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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
Equity Investing Authors:Lily H. Fang, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract Bank-affiliated private equity (PE) groups account for 30% of all PE investments. These...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2022
- Video
Professors Josh Lerner and Shai Bernstein: Complexity
- June 2017
- Article
Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk Taking?
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year) historical return distributions. In...
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Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk Taking?" Review of Financial Studies 30, no. 6 (June 2017): 1971–2005.
- March 2023
- Case
Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission
By: Ethan Rouen, Dennis Campbell and Andrew Robinson
Pete Stavros was on a high after his latest experiment with employee ownership. As the head of industrial investments for KKR, Stavros orchestrated the sale of CHI Overhead Doors, which turned into KKR’s best investment in more than two decades and created $360 million...
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Rouen, Ethan, Dennis Campbell, and Andrew Robinson. "Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission." Harvard Business School Case 123-079, March 2023.
- September 2008 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Ithmar Capital
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
The founders of Ithmar Capital, a mid-market private equity fund targeting businesses in and addressing the Gulf Co-operation Council countries, are about to raise their third fund, targeting $1 billion. The firm's current strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70...
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Private Equity;
Financial Management;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Financial Services Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Ithmar Capital." Harvard Business School Case 809-032, September 2008. (Revised September 2010.)
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Think Twice Before You Invest in a Private-Equity Fund
- November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Wallbox
By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Max Hancock
Enric Asunción co-founded Wallbox, a private EV charger company, in Spain in 2015. As CEO, Asunción transformed the company from a small start-up, focused on the European market, to a multimillion-dollar enterprise with offices on three continents. In 2021, a private...
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- January 1999 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Infox System GmbH
Apax, a private equity firm, has an opportunity to invest in a travel-related print-materials distribution business in Germany. Infox is typical of many buyout opportunities. One of the founders seeks to exit the business, and recently hired managers will have to...
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Private Equity;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry;
Germany
Kuemmerle, Walter, M. Frederick Paul, and Chad S Ellis. "Infox System GmbH." Harvard Business School Case 899-061, January 1999. (Revised April 2004.)
- 22 Feb 2013
- News
Mindful of Bubbles in a Boom for Deals
- 11 Mar 2018
- News
SoftBank Looks to Invade Wall Street’s Turf
- October 2009
- Article
Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market
By: Julie Wulf
I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be...
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Capital Markets;
Resource Allocation;
Business Processes;
Capital Budgeting;
Business Headquarters;
Investment;
Opportunities;
Cost;
Value;
Motivation and Incentives;
Equity
Wulf, Julie. "Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 72, no. 1 (October 2009): 305–321.
- January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
National Logistics Management: Founder Decisions
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Scott Taylor, CEO & founder of NLM, is a serial entrepreneur faced with an important decision. As his industry consolidates, he knows that his company must grow quickly, yet he believes he has reached the limit of what organic growth can achieve. Should he accept the...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Supply and Industry;
Supply Chain
Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "National Logistics Management: Founder Decisions." Harvard Business School Case 807-125, January 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Party and Firm
By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen and Cheryl Wu
This project documents the rise of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on
firms in China over the last decade. We propose novel quantitative measures of Party
influence and present recent trends in those measures. We corroborate qualitative work
and find a sharp...
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Business and Government Relations;
Economic Systems;
Power and Influence;
Government Administration;
Policy;
China
Mueller, Joris, Jaya Y. Wen, and Cheryl Wu. "The Party and Firm." Working Paper, December 2023.
- September 2008
- Case
Yucheng Technology
By: Li Jin, Li Liao, Chang Chen and Aldo Sesia
The founder and CEO of an IT company servicing the needs of the financial services industry in China needs to raise capital for the company to grow and survive. He has two options. He can try and obtain financing from private equity investors, or he can accept a...
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- March 2005 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Actis & CDC: A New Partnership
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
The senior managing partner of Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, must decide whether to go into the market to raise money. Actis was spun out of CDC, a 50-year-old division of the U.K.'s Department for International Development, and is...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Partners and Partnerships;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Actis & CDC: A New Partnership." Harvard Business School Case 805-122, March 2005. (Revised December 2005.)
- 25 Apr 2011
- News
Learn the tactics needed to break into emerging markets
- Research Summary
Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns
We present evidence of inefficient information processing in
equity markets by documenting that biases in analysts' earnings
forecasts are reflected in stock prices. In particular, investors
fail to account for analysts' tendency to withhold negative views
and to issue...
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- July 2009 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
VeeV on the Rocks?
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Christopher Marquis and Laura Winig
Three pressing challenges (equity split, extent of commitment to social responsibility, and product discoloration) confront VeeV, the world's first alcoholic beverage infused with acai berries. Brothers Courtney and Carter Reum founded VeeV in 2007 and the firm has...
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Keywords:
Quality;
Food;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Ethics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Equity;
Food and Beverage Industry
Margolis, Joshua D., Christopher Marquis, and Laura Winig. "VeeV on the Rocks?" Harvard Business School Case 410-006, July 2009. (Revised October 2011.)
- September 2003
- Case
Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group
By: Mihir A. Desai, Paolo Notarnicola and Mark Veblen
A team of private equity investors must value the leveraged buyout of a Yellow Pages business that operated in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In the process, they must wrestle with issues of how to conduct cross-border valuations and how to value a...
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Cash Flow;
Private Equity;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Valuation
Desai, Mihir A., Paolo Notarnicola, and Mark Veblen. "Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group." Harvard Business School Case 204-033, September 2003.