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- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
researchers determined that all of the findings can be explained in part by high fixed costs to enter the lobbying club—both in the costs of...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended consequences View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2020
- News
China-based Fuyao Glass Considers Manufacturing in the U.S.
- Research Summary
Corporate Governance and International Competitiveness
By: W. Carl Kester
W. Carl Kester's research involves comparisons of national or broad regional systems of corporate governance (e.g., German, Japanese, Anglo-American), and the influence these systems exert on corporate investment and international competitiveness. Kester has found...
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- March 1996 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Service Corporation International
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
The CFO of a high-growth company in the low-growth and fragmented funeral services industry must decide how to optimize capital structure and earnings growth while maximizing the company's market value.
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Financial Management;
Value Creation;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Consolidation;
Industry Growth;
Capital Structure;
Expansion;
Service Industry;
United States;
North and Central America
Esty, Benjamin C., and Craig F Schreiber. "Service Corporation International." Harvard Business School Case 296-080, March 1996. (Revised July 1996.)
- 16 Jan 2019
- News
Employers Are Clueless When It Comes To Family Caregiving
- 12 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity
prosperity is widely and legitimately shared; and building a new global system that works for the citizens of all nations. Confronting these challenges represents a historic opportunity to save capitalism...
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- January 1984 (Revised April 1987)
- Case
Turning Around Alcan Europe (A): Patrick Rich's First Four Months as CEO-Europe
Faced with large losses in Alcan Aluminum (Europe), Patrick Rich takes the position of area general manager and slashes capital budgets, introduces new financial controls, and sets up mechanisms for increasing cooperation among the national subsidiaries. The focus is...
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Isenberg, Daniel J. "Turning Around Alcan Europe (A): Patrick Rich's First Four Months as CEO-Europe." Harvard Business School Case 484-062, January 1984. (Revised April 1987.)
Michelle A. Kinch
Michelle Kinch's research uses both laboratory and field experiments to examine how firms can more productively build relationships with customers by understanding and influencing their operating behavior. Her research agenda has begun with an investigation of the...
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- March 2021
- Case
CashDrop (A)
By: Rembrand Koning, Paul A. Gompers and Sarah Gulick
In July 2020, Ruben Flores-Martinez had launched a startup, CashDrop, which provided easy and cheap sales options for small businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic helped CashDrop quickly grow. Flores-Martinez, who had previously sought and been denied venture capital...
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Payment Systems;
Small Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Online Technology;
Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Chicago;
Illinois
Koning, Rembrand, Paul A. Gompers, and Sarah Gulick. "CashDrop (A)." Harvard Business School Case 221-051, March 2021.
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
in the canned goods aisle of a stateside supermarket? That's one of the questions Mary L. Shelman, director of Harvard Business School's Agribusiness Program, explores in the...
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- 17 Dec 2020
- Video
Top 5 Cold Call Podcast Episodes for 2020
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
2014 and again in 2015. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/11/digital-ubiquity-how-connections-sensors-and-data-are-revolutionizing-business/ar/1 November 2014 Harvard Business Review How Not to Cut Health Care Costs By: Kaplan, Robert...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation
Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.
We study a model of featuring two economies with adverse selection of and moral hazard by bankers. We demonstrate... View Details
- July 2008 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)
By: Anette Mikes
An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable...
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Keywords:
Capital Budgeting;
Knowledge Sharing;
Managerial Roles;
Risk Management;
Strategic Planning;
Situation or Environment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Renewable Energy;
Energy Industry
Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)." Harvard Business School Case 109-001, July 2008. (Revised January 2012.)
- Article
Undermining Value-Based Purchasing — Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Leemore S. Dafny, Christopher Ody and Matt Schmitt
The analogy between value-based purchasing in pharmaceuticals and the new frontier of alternative payment models for health care providers is relatively straightforward. Insurers are increasingly demanding steep discounts from providers in exchange for inclusion in...
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Drug Copayment Coupons;
Prescription Drug Policy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Cost;
Policy;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt Schmitt. "Undermining Value-Based Purchasing — Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry." New England Journal of Medicine 375, no. 21 (November 24, 2016): 2013–2015.
- 09 May 2019
- News
Why You Should Root for the Uber I.P.O. to Fail
- January 2014 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
Andreessen Horowitz
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Liz Kind
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm launched in 2009, has quickly broken into the VC industry's top ranks, in terms of its ability to invest in Silicon Valley's most promising startups. The case recounts the firm's history; describes its co-founders'...
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Business Model;
Venture Capital;
Disruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Industry Structures;
Financial Services Industry;
California
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Liz Kind. "Andreessen Horowitz." Harvard Business School Case 814-060, January 2014. (Revised October 2014.)
- September 2003 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Charles River Partnership XI
Describes a situation confronting the management of a highly successful venture capital firm in April 2002. The industry has changed materially since it raised a $1.2 billion dollar fund, and the partners must decide whether to scale back the size of the fund.
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Sahlman, William A. "Charles River Partnership XI." Harvard Business School Case 804-052, September 2003. (Revised April 2004.)
- February 2024
- Case
Nuwa Capital: Investing During Uncertainty
By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Nuwa Capital (Nuwa) was a venture capital firm based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. The business was founded in 2020 by Khaled Talhouni and his partners Sarah Abu Risheh, and Stephanie Nour Prince (they were later joined by Nitin Reen...
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Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Disruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Middle East;
Saudi Arabia;
United Arab Emirates
Gompers, Paul A., and Fares Khrais. "Nuwa Capital: Investing During Uncertainty." Harvard Business School Case 224-016, February 2024.