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  • 07 Sep 2019
  • Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

arguments about whether sea level rise is human caused or even if it’s real; we just need to invest with the probabilities in mind the same way we make risk management decisions under uncertainty about... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
  • 17 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

nearly all corporations ceased offering defined benefit plans in favor of "defined contribution" packages such as 401(k) plans—in which employees contribute a set amount from their paychecks that would be individually invested... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services
  • Web

An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

simulations will guide students to an understanding of the material’s practical applications. Limiting investment in traditional campus infrastructure will make it possible to charge students a competitive tuition fee and still pay... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

two years to think about what I want to do. To know what’s possible, to know what I didn’t know. I wanted to make my next career decision based on knowledge and experience.” Noa’s explorations were compounded by another important... View Details
  • Profile

Lauren Burrows

most enjoyed about your career thus far? At WindSail we invest in early commercial companies that are focused on energy innovation and sustainability. We do this in a unique way that enables growth while minimizing dilution for early... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Clubs Hopping

technology that included Sequoia Capital partner Todd Cozzens (PMD 60, 1990), who invests in digital health companies. What trends does Carter see disrupting health care? Health and wellness insights driven by cognitive computing. Carter... View Details
Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance
  • 15 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

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
  • News

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
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

and physical assets, not creating social value." Higher-ambition leaders, as the authors call them, also make decisions about long-term relationships with all their stakeholders in mind. "Consider United Stationers' strategy of 'enabling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

danger zone for the foreseeable future. How would a U.S. invasion of Iraq influence your investment advice? Every decision we make for clients today takes that into account as a what-if scenario, but there's... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • November 2007 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise

By: Robert F. Higgins, Rosie O'Donnell, Sophie LaMontagne and Brent Kazan
In mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder sat in his office and thought about how to best finance his company's growth. Over the previous five years as founder and CEO of D2Hawkeye, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based healthcare analytics company, Kryder had grown the firm from a... View Details
Keywords: Strategy Development; Strategic Positioning; Strategic Vision; Venture Capital; Small Business; Investment; Growth Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Business Strategy; Service Industry; Health Industry; Waltham
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  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

perceived benefits from lowering transactions costs to foreign financial-statement users increase and contribute significantly towards the country's decision to adopt IFRS. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2014 (Revised June 2016)
  • Supplement

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)
  • Case

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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  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

decisions on partnering performance. Results indicate that partnering scale has a curvilinear relationship with partnering performance. That is, intermediate levels of partnering scale are associated with higher partnering performance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

collaboration. At the same time that leadership is being redefined, leadership development is also being reconsidered. In recent decades companies have focused on succession processes that ensure the emergence of a select group of leaders that can assume the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

relatively few events.” The problem is, reinsurance isn't like any other equity investment: it isn't really exposed to market risk, so expecting high returns is unrealistic. A financial adviser might be willing to accept lower returns because she is View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Netscape's initial financiers, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. While Brooks struggled to interest EG&G in backing his concept (EG&G considered Brooks's idea outside its core business), Kleiner Perkins moved View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner