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- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
the researchers drilled down into the data, however, they found some marked differences in the ability to forecast success based on the industry of the proposed idea. Expert interest was highly predictive of success in sectors that were...
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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407071 Free the Grapes—Direct-to-Consumer Shipping in the Wine Industry Harvard Business School Case 707-472 While wine tourism in the...
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Martha Lagace
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Alphas & Betas | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Item Worldscope Monthly updated financial information for global public companies. Industry Betas Valuation handbook. Industry cost of capital....
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- February 2016 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
Battle Over a Bank: Defining the Limits of Federal Power Under a New Constitution
By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
In late February, 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton submitted a report to President Washington defending his recent proposal for a national bank, which he hoped would bolster the American economy and assist the federal government in managing its finances....
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Governance;
Central Banking;
Laws and Statutes;
Government and Politics;
History;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Moss, David, and Marc Campasano. "Battle Over a Bank: Defining the Limits of Federal Power Under a New Constitution." Harvard Business School Case 716-052, February 2016. (Revised August 2017.)
- January 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
Shisong Cardiac Center: Kumbo, Cameroon
By: Kevin Schulman and Nelly-Ange Konthcou
Shisong Cardiac Center in Kumbo, Cameroon, is a regional cardiac referral center in central Africa. As the continent transitions from communicable to non-communicable diseases, there is a critical shortage of surgical care required to treat these conditions. This case...
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Schulman, Kevin, and Nelly-Ange Konthcou. "Shisong Cardiac Center: Kumbo, Cameroon." Harvard Business School Case 317-085, January 2017. (Revised January 2019.)
- August 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Plug Power (A)
By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
Set immediately after a December 2019 short-seller attack, the case explores Plug Power’s long challenging history. It then focuses on two key issues raised in the short-seller report related to lease accounting and stock warrants that Plug purportedly used to boost...
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Environmental Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Ethics;
Management;
Social Enterprise;
Investment;
Stocks;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
United States;
Europe
Heese, Jonas, Joseph Pacelli, and James Barnett. "Accounting Outages at Plug Power? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-009, August 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- September 2002 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Environmental Power Corporation: Changing Manure Into Gold?
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Laure Mougeot Stroock
In 2002, Environmental Power Corp. (EPC), a small company developing renewable energy projects, was attempting to commercialize its "digester," a facility that extracted methane from manure, reduced manure's environmental impact, and generated electricity. The company...
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Commercialization;
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Investment;
Projects;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Corporate Finance;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Laure Mougeot Stroock. "Environmental Power Corporation: Changing Manure Into Gold?" Harvard Business School Case 903-403, September 2002. (Revised March 2006.)
- August 2001 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Dakota Office Products
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The senior management team of Dakota, an office products distributor, is concerned about the company's first loss in history. Explores the role for activity based costing and customer profitability measurement in a distribution company. Dakota's customers are...
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Activity Based Costing and Management;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Profit;
Distribution;
Customers;
Distribution Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Dakota Office Products." Harvard Business School Case 102-021, August 2001. (Revised February 2005.)
- August 2000 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Cox Communications, Inc., 1999
This case focuses on how much external financing a firm needs and what securities the firm should issue to raise this financing. Cox Communications is a major player in the cable industry, which is consolidating due to technological changes/capabilities brought about...
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Change Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financing and Loans;
Telecommunications Industry
Chacko, George C., and Peter Tufano. "Cox Communications, Inc., 1999." Harvard Business School Case 201-003, August 2000. (Revised August 2003.)
- 16 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
opportunity to combine my interests in art and finance by working for an asset management firm where I helped to establish a group focused on financial services for the art community. We worked with museums, artist foundations, artists,...
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
cold war Iran-Contra Affair Influence: High 901990s USSR dismantled; ethnic conflicts exposed Gulf War: real-time TV coverage Asian financial crisis NAFTA enacted European Union forms Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too...
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Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care
faced by health care leaders: being accountable for both medical and financial outcomes. With the focus on dramatically enhancing patient care, this intensive program helps professionals design, manage, and improve their organizations. At...
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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's...
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Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan
By: Douglas Skinner and Suraj Srinivasan
We study events surrounding ChuoAoyama's failed audit of Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese...
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Audit Quality;
Auditor Reputation;
Japan;
Accounting Audits;
Crime and Corruption;
Reputation;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Japan
Skinner, Douglas, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan." Accounting Review 87, no. 5 (September 2012): 1737–1765.
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HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting
Colorado, I got to work with the absolute coolest group of researchers, passionate about shipwrecks, diving technology, underwater photography, history, and climate change. I ended up focusing a lot on financial analysis for the team and...
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- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
cruelty who remakes the industry and in some cases society." “There were charismatic business leaders in the 1950s and 1960s, just as there are CEOs today who are not charismatic,” writes Tedlow. “We are describing a general tendency away...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-172, January 1999.
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
Yangzi region and Manchuria. Growth was slowed significantly in the 1930s by the global depression and by the financial policies of the Nationalist government, and it would be stopped altogether by the onset of the Sino-Japanese and then...
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by William C. Kirby
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
protect billions from insect-borne disease. Alpha Vantage Olivier Porte HBS'18; Steve Zheng HBS'18; Business Track Runner-Up Cloud-based platform democratizing access to financial market data for software developers and investors. 2018...
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