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- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
on the New England Patriots. By virtue of their fame and wealth, professional players are the target of all kinds of business opportunities, most of them bad, Johnson continued. "We are easy prey to a...
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- May 1991 (Revised December 1994)
- Case
State of Connecticut Municipal Swap
By: Andre F. Perold
The state of Connecticut wants to raise $325 million of long-term fixed-rate debt. One alternative is to do this synthetically--issue long-term variable rate debt and enter into an interest rate swap. The case is a vehicle for analyzing various floating rate structures...
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Keywords:
Borrowing and Debt;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Interest Rates;
Taxation;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Risk and Uncertainty;
New England
Perold, Andre F. "State of Connecticut Municipal Swap." Harvard Business School Case 291-024, May 1991. (Revised December 1994.)
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
fared financially as a result of the event, stats from the year 2000 are encouraging. Forty percent of the women entrepreneurs in last year's New England forum collectively raised $100 million in equity...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
setting out and reinforcing the rules that the Post would follow in the investigation. These rules required vetting each of the news articles in a number of different ways to ensure that the truth they sought was pursued in a clean and...
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- February 2015 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
The Board of Directors at Market Basket
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague
The firing of Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demoulas by his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, and directors affiliated with him set off employee protests throughout the grocery store chain. Industry specialists estimated that Market Basket was losing close to ten million...
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Keywords:
Organizational Behavior;
Shareholder Votes;
Board Of Directors;
Board Dynamics;
Board Decisions;
Boards;
Grocery;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Corporate Governance;
Food and Beverage Industry;
New England
Lorsch, Jay W., and Emily McTague. "The Board of Directors at Market Basket." Harvard Business School Case 415-044, February 2015. (Revised April 2015.)
- January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Greylock Partners
By: Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas and David Lane
Keywords:
Business Organization;
Venture Capital;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business History;
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Services Industry;
New England
Hardymon, Felda, Tom Nicholas, and David Lane. "Greylock Partners." Harvard Business School Case 813-002, January 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots is one of the highest-paid coaches in the National Football League; Forbes in 2013 estimated his salary as $7.5 million. His track record helps explain the high...
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- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
Silvia Bellezza, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan shows there may be prestige advantages when you stand out rather than fit in. The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations Senior Lecturer Andy Wasynczuk, a former negotiator for the New...
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- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
faculty members Leemore S. Dafny, Zoë B. Cullen, Christopher T. Stanton, and doctoral student Yin Wei Soon. Their paper was published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine’s Catalyst. “Absent...
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- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
on the cadaver waiting list. “We deal with much more complicated games than the game theory usually deals with.” They sent the paper to several kidney surgeons. The medical director of the New England Organ...
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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
two seasons. Another recent young head coach hire, 38-year-old Brian Flores, was lured to Miami in 2019 after being credited for helping Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots neuter the Rams’ potent offense...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
selective increases in capacity, new approaches to managing consumption, and increased merger and acquisition activity, with attendant realization of synergies and lower costs (Jill Feblowitz), and (3) has delivered on its promise of...
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by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
out a new letter with an extra line, letting people know that their neighbors were ponying up, implying that they should, too: “We are writing to inform you that we have still not received your tax payment. By now, nine out of 10 people...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World...
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- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
regulations by opening small stores instead. And while their giant superstores generally sit on the outskirts of a city, their smaller chain stores are often located downtown, creating more direct competition against the mom-and-pops. Sadun focused her study on View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Kaplan, who has been working on a multiyear project with HBS Professor Michael E. Porter on improving value in health care, has found that often the most effective medical procedure is one that costs the least: talking. In a recent article in the View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
willing transplant donor who is incompatible with them. In September 2004, the Renal Transplant Oversight Committee of New England gave the go-ahead to a kidney exchange program we proposed together with...
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- June 2013
- Teaching Note
Wayne Ferrari: iAutomation at a Crossroads
By: Jim Sharpe and Michael Norris
This is the teaching note associated with HBS Case #813120.
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