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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

a board of directors as you create and grow your company. Others will join private equity or venture capital firms where you will serve on the boards of the firm’s portfolio companies. Still others will be consultants or advisors to boards, or View Details

01 Sep 2012
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(Harvard Business Review Press) Drawing on his years of experience studying and advising VC firms, companies, and governments, Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Oct 2020
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Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

1993), after each launching their careers in investment banking. “Joining ICV was a great experience and eye opening for us because we were used to being in majority environments,” said Tingle. “Also, at a smaller firm you were involved... View Details

May 2014 (Revised June 2016)
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Mylan Lab's Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceuticals—courseware

By: Lucy White

Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Voting; Ethics; Stock Shares; Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake

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February 2014 (Revised June 2016)
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Mylan Laboratories' Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceutical

By: Lucy White and Matt Kozlowski

Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Voting; Ethics; Stock Shares; Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake

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Choosing the Right Student Loan | MBA

Choosing the Right Student Loan By Katie Kelsall on February 1, 2021 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email At HBS, we consider getting your MBA a shared investment in your future . This means that while we offer... View Details

02 Aug 2021
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Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

can’t be sure of the impact. Nevertheless, leaders have to make decisions about reassembling a management team in an office without full evidence. Greg D. Carmichael, CEO and chairman of Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, is one,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Aug 2019
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Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

Labs. Stan reached out to Justin for coffee and conversation. “He said the culture was great,” Stan says. “Justin had a great experience there working on deals to invest in other urban innovation companies.” At the same time, Stan pursued... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

01 Oct 1998
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Beyond the Numbers

movement, in the mid-1970s Robinson was a strategic financial manager for General Foods' (GF) domestic grocery products. After scanning a decade's worth of data and analyzing GF's investments in new product development, Robinson says he... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

the application of statistics testing and how regressions help shape decisions in real life, and to interpret results from running codes into insights useful for decision makers in business. HOW DID THIS... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action

shoppers deliberating over a luxury goods purchase. “Marketers can convince consumers that buying their product is actually a farsighted behavior,” she observes. “In that sense, consumers are investing in future memories.” —JH Tsedal... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007

Dilip Soman Abstract Decision researchers have long been interested in behaviors that deviate from rational choice. Of these, the compromise effect has received considerable attention, with it repeatedly shown that the probability of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 2013
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Selling Crafts with a Story

office. They'd touch base for an hour, give each other homework, and then head to their day jobs—Koss working in private equity, investing in retail companies; Paranjape running a bricks-and-mortar lifestyle store. Then they'd hit the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; crafts; hobbies; ecommerce; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Arts, Entertainment

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contemporary instances of business and investment decisions that have geopolitical effects. The final module will focus on the US-China relationship, and look at how business is both impacting and being... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Health Care’s New Frontier

Massachusetts. As CEO and president, the way Bush talks about that decision reveals a lot about the close-knit culture of a company that last year made the Boston Globe’s “Top Places to Work” in Massachusetts list. “With our commitment to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

1932. A typical property bought in 1920 would have retained only 56% of its initial value in nominal terms two decades later. An investment in the stock market index (including dividends) would have outperformed an View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

07 Apr 2008
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The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

pay the U.S. statutory rate no matter where it invested and would make the decision on purely pretax rates of return. The goal of that regime is to leave the distribution of capital undistorted. Indeed, this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Dec 2021
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Learning Curve

Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details

18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

Wasserman Abstract—This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
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Spencer, president and CEO of Sematech, bring together top technical managers from Alcoa, IBM, Intel, and Xerox and leading scholars of the history and economics of technological change. The result is an important discussion of the consequences of declining View Details

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