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- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
trend of overspending prior to the dot-com fallout, saying that venture capital firms must make more independent decisions these days. "You're making bets that are not obvious, that are not apparent to everyone in the industry. It...
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- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Globalor No? Can You Make the Case?
financial service companies. Benro was very familiar with European customers in the financial services sector but had no experience with other industries. "Working with Benro might be cheaper than doing...
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by Walter Kuemmerle
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
here’s where the historical philanthropic paradigm gets turned upside down: Rodríguez wants IGNIA investors to get real financial returns on their money. Not just make their money back—money that can be reinvested—but maybe even beat the...
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- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
yet in high school) not play tackle football. Swearengin made the difficult decision that he could no longer support tackle football for kids 13 or under; however, his recommendation to the board that the Downtown Giants switch to flag...
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- 15 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: HBS in Israel
applicants understand that HBS has really generous financial aid packages. Clearest, simplest advice from the alumni panel? Apply to HBS! What advice would you give to prospective students? Keep doing what you’re doing—gaining meaningful...
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- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
her classmates, Langer began her employment in the financial industry, joining Shearson Lehman Brothers as an investment banker. "I was specializing with retail companies: Federated Department Stores, Macy's, Barneys New York. It was just...
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Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively - Course Catalog
constraints of what is legally allowed, these owners define the main parameters by which the company operates, for instance: what success means for the business, how decisions are made, and what strategic options are on/off the table....
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- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
CEO, having first served six months as COO. Since 9/11, it’s hard to think of a business with more growth potential than security. Even before that fateful day in 2001, GE executives made the strategic decision to build from scratch a...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
scores frequently used in scientific peer review (similar to existing minimally important differences for scores in clinical medicine). To our knowledge, the magnitude of score change required to change editorial decisions has not been...
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- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
exercises become increasingly complex, involving multiple parties with varying interests. For example, when a chief financial officer and a marketing person are involved in negotiations, the CFO is naturally focused on keeping costs down...
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- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
mandatory reporting. Serafeim and Ioannou also measured the incremental effects of two additional variables: effective enforcement of government decisions and assurance of data in the reports by independent organizations. They found that...
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
collection look at how to improve decision making, encouraging employees to speak up, and the difficulty of coordinating communication in a complex organization. Enjoy! Most Popular Articles 2000-2010 Creating a Positive Professional...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry patterns and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets, a fact consistent with relatively higher costs of doing so for more View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
is the carry divided within the partnership?” If the carry is divided equally among senior and junior partners, that speaks to a firm where everyone has a voice on decisions. But an organization where most of the carry goes to senior partners suggests a hierarchical...
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- November 1994 (Revised February 1996)
- Case
Toy World, Inc.
By: W. Carl Kester
A shift from seasonal to level production of toys will change the seasonal cycle of Toy World's working capital needs and necessitate new bank credit arrangements. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Working Capital;
Business Cycles;
Cash Flow;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Investment Funds;
Financial Statements
Kester, W. Carl. "Toy World, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-073, November 1994. (Revised February 1996.)
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing...
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by Jay Lorsch
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
a flight to abstractions, resulting in few business-specific decision criteria for Enron executives. Along the way Enron lost track of its ideals. This loss of ideals reveals the most important lessons of the Enron story — that View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five years, and in August 2022...
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Jennifer Gillespie