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- September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann Leamon
In fall 2008, a venture lender must decide whether to make a loan to Avid, a small but promising venture-backed life sciences firm. In reviewing her proposal, Cristy Barnes considers the company's characteristics and how they differ from a typical investment. At the...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Crisis;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry;
Health Industry
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and Ann Leamon. "Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners." Harvard Business School Case 810-054, September 2009. (Revised September 2010.)
- April 2020 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
Teton Capital Partners, LLC: Free Fallin'
Lietz, Nori Gerardo. "Teton Capital Partners, LLC: Free Fallin'." Harvard Business School Case 220-076, April 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
- February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Pushing Past the Boundaries of ESG Investing: AQR Capital Management
By: Lauren H. Cohen, Richard B. Evans, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen
Cliff Asness was facing a dilemma into how he would plunge his hedge fund into the hottest investment area worldwide—ESG Investing. Founder and managing principal of AQR—one the most storied quantitative hedge funds in the world—Asness knew anything less than a big...
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Cohen, Lauren H., Richard B. Evans, Umit G. Gurun, and Quoc H. Nguyen. "Pushing Past the Boundaries of ESG Investing: AQR Capital Management." Harvard Business School Case 222-058, February 2022. (Revised April 2022.)
- 2010
- Mimeo
An Analysis of the Impact of 'Substantially Heightened' Capital Requirements on Large Financial Institutions
By: Anil Kashyap, Jeremy C. Stein and Samuel G. Hanson
We examine the impact of "substantially heightened" capital requirements on large financial institutions, and on their customers. Our analysis yields three main conclusions. First, the frictions associated with raising new external equity finance are likely to be...
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Keywords:
Financial Institutions;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Capital;
Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Credit
Kashyap, Anil, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel G. Hanson. "An Analysis of the Impact of 'Substantially Heightened' Capital Requirements on Large Financial Institutions." 2010. Mimeo.
- November 2008 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital (Abridged)
By: Boris Groysberg, Victoria Winston and Robin Abrahams
Teena Lerner, the CEO of Rx Capital, had a problem. Her three-year-old hedge fund was highly profitable, but in 2004, one of her four equities analysts lost a lot of money for the firm. If Lerner followed her existing compensation system, designed to reward teamwork,...
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Keywords:
Compensation and Benefits;
Employee Relationship Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Groups and Teams;
Financial Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, Victoria Winston, and Robin Abrahams. "Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 409-058, November 2008. (Revised January 2012.)
- September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Silver Lake and Private Equity in Brazil: Carnaval or Calamity?
By: Aldo Musacchio and Stephen J. Goldstein
Musacchio, Aldo, and Stephen J. Goldstein. "Silver Lake and Private Equity in Brazil: Carnaval or Calamity?" Harvard Business School Case 712-004, September 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- 06 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly
- 2013
- Working Paper
Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cost of Capital;
Capital Markets;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
United States
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19018, May 2013.
- Web
Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems Course Number 6440 Senior Lecturer John Dionne Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Weekly, two-hour meetings Project/Lecture Series - No Case Studies Enrollment limited to 50...
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- August 2021
- Teaching Note
Yale University Investments Office: November 2020
By: Josh Lerner
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 821-074.
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- January 2009
- Background Note
Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity
By: Elisabeth Koll
Provides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely important role in China's economy in the 21st century. Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Private Equity;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
State Ownership;
Business and Government Relations;
Networks;
China
Koll, Elisabeth. "Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity." Harvard Business School Background Note 809-111, January 2009.
- 04 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital
- October 2007
- Article
The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital
By: Michael D. Kimbrough
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare...
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- August 2022
- Supplement
Broadway Angels (2022)
By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
In late June of 2022, Sonja Perkins, co-founder of Broadway Angels, contemplated the group’s future. She and her co-founders, Jennifer Fonstad, and Magdalena Yesil, started the group to gather together the most successful and powerful women in venture capital and...
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Keywords:
Gender Equity;
Impact;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Entrepreneurship;
Gender;
Mission and Purpose;
Groups and Teams;
Financial Services Industry
Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Broadway Angels (2022)." Harvard Business School Supplement 823-001, August 2022.
- April 2010
- Article
Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
This paper presents evidence of performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. In particular, they exhibit...
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Keywords:
Performance;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Market Timing;
Competency and Skills;
Success;
Business Startups
Gompers, Paul A., Josh Lerner, David Scharfstein, and Anna Kovner. "Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital." Journal of Financial Economics 96, no. 1 (April 2010): 18–32.
- 2010
- Casebook
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture
By: Laura Alfaro
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Capital;
International Finance;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Business and Government Relations
Alfaro, Laura. Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010.
- 28 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and their Implications for Economic Performance
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by Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini
- 2001
- Manual
Venture Capital and Private Equity: An Instructor's Manual
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
- March 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Clara Wu Tsai and Brooklyn Loan Innovation
Philanthropist Clara Wu Tsai is committed to racial equity and investing in Brooklyn-based minority business owners. In the wake of the George Floyd murder, she decides to create a new initiative called the Social Justice Fund and commit an initial $50 million over 10...
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- 25 Mar 2015
- News