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  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Books

of each affected the actions of others, culminating in the “mass hysteria” (another chapter title) leading to the crash. Buy, Lie, and Sell High provides specific suggestions for reforms to the regulation process in the United States that... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk. There’s an incentive for the private entities to hold as little capital as possible against their own loan guarantees, and they would lobby... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

more than 20 case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: aligning organizational design, human View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

property rights institutions that restrain the state can be more important as they provide the foundation for contractual institutions. In short, the ability to contract effectively between private parties is meaningless unless you can be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
  • Case

Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A)

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In 2002, Professor Nicholas Negroponte, a successful venture capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; Cambridge
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  • December 2008 (Revised February 2015)
  • Case

A.J. Washington: Retaining an NFL Star

By: Andrew Wasynczuk and Nicole Shae Bennett
General Manager Luke Kolville, of the Los Angeles Spartans, struggles with the best approach to negotiate a long-term contract for his star quarterback. The agent for Washington is relatively new to the industry and has his sights set particularly high. Kolville needs... View Details
Keywords: Retention; Human Capital; Contracts; Managerial Roles; Negotiation; Groups and Teams; Sports Industry; Los Angeles
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  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2011
  • News

An HBS gift guide

football, repair capitalism Business lessons for a global century Chocolates for a cause Safe water for millions Nature belongs to everyone Capitalize on the network The world at home Quiet your mind (Images... View Details
Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

that chance. What are some of that story's highlights? One striking aspect is that by the mid-1980s, the United States had almost entirely lost both the computer and the consumer electronics industries before it recovered in computers... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810112-PDF-ENG Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices Nabil N. El-Hage and Kristin MeyerHarvard Business School Case 310-060 Greenbriar Growth Partners (GGP), a venture capital (VC)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Portrait Project

Edrienne Brandon

showing them how I found mine. I will soften the inequities of capitalism within my sphere of influence. I will step deliberately, act purposefully, fail iteratively, live loudly, and think twice – every day. In the end, I hope to look... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Alex Rogers

are difficult but simple. I want to build the best venture capital firm in Europe; I want to look back 10 years from now and point to companies that I helped build that employ thousands of people; I want to make as much money for my... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2019
  • News

The 19 Musts of 2019

‘How did you get there?’ ” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Jahn Karsybaev (GMP 26, 2019), CTO at ProSource IT and host of The Ivy Podcast MUST READ Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein “Pearlstein challenges what has... View Details
Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment
  • February 2017 (Revised January 2022)
  • Supplement

Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment (B)

By: Kristin Mugford
Keywords: Gaming; Chapter 11; Fraudulent Conveyance; Apollo; TPG; Bankruptcy; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Private Equity; Financial Management; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Las Vegas
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  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

  PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

environment of scientific and industrial expansion. Venture funding occurred more widely in the United States than it ever had done before. While the roots of the American venture capital industry are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Lauren Taylor & Rebecca Henderson

actually my “Clarendon Lectures” – I was asked by Oxford University to summarize my research in innovation, and in the summer of 2011 delivered three lectures – this is the book. While it does draw heavily on my published work, I’d also like to be sure to be as close... View Details
  • Profile

Ryu Kawano

As a Japanese citizen who grew up in Indonesia, Ryu Kawano is certainly no stranger to multicultural diversity. But when it was time to get a college education, he came to the United States to experience even greater variety, despite a... View Details
  • February 1999 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

Securicor Wireless Networks: February 1996

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Bill Wasik
Securicor Wireless (SWN) sold software products to wireless telephone carriers. The company was incorporated in January of 1995 as a 40%-owned subsidiary of Securicor Telesciences (STI), itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of British security giant Securicor PLC. Just... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Subsidiaries; Nationality; Business Conglomerates; Applications and Software; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Business Startups; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

underscored the risk and uncertainty inherent to capitalism itself. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you decide to write this book? Walter Friedman: The idea came to me years ago when teaching "Creating Modern Capitalism," a short course that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne