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Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance
profit objectives Ensure the integrity of financial information Foster the right culture regarding compliance and risk Develop a financial reporting strategy Improve audit...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
as far back as 1962. Data is processed into a standard format with consistent coding and valuation. All values are converted into US dollars using exchange rates supplied by the countries or derived from monthly market rates View Details
- 14 Dec 2020
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Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020
In 2020, some of our most popular articles reflect the challenges faced throughout the business world and beyond, both before and during...
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- August 2017 (Revised September 2023)
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Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI
By: Josh Lerner and Ted Berk
Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice among three different...
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Equity Method;
Leveraged Buyout;
Management Buyout;
Capital;
Design;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Management;
Private Equity;
Venture Capital;
Banking Industry;
Massachusetts
Lerner, Josh, and Ted Berk. "Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI." Harvard Business School Case 218-022, August 2017. (Revised September 2023.)
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Faculty Publications | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
/find/collections-archives/special-collections-and-archives/collecting-areas/intellectual-capital-hbs-faculty-research/faculty-publications Baker Library collects and preserves published work by HBS faculty to document the intellectual...
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- 18 Oct 2004
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The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
companies their firms are issuing securities for—or hope to do business with. The research, "Playing Favorites: Financing Options Sway Analysts' Thinking," was published in the June 2004 edition of...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Women and VC
DODI: Backing ventures with products important to women and families. Photo courtesy Monica Dodi A cofounder of MTV Europe, a former executive at Walt Disney/Europe, and former...
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- 2016
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Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company
By: Kevin J. Boudreau
The practice and teaching of business strategy today exist largely as a set of alternative views and frameworks not entirely connected to one another. These notes contribute an integrated sequence of steps for creating or evaluating a strategy and associated company...
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Business Strategy
Boudreau, Kevin J. "Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-131, May 2016. (Revised June 2016.)
- October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Collabrys, Inc. (A)-The Evolution of a Startup
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey
The CEO of a two-year-old start-up must now decide whether to become a technology provider or a service agency. In a time of enormous uncertainty about the viability of various business models for Internet-delivered services and products, Collabrys has survived the...
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Risk and Uncertainty;
Internet and the Web;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Cost vs Benefits;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Corporate Finance;
United States
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Brian DeLacey. "Collabrys, Inc. (A)-The Evolution of a Startup." Harvard Business School Case 603-064, October 2002. (Revised December 2003.)
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The Entrepreneurial Journey through NVC | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The Entrepreneurial Journey through NVC More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case...
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Find talent | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
talent 48 36268 Add My Librarian Item Find talentIdentify recruitment firms that can assist.Public Web sites:i-RecruitProvides a directory of recruiting firms.Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvides sources for...
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1.11 Leaves of Absence - MBA
terms of that agreement. Alleged criminal behavior. The student has been arrested on allegations of serious criminal behavior or has been charged with such behavior by law enforcement authorities. View Details
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Alumni Authored Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
is Strategy?: An Illustrated Guide to Michael Porter Magretta, Joan. What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business Schultz, Eric. Innovation on Tap: Stories...
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- October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
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Plavix: Drugs in the Age of Personalized Medicine
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Mara G. Aspinall and Rachel Gordon
PIavix, one of the world's best selling drugs in 2010, appears to have a limited future. Its patent was due to expire soon, and recently new data had been discovered that indicated that a small subset of the population would be at risk for stroke, heart attack, or even...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Product Positioning;
Business and Government Relations;
Genetics;
Competitive Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., Mara G. Aspinall, and Rachel Gordon. "Plavix: Drugs in the Age of Personalized Medicine." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-001, October 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- May 2005 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala
By: Geoffrey Jones and Marcelo Bucheli
Examines the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. Over the previous half century, United Fruit had built a large vertically integrated tropical fruit business that owned large banana...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Policy;
International Relations;
Business History;
Business and Government Relations;
Central America;
Guatemala;
United States
Jones, Geoffrey, and Marcelo Bucheli. "The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala." Harvard Business School Case 805-146, May 2005. (Revised October 2022.)
- April 1997
- Case
Battle of Mannheim, The
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Focuses in detail on implementing a corporate restructuring program in ABB's German subsidiary. Special attention is given to Germany's unique form of industrial governance. Two major problem areas--power plants and power transformers--are described in detail, as is a...
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Corporate Governance;
Energy Generation;
Salesforce Management;
Business or Company Management;
Restructuring;
Programs;
Energy Industry;
Germany
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "Battle of Mannheim, The." Harvard Business School Case 397-098, April 1997.
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
York?] (United States Steel Corporation, c. 1947), 22.32 An increase in management positions coincided with the teaching of factory management at Harvard View Details
- March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
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Brazos Partners and the Tri-Northern Exit
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
Randall Fojtasek, a partner at the Dallas-based Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through...
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Private Equity Exit;
LBO;
Leveraged Buyout Transaction;
Texas;
Security;
Brazos;
Tri-Northern;
Tri-Ed;
Northern Video;
Private Equity;
Partners and Partnerships;
Distribution;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry;
Distribution Industry;
Texas
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and Nathaniel Burbank. "Brazos Partners and the Tri-Northern Exit." Harvard Business School Case 813-157, March 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
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Takedown Policy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
with the information outlined below, to specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu or:Attn: Manager, Public ServicesBaker Library Special Collections and ArchivesBaker Library | Bloomberg CenterHarvard Business School25...
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