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- January 1999
- Case
Prague Post, The
By: Paul A. Gompers
Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is under pressure from competition and a Czech Republic recession. She must decide how to return the paper to...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Decisions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Profit;
Competition;
Financial Crisis;
Personal Development and Career;
Publishing Industry;
Czech Republic
Gompers, Paul A. "Prague Post, The ." Harvard Business School Case 299-033, January 1999.
- April 1999 (Revised September 2001)
- Case
Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones
By: Paul A. Gompers
Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company to make wireless phones. Students get experience using traditional discounted cash flow valuation and a real options...
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Keywords:
Valuation;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Capital Budgeting;
Corporate Finance;
Manufacturing Industry;
Electronics Industry
Gompers, Paul A. "Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones." Harvard Business School Case 299-004, April 1999. (Revised September 2001.)
- June 1997
- Case
Global Digital Utilities Corporation
By: Paul A. Gompers
Keywords:
Technology Industry
Gompers, Paul A. "Global Digital Utilities Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 297-065, June 1997.
- June 1997 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
Tutor Time (A)
By: Paul A. Gompers
Gompers, Paul A. "Tutor Time (A)." Harvard Business School Case 297-064, June 1997. (Revised November 1998.)
- August 2012 (Revised July 2015)
- Background Note
A Note on Valuation in Private Equity
By: Paul A. Gompers
This note will provide an overview of valuation methodologies in private equity.
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Gompers, Paul A. "A Note on Valuation in Private Equity." Harvard Business School Background Note 213-034, August 2012. (Revised July 2015.)
- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Carlton Polish Co. TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-283-008).
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- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Record Masters, TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-899-020).
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Keywords:
Information Industry
- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Dell Ventures TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-200-062).
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Keywords:
Computer Industry
- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Honest Tea, TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-201-076).
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- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Fenchel Lampshade Company TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-291-014).
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Keywords:
Manufacturing Industry
- February 2000 (Revised September 2001)
- Case
edocs, Inc. (B-1): Kevin Laracey
By: Paul A. Gompers
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Information Technology Industry
Gompers, Paul A. "edocs, Inc. (B-1): Kevin Laracey." Harvard Business School Case 200-020, February 2000. (Revised September 2001.)
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
are: Paul A. Buttenwieser, AB ’60, MD ’64. Psychiatrist; Novelist. Cambridge, MA. Sidney R. Knafel, AB ’52, MBA ’54. Managing Partner, SRK Management Company. New York, NY. Roxane Harvey Gudeman, AB ’62,...
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- September 2017
- Case
Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit
By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,...
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Keywords:
Roll Up;
Private Equity Roll Up;
Aggregates;
Aggregates Materials;
Construction Materials;
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Engineering;
Construction;
Finance;
Capital;
Equity;
Private Equity;
Financial Instruments;
Investment;
Housing;
Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Personal Development and Career;
Management Teams;
Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Value;
Valuation;
Value Creation;
Construction Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Gompers, Paul A., John D. Dionne, and Amram Migdal. "Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit." Harvard Business School Case 218-002, September 2017.
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then leaked to their best clients. We show that after large...
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Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley Course Number 1631 Professor Paul Gompers Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits In recent years, entrepreneurship has become a global phenomenon, transcending...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
capital. For more than a quarter-century, the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul View Details
- Article
'Myth or Reality?' The Long-run Underperformance of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Venture- and Nonventure-capital-backed Companies
By: Paul A. Gompers and A. Brav
Gompers, Paul A., and A. Brav. "'Myth or Reality?' The Long-run Underperformance of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Venture- and Nonventure-capital-backed Companies." Journal of Finance 52, no. 5 (December 1997).
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Publications 2014 AMACOM Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy By: Brown, Paul B., Charles F. Kiefer, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—It used to be...
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Carmen Nobel