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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
I am working on a variety of related questions. First, venture capital's "big brother"—private equity or buyout funds—are attracting increasing scrutiny as regulators seek to prevent another potential economic meltdown. We are...
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- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Investment Conundrum Harvard Business School Case 808-125 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,...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through the acquisition of two electronic security...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
the time; and (3) target shareholders receive approximately 5% higher returns through the pure go-shop process relative to the no-shop route. I also find no post-signing competition in go-shop management buyouts (MBOs), consistent with...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
distinctly different strategy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706518 Kinder Morgan, Inc.-Management Buyout Harvard Business School Case 207-123 Kinder Morgan, Inc., was a leader in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm interested in acquiring the innovative fertility treatments company. The company's first promising...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806092 Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...? Harvard Business School Case 806-064 Endo Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1997 as a leveraged buyout spin-off from DuPont Merck....
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Freezeout Structure and Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Historically, Delaware corporate law provided different standards of judicial review for buyouts by controlling...
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)
By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and...
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Information Technology;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Acquisition;
Integration;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Production;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Management;
Technological Innovation;
Talent and Talent Management;
Human Resources;
Manufacturing Industry;
Technology Industry;
England
Wheelwright, Steven C., Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest, and Christian G. Kasper. "Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-015, August 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
design of our establishment-level analysis, our methods for distinguishing between leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and other private equity transactions, bankruptcy rates among firms acquired in LBOs, their assertion that we undercount large...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
vehicles were far more likely to be offered by larger and North America–based buyout funds. The average performance of these alternative vehicles lagged that of the GPs’ corresponding main funds. The best LP performance was among...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
child-care services to a buyout fund focused on media properties. She began a conversation in her office in South Hall, now home to the business school's entrepreneurship and services faculty, by describing how "Starting New...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
School Case 214-021 The Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (A) This case concerns the proposed buyout of Acibadem, a leading hospital chain in Turkey. Abraaj, a MENA region private equity firm, proposes to make its first...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
capital structure, board of directors, compensation schemes, etc.—which may or may not be appropriate for any particular asset, the firm can create an entirely different governance system that is ideally suited for the asset in question. Much the same way leveraged...
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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
management, has recently launched its inaugural impact-investing fund—the $2 billion Rise Fund. In an effort to “take the religion out of impact investing,” Bill McGlashan, founder and managing partner of TPG Growth, an arm of TPG focused on growth equity investments...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice among three different fee structures: first, a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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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.
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
of capital commitments) were in such alternative vehicles; the allocation increased by more than 10 percentage points over the last decade. Alternative vehicles were far more likely to be offered by larger and North America–based buyout...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important purchase of his life. Five years...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice between three different fee structures: first, a "conventional" fee structure of a 1.5% management fee with 20% carried...
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Sean Silverthorne