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- September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)
By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979, they...
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Investment Activism;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business or Company Management;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Conflict of Interests;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Ferri, Fabrizio, V.G. Narayanan, and James Weber. "Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)." Harvard Business School Case 109-013, September 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
customer acquisition strategy might be sound given the circumstances of the moment, said Filipowski. "I believe in assessing the current environment and taking advantage of it." In a discussion on...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions
By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce
We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political...
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Keywords:
Spoken Communication;
Prejudice and Bias;
Competency and Skills;
Selection and Staffing;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Decisions
Huang, Laura, Marcia Frideger, and Jone L. Pearce. "Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions." Journal of Applied Psychology 98, no. 6 (November 2013): 1005–1017.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Decade of Change
experience high-impact management positions at 44 nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary, the funding of which is shared between HBS and the participating...
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- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
probably the most recent or challenging one was a setback of a fund that I was a partner in, that actually lost a number of key partners and hit a key man risk issue where the...
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- April 2023
- Article
The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’
In their Discussion Paper, Franzoni and Stephan (F&S, 2023) discuss the shortcomings of existing peer review models in shaping the funding of risky science. Their discussion offers a conceptual framework for incorporating risk into peer review models of research...
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Lane, Jacqueline N. "The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’." Art. 104707. Research Policy 52, no. 3 (April 2023).
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
year to take a job on Wall Street, but he became, arguably, the most influential and popular professor at the School. HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION ARD’s beginnings were modest — its first venture fund was a mere $3.4 million. A few...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Power of Many
Every Gift Matters Annual gifts from alumni and friends to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation are vital to the School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. HBS puts these gifts to use immediately to...
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- October 2009
- Article
Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients
By: Lauren Cohen and Breno Schmidt
We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named the trustee of a 401(k) plan. We find that family trustees...
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Cohen, Lauren, and Breno Schmidt. "Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients." Journal of Finance 64, no. 5 (October 2009): 2125–2151. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Best Paper Prize, Asset Allocation Symposium, European Finance Association 2006. Winner of the Society of Quantitative Analysts Award, Best Paper in Quantitative Investments, Western Finance Association 2007.)
Brian K. Baik
Brian Baik is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Baik studies how information, financial reporting, and...
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- 01 Jul 2013
- News
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
- 18 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
stock picker, Generation doesn’t artificially constrain its choices, and the performance of the firm at this time would suggest that its returns can be competitive with traditional global equity funds whose...
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- September 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Teaching Note
Gemini Investors
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 211-066. Gemini Investors was a private equity firm that targeted equity investments of between $4 million to $6 million per firm. In the period from 2000 to 2015, Gemini had successfully deployed four funds, all licensed as Small Business...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
Armed Services can add to—and gain from—the HBS experience. To encourage more veterans to apply to HBS, he recently funded an MBA pilot program that waives the application fee for anyone who has served in the US military. “Our military...
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- May 2013
- Case
Bridgewater Associates
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Heidi K. Gardner
Bridgewater Associates was the world's largest hedge fund with approximately $120 billion in assets under management in mid-2012, and its leaders attribute its record-beating performance to the firm's culture of "radical transparency." The founder, Ray Dalio, was...
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Management Style;
Motivation and Incentives;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Performance;
Leadership Style;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry
Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Heidi K. Gardner. "Bridgewater Associates." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 413-702, May 2013.
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- August 2018
- Case
Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru
By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American country. Growth of the Peruvian middle...
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Jeffrey Boyar. "Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru." Harvard Business School Case 219-030, August 2018.