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Adam Bronfin
Adam spent five years in real estate private equity prior to HBS. In his previous role, he gained experience across many different verticals within the industry, including development / construction, private equity, structured finance /... View Details
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Deal Making in Real Estate - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Deal Making in Real Estate Course Number 1480 Lecturer Dan Gilbane Lecturer Christopher Graham Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 Sessions Exam Career Focus Real estate is a multidisciplinary industry that requires strong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
representatives from the 101st to 110th Congresses. After assessing the main purpose of each bill and classifying each according to 49 industry categories, they watched how legislators voted when their home state's GDP was significantly... View Details
Robert T. B. Stevens
In response to the changing nature of the textile industry and to the growing inefficiencies in the company, Stevens merged the manufacturing and selling sides of the business and took the new entity public to raise much needed funds. The... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- March 1991 (Revised April 1995)
- Teaching Note
Pepsi-Cola Fountain Beverage Division: Marketing Organization, Teaching Note
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steel Tax
more cheaply than the United States, Spar said, “The industry has been seeking and receiving protection for almost thirty years. Parts of the industry have already restructured and become quite competitive... View Details
- September 1980
- Background Note
Organizational Barriers to Department Store Success
By: Walter J. Salmon
Salmon, Walter J. "Organizational Barriers to Department Store Success." Harvard Business School Background Note 581-027, September 1980.
- 13 Nov 2014
- Blog Post
Finance Conference Recap
inevitable cycles of the industry as well as his optimism in the ability of financial institutions to adapt to the deluge of regulatory changes seen since the financial crisis. His discussion was followed by a selection of panels, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
creating the best cost structure in the market. But the company wanted to compete primarily on quality not price. To that end, it struck exclusive deals with suppliers and marketing partners. Where they are today: The company continues to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
industry norms and culture. For instance, entrepreneurs often promote flat, non-hierarchical structures in the firms they start. However, if customers are used to dealing with titular "Vice... View Details
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
coherence of the institutional structures on which their economic performance rested and the policy options available to them. Representative cases include the Trans-Pacific Partnership; Goodbye IMF conditions, hello Chinese capital:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
United States had little to show for its investment before a new administration slashed funding. In the 1980s, California’s progressive energy initiatives led to a massive boom in wind energy, but when the policies expired, the entire View Details
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Alfred D. Chandler Papers | Baker Library
lecture and seminar notes and almost the entire body of his professional correspondence. It is rich in research material gathered during his comparative studies of corporate structure and its development in the United States and other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
Malaysia’s Petronas Towers may be among the tallest structures in the world, but the man chiefly responsible for building them prefers to keep a low profile. Describing Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (MBA ’64) as an individual who “guards... View Details
- Fast Answer
Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)
Explorer tables which include easy reports with age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, household relationship, place of birth, education, employment status, income, tenure, cost and value of housing, year structure built and other data. ... View Details
- April 2010
- Supplement
The Auction for Travelport (B)
By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal
This short case presents the epilogue of The Auction for Travelport (A). Blackstone decided to bid on its own, acquired Travelport for $4.3 billion and subsequently went on to acquire another GDS, Travelspan, for $1.4 billion. It then merged the two GDSs and partially... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Private Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions; Industry Structures; Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Market Transactions; Change; Auctions; Travel Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Misha Sanwal. "The Auction for Travelport (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-475, April 2010.
- January 2020
- Case
The Origins of Bell Labs
By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
In 1947, scientists at Bell Labs invented the transistor—a tiny signal amplifier that would go on to become the fundamental building block of the digital age. But, confounding most traditional economic assumptions, it was not a vigorous startup that made this momentous... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Patents; Monopoly; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; New York (city, NY)
Nicholas, Tom, and John Masko. "The Origins of Bell Labs." Harvard Business School Case 820-081, January 2020.
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Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Building Trusted Organizations Course Number 1825 Professor of Management Practice Sandra Sucher Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits Course Description Trust is crucial to the success of any relationship. Building trust into the View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
The Program for Global Leadership assembles senior executives from organizations worldwide who participate and interact in a unique, multi-phased educational process. The program's unusual structure helps them to gain fresh insight about... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
years. It analyzes the effects of patent laws and innovation prizes that were designed to promote technical progress. It explores the challenge associated with the changing organizational structure of innovation and the shift from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne