organizations adopt these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies: (1) executive... View Details
              Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
              • July 1990 (Revised March 2000)
              • Case

              John M. Case Company

              By: Samuel L. Hayes III
              The owner of a small, privately held company decides to sell out, and a group of the company's top managers structures a leveraged buyout. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
              Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Management Teams; Business Exit or Shutdown
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              • 01 Oct 2001
              • Research & Ideas

              How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

              In its public communications with analysts, United Air Lines' management could not aggressively tout the size of the wage/benefit concessions that employees made to acquire the airline's stock, since many employees entered the View Details
              Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
              • 18 Apr 2023
              • Research & Ideas

              The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

              isn’t necessary when looking for the right top executive; industry expertise often counts more. Many of these leaders have previous public-company management experience, and they deliver outsized returns for themselves and the PE-backed... View Details
              Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
              • 25 Mar 2013
              • Research & Ideas

              How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

              its financial problems outside of bankruptcy court. One of the world's largest real-estate companies, Realogy was acquired in the spring of 2007 by the private equity firm Apollo Management in a $7 billion leveraged buyout. The View Details
              Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
              • 16 Oct 2023
              • HBS Case

              Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

              Keyra Lynn Johnson. “The frontline perspective can give management important insight into the employee experience and what customers really want from the airline.” Delta has reclassified most jobs that had previously required a degree and... View Details
              Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
              • 01 Mar 2024
              • News

              In Harmony

              Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
              Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
              • March 2011
              • Supplement

              Countrywide plc (CW)

              By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
              One of the world's leading investors in distressed companies, Oaktree Capital Management is contemplating a "loan to own" investment in the debt f Countrywide plc, a financially troubled residential real estate agent based in the U.K. Only sixteen months earlier,... View Details
              Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Assets; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Portfolio; Crisis Management; Strategy; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; United Kingdom
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              Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

              Development (57) Leadership Style (56) Leadership (446) Leading Change (57) Learning (16) Legal Liability (12) Leveraged Buyouts (4) Life Cycle (1) Literacy (1) Local Range (1) Logistics (20) Loss (1) Luxury (12) Macroeconomics (10) View Details
              • 02 Feb 2016
              • First Look

              February 2, 2016

              negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in a simulated power-asymmetric... View Details
              Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
              • August 1996 (Revised December 1999)
              • Case

              J Boats, Inc.

              By: Robert L. Simons
              During the 20-year evolution of a family-owned, entrepreneurial sailboat company, two founders leverage their design and marketing skills to build one of the most recognized brands in the recreational boating industry. The founder then considers management succession... View Details
              Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Risk Management; Financial Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Capital Markets; Valuation; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry
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              • April 1991 (Revised July 1991)
              • Supplement

              RJR Nabisco Board: Guardians of the Gate? (B)

              By: Jay W. Lorsch
              The special committee of the RJR Nabisco board has extended the bidding deadline for the company by 10 days. The case explains the process by which Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the management group bid against one another for ownership of RJR Nabisco. The board of... View Details
              Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Situation or Environment; Bids and Bidding; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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              • Web

              Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

              focusing on management buyouts in the United Kingdom and France. Prior to that, Daphne served as an Associate in Accenture's (formerly Andersen Consulting) Strategic Services Group, specializing in business... View Details