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- August 2011 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama
By: William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty
Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant investment in the company. The venture capital firm was confident that it and the current...
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Keywords:
China;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Corruption;
Risk;
Corporate Governance;
Crime and Corruption;
Power and Influence;
Risk Management;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Venture Capital;
Ethics;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Values and Beliefs;
Private Equity;
China
Kirby, William C., and Tracy Yuen Manty. "Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama." Harvard Business School Case 312-025, August 2011. (Revised October 2015.)
- September 2009 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
The London 2012 Olympic Games
By: John T. Gourville and Marco Bertini
It's 2009 and Paul Williamson, Head of Ticketing, must finalize ticket prices for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Yet, there are many criteria to consider. First, given the importance of ticketing to the Games' bottom line, he has a strong incentive to maximize...
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Keywords:
Pricing;
Customer Satisfaction;
Price;
Strategy;
Profit;
Revenue;
Sales;
Sports Industry;
London
Gourville, John T., and Marco Bertini. "The London 2012 Olympic Games." Harvard Business School Case 510-039, September 2009. (Revised May 2019.)
- 12 Apr 2017
- Video
Tariro Goronga
Brian L. Trelstad
Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Forecasting Airport Transfer Passenger Flow Using Real-Time Data and Machine Learning
- May 1996
- Case
China Internet Corporation: http://www.China.Com
Tells the story of the China Internet Corp. (CIC), which was founded to serve both businesses wishing to conduct electronic commerce within China and those intending to trade with companies within China. The company provides access and advertising to companies; it does...
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Sviokla, John J., and Theodore H. Clark. "China Internet Corporation: http://www.China.Com." Harvard Business School Case 396-299, May 1996.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?
By: Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists'...
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Keywords:
Investing;
Persistence;
Performance Persistence;
Theory Of The Firm;
Venture Capital;
Organizations;
Human Capital;
Performance Evaluation
Ewens, Michael, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-097, April 2012. (Revised January 2013, June 2013. Revise and Resubmit Journal of Finance. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19120, June 2013)
- June 2011 (Revised December 2013)
- Case
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
By: Francesca Gino, Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States, launched a Carbon Negative campaign that would offset more greenhouse gas emissions than were released by the...
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Keywords:
Carbon Footprint;
Carbon Offsetting;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Brands and Branding;
Negotiation Tactics;
Business and Government Relations;
Corporate Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
Fiji
Gino, Francesca, Michael W. Toffel, and Stephanie van Sice. "FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?" Harvard Business School Case 611-049, June 2011. (Revised December 2013.)
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
and the title of a second-year course he teaches at HBS. "At the foundation of finance is the idea that investors and managers act rationally, so that capital market prices reflect fundamentals and managers respond View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 2012
- Book
Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship
By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon and Felda Hardymon
Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship stems from a realization that private equity overall—defined in this volume as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a vastly more sizable and influential part of the...
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Lerner, Josh, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon. Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
- 2009
- Book
Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization
By: William T. Allen, Reinier H. Kraakman and Guhan Subramanian
Updated throughout, the Third Edition of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization continues to provide a refreshingly accessible economic analysis perspective. The distinguished team of authors introduces and explains economic concepts in a way...
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Allen, William T., Reinier H. Kraakman, and Guhan Subramanian. Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization. 3rd ed. Aspen Publishing, 2009.
- February 2002 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
U.S. Labs
By: Michael J. Roberts and Robert F. Higgins
Describes the evolution of a start-up venture in the pathology lab segment of the clinical lab business. U.S. Labs tries a series of business models before running out of cash. The company is in dire need of financing, as its venture capital backers are refusing to put...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Financial Strategy;
Financing and Loans;
Business Model;
Business or Company Management;
Planning;
Business Strategy;
Health Industry
Roberts, Michael J., and Robert F. Higgins. "U.S. Labs." Harvard Business School Case 802-163, February 2002. (Revised May 2004.)
- 02 Mar 2011
- News
A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
- February 2002
- Background Note
Note on Commercial Real Estate Financial Market
By: Arthur I Segel and Melissa Yin-Yin Lam
Discusses the recent history of the commercial real estate financial market (pre-1990s-2001). Looks at the shift to more conventional capital markets for commercial real estate debt.
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Segel, Arthur I., and Melissa Yin-Yin Lam. "Note on Commercial Real Estate Financial Market." Harvard Business School Background Note 802-165, February 2002.
- February 2004
- Case
Bradman and Tendulkar, LLC
By: Ananth Raman and Vishal Gaur
An investment firm is trying to project inventory turns for Radio Shack, a chain of consumer electronics stores. The investment firm has access to public financial data but not to internal operational metrics. It needs to project inventory turns because inventory...
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- 2015
- Discussion Paper
The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change
By: Claudia Steinwender
A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets,...
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Steinwender, Claudia. "The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change." CEP Discussion Paper, No. 1334, February 2015.
- January 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Supplement
MuMaté (B-2): Confidential for Cantor
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alex Godden
MuMaté, a fictional cult beverage company, requires capital to fund national expansion. Its cofounders, who have bootstrapped to this point, are now negotiating with venture capital firms to raise a $3 million funding round. The case describes MuMaté's inception, early...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Expansion;
Negotiation;
Valuation;
Entrepreneurship;
Food and Beverage Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Alex Godden. "MuMaté (B-2): Confidential for Cantor." Harvard Business School Supplement 813-150, January 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
- January–February 2013
- Article
Will Our Partner Steal Our IP?
By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang
This fictionalized case looks at the spillover of intellectual property (IP) from a critical component supplier to an original equipment maker in the Chinese auto industry. What are the challenges to holding on to proprietary know-how when a customer wishes to use...
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Keywords:
Intellectual Property Management;
Intellectual Property;
Auto Industry;
Electronics Industry;
China;
Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., and Jyun-Cheng Wang. "Will Our Partner Steal Our IP?" Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2013): 137–139.
- March 2020
- Article
Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation
By: Vikas A. Aggarwal, David H. Hsu and Andy Wu
How should firms organize their pool of inventive human capital for firm-level innovation? While access to diverse knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can facilitate innovation, prior literature has focused primarily on one way of achieving that: diversity...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Recombination;
Organization Design;
Team Boundary;
Innovation;
Knowledge Sharing;
Diversity;
Innovation and Invention;
Groups and Teams;
Human Capital;
Organizational Design
Aggarwal, Vikas A., David H. Hsu, and Andy Wu. "Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation." Art. 1. Strategy Science 5, no. 1 (March 2020): 1–16. (Lead article.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
How Resilient Is Venture-Backed Innovation? Evidence from Four Decades of U.S. Patenting
By: Sabrina T. Howell, Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda and Richard Townsend
Despite theoretical predictions to the contrary, corporate innovation is strongly pro-cyclical. In this paper, we compare innovation in the economy as a whole to that of firms backed by venture capital (VC), a source of capital associated with the most impactful young...
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Keywords:
Recessions;
Venture Capital;
Innovation and Invention;
Patents;
Business Cycles;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
Howell, Sabrina T., Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda, and Richard Townsend. "How Resilient Is Venture-Backed Innovation? Evidence from Four Decades of U.S. Patenting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-115, May 2020. (Revised July 2023.)