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  • October 2014 (Revised June 2021)
  • Teaching Note

Making Room for the Baby Boom: Senior Living

By: Charles F. Wu and Ben Eppler
Tom Alperin's firm National Development is an experienced multifamily and commercial developer in the Northeast. It has a strong track record for working on challenging projects, delivering high quality products and generating strong returns for his investors. The firm... View Details
Keywords: Housing; Age; Investment Return; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 2009
  • Article

Empirical Capital Structure: A Review

By: Christopher Parsons and Sheridan Titman
This survey provides a synthesis of the empirical capital structure literature. Our synthesis is divided into three parts. The first part examines the evidence that relates to the cross-sectional determinants of capital structure. This literature identifies and... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Corporate Finance
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  • November 2012
  • Teaching Note

Brink's Company: Activists Push for a Spin-off (TN)

By: Suraj Srinivasan
The case this Teaching Note addresses studies the decision of the security services company Brink's Corporation to spin off its home security division from the rest of the company. The decision followed intense pressure on the company by three activist hedge funds that... View Details
Keywords: Activist Investors; Spin-off; Leveraged Recapitalization; Debt; Hedge Funds; Conglomerates; Valuation; Restructuring; Accounting; Business Strategy; Investment Activism; Service Industry
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  • December 2012
  • Article

On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is right can be fairly nebulous; we consider two issues that we see as key: efficiency and fairness. We... View Details
Keywords: Decision Support; Cost vs Benefits; Fairness; Resource Allocation; Performance Efficiency; Air Transportation Industry
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  • May 2010
  • Supplement

Tim Westergren of Pandora Radio

By: Willy C. Shih and Halle Alicia Tecco
Pandora Radio is at a crossroads. Founder Tim Westergren has just been told by a well known VC to get rid of his unprofitable customers in order to get his costs down, but Westergren is not sure that such actions are consistent with his company's business model.... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Model; Customers; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Cost Management; Outcome or Result; Customization and Personalization; Growth and Development Strategy; Music Industry
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  • Article

The Information Technology Ecosystem: Structure, Health, and Performance

By: Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards

A number of modern industries are organized as complex networks of firms whose integrated efforts are necessary to deliver value to end customers. The complexity of these networks, or business ecosystems, and the associated interdependencies among firms, make... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Networks; Value; Customers; Performance Productivity; Product; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Competition; Business Model; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry
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  • 31 May 2021
  • News

How Three Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre Continue to Fight for Reparations 100 Years Later

  • Web

Business & Environment

once-stable climate enabled the rise of predictable infrastructure, industry, and culture. Now, with escalating climate variability, he reveals that the assumptions underpinning our global systems subject to increasing risk. Using data... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

honing with several colleagues for more than a decade. "The fact that you're 18 to 35 years old with a college degree does not cause you to buy a product," Christensen says. "It may be correlated with the decision, but it doesn't cause... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • Program

Families in Business

meals. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your... View Details
  • January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
  • Background Note

Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana
Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity
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  • Program

Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

you via email with the Admissions Committee’s decision. Fee, Payment, and Cancellations The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance?

Keywords: by Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine & Michael W. Toffel

    Teaming

    New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change

    Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges... View Details

    • Program

    The HR-Executive Suite Connection

    Payment, and Cancellations The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the... View Details
    • 21 Jul 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

    side of the ledger, much of this reform is yet to be determined. Many parts of the legislation are subject to study and the discretion of the regulators. For example, many elements of the so-called Volcker... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 28 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Self-Serving Altruism? When Unethical Actions That Benefit Others Do Not Trigger Guilt

    Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Shahar Ayal & Dan Ariely
    • February 2020
    • Case

    Rotoplas: Bringing More and Better Water

    By: John D. Macomber and Carla Larangeira
    Private companies were being turned to for potable water in the world’s megacities due to impacts of climate change including droughts and flooding. Mexico City had endured several water-related crises, with its population suffering from floods, droughts, water... View Details
    Keywords: Water Supply; Water Management; Finance; Infrastructure; Urban Development; Business and Government Relations; Latin America; Mexico
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    • 27 Mar 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: March 27, 2007

    Japanese competition. In the second research stream, conducted with Wheelwright, Bruce Chew, Takahiro Fujimoto, Kent Bowen and Marco Iansiti, Clark made the case that product development could be managed in new ways that would lead to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Jul 2014
    • Blog Post

    Mid-summer Update

    I’m flying back from a mid-summer report out at Danaher’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The past three days were full of reflection and feedback, as well as some fun after-hour jaunts in the city. For some of the interns, it was a... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing