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- 13 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
A View from the Horizon
response to Georgia’s bill that sought to restrict voting access. One other name on the list stood out to me: Dr. James Cash. Dr. Cash had been a...
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- November 1991 (Revised July 1995)
- Case
Body Shop International
Describes the start-up and rapid growth of a company whose founder holds strong, non-traditional beliefs about the role of the corporation and its responsibility to society. After profiling Anita Roddick as a person, the case describes the anti-mainstream approach she...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Leadership Style;
Management Succession;
Management Teams;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Values and Beliefs;
Global Strategy;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Body Shop International." Harvard Business School Case 392-032, November 1991. (Revised July 1995.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms
By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Private firms’ ability to communicate confidentially with selected investors implies that valuation disagreements between firms and investors are larger at public firms than at private ones. Consistent with the notion that misvaluation concerns lead public firms to...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Equity;
Private Companies;
Corporate Cash;
Precautionary Motives;
Share Issuance;
IPOs;
Selective Disclosure;
Private Ownership;
Cash;
Market Timing;
Corporate Finance;
Public Ownership;
Corporate Disclosure;
United States
Farre-Mensa, Joan. "The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-095, April 2014. (Revised March 2017.)
- 12 Apr 2019
- News
Bond Market Turmoil Sparked E-Trading
- November 2000 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Yahoo!'s Stock-Based Compensation
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Amy Maislos, an investor in Internet and technology companies, was excited to read that Yahoo! had reported a positive net income for 1998 operations. During the late 1990s, stock prices of Internet companies had risen rapidly even though most companies were reporting...
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Keywords:
Stock Options;
Internet and the Web;
Financial Statements;
Corporate Disclosure;
Business Earnings;
Earnings Management;
Information Technology Industry
Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "Yahoo!'s Stock-Based Compensation." Harvard Business School Case 101-059, November 2000. (Revised January 2003.)
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
Speaking up at work; a manager's responsibility to capitalism; a strategy to fix the health care system. These were the presentation topics at the 2014 Faculty Research...
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- July 1999 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Harley-Davidson Motor Company: Enterprise Software Selection
Describes Harley-Davidson's decision process for defining and selecting an enterprise-wide procurement software package and the institutional changes introduced as part of this process. Tells the story of Harley-Davidson's approach in developing integrated business...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Groups and Teams;
Software;
Motorcycle Industry
Austin, Robert D., Deborah Soule, and Mark J. Cotteleer. "Harley-Davidson Motor Company: Enterprise Software Selection." Harvard Business School Case 600-006, July 1999. (Revised January 2003.)
- March 2020
- Case
China's Management of COVID-19 (A): People's War or Chernobyl Moment?
By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In late 2019, a novel respiratory virus appeared in a province in central China. Government officials in Wuhan, Hubei province had to respond to the new virus in the shadow of the 2002–2003 outbreak of SARS in China and within the context of the country’s public health...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Coronavirus;
Pandemics;
Public Health;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Health Pandemics;
Government Administration;
Social Issues;
Policy;
Decision Making;
China
Rithmire, Meg, and Courtney Han. "China's Management of COVID-19 (A): People's War or Chernobyl Moment?" Harvard Business School Case 720-035, March 2020.
- August 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Supplement
Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (C)
By: David F. Hawkins
The third case in the Cosmeticos de Espana case series. What should management's accounting response be to a further devaluation of the Bolivar?
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Keywords:
Financial Statements;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Inflation and Deflation;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Spain;
Venezuela
Hawkins, David F. "Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-021, August 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- April 2003 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Erica Helms and Philip Mead
Provides an opportunity to examine leadership and entrepreneurship in the context of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, a compelling story of crisis, survival, and triumph. Summarizes Shackleton's career as an officer in the British Merchant Marine, his...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
History;
Leadership;
Crisis Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior;
Antarctica
Koehn, Nancy F., Erica Helms, and Philip Mead. "Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance." Harvard Business School Case 803-127, April 2003. (Revised December 2010.)
- July 2008 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Negotiating Equity Splits at UpDown
By: Noam Wasserman and Deepak Malhotra
Michael Reich is having severe doubts about how he split the equity with his co-founders two months ago, when they completed a one-page "November Agreement." Since then, Michael has found an angel investor and has worked non-stop on the business, while one co-founder...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Capital;
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Compensation and Benefits;
Negotiation;
Partners and Partnerships
Wasserman, Noam, and Deepak Malhotra. "Negotiating Equity Splits at UpDown." Harvard Business School Case 809-020, July 2008. (Revised November 2012.)
- December 1999 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company
Two new product launch decisions face Christopher Carson, managing director of BRL Hardy, Europe. Responsible for the European operations of a major Australian wine company, Carson has begun to globalize his strategy beyond selling the parent company's wines. After a...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Joint Ventures;
Product Launch;
Brands and Branding;
Competitive Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Negotiation Style;
Food and Beverage Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company." Harvard Business School Case 300-018, December 1999. (Revised October 2003.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Dance Between Government and Private Investors: Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe
By: Jessica Bai, Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev and Josh Lerner
This paper examines the interaction between governments and private capital investors when financing early-stage ventures. We first provide a simple conceptual framework to explore when collaboration between governments and private investors is likely to emerge. Using...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Subsidy;
Industrial Policy;
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Financing and Loans;
Venture Capital;
Global Range
Bai, Jessica, Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner. "The Dance Between Government and Private Investors: Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-120, April 2021. (Revised January 2022.)
- 26 Apr 2015
- News
Investors’ climate change ‘gamble’ exposed
- September 2020 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
Moderna (A)
By: Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer and Kerry Herman
In summer 2020, Stephane Bancel, CEO of biotech firm Moderna, faces several challenges as his company races to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. The case explores how a company builds a digital organization, and leverages artificial intelligence and other digital...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Vaccine;
Digital Organizations;
Organizational Structure;
Operations;
Management;
Health Pandemics;
Research and Development;
Goals and Objectives
Iansiti, Marco, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer, and Kerry Herman. "Moderna (A)." Harvard Business School Case 621-032, September 2020. (Revised July 2021.)
- January 1986 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Horizon Group
Contains a description of a situation confronting the co-founder of a company planning to produce software for microcomputers. The company has just completed raising money from some wealthy investors by forming an R&D Limited Partnership. Development of the program (an...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Venture Capital;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business Plan;
Outcome or Result;
Research and Development;
Financial Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Information Technology Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Horizon Group." Harvard Business School Case 286-058, January 1986. (Revised March 1997.)
- March 2009
- Article
Trading Restrictions and Stock Prices
By: Robin Greenwood
Firms can manipulate their stock price by limiting the ability of their investors to sell. I examine a series of corporate events in Japan in which firms actively reduced their float—the fraction of shares available to trade—for periods of one to three months, locking...
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Greenwood, Robin. "Trading Restrictions and Stock Prices." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 3 (March 2009): 509–539.
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950
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by Aldo Musacchio