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- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
Business Administration and author of Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups As United States equity markets and corporate balance sheets continue their remarkable comeback from the View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk management, and it brings together financial strategy and business strategy, a...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
Finance I course. Coming from an operational background, I had very limited exposure to interpreting problems and solutions through a financial lens. After finally admitting to myself that I was not going to master these concepts on my...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
oversee the ongoing business. Private-equity directors typically spend more time with their companies after the buyout than many of their public company counterparts. Private-equity boards are typically small working groups composed of individuals with relevant...
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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research
trend and forecast coverage across 10 major commercial real estate sectors, 275+ markets, and 3,000+ submarkets. Includes market transactions and performance trends. FactSet
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- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
differences this way: "If one has to generalize, it is fair to say that Americans pursue risk and Europeans seek stability ... (leading) to fewer opportunities with more limited financial rewards, but...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
way to success, the first step, the authors say, is to take action now and learn on the way. They show how to determine the best strategy and tactics when the future is uncertain, how to minimize financial View Details
- September 2004
- Case
Valhalla Partners Due Diligence
By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath
The Valhalla Partners venture capitial firm introduced a new approach to the due-diligence process. An internal due-diligence report analyzes Telco Exchange, a startup company in the IT software space. An extended excerpt examines the trade-offs involved in the new...
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Communication Technology;
Risk Management;
Venture Capital;
Business Plan;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Corporate Finance;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Dan Heath. "Valhalla Partners Due Diligence." Harvard Business School Case 805-033, September 2004.
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection rates. “AIDS places a dramatic spotlight on the question of...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
years of training and placing job seekers. Why should she risk financial ruin on a big-ticket real estate purchase? The idea first surfaced when Russo’s accountant matter-of-factly suggested that she stop...
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- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
bundled payments. The stakes are high, and the outcome will define the shape of the health care system for many years to come, for better or for worse. In this article, the authors argue that although capitation may deliver modest savings in the short run, it brings...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
contrast, “we cause disasters that happen to ourselves,” he said. But there’s a built-in tension between having the state protect businesses from failure and allowing financial evolution to take its course, resulting in moral hazard — the...
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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
Liberty. I look over at the World Financial Center where I work, and as always, what strikes me isn’t what I see but what I don’t see anymore. Even after nine years, the ghosts of the Twin Towers never seem to fade from the skyline in my...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
started developing them have ceased to exist as independent entities. In those cases in which the skills and capabilities that characterized new ecosystem domains were distinct enough to justify a truly focused strategy (for example, personal View Details
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2002 using the male circumcision rate to identify plausibly exogenous variation in HIV prevalence. Medical researchers have found significant evidence that male circumcision can reduce the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The survey...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey