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- January 2014
- Supplement
J.C. Penney's 'Fair and Square' Strategy (B): Out with the New, In with the Old
By: Elie Ofek, Jill Avery and Jose B. Alvarez
In his August 2012 earnings call, CEO Ron Johnson urged investors to be patient and stay the course with the revised JC Penney marketing strategy despite mounting negative financial indicators. The heart of the strategy was the "Fair and Square" approach to pricing....
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Ofek, Elie, Jill Avery, and Jose B. Alvarez. "J.C. Penney's 'Fair and Square' Strategy (B): Out with the New, In with the Old." Harvard Business School Supplement 514-085, January 2014.
- 2010
- Working Paper
When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge
This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Investment Return;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Design;
Organizational Design;
Competitive Advantage;
Technology Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-063, February 2010. (Revised July 2010, October 2010.)
- February 2007 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Leadership at WildChina (A)
WildChina (A) tells the story of Mei Zhang, a Chinese-born HBS alumna, and her pursuit of a dream: to share her passion for travel, her appreciation of China's beauty and culture, and her desire to start her own business. Describes the startup of WildChina, a tour...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Leadership;
Management Succession;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Tourism Industry;
Los Angeles;
Beijing
Isenberg, Daniel J., and Shirley Spence. "Leadership at WildChina (A)." Harvard Business School Case 807-046, February 2007. (Revised July 2009.)
- 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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- Web
Country & International | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
In-depth country and selected industry analysis and data. 49 331 Economist Intelligence Unit https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/economist-intelligence-unit In-depth country and selected industry...
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Greenhill House | About
stucco and brick office building was designed in the Georgian Revival-style by McKim, Mead & White as part of the original 1920s campus plan, though construction was delayed for financial reasons until 1965, during the tenure of Dean...
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- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
partnering with the best companies at the intersection of energy and technology to provide financial capital, industry expertise and commercialization support. Energize invests in software-based solutions...
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- May 2023
- Teaching Note
Ava Labs: Navigating the Next Blockchain
By: Marco Di Maggio and Wenyao Sha
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 223-027.
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to...
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TRACE - OTC Corporate Bond Transaction Data | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, TRACE consolidates transaction data for all eligible corporate bonds - investment grade, high yield and convertible debt. As a result, individual investors and market...
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- August 2022 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
Fresh Food Generation
By: Brian Trelstad, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin
This case highlights one of five BIPOC entrepreneurs in the Boston area as part of the HBS Impact Investment Fund. In fall 2021, a team of HBS students reviewed the financial statements of Fresh Food Generation (FFG), a Dorchester, Massachusetts-based food service...
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- June 2015
- Article
The Capital Purchase Program and Subsequent Bank SEOs
By: Mozaffar N. Khan and Dushyantkumar Vyas
We find that in the aftermath of the recent financial crisis banks replenished only 12% of crisis-related losses through SEOs in 2009 and 2010. However, SEOs are disproportionately conducted by Capital Purchase Program (CPP) recipients, and this is not explained by CPP...
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Keywords:
Accounting;
Capital;
Equity;
Financial Crisis;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
United States
Khan, Mozaffar N., and Dushyantkumar Vyas. "The Capital Purchase Program and Subsequent Bank SEOs." Journal of Financial Stability 18 (June 2015): 91–105.
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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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- November 1999
- Case
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)
By: Andre F. Perold
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a...
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Keywords:
Fluctuation;
Capital;
Financial Liquidity;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Management;
Risk Management;
Markets;
Motivation and Incentives;
Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F. "Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)." Harvard Business School Case 200-009, November 1999.
- 17 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)
will be a combination of case discussions, guests, panels, and workshops. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate The advent of new technologies and big data promise to revolutionize the finance world by disintermediate View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
future goals and the company's strategies, where board members can analyze and forecast industry trends and decide what moves the company should make. Board members should also be willing and able to contribute their own business contacts...
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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Publication:NBER Innovation Policy & the Economy (MIT Press) 10 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern09-1 Working PapersInternational View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the...
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- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony...
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Martha Lagace