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- June 2024
- Case
Caesars Entertainment: Governance on the Road to Bankruptcy
By: Kristin Mugford
Caesars Entertainment was a large casino operator in the United States that had been purchased in a 2008 leveraged buyout by Apollo and TPG. In January 2015, Caesars Entertainment Operating Company (CEOC), its largest subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11. This set up a...
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Keywords:
Gaming;
Chapter 11;
Fraudulent Conveyance;
Apollo;
TPG;
Bankruptcy;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Restructuring;
Capital Structure;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Private Equity;
Financial Management;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Negotiation;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Las Vegas
- 2024
- Working Paper
Don’t Expect Juniors to Teach Senior Professionals to Use Generative AI: Emerging Technology Risks and Novice AI Risk Mitigation Tactics
By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Frabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill
themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior
professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able...
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Kellogg, Katherine C., Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Frabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Don’t Expect Juniors to Teach Senior Professionals to Use Generative AI: Emerging Technology Risks and Novice AI Risk Mitigation Tactics." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-074, June 2024.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics
By: Samuel Antill, Neng Wang and Zhaoli Jiang
Anticipating a borrower's default, secured lenders have recently used aggressive legal tactics to extract value from other secured lenders. We model the implications of this new "creditor-on-creditor violence'' trend. In our novel continuous-time capital structure...
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Antill, Samuel, Neng Wang, and Zhaoli Jiang. "Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics." Working Paper, May 2024.
- April 2024
- Article
An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity
By: Anne-Claire Pache, Julie Battilana and Channing Spencer
Hybrid organizations must sustainably attend to multiple goals embedded in different institutional spheres. Past research has highlighted the value for hybrids in recruiting board members representing different logics to avoid attentional drifts; yet, diverse boards...
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Pache, Anne-Claire, Julie Battilana, and Channing Spencer. "An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity." Academy of Management Journal 67, no. 2 (April 2024): 437–467.
- March–April 2024
- Article
Case Study: Navigating Labor Unrest
By: Jorge Tamayo
Paulo Ferreira, the president of Luna Brazil, has an ambitious plan to turn around the dismal performance of the plant he oversees in Campinas. The wrinkle is, he needs the buy-in of the powerful local union, which is still smarting from a 10-year-old labor conflict...
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Keywords:
Strategy And Execution;
Layoffs;
Manufacturing;
Labor and Management Relations;
Labor Unions;
Negotiation Tactics;
Conflict and Resolution;
Performance Improvement;
Corporate Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Brazil
Tamayo, Jorge. "Case Study: Navigating Labor Unrest." Harvard Business Review 102, no. 2 (March–April 2024): 144–149.
- April 2024
- Article
Pay-As-You-Go Insurance: Experimental Evidence on Consumer Demand and Behavior
By: Raymond Kluender
Pay-as-you-go contracts reduce minimum purchase requirements which may increase market participation. We randomize the introduction and price(s) of a novel pay-as-you-go contract to the California auto insurance market where 17 percent of drivers are uninsured. The...
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Kluender, Raymond. "Pay-As-You-Go Insurance: Experimental Evidence on Consumer Demand and Behavior." Review of Financial Studies 37, no. 4 (April 2024): 1118–1148.
- March 2024
- Case
Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan
Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Transition;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Law;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financing and Loans;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Ownership Stake;
Expansion;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Financial Services Industry;
Estonia;
Republic of Ireland;
United Kingdom;
Singapore
- 2024
- Working Paper
Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices
By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
We examine the relationship between product liability litigation and innovation by systematically
combining data on product liability lawsuits with data on new product introductions in a panel dataset of
leading medical device firms. We first document a decline in...
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Keywords:
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Product Development;
Technological Innovation;
Safety;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-063, March 2024.
- 2024
- Book
Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions
By: Guhan Subramanian and Michael Klausner
Drawing on real-life cases from a wide range of industries, two acclaimed experts offer a sophisticated but accessible guide to business deals, designed to maximize value for your side.
Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
Subramanian, Guhan, and Michael Klausner. Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions. Harvard University Press, 2024.
- March–April 2024
- Article
How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy: A Better Approach to Stakeholder Management
By: David M. Bersoff, Sandra J. Sucher and Peter Tufano
Executives need guidance about managing their organizations’ engagement with societal issues—including hot-button topics such as gender, climate, and racial discrimination. Success in this realm does not mean avoiding public controversy or achieving unanimous support...
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Keywords:
Values and Beliefs;
Social Issues;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Judgments;
Management Practices and Processes
Bersoff, David M., Sandra J. Sucher, and Peter Tufano. "How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy: A Better Approach to Stakeholder Management." Harvard Business Review 102, no. 2 (March–April 2024): 108–119.
- March 2024
- Article
When Are Social Protests Effective?
By: Eric Shuman, Amit Goldenberg, Tamar Saguy, Eran Halperin and Martijn van Zomeren
Around the world, people engage in social protests aimed at addressing major societal problems. Certain protests have led to significant progress, yet other protests have resulted in little demonstrable change. We introduce a framework for evaluating the effectiveness...
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Keywords:
Protests;
Social Issues;
Outcome or Result;
Measurement and Metrics;
Power and Influence;
Motivation and Incentives
Shuman, Eric, Amit Goldenberg, Tamar Saguy, Eran Halperin, and Martijn van Zomeren. "When Are Social Protests Effective?" Trends in Cognitive Sciences 28, no. 3 (March 2024): 252–263.
- February 2024
- Case
Compass Pathways: Pioneering Psychedelic Treatment
By: Tiona Zuzul, Kisha Lashley and Gamze Yucaoglu
This case follows Compass Pathways, a pioneering company developing treatment for depression based on psilocybin, the compound found in ‘magic mushrooms.’ Psilocybin was a federally illegal substance in the U.S., and a “Schedule I” drug, defined as a drug “with no...
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Keywords:
Commercialization;
Corporate Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Product Launch;
Health Testing and Trials;
Research and Development;
Laws and Statutes;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Europe;
United States;
United Kingdom
Zuzul, Tiona, Kisha Lashley, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Compass Pathways: Pioneering Psychedelic Treatment." Harvard Business School Case 724-412, February 2024.
- January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity
In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.
EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in the...
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- January 11, 2024
- Article
Understanding the Tradeoffs of the Amazon Antitrust Case
By: Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Andrei Hagiu and Dionne Lomax
Regulators in the United States and Europe have been taking on Big Tech, challenging what they say are the companies’ anti-competitive and predatory strategies that harm consumers and third-party users of their platforms. This article examines the FTC’s case against...
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Keywords:
Monopoly;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Market Design;
Lawsuits and Litigation
Farronato, Chiara, Andrey Fradkin, Andrei Hagiu, and Dionne Lomax. "Understanding the Tradeoffs of the Amazon Antitrust Case." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (January 11, 2024).
- January 2024
- Supplement
Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (B)
By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn
GlassHouse Research identified accounting red flags at Catalent. Fiat Lux Partners countered most of GlassHouse’s claims. Who was right? This update explores the aftermath of the short seller duel.
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Keywords:
Accounting Audits;
Acquisition;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Business Earnings;
Earnings Management;
Cost Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Revenue Recognition;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Government Legislation;
Conflict of Interests;
Announcements;
Blogs;
Debates;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Stocks;
Performance Productivity;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Accounting Industry;
United States
Pacelli, Joseph, ZeSean Ali, and Tom Quinn. "Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 124-055, January 2024.
- December 2023
- Case
The American Bully XL
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback, Johnathan Sun and Robert Ialenti
The American Bully XL, first introduced to the United Kingdom around 2014, had been held responsible for a disproportionate share of both dog-related attacks and deaths. The case discusses the announcement, in October 2023, that the dog breed would be added to a list...
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- December 2023
- Case
Francis Ngannou
By: Anita Elberse
In May 2023, professional fighter Francis Ngannou is facing a choice: re-sign with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the world’s premier mixed-martial-arts (MMA) organization, or opt for a contract with the Professional Fighters League (PFL), a growing but...
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Elberse, Anita. "Francis Ngannou." Harvard Business School Case 524-050, December 2023.
- December 2023
- Case
Santa Elena: Table Grape Production in Chile's Water-Challenged Regions
By: Forest Reinhardt, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
In the fiscal year ending in September 2022, Santa Elena, Chile’s fifth-ranking table grape exporter, a grape producer and exporter since 1980, had exported around 3.5 million boxes (18-pound each). But, due to a 13-year-long drought that plagued table grape-growing...
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Keywords:
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Climate Change;
Environmental Regulation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Natural Resources;
Food;
Environmental Law;
Problems and Challenges;
Weather;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Chile;
South America;
Latin America
- 2023
- Chapter
Malleability Interventions in Intergroup Relations
By: Smadar Cohen-Chen, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross and Eran Halperin
One important characteristic of intergroup relations and conflicts is the fact that toxic or violent intergroup relations are often associated with fixed and stable perceptions of various entities, including the ingroup (stable and positive), the outgroup (stable and...
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Cohen-Chen, Smadar, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross, and Eran Halperin. "Malleability Interventions in Intergroup Relations." Chap. 7 in Psychological Intergroup Interventions: Evidence-based Approaches to Improve Intergroup Relations, by Eran Halperin, Boaz Hameiri, and Rebecca Littman. Routledge, 2023.
- October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)
By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn
Fund manager Janet Curie asked for a recommendation about the pharmaceutical company Catalent. The company seemed like a solid investment. However, a pair of research reports issued over the previous two months complicated this narrative. GlassHouse Research, a short...
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Keywords:
Accounting Audits;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Earnings Management;
Cost Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Revenue Recognition;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Government Legislation;
Conflict of Interests;
Announcements;
Blogs;
Debates;
Investment;
Trust;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Accounting Industry;
United States
Pacelli, Joseph, ZeSean Ali, and Tom Quinn. "Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-024, October 2023. (Revised April 2024.)