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  • October 2012 (Revised February 2019)
  • Case

Whaling Ventures

By: Tom Nicholas and Jonas Peter Akins
Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there were about 900 whaling ships in the world and 700 of these were American. Rates of return on capital were high compared to benchmark investments, at... View Details
Keywords: Whaling; Organization Design; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Finance; Organizational Design; Industry Growth; History; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Whale Wars

Conservation Society’s activist campaign against the whale hunt in Antarctica. Sea Shepherd vessels use aggressive tactics to stop damage to the sea and its creatures, especially the slaughter that Japanese whalers continue under a... View Details
Keywords: Marybeth I. Thoren; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 03 Feb 2020
  • News

Venture capital investors should harpoon more whales

  • 15 Jun 2016
  • News

Why Harvard Business School teaches students about whaling

  • December 1996
  • Case

Hydro-Quebec: In Pursuit of the Great Whale

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Keywords: Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Canada
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  • April 2015
  • Case

Who Owns the Whale? (Abridged)

By: Thales S. Teixeira and David E. Bell
Judge William Wright considers the case of the dispute of a whale carcass wherein several whaling ships claim ownership based on each one's contribution to its killing. The judge must weigh in the differing efforts and costs of three ships who each played a role at... View Details
Keywords: Whaling; Attribution; Norms-of-ownership; Transaction Costs; Deadweight Losses; Free-rider Problem; Advertising; History; United States; United Kingdom
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  • April 2015
  • Case

Who Owns the Whale?

By: Thales S. Teixeira and David E. Bell
Judge William Wright considers the case of the dispute of a whale carcass wherein several whaling ships claim ownership based on each one's contribution to its killing. The judge must weigh in the differing efforts and costs of three ships who each played a role at... View Details
Keywords: Whaling; Attribution; Norms-of-ownership; Transaction Costs; Deadweight Losses; Free-rider Problem; Advertising; History; Advertising Industry; North America; Europe
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  • 02 Jan 2016
  • News

The first venture capitalists: Fin-tech

  • 2019
  • Book

VC: An American History

By: Tom Nicholas
An exploration of venture financing in America, from its origins in the whaling industry to the rise of Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital (VC) created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. The VC industry arose from the United States’... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; History; United States
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  • 20 Jan 2020
  • News

Is Venture Capital Worth The Risk?

  • 17 Aug 2019
  • News

Two worthy books trace the history of tech through Silicon Valley, leaving Seattle’s story still to be told

  • 01 Oct 2019
  • News

Today’s venture capitalists owe something to 19th-century whalers

  • 16 Jul 2020
  • News

Black Lives Matter and the promise of entrepreneurship

  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715442-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-107 Who Owns the Whale? Judge William Wright considers the case of the dispute of a whale carcass wherein several View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

for whales is the randomness of what they will find inside, which can be similar to the draws of gambling, the paper notes. The authors find that whales were more likely to rapidly open one box after... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting
  • 25 Jan 2021
  • Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

men home safely. Once he arrived at the whaling station on South Georgia Island in May of 1916, he had to find a boat to get through the ice, get back across those perilous waters—some of the most dangerous waters to sail in in the world,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

connecting with nature and being outdoors - whether it's hiking in the White Mountains, fishing for stripers, or just going out to see the whales off Stellwagen Bank. I don't know - maybe I would have been a fishing or climbing guide.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • Blog

Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season

sights, and unique cultures of their own. You can drive, or even take a ferry from Boston Harbor directly to Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod. Get out on the water. There's nothing like seeing Boston from the water. Enjoy a Boston Harbor cruise or a View Details