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- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Harbour Group invested in Babcock & Wilcox, an energy and construction company. Blue Harbour developed an investment thesis around Babcock & Wilcox spinning off its non-nuclear, coal-based energy segments and focused on being a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Entertainment, HBS professor Anita Elberse documents the powerful, long-term success of high-investment, high-reward entertainment products, including movies. "She's absolutely right," says Lopez. "Those big successes spin off cash like...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
had to decide whether or not to spin off its brokerage business. Man was also evaluating several new business opportunities with varying strategic and financial rationales. After the financial crisis, Man had to decide what to do in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
I sat and listened, knowing that this was spinning out of control. Of course they did know what the customer wanted! And we would have been the first dollars in. At that time, I’d been in the business for six or so years. That experience...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
families. Later, we gather with locals to learn about every aspect of rug weaving: cleaning and brushing the wool; pulling and spinning it out into yarn; coloring it with plant- and insect-based dyes; and finally, weaving it into the...
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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
attack on eBay, starting in January 2014. The case examines how John Donahoe, CEO of eBay, should respond to Icahn's demand that eBay spin off PayPal and accept Icahn's two nominees to the board of directors. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
significant role. An experiment compared a condition where participants sequentially predicted the colored outcomes of a virtual roulette wheel spin with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes were presented all at once. In a third...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
9.88 in 1988 to 36. In January 2003 the stock price rose to 71.23. Reflecting on how they handled the crisis, Cronk said, "It was a common trust and of sharing the facts—openness we weren't sugarcoating anything, putting a Hollywood View Details
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by Martha Lagace
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that more accessible and ready. We see ourselves enabling and spinning out or funding entities that are going to address learning and the personalization of it to improve student attainment. We see ourselves investing in things that are...
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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
grew there were increasing pressures to integrate with the parent company. While Atan believed that this would destroy the unique culture and positioning of Enpara, senior management was wondering whether to spin it off or merge it with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
very, very quickly, and it causes this fan blade to detach. And because the jet engine is spinning so quickly, as the fan blade detaches, it starts to shoot through the wing. And it ends up punching this enormous hole in the wing of the...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
they do only two Elvis Presley tunes. The rest are mainly their versions of songs made famous by well-known bands like the Ramones, the Black Crowes, and the Spin Doctors. "The key to the success of our concerts," says Kapoor, "is that we...
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