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- September 2020
- Case
Blackstone: Crocs Investment
By: Victoria Ivashina, John D. Dionne and Terrence Shu
This case follows Prakash Melwani (HBS MBA '86), CIO of Blackstone's Private Equity Group, and his teams’ investment in the footwear company Crocs. Instead of a traditional secondary offering, Crocs opted for a unique deal structure by taking Blackstone's cash in a...
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Ivashina, Victoria, John D. Dionne, and Terrence Shu. "Blackstone: Crocs Investment." Harvard Business School Case 221-023, September 2020.
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
not take a great deal of capital nor technological expertise to launch an entrepreneurial venture in many beauty products—although for such a venture to have any hope of success, high levels of imagination and creativity have always been...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
the first decade of your professional journey. How do you decode office politics, advocate for yourself, or deal with that one troublesome coworker? This guide is your blueprint to workplace success. You’ll learn to cultivate rapport with...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
management. "It's one of the most important developments in the history of business," he observes. "But in the end, it's merely plumbing." To use the lingo of the Net, that plumbing is way hotter, hipper, and sexier than your standard View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettle drums, they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet." Today in Latin America, as elsewhere, View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
taken away and then given back,” he says, “you want to use it in the very best way you can.” Web Exclusive: Bob Massie - Finding His Place at HBS “I owe a great deal to the late Professor John Matthews,” Bob Massie says, as he retraces...
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- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
new career development and remuneration system. Bhattacharya wonders if attempting to change the culture of a 206-year-old mammoth organization is feasible or a mere pipe dream. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
as a national blueprint. Near-universal coverage, a pipe dream anywhere in the United States a few short years ago, is the chief reason that the state’s model has generated so much excitement. And the Bay State’s example has arguably put...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work by Vijay Govindarajan (DBA 1978) and Ravi Ramamurti (DBA 1982) HBR Press Though still a pipe dream in the US, value-based competition (value as measured by patient outcomes...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
we look remarkably better. So there’s a series of enormous distortions that come out of the fact that financial accounting really just can’t deal with human capital and, frankly, has not seen any particular need to do anything about that....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
jobs. The model helps businesses deal with economic uncertainty, and individuals handle non-work obligations. Kelly Services, the 75-year-old firm that is synonymous with temporary work, has filled many essential positions. It supplies...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
number of years, which is the skills shortage that you see in graying areas in the workforce, often in manufacturing, in certain construction trades. We have a terrible problem right now, for example, in U.S. Navy shipyards finding workers, particularly View Details