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- 05 Nov 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms (borrowing from David Physick's...
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- January 2006
- Teaching Note
Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures (TN)
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
- 05 Jan 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting
- Web
On Identity and Multiplicity in the Workplace - Blog: RaGE Report
Cold Call Podcast; Ramarajan discusses the case of how Carla Ann Harris embodies her many identity markers—including being Black, a woman, Catholic, an investment banker, and a singer—with authenticity....
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- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
various types of people? Candidates have been investing heavily in both mass advertising and personal selling. For the 2012 election, for instance, the Democratic and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation...
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- December 1998 (Revised July 2000)
- Case
Implementing Strategies for Mobile Telephony: The Cases of BellSouth and U S WEST
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Recounts how BellSouth and US WEST developed and implemented their strategies for becoming major players in the mobile telephony business. Shows how initial success at BellSouth attracted more resources and aggressive investment, while initial failures at US WEST...
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- 13 Dec 2022
- Video
Santa Claus Debates Whether to Outsource Toy Production
- Teaching Interest
Overview
By: Michael Chu
Chu's teaching focuses on businesses providing goods and services to the emerging middle class and low-income sectors that constitute the market below the well-served top of the socio-economic pyramid. In developed countries such as the USA, this may be 40-50% of the...
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- March 2018
- Teaching Note
Sandlands Vineyards
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
Teaching Note for HBS No.718-438.
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Keywords:
Wine;
Winery;
Vineyard;
Market Attractiveness;
Porter's 5 Forces;
Capital Investment;
Industry Attractiveness;
Performance Analysis;
Napa Valley;
Agriculture;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Vertical Integration;
Segmentation;
Food;
Supply Chain;
Industry Structures;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
California;
Napa Valley
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
patient can lead to better outcomes and less cost. Source: Data Visualization by Blair Storie-Johnson “Maybe that pre-surgical conversation costs an extra $100, in a physician’s or nurse’s time; but if you can View Details
- Article
Accounting for Climate Change
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
Corporations are facing growing pressure—from investors, advocacy groups, politicians, and even business leaders themselves—to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operations and their supply and distribution chains. About 90% of the companies in the S&P...
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Keywords:
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation;
Social Accounting;
E-liabilities;
Business And The Environment;
Climate Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability
Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "Accounting for Climate Change." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 6 (November–December 2021): 120–131.
- October 2014
- Case
Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium (Abridged)
Hanson, Samuel, Erik Stafford, and Luis Viceira. "Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 215-025, October 2014.
- April 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Background Note
Note: Disclosure, Regulation, and Taxation of Hedge Funds versus Mutual Funds in the U.S.
By: Lena G. Goldberg, Robert C. Pozen and Melissa Anne Hammerle
This note provides students with an explanation of the regulatory and tax framework for hedge funds vs. mutual funds in the U.S.
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Investment Funds;
Corporate Disclosure;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Taxation;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Goldberg, Lena G., Robert C. Pozen, and Melissa Anne Hammerle. "Note: Disclosure, Regulation, and Taxation of Hedge Funds versus Mutual Funds in the U.S." Harvard Business School Background Note 310-131, April 2010. (Revised May 2012.)
- 2009
- Chapter
Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature
By: Andrew A. King and Michael W. Toffel
Scholars of management have long considered how institutions can help resolve market imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental...
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For-Profit Firms;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Competitive Advantage
King, Andrew A., and Michael W. Toffel. "Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature." Chap. 4 in Governance for the Environment: New Perspectives, edited by Magali Delmas and Oran Young, 98–115. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950
By: Aldo Musacchio
The early development of large multidivisional corporations in Latin America required much more than capable managers, new technologies, and large markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either...
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Keywords:
Voting;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Governance Controls;
Contracts;
Laws and Statutes;
Ownership Stake;
Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-053, January 2008.
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
cash. “The main determinant is the amount of cash a firm has and whether the firm recently came into cash,” Cohen said. All of this litigation has a wearing effect on its victims: It ends up stifling innovation activity at the targeted...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2022
- News
Untethering the Remote Workforce with 5G
- August 2001 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Maria Hernandez & Associates
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
This case presents the situation of an unemployed web page designer who starts a new consulting firm with personal savings and a family loan. Two months later, she is to report on operations to her father, using financial reports she must design and construct.
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Keywords:
Financial Reporting;
Accounting;
Business Startups;
Design;
Borrowing and Debt;
Service Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr. "Maria Hernandez & Associates." Harvard Business School Case 902-401, August 2001. (Revised May 2004.)