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  • September 2013
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
Keywords: Management; Startup; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leadership Skills; Nutrition Database; Nutritionist In Your Pocket; Nutritional Educational Platform; Shazam Of Food; Weight Loss; Iphone; Android; Applications; App Development; Nutrition Labeling; Nutritional Information; Obesity; Epidemic; Applications and Software; Nutrition; Business Startups; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Boston; Massachusetts
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  • December 2007 (Revised January 2008)
  • Background Note

Evaluating M&A Deals-Announcement Effects, Risk Arbitrage and Event Risk

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
The announcement of merger or acquisition conveys new information to the capital markets. This note describes how the stock prices of a Buyer and Target behave after the announcement of a deal. First, for an all-stock deal that is certain to go through, the note... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Announcements; Capital Markets; Stocks; Price; Risk and Uncertainty
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    William E. Fruhan

    Professor WILLIAM E. FRUHAN, JR. is George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University.  He has served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of... View Details

    Keywords: aircraft; airline; chemical; electronics; grocery; medical supplies; oil ＆ gas; pharmaceuticals; retailing; steel
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    climaterising.org. Guest: Steven Rothstein, Managing Director, Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets How RMI Collaborates with Companies to Accelerate the Energy Transition 27 JUL 2022 | Climate... View Details
    • 26 Jul 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

    commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time reaching key measures of success, such as raising capital or... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health

      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
      • 28 Aug 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: August 28

      of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 28 Jun 2016
      • First Look

      June 28, 2016

      synergies as well as a recently added contingent value right (CVR) designed to “sweeten” the offer and decide how to respond. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-068 Saudi Aramco and Corporate... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 May 2023
      • HBS Case

      How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

      One thing that stuck with Pete Stavros from the dinner-table conversations of his youth was that capitalism seemed fundamentally broken for his father, who earned an hourly wage working construction. The incentive was not there for... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • 20 Aug 2020
      • Blog Post

      Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.

      marketing dollars (and influence) from clinics or drug companies. While in treatment, I was a very junior partner (pretty much sweeping the floors) at Sequoia Capital and I’d learned that small teams change... View Details
      • Web

      South Asia - Global

      business issues, helping to build intellectual capital on this important region. Further, the IRC is home to an HBS style classroom, allowing for regional business leaders to experience our faculty and the hallmark case study method in... View Details
      • December 2007
      • Article

      Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil during Early Industrialization

      By: Aldo Musacchio and Ian Read
      The historiographies of Mexico and Brazil have implicitly stated that business networks were crucial for the initial industrialization of these two countries. Recently, differing visions on the importance of business networks have arisen. In the case of Mexico, the... View Details
      Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Networks; Business History; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Supply and Industry; Banks and Banking; Brazil; Mexico
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      • June 2019 (Revised October 2019)
      • Technical Note

      Note on the Future of Commerce

      By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and Nathaniel Schwalb
      In 2019, the retail and consumer product industries were undergoing a significant transformation. Over the past 50 years, what was once a highly fragmented industry began to consolidate, digitize, and increase convenience while lowering costs. The winning enterprises... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; Demand and Consumers; Demographics; Transformation; Global Range; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Leading Change; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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      • 10 Feb 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Investing in Improvement: Strategy and Resource Allocation in Public School Districts

      Keywords: by Stacey Childress; Education
      • 2013
      • Teaching Note

      The COFCO Group (TN)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
      COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
      Keywords: China; Food; China
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      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Modern Administrative State, 1912–1925: Trade Associations, Codes of Fair Competition, and State Building

      By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
      From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber's history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy-making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details
      Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Competition; United States
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      • 18 May 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: May 18

      suggest that the approach might be used more widely in teaching technology management, particularly with "digital natives," who have come of age in an environment crowded with engaging approaches to communication and entertainment competing for their... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • October 2007 (Revised November 2007)
      • Case

      Barclays Global Investors and Exchange Traded Funds

      By: Luis M. Viceira and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
      Provides an overview of the Exchange Traded Funds (EFT) industry and highlights the leadership role that Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has played in this developing asset class. BGI launched its first ETFs under the iShares brand name in 2000, and by mid-2007 BGI was... View Details
      Keywords: History; Venture Capital; Asset Management; Stocks; Investment Funds; Leading Change; Expansion; Competitive Strategy; Capital Markets; Global Strategy; Financial Strategy; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Asia; Europe
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      • 19 Dec 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

      the chicken-and-egg challenge of how companies can attract their first customers. Donald Trump’s Winning Marketing Manual Donald Trump's upset election win offers six lessons for marketing professionals,... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 2009
      • Simulation

      Finance Simulation: Blackstone/Celanese: No. 3712.

      By: Nabil N. El-Hage and Timothy A. Luehrman
      The Finance Simulation: Blackstone/Celanese is based on the landmark acquisition of Celanese AG by the Blackstone Group in 2003. Students play the role of either Celanese or Blackstone and conduct due diligence, establish deal terms, respond to bids and counter-bids,... View Details
      Keywords: Bids and Bidding; Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Negotiation
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