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- September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
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Cesaro e Associati
By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal
This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Restructuring; Small Business; Change; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ownership; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Family and Family Relationships; Consulting Industry; Europe; Italy
Wing, Christina R., and Amram Migdal. "Cesaro e Associati." Harvard Business School Case 623-021, September 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
infertility: eggs, sperm, and wombs. Sometimes, these components are sold along with IVF treatment—when a couple purchases eggs, for example, they are subsequently used for an IVF procedure—but they are often provided by individual brokers. Then there are the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
for a reduction in financial expenditures due to the subsidies accompanying loans. However, BNDES does not systematically lend to underperforming firms. Our results indicate that BNDES subsidizes firms that could fund their projects with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
crises and of the response of western and central Europe to their gas dependence-I find that firms are driving these political outcomes; those firms are motivated by profits but employ sociological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
possible alliances and partnerships); manufacturers (for manufacturing set-top boxes); non-U.S. licensees; and wholesale and retail distributors (for sales). With his promising venture running on fumes, Perlman's next obvious negotiation might have been with venture... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
history of practices that insulate companies from international competition. Small retailers have been protected from big retailers. The idea took hold that the Japanese approach [of restraining competition] was superior and that it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
clarify matters. There are many areas, like how firm performance connects to entrepreneurial personality, that are woefully understudied and ripe for major advances if the appropriate cross-disciplinary ingredients are assembled.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
competitiveness of firms in one sector can have implications for the competitiveness of firms in another. Industries and the suppliers of capabilities to the industries need each other. Kill a critical... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
cash flow. “My father had a CPA firm and occasionally acted as an angel investor,” she says. “In all, he helped start 30 different businesses in our area. He occasionally brought my sisters and me into the businesses as a learning... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
sustainability is more achievable "if the concept is integrated into the business model at inception." And as Laura Howard put it, "This works best in small companies who can design their entire business and brand around a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
database of startups and investors, to analyze collaboration patterns. The authors also sorted through press releases, news articles, and regulatory filings to augment and verify the data. Of the Crunchbase startups examined, 16 percent—1,689 companies—were acquired.... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
on clinician productivity in ambulatory settings. Study Design: We examined EHR use in primary care practices that implemented a web-based EHR from athenahealth (n = 42) over 3 years (695 practice-month observations). Practices were predominantly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
competitors in a certain area from capitalizing on the R&D infrastructure you set up. Ahuja also advises creating moderately sized research teams; not too large that they become bureaucratic and unproductive, but not too small that... View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
development. This concentration of expertise can be found in places like Silicon Valley, where clusters of experts and firms feed growth and spur innovation. Much of the damage to American competitiveness in the science and technology... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
primarily occurred for firms covered by financial analysts. Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Periodical:Industrial and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy and show that the firm may be better off setting high prices, allowing the network to survive, and acknowledging that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
business in society and why an organizational approach focusing on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues can—and should—be financially viable. Highlights Causality and Complicity The Tazreen Fire Purpose of the Firm Show Hide... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
around a culture shift. There are small wins, however. At September’s meeting, when the board began the process of hiring a new district lawyer, it did so under the guidelines of that resolution passed back in May—the one requiring the... View Details