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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
contemporary state is in many ways antithetical to the goals of professional education itself,” writes Khurana. The excerpts that follow trace business schools from their early idealism to the more recent abandonment of their... View Details
- December 1996 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
USG Corporation
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Tara L. Nells
In 1988, USG was the world's largest gypsum producer and one of the world's largest building-products companies. On May 2, 1988, USG's board of directors announced a proposed leveraged recapitalization plan to thwart a hostile cash tender offer by Desert Partners. With... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Cash Flow; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Tara L. Nells. "USG Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 297-052, December 1996. (Revised July 1997.)
- August 2004 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Intel Capital, 2005 (A)
By: David B. Yoffie, Barbara Mack, Adriana Boden and Lee Rand
All companies in a technology-intensive industry must worry about the development of their ecosystems and, in particular, the availability and cost of complementary assets. One strategy for promoting complements is to invest in them directly. Explores Intel's strategy... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Venture Capital; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Investment; Assets; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Yoffie, David B., Barbara Mack, Adriana Boden, and Lee Rand. "Intel Capital, 2005 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-408, August 2004. (Revised April 2007.)
- February 2011
- Teaching Note
Citigroup's Exchange Offer (TN)
By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for 210009. View Details
- September 2023
- Case
Healthy.io: The Negotiation for the Medical Selfie
By: Amit Goldenberg and Kumba Sennaar
Healthy.io, an Israeli digital health company, prepares to enter the U.S. market with its chronic kidney disease test. A product safety approval is delayed, putting the company’s cash runway at risk. How should the CEO negotiate his offer to insurance companies ahead... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Operations; Business Startups; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; Israel; United Kingdom; United States
Goldenberg, Amit, and Kumba Sennaar. "Healthy.io: The Negotiation for the Medical Selfie." Harvard Business School Case 924-001, September 2023.
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Fighting income inequality with early education reform
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) believes the early years are a critical time to correct income disparity. “There is a much higher return on investment in early childhood. It’s more expensive to intervene later,” says Dias Griffin, founder and managing partner at Aragon... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern Financial System David Moss Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
business model produced a third consecutive year of double-digit revenue growth despite a slowing economy. That model is based on faculty research that brings professors into contact with business leaders across the United States and... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
this crisis has only reinforced my passion and commitment to closing inequity gaps and improving access in my home state of California. My parents were small business owners - so I know how important access to View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the United View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
markets for its principal assets? The case also examines how management at State Street responded to the deterioration in its capital ratios generated by "fair value" accounting. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
venture capital and adapts them for established organizations, leveraging these two distinct skills as a form of management for building in a future that is uncertain. Faculty Books Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
pressing business challenges, such as managing creative employees, navigating the IPO process, and protecting intellectual property. Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur by Dermot Berkery (MBA ’91) (McGraw-Hill) This... View Details
- October 2019
- Supplement
Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Transactions (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Impax Laboratories was a technology-based pharmaceutical company that used a “dual platform” strategy to sell both generic and branded treatments. While Impax had grown organically for most of its history, it was beginning to use major acquisitions for growth. In the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
It’s Wall Street doctrine that small firms struggle to raise capital at reasonable rates and are often rejected for credit lines and loans because banks think their risk profile is too high. “If you really want to drive investment,... View Details
- August 2018
- Case
Tapping Growth at Lord Hobo Brewing Company
By: Ethan Rouen and Susanna Gallani
Lord Hobo Brewing Company accounts for its inventory process as it prepares to create its first set of professional financial statements for investors. View Details
Keywords: Inventory; Start-ups; Craft Brewing; Investing; GAAP; Brand Management; Accounting; Working Capital; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Business Startups; Business and Shareholder Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston; New England; United States
Rouen, Ethan, and Susanna Gallani. "Tapping Growth at Lord Hobo Brewing Company." Harvard Business School Case 119-028, August 2018.
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
opportunity to learn how to raise institutional capital for their businesses. In two inaugural cohorts that summer— one in San Francisco, the other in New York City —18 female entrepreneurs participated in 12 workshop sessions organized... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
overload. Using a standard cost of $25 per thousand viewers, which is generally charged by broadcast companies for a 30 second ad on primetime television in the United States (a value cheaper than Japan and more expensive than Brazil)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
The Support Economy by Shoshana Zuboff (Viking) Enterprises shaped by the principles of managerial capitalism have built tremendous wealth in the United States and much of the rest of the world over the past... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and $100 billion. What triggered this explosive... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young