Publications

12 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

program on The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports. “I flew to Atlanta to sit down with Dwayne when he was on location to shoot the movie Fast 8,” Elberse said. “We talked for several hours about his path to success in wresting,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Anita Elberse; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation

13 Feb 2020
News

Honoring a Legend

Atlanta Entrepreneurs Honor Nussey’s Impacts on Tech and Solar Catherine Cates (MBA 1983) & Bill Nussey (MBA 1996) Steve Kirschner (MBA 1986), Bill Nussey (MBA 1996), & John Yates (event host) Nussey presenting to HBS alumni Nussey and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 Apr 2021
News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

attend HBS. Together, they have launched PowerUP, a nonprofit organization that gives disadvantaged Atlanta youth new opportunities for personal development by providing scholarships to pay for martial arts training. Learn more about how... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney

public - and corporate - esteem. He notes that the SLOC is on track to secure its target amount of nearly $1.4 billion in private funding. Romney is courting new corporate sponsors, particularly high-tech companies, to join those big-ticket backers of the 1996 View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

February 2021 (Revised October 2021)
Case

Collab Capital

By: Natalia Rigol, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mitchell Weiss

Founded in 2020 by Jewel Burks Solomon and her partners, Barry Givens and Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital was a new investment firm built on two pillars: first, it would identify and support ventures founded by Black entrepreneurs, a group underrepresented in... View Details

Keywords: Black Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Race; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Atlanta

February 2007
Supplement

Supplement to InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech

Keywords: Information Technology; Higher Education; Engineering; Education Industry; Atlanta

September 1998 (Revised January 1999)
Supplement

XcelleNet, Inc. (B)

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry; Atlanta

15 Dec 2024
News

The Golden Thread

parents put the family to work. “Mine won,” she says, “So my parents got their trip; and, by the way, they got to meet Pope John XXIII.” Creativity, it seemed, had real value. MORE Book Launch (View at YouTube) Order the book TEDx Atlanta... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology

01 Dec 2003
News

Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)

“Parent” is the job title that Tom Fischgrund (MBA ’80) feels most at home with. He is also the author and editor of several books and president of Management Recruiters of Atlanta Perimeter Center. The father of three children,... View Details

Keywords: SATs; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
Supplement

Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details

Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston

Find at Harvard

25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

Atlanta University Center, and the distinguished civil rights movement leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy was Diamond’s godfather. Diamond credits his mother—who worked in sales with Mary Kay cosmetics—with instilling in him a “high level of... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested

“You can be 15 or 20 minutes outside Atlanta and feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere.” Evening routine: “After work or dinner, I always walk the dog, a 70-pound rescue. She’s a super mutt, basically. And I try to avoid TV and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; trucking; leadership; fintech; career

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

York Reena Russell, MBA 2003 Co-founder EnergyGridIQ enabling energy projects northwestern us HBS Association of Northern California Jacquelyn Kung, MBA 2006 COO ClearCare private-pay homecare services southeastern us HBS Club of Atlanta... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

23 Sep 2020
News

Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

The miracle, she says, is when the child starts making wise or mindful decisions on their own. After giving some talks about the book to local parent groups in Atlanta where she lives, Jones has started presenting webinars to HBS and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

August 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Case

New Wachovia (A), The

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Jeremy Swinson

In April 2001, First Union Corp. announced an agreement to merge with Wachovia Corp., a fellow North Carolina-based commercial bank. While the banks were preparing to consummate the merger, SunTrust Banks, Inc. of Atlanta, made a hostile offer for Wachovia, setting in... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Conflict and Resolution; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Atlanta; North Carolina

June 2017
Teaching Note

The U-Turns of National Truck Stops

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Alexander W. Schultz

Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (“NTS”) as a senior member of Oaktree Capital Management’s (“Oaktree”) Mezzanine finance business within their Corporate Debt platform. It was the first time... View Details

Keywords: Mezzanine Financing; Corporate Debt; Bankruptcy; Real Assets; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Private Equity; Cost vs Benefits; Atlanta; New York (city, NY)

October 2024 (Revised January 2025)
Case

MDH Partners: Evolving a Family Legacy

By: Christina R. Wing and Sarah Mehta

This case is about succession planning for MDH Partners, an Atlanta-based industrial real estate investment firm founded in 2005. When Jeffrey Small, Jr. cofounded MDH Partners, he named the company in honor of his grandfather, Mark Durward (MD) Hodges, an early... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Ventures; Ownership; Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta

August 2024
Case

Pioneering Pain Management: CWC Alliance Combats the Opioid Epidemic

By: Susanna Gallani, Karen L. Sedatole and Sarah Mehta

Set in March 2024, this case is about CWC Alliance (CWC), a nonprofit working to prevent opioid addiction in the U.S. Founder Cammie Wolf Rice launched CWC in 2018 after her son, Christopher Wolf, died of a heroin overdose. Wolf’s dependence on opioids stemmed from a... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta