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  • January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
  • Case

Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Innovation And Invention; Investment; Ownership; Science; Science Bassed Business; Markets; Relationships; Capital; Private Equity; Technological Innovation; Investment Return; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Science-Based Business; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

size and close proximity can help smaller brands instead of harming them. We find that support for small brands goes up when faced with a competitive threat from large brands, versus when they are in competition View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

they do best and become increasingly engaged in a specific issue. Alignment. The nonprofit's challenge is to strengthen its economic value to match the efficacy of its social value. Corporations need to bring social value in line View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the various choices they face with respect to alternative modes of collaboration. Collaborative innovation can take a wide variety of forms, each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

and payday is courtesy of Assistant Professor Doug J. Chung, who reviewed 117 schools with Division I football and basketball teams, matching athletic performance with revenue... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education
  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

Business is about making money, not measuring macho. The scrap heap of business disasters is littered with managers whose ego drive overwhelmed good business sense. Founder and former chief executive Ray Noorda had a wonderful business in... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

Case 613-036 EnerNOC is an energy company with an innovative business model: it serves as an intermediary between electric utilities and electricity users. It contracts with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

why the company decided to part with 1,800 Intuit employees, or about 10 percent of its workforce: The company was redirecting staff to two “big bets” in AI. These examples, coupled with tracking data... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

with their basic knowledge of the operating characteristics of these various industries to match each firm to the correct industry. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216014-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2010
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

the nature of the problem, match solution techniques with problems, seek diversity in our feedback, and use technology where possible. Among other things, he argues, we ignore the subtle and ignored biases... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Mar 2018
  • Blog Post

Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1

Hosting a company recruiting event is a great way to build brand awareness and engage with HBS students. At the same time, we know that event planning requires a commitment from your team in preparing materials, securing speakers,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

July 31, 2017 AIDS A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS By: Alsan, Marcella, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

Goodyear introduced its first belted-bias tire in 1967, Firestone's Research and Development group responded with a matching product in a matter of months and provided a second generation belted bias tire... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

Kominers, and Ross Rheingans-Yoo Abstract—This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2

of work experience before HBS. The case method hinges on the fact that our classrooms are full of students with very diverse backgrounds. We have army officers, retailers, engineers, teachers and consultants View Details
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

ability to benefit from private information. Consistent with these expectations, we find that abnormal returns to insider purchases-used to proxy for private information-are reduced following IFRS adoption. Similar results are derived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 8, 2025
  • Article

Why Retailers Are Turning to Third-Party Marketplaces

By: Antonio Moreno
Some traditional retailers—including Walmart, Target, and Best Buy—are adopting third-party marketplaces, which connect customers with external sellers and thereby offer customers a much broader selection. Many other traditional retailers are considering whether to... View Details
Keywords: Marketplace Matching; Distribution Channels; Customer Focus and Relationships; Cost vs Benefits; Retail Industry
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Harvard Business School

positions with IBM, Exxon, Cummins Engine, and the United States Department of Commerce. Stansbury is a member of the board of directors of the Intelligent Transportation System Consortium, the Minority Business Technology Transfer... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

suggest matches with employers based on the nature of the crime, the amount of time since the conviction, and the nature of the job. For instance, “a low rating might be displayed for an individual convicted... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment
  • Working Paper

Visual Uniqueness in Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces: Machine Learning Model Development, Validation, and Application

By: Flora Feng, Charis Li and Shunyuan Zhang
Peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces have seen exponential growth in recent years featured by unique offerings from individual providers. Despite the perceived value of uniqueness, scalable quantification of visual uniqueness in P2P platforms like Airbnb has been largely... View Details
Keywords: Peer-to-peer Markets; Marketplace Matching; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Marketing
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