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  • June 2014
  • Teaching Note

Andreessen Horowitz

By: Thomas Eisenmann
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm launched in 2009, has quickly broken into the VC industry's top ranks, in terms of its ability to invest in Silicon Valley's most promising startups. The case recounts the firm's history; describes its co-founders'... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Venture Capital; Disruption; Organizational Structure; Entrepreneurship; Industry Structures; Service Industry; United States
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  • September 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

KKR: Leveraging Sustainability

The case describes KKR's Green Portfolio Program, one of the firm's environmental initiatives, which has achieved $160 million in cost savings. While pleased with its progress in achieving greater energy efficiency and reduced carbon emissions, the firm is looking for... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Energy Conservation; Cost Management; Supply Chain Management; Risk Management; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development; Performance Efficiency; Financial Services Industry
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • 17 Jan 2024
    • HBS Case

    Psychological Pricing Tactics to Fight the Inflation Blues

    considered especially effective today—as well as those that are losing luster. Tiered pricing guides consumers to make the ‘right’ choice An increasing number of firms are starting to use tiered pricing, a strategy that provides customers... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Retail
    • 23 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 23

    Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We develop a new survey instrument to codify CEOs' diaries in large samples and use it to measure the labor supply of 1,114 family and professional CEOs of manufacturing View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2014
    • Chapter

    Promoting Corporate Sustainability through Integrated Reporting: The Role of Investment Fiduciaries and the Responsibilities of the Corporate Board

    By: Robert G. Eccles, J. Herron and George Serafeim
    This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and future trends in the principles that govern institutional investors and fiduciaries. A wide range of contributors offer new perspectives on dynamics that drive the current emphasis on short-term... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Institutional Investing; Financial Services Industry
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    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
    • February 2000 (Revised January 2008)
    • Case

    Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
    Merrill Lynch, a full-service brokerage firm with $1.5 trillion in client assets, is under attack from both discount and electronic brokerage firms. It responds with Integrated Choice, a suite of products designed to capture clients from the do-it-yourself investor who... View Details
    Keywords: Distribution Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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    • February 1994
    • Case

    Fremont Financial Corporation

    Fremont Financial is an asset-based lender to middle-market companies. The firm has three options to raise capital to finance its loan portfolio. Fremont can (1) extend its existing bank line of credit, (2) issue commercial paper through a special purpose-conduit, or... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Capital; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry
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    • Web

    Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    Organizational Renewal High Potentials Leadership Program Authentic Leadership Development The Women's Leadership Forum Leading Professional Service Firms Executive Education... View Details
    • 21 Mar 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Risk Management―The Revealing Hand

    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; Financial Services; Financial Services
    • Web

    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction. However, at a micro level,... View Details
    • 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; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

    virtual tour can cost as little as $300 or less, or many thousands for realtors willing to hire a professional to photograph a large home. Roughly 22 percent of houses used virtual tours. To break down those listings further, the authors... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate
    • October 1992 (Revised December 1992)
    • Supplement

    Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction: 1992 Update

    By: Dwight B. Crane
    Briefly summarizes the events that transpired after the investment bank Salomon Brothers revealed that it had repeatedly violated the rules governing the auction of new U.S. Government securities. Includes a description of the violations, the management shake-up that... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Instruments; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 14 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

    information bottlenecks. "On many of the projects that I've been involved in, it seemed that a major flaw was that information wasn't getting to the people who needed to make decisions," says King. "All 3 of us are interested in the concept of voluntary... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
    • Web

    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    focus on the research conducted at the newly founded digital reskilling lab at HBS. Participants will leave with an understanding of the major drivers of reskilling investments, as well as the challenges and successes that are being experienced by View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Solving for Z

    And purpose was considered part of your personal life, not part of your professional life.” The preferences and predilections of Gen Z might not matter quite so much if the labor market weren’t so tight and if Gen Zers weren’t so... View Details
    Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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      Keywords: federal government; real estate
      • October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
      • Case

      AfricInvest: A Pan-African Investment Platform

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Youssef Abdel Aal
      The case is set in December 2018, when Ziad Oueslati, co-managing director and co-founder of AfricInvest, a leading pan-African private equity firm headquartered in Tunisia, was reflecting on the future direction of his firm. AfricInvest started as a traditional small... View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Strategy; Governance; Financial Services Industry; Tunisia; Africa; Middle East
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