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  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

What's Cookin'

labor-intensive business in which the quality of the product is determined by the individual effort of the person doing the preparation." When he arrived in Little Rock in... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
  • 05 Nov 2024
  • Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

needs of small businesses as they access the capital they require, the challenges traditional lending has faced in meeting these needs, and the opportunities that technology is providing for new solutions.... View Details
Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

People Express Airlines Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 812-134 Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its inception in 1980 then failed spectacularly in 1986. Profiles... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

Discussion of new model of social enterprise that applies the venture capital model to social enterprise. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

alluring qualities of a brand without committing to it. We propose that brand flirting is exciting and that when consumers flirt with a brand other than their typically preferred brand in the same product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Harvard Business School faculty offer their views: Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Geoff Jones, who researches the evolution, impact, and responsibility of global business and has authored... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

took effect in 2006. The ninth plan proposed five thrusts—moving the economy to higher value-added goods and services, raising the capacity for knowledge, addressing socioeconomic inequalities, improving the quality View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Career Coach

Kristin Brennan

Leadership program; and led strategy and human capital work for a number of leading educational and social impact organizations. Work Experience:  Bowdoin College (Executive... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
  • April 2015 (Revised October 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Annelena Lobb
On May 12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Risk Management; Executive Compensation; Cash Flow; Business Exit or Shutdown; Media; Advertising; Restructuring; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
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  • June 2013 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
On May 12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Risk Management; Executive Compensation; Cash Flow; Business Exit or Shutdown; Media; Advertising; Restructuring; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
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  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

can be found at http://www.hbs.edu/mba/student-life/activities-government-and-clubs/Pages/default.aspx. Cyberposium 2001 Focuses on Quality The seventh annual Cyberposium high-technology conference, held on campus in early February,... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

benefits of growth increasingly will be enjoyed only by the top quintile, and mostly by the top 1 percent. The business leaders we spoke to were disturbed by the environmental challenges of climate change,... View Details
Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

and Enel, the largest electric utilities in Germany and Italy, respectively. In March 2007, Acciona's executive chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales is considering three strategic alternatives: tendering its shares-and realizing a capital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

to advance thinking in this area? A: All three of us are interested in cross-border business, and in globalization. Rawi focused on global capital flows, and Lou on foreign investment. I am trying to show... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant scale economies and that those big firms led to a dearth of entrepreneurial human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

would call near the frontier of human experience. Ordinarily I'd say near the frontier of business experience, but creative collaboration is very much relevant to business and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

Experimental Psychology: General The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts By: Morewedge, Carey K., Colleen E. Giblin, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Much human thought arises unbidden, spontaneously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne