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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
debut at a prominent industry conference, coverage on the front page of the New York Times' Business section, and the raising of a large round of financing from a top-tier venture capital firm. His attempts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Nov 2023
- Book
Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?
leaders have no political competition, or open autocracies like that of Russia, Turkey, and Malaysia, which hold elections but may lack safeguards and transparency that keep them fair. The book investigates the relationship between View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
several important issues likely to be encountered in the analysis of deferred taxes (e.g., deferred tax assets vs. liabilities, balance sheet classification, permanent differences, statutory vs. effective tax rate, net operating loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
implement the layoffs quickly—in less than a year—to minimize workplace disruptions and gain credibility with the capital market. For some companies, however, strategic and business factors could warrant a more gradual approach to... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March left the startup world reeling. The biggest lender to fail since the 2008 financial crisis, SVB had become the preferred funder of the startup, tech, and venture View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
relationships between those who regulate them, serve them, and invest in them. That’s a lot of substance among responses to this month’s column. As Ulrich Nettesheim put it, “It is an excellent time to be reexamining how we currently practice View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509022 Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 809-046 Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his first four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
investing in unicorns—highly valued, privately held start-ups—and the consequences of these investments for corporate governance provisions. Larger funds and those with more stable funding are more likely to invest in unicorns. Compared to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: PeopleImages] Does reflection help you? Share your insights below. Book Excerpt Mosaic Reflection By Joseph Badaracco The founder and CEO of a very successful View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
initiative with domestic, international, and U.N. fronts; and 3) launching a new venture requiring internal, capital-raising, licensing, and industrial partnering deals. The need to negotiate multiple, related deals is not new to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
comprised the majority in most schools until quite recently, regarded this industry as a feminine domain and rather frivolous, and felt more comfortable writing about software or venture capital than... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
costly for both employees and employers, in terms of direct medical costs as well as costs stemming from lost productive time and missed days at work. Resilience training has been shown to improve workplace functioning for employees,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
Bagley # 6: Negotiating venture capital financing based solely on the valuation. Valuation is not the only thing one should consider when selecting a venture capitalist or when... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
coining the popular term in investing “growth at a reasonable price,” or GARP. Research can take months before the team considers adding a holding to its portfolio, a multi-round process. Once it buys a position, Brown View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
the failure of Long Term Capital Management, then in the late 1990s became major drivers of the market, having grown enormously. They are often close partners to the investment banks, because the funds are... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
says Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS. “And even in the US, when you look at sources of early-stage capital for new entrepreneurs, it tends to be friends and family.” But making sure families will work well together can be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
what-if and formal optimization approach). We discuss pros and cons of these approaches and illustrate them through applications and case studies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-069.pdf Positions of Power and Status: Reciprocity in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Business School Case 812-172 This case examines the PowerPoint presentation that Ranjith Kumaran, founder of the start-up PunchTab, Inc., is using for his investment pitches to venture capital firms.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne