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Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions
By: Guhan Subramanian and Michael Klausner
Drawing on real-life cases from a wide range of industries, two acclaimed experts offer a sophisticated but accessible guide to business deals, designed to maximize value for your side.
Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
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Subramanian, Guhan, and Michael Klausner. Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions. Harvard University Press, 2024.
- March–April 2024
- Article
How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy: A Better Approach to Stakeholder Management
By: David M. Bersoff, Sandra J. Sucher and Peter Tufano
Executives need guidance about managing their organizations’ engagement with societal issues—including hot-button topics such as gender, climate, and racial discrimination. Success in this realm does not mean avoiding public controversy or achieving unanimous support...
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Keywords:
Values and Beliefs;
Social Issues;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Judgments;
Management Practices and Processes
Bersoff, David M., Sandra J. Sucher, and Peter Tufano. "How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy: A Better Approach to Stakeholder Management." Harvard Business Review 102, no. 2 (March–April 2024): 108–119.
- March 2024
- Article
Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya
By: Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over 20 years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that...
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Alfonsi, Livia, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Edward Miguel. "Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya." Art. 103215. Journal of Development Economics 167 (March 2024).
- 2024
- Report
The Economic Benefits of a Public Sector Nano, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (nMSME) Grading Agency: Evidence from Nigeria
By: Saveshen Pillay, Zaakirah Ismail, Anywhere Sikochi and Charles Odii
This is a summary of our working paper exploring the possibility of creating a public sector small and medium enterprise (SME) grading system in Emerging Markets. Using research and insights from ongoing work with the Nigerian government, the first country in Africa to...
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Pillay, Saveshen, Zaakirah Ismail, Anywhere Sikochi, and Charles Odii. "The Economic Benefits of a Public Sector Nano, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (nMSME) Grading Agency: Evidence from Nigeria." Report, March 2024.
- March 2024
- Article
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?
By: Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini
We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing...
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Keywords:
Political Backlash;
Cultural Beliefs;
Immigration;
Political Elections;
Outcome or Result;
Social Issues;
Perception
Alesina, Alberto, and Marco Tabellini. "The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?" Journal of Economic Literature 62, no. 1 (March 2024): 5–46.
- 2024
- Chapter
The U.S. Secession Crisis as a Breakdown of Democracy
By: Dean Grodzins and David Moss
This chapter examines the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 as a case of democratic breakdown. From December 1860 to early June 1861, eleven of the fifteen slaveholding states in the U.S. South declared secession from the Union. The trigger for the crisis was Abraham...
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Grodzins, Dean, and David Moss. "The U.S. Secession Crisis as a Breakdown of Democracy." Chap. 3 in When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day, edited by Archon Fung, David Moss, and Odd Arne Westad, 43–107. Oxford University Press, 2024.
- March 2024
- Article
When Are Social Protests Effective?
By: Eric Shuman, Amit Goldenberg, Tamar Saguy, Eran Halperin and Martijn van Zomeren
Around the world, people engage in social protests aimed at addressing major societal problems. Certain protests have led to significant progress, yet other protests have resulted in little demonstrable change. We introduce a framework for evaluating the effectiveness...
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Keywords:
Protests;
Social Issues;
Outcome or Result;
Measurement and Metrics;
Power and Influence;
Motivation and Incentives
Shuman, Eric, Amit Goldenberg, Tamar Saguy, Eran Halperin, and Martijn van Zomeren. "When Are Social Protests Effective?" Trends in Cognitive Sciences 28, no. 3 (March 2024): 252–263.
- 2024
- Book
When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day
By: Archon Fung, David Moss and Odd Arne Westad
Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Curiously, both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic...
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Fung, Archon, David Moss, and Odd Arne Westad, eds. When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day. Oxford University Press, 2024.
- February 2024
- Case
Vespucci Partners: The New World of Venture Capital in Hungary
By: Paul A. Gompers, Tonia Labruyere and Emilie Billaud
While raising capital for their second fund, Julia Sohajda, co-founder of Hungarian venture capital firm Vespucci Partners, reflects on her firm's history and investment approach, influenced by the intricacies of the Central Eastern European markets.
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry;
Hungary;
United States
Gompers, Paul A., Tonia Labruyere, and Emilie Billaud. "Vespucci Partners: The New World of Venture Capital in Hungary." Harvard Business School Case 824-138, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Technical Note
A Manager's Introduction to Passion for Work
Today, both organizations and employees are increasingly focused on passion. An analysis of 200 million U.S. job postings found that the use of the word “passion” increased nearly tenfold from 2007 to 2019, while a recent survey of thousands of college-educated...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M. "A Manager's Introduction to Passion for Work." Harvard Business School Technical Note 424-071, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Course Overview Note
The Anatomy of Fraud
By: Jonas Heese
Corporate fraud remains a serious problem. Learning how to detect and prevent it, and make better investment decisions, has broad applicability for private and public market investors, as well as for people joining or running companies. This course note describes a...
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Heese, Jonas. "The Anatomy of Fraud." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 124-076, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
AB InBev: Brewing Up Forecasts during COVID-19
By: Mark Egan and C. Fritz Foley
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 224-020. In July 2021, the CEO of AB InBev's European operations and his team strategized to position the company for success post-pandemic. As the world's largest beer company, boasting over 500 brands, revenue of $46 billion, and a...
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- February 2024
- Case
Doing Business in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
By: Karen G. Mills, Allison H. Mnookin, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Shu Lin, Julianne Bliss and Morgane Herculano
Le Thi Thu Thuy, Vice Chairwoman of Vingroup, the largest private conglomerate in Vietnam, and Global CEO of VinFast, Vingroup’s automotive subsidiary established in 2017, was contemplating VinFast’s future strategy. Domestically, the EV market in Vietnam was in its...
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- February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Finberg: Corporate Venture Capital in Turkey
By: Paul A. Gompers and Namrata Arora
In December 2021, Murat Özyeğin, Chairman of Fiba Holding, along with Ömer Mert and İhsan Elgin, engaged in discussions about the future of United Payment, a fintech company in which Finberg, a subsidiary of Fibabanka, held a 20% stake. Finberg, established in 2018 as...
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- February 2024
- Case
Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Taffi was a tech-enabled fashion styling startup founded by Shahad Geoffrey in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Within three years of operating, Geoferry had pivoted the business multiple times. In 2023, Geoferry was attempting the business’s most ambitious pivot yet, shifting...
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- February 2024
- Case
Korea Venture Investment Corporation
By: Paul A. Gompers and Billy Chan
Paul Gompers, pgompers@hbs.edu; Billy Chan, bchan@hbs.edu; Andrew Mickle, amickle@hbs.edu
3/6/2024
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venture capital, fund of funds, startup, startup ecosystem, south korea, han river zium, big basin capital, capstone partners
Entrepreneurship; business...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Society;
Finance;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry;
Asia;
South Korea
- 2024
- Working Paper
Precautionary Debt Capacity
By: Deniz Aydin and Olivia S. Kim
Firms with ample financial slack are unconstrained... or are they? In a field experiment
that randomly expands debt capacity on business credit lines, treated small-and-medium
enterprises (SMEs) draw down 35 cents on the dollar of expanded debt capacity in...
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Aydin, Deniz, and Olivia S. Kim. "Precautionary Debt Capacity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-053, February 2024.
- February 21, 2024
- Article
The NFT Staircase: How Digital Ownership Benefits Brands and Consumers
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Steve Kaczynski
One of our goals with our new book, The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create, is to unlock the power of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, for business. National and international brands are already using NFTs in some of...
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Keywords:
Non-fungible Tokens;
NFTs;
Brand;
Brand Building;
Digitization;
Metaverse;
Tokenization;
Crypto Economy;
Blockchain;
Market Design;
Brands and Branding;
Value Creation
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Steve Kaczynski. "The NFT Staircase: How Digital Ownership Benefits Brands and Consumers." a16zcrypto.com (February 21, 2024).
- February 2024
- Case
Does “Matter” Matter? Amazon and Open Standards in the Smart Home Industry
By: Frank Nagle
In early 2023, the smart home industry stood at a pivotal juncture. The recent launch of “Matter” version 1.0, an ambitious interoperability standard developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), promised to unify a fragmented market plagued by incompatible...
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Nagle, Frank. "Does “Matter” Matter? Amazon and Open Standards in the Smart Home Industry." Harvard Business School Case 724-431, February 2024.
- February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
TimeCredit
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 824-139. TimeCredit is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that is developing large language models (LLMs) to generate accounting memos. The case follows Ndonga Sagnia, a Gambian Harvard Business School MBA student with an accounting...
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