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- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
capital firm investing in BIPOC founders in the education space. She is also the vice president of advocacy in the Women’s Student Association at HBS, and an author. “As a published fiction writer, I aim to... View Details
- March 1987 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc.
By: Kenneth A. Merchant, Krishna G. Palepu and Joseph P. Mulloy
Describes a dispute between the owners of the major league baseball teams and the players' union about the profitability of the baseball teams. The issue is important because of the ongoing collective bargaining negotiations. A consultant is brought in to decide... View Details
Keywords: State Ownership; Compensation and Benefits; Entrepreneurship; For-Profit Firms; Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Resource Allocation; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Labor and Management Relations; Financial Management; Sports; Sports Industry; Kansas
Merchant, Kenneth A., Krishna G. Palepu, and Joseph P. Mulloy. "Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 187-088, March 1987. (Revised July 1996.)
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310090-PDF-ENG Milliway Capital & Martin Smith: November 2008 G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-088 Martin Smith, a recent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
throughout the day and to explore the HBS experience with current students. Highlights from the second day included panel discussions on topics ranging from the union between the Internet and the urban market to accessing the world of View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
shared savings and capitated arrangements and away from fee-for-service, they will be better positioned not only to withstand any COVID aftershocks but also to gain patients during the recession. Leemore S. Dafny (@LeemoreDafny) is the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
customers' college-savings accounts. Firms like Salomon Smith Barney that manage these new so-called "529" savings plans would invest the rebates and maintain records showing enrolled families how much they had earned toward... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
was a member of the firm's executive committee. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation on Wall Street, Rose explained. Deregulation led to intense competitive pressures to which firms responded by... View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
Thirty years ago it appeared as if biotech would not only revolutionize healthcare, but also radically improve the very process of R&D itself. This hasn't happened. Though some firms such as Amgen have created dramatic breakthroughs,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
industrial firm Ellaktor and Standard and Poor's shows. With the venture capital industry being underdeveloped, Greek entrepreneurs were also excluded from financing. (See here... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
to manage a British government effort to promote the venture capital industry considers the progress made to date, as well as how the program can be adjusted. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
anything having to do with globalization. But in 2006, some new areas of HBS faculty research began to emerge that also struck a chord with readers. These included the business of open source, how network effects impact everything from View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Marketing; Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization; Real Property Asset Management; Venture Capital and Private Equity; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; and Running and Growing the Small... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Chu, Joe Lassiter, and Mike Roberts. Initially, Sahlman recalls, there was some resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner's Venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
months of the external financing activity. It may be that in an attempt to garner investment banking business, analysts have strategically become overly optimistic as they sense that firms are considering View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
consult to, or invest in such organizations (e.g., payers, biopharmaceutical and device companies, health information technology, venture capital and private equity). Educational Objectives This course will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
“Business Solutions for Inclusive Prosperity.” The intersection of business and society is a topic Chu has been immersed in, as a practitioner and a researcher, for almost 30 years. He is a partner emeritus of the IGNIA Fund, a venture... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
continuously renew its strategy. This note identifies some patterns that distinguish companies whose renewal efforts made headway from firms whose efforts fell flat. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011 it raised $30 million in venture capital for the network of 50 websites that featured an entertaining array of user-generated content.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne