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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
from their purchases. Revenue models anchored on the ownership of products, they argue, are patently inferior. Bertini and Koenigsberg explain that advances in technology have made it possible for firms to collect “impact data” that tells...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the commercialization of the Internet was by no means a foregone conclusion at its outset. MBA Class of 1957 Professor Greenstein traces the evolution of...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
mispricing in trade imports and exports; country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations; confirmation of beneficial ownership (i.e., naming the real owners, not frontmen) in all banking and...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
Dooley in the early 1970s to meet a need unfulfilled by other HBS executive education programs. As it became clear that ownership made a difference in the attitudes and goals of the participants, the View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
visible component of a business with increasingly explosive, multifaceted economic aspects. Yet despite these turbulent conditions, there's no shortage of new ownership wanting to jump into the game. For example, two new baseball...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
requirements for equity ownership by directors, and bylaws should require them. The “play money” distributed in the form of stock options and gifts of restricted stock should not be included. Directors should have a meaningful percentage...
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- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
shares in those horses, making ownership much more accessible. As an investment manager, Finley’s got a strong track record, with four of his horses making it to the Kentucky Derby, including a win by Always Dreaming in 2017 and a run...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
equity ownership in corporations and generally do not intervene in management. Such equity investments allow firms to alleviate capital constraints and increase capital expenditures.
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
something that will take years.” Home Ownership: Back to Basics HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered a historical perspective on U.S....
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy and affordable for people of...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
publisher’s blessing. Some, such as League of Legends publisher Riot Games, serve as commissioners of their own leagues—to return to traditional sports analogies—while others outsource the responsibility to a third party. That new View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
produce—to tell a story while maintaining creative control over the project itself—is something Singer aspires to in the future. “You’re paid well as a screenwriter if you’re successful, but you don’t have equity in the company, so to speak,” he says. “I feel a ton of...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
choices to more deliberate ownership of how I'm spending my time, or as poet Mary Oliver asked, what am I doing with my "one wild and precious life?" Carliss Baldwin When I was younger, I simply wanted to have a job and support myself. I...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
percent stake, which would have been a much smaller ownership position than we usually get. So it was an “off-strategy” investment. It was also in the highly competitive space of lead generation, where companies are paid a referral fee if...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in Jakarta. That rapid growth of internet- ready cell phone View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
market and on laundry soap and synthetic detergents, where it had secured a worldwide technological lead in the late 1940s. When Beauty and Health Diverge The ownership of the world beauty industry experienced enormous change between the...
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- 29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys
sometimes you can ... I think you really can chalk things up to just bad timing, bad circumstances, whatever it is and give yourself a little bit more space. But for me, I think I struggled to navigate that more successfully in and take more View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
sprains, and the like,” Herzlinger explains. “The charge is around $69, so uninsured people can go there instead of to the emergency room, which has long waits and charges much more. And with CVS’s chain ownership involving hundreds of...
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