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- August 2008
- Teaching Note
Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [808125].
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- August 2008
- Teaching Note
Pawson Foundation: August 2006 (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [806042].
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- August 2008
- Teaching Note
The Blackstone Group's IPO (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [808100].
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- July 2008
- Teaching Note
Yale University Investments Office: August 2006 (TN)
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [807073].
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- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [807005].
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- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Warburg Pincus and emgs: The IPO Decision (TN) (A) and (B)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [807092] and [808046].
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- March 2008 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
Actis: January 2008
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Paul Feltcher, the CEO of Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, is preparing for an executive retreat at which the management team will consider how best to position the firm for the future. Actis could move in a number of different directions...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Emerging Markets;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Actis: January 2008." Harvard Business School Case 808-130, March 2008. (Revised June 2009.)
- March 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
The Blackstone Group's IPO
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Steven Schwarzman, Chairman of the Blackstone Group, has just learned that an investment group associated with the government of China wants to buy the majority of Blackstone's leveraged IPO. As he considers how to respond to this offer, Schwarzman reviews the firm's...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Financial Liquidity;
Initial Public Offering;
Investment;
Ownership Stake;
Business and Stakeholder Relations
Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "The Blackstone Group's IPO." Harvard Business School Case 808-100, March 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global, but each pertains to different offices and each deal has different strengths and...
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Strength and Weakness;
Negotiation Deal;
Personal Development and Career
Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum." Harvard Business School Case 808-125, February 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- January 2008
- Teaching Note
Brazos Partners and Cheddar's Inc. (TN)
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [806069].
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- January 2008
- Article
Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets
It is well documented that the venture capital industry is highly volatile and that much of this volatility is associated with shifting valuations and activity in public equity markets. This paper examines how changes in public market signals affected venture capital...
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Keywords:
Market Cycles;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Experience and Expertise;
Public Equity;
Volatility;
Financial Services Industry
Gompers, Paul, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein. "Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets." Journal of Financial Economics 87, no. 1 (January 2008): 1–23. (Earlier versions distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11385.)
- December 2007 (Revised April 2009)
- Teaching Note
Adams Capital Management: Fund IV (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
- November 2007
- Article
Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D
By: Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf
Beginning in the late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of corporate research...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Motivation and Incentives;
Goals and Objectives;
Research and Development;
Patents;
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Lerner, Josh, and Julie Wulf. "Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D." Review of Economics and Statistics 89, no. 4 (November 2007): 634–644.
- August 2007 (Revised August 2012)
- Supplement
Warburg Pincus and emgs: The IPO Decision (B)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Warburg Pincus and emgs: The IPO Decision (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 808-046, August 2007. (Revised August 2012.)
- June 2007
- Article
What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland
By: Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu
Economists have debated the extent to which strengthening patent protection spurs or detracts from technological innovation. This paper examines the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent and copyright protections are...
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Patents;
Information Technology;
Information Technology Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Feng Zhu. "What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland." International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, no. 3 (June 2007): 511–529. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11168.)
- 2007
- Chapter
The Governance of New Firms: A Functional Perspective
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "The Governance of New Firms: A Functional Perspective." In Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present, edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, 405–432. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.
- April 2007
- Supplement
OuterLink Corporation (B)
By: Josh Lerner and Brenda Chia
Lerner, Josh, and Brenda Chia. "OuterLink Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 807-158, April 2007.
- February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
NCH Capital and Univermag Ukraina
By: Josh Lerner and John Didiuk
NCH Capital is considering whether to sell its Ukrainian company Univermag Ukraina, which it has held and built up over the past decade.
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Keywords:
Opportunities;
Private Equity;
Problems and Challenges;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Retail Industry;
Ukraine
Lerner, Josh, and John Didiuk. "NCH Capital and Univermag Ukraina." Harvard Business School Case 807-143, February 2007. (Revised March 2007.)