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- 25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose
tackle. But the students said, “Whoa, how can we talk about the big problems of our time without thinking about inequality?” The students also pushed me to move beyond shared value. Of course, building the business models that create both public and View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
analysis of buyer types (financial vs. strategic), deal strategy, and valuation. Among other topics covered in the case are the importance of due diligence, the potential for value creation by private equity View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
the private sector has responded rationally, by exiting the business. Of the twenty-five companies that made vaccines in the U.S. thirty years ago, only five remain today. The Federal Government has, regrettably, permitted this to happen...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
push into other countries more quickly. "Building a functioning multinational firm is a huge challenge. There are many that underestimate it." A strong rise in both venture capital and private...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
cost of the health care that they’re paying for their subscribers has gone down by 50 percent in the last month or so. It seems irresponsible for the private insurance industry to realize a windfall at a time when providers are...
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- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
was undergoing the non-tradable share reform. Its current controlling shareholder, private equity firm Newbridge Capital LLC, needs to negotiate with its diverse minority shareholders to find a compromise on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons and relentless pressure for results, are...
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- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
applying to business schools. And not just any business schools, but Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and Kellogg. I was working anywhere from 80 to 95 hours per week in private equity. I was the only female at the View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in which View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
from the 1950s to 1960s (an era that Light identifies as the "first burst" of success for the mutual fund). During those years, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. (MBA '25) led the Massachusetts Investors Trust, the Boston firm credited with...
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Garry Emmons
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
to those funds. An alternative in more recent times is what Viceira calls “private equity in public markets.” In these cases, investment funds adopt processes similar to private equity firms but without...
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- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
vulnerable to superior service alternatives. Along the way, we also show that firms trade off price and service quality and that when the incumbent offers relatively low service quality in a local market, it is susceptible to the entry or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the Yogi Tea Company), for which he serves as executive vice president. "Our goal is to provide products and services...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- Web
Eligibility | New Venture Competition
businesses. The Business Track of the NVC welcomes all ideas across all sectors. However, plans to create hedge funds, investments, private equities or venture capital funds are generally not eligible. Requirements for a Team Business...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
New Alliances: Forming For-Profit and Nonprofit Partnerships Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently for-profit firms and nonprofit recipients have begun to join forces to better...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Charles C.Y., and Jesse M. Fried Abstract—It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The charge? These View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine (IDD), which exogenously decreases knowledge-worker mobility, thereby increasing firms’ likelihood of being acquired. Managers respond by increasing specific antitakeover provisions, especially when employees have greater ex-ante...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
in the ways they do business. Moreover, hub firms themselves must do a better job leading responsibly for the good of all, not just creating and capturing value but doing more to sustain other players in the ecosystem. Publisher's link:...
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Carmen Nobel