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- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
were given equal ownership interest in both banks, taxpayers would participate in the potential upside as well as shoulder losses. Moreover, splitting a trouble institution in this manner would avoid the...
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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
of the Private Capital Research Institute By: Lerner, Josh, and Leslie Jeng Abstract—Private markets are becoming an increasingly important way of financing rapidly growing and mature firms, and private investors are reputed to have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Working Paper
These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System
By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the ownership structure...
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Keywords:
Market Entry and Exit;
Balance and Stability;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Banks and Banking;
Society;
Economics;
Banking Industry;
Mexico
Haber, Stephen, and Aldo Musacchio. "These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-062, January 2013. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18713, January 2013.)
- March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
Wilshire Lane Capital
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Lindsay N. Hyde and Stacy Straaberg
In September 2021, Adam Demuyakor (MBA 2017) was faced with decisions about how to launch his venture capital (VC) investment firm. His previous investment activities were a series of angel investments and special purpose vehicles alongside two part-time general...
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Keywords:
Ownership Stake;
Investment Funds;
Venture Capital;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Real Estate Industry;
Technology Industry;
Los Angeles;
California;
United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Lindsay N. Hyde, and Stacy Straaberg. "Wilshire Lane Capital." Harvard Business School Case 823-062, March 2023. (Revised September 2023.)
- October 1992 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation (A): March 1991
By: Josh Lerner
ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corp., a development-stage biotechnology company, is considering making an initial offering of common stock. The diverse perspectives of the entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investment banker, and institutional investor are explored. Problems...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Banks and Banking;
Initial Public Offering;
Going Public;
Perspective;
Valuation;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Lerner, Josh. "ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation (A): March 1991." Harvard Business School Case 293-066, October 1992. (Revised November 1997.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Property Rights and Urban Form
By: Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti and Andrei Shleifer
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities? This paper incorporates insecure property rights into a standard model of urban land prices and density, and makes...
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Djankov, Simeon, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti, and Andrei Shleifer. "Property Rights and Urban Form." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28793, May 2021.
- December 2013
- Article
Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: Firm-level Implications of State Equity Purchases
By: Carlos F. K. V. Inoue, Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio
In many countries, firms face institutional voids that raise the costs of doing business and thwart entrepreneurial activity. We examine a particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected...
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Keywords:
Business Groups;
Development Banks;
State Capitalism;
Performance;
State Ownership;
Brazil
Inoue, Carlos F. K. V., Sergio G. Lazzarini, and Aldo Musacchio. "Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: Firm-level Implications of State Equity Purchases." Academy of Management Journal 56, no. 6 (December 2013).
- November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Clear Channel 2006
By: Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
The Board of Directors of Clear Channel Communications, a radio broadcasting and outdoor advertising company, has to respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Private Equity;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Negotiation Offer;
Privatization;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Ruback, Richard S., and Leslie Pierson. "Clear Channel 2006." Harvard Business School Case 208-083, November 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
- March 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane
Realizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicolás Ibáñez and David Cotterman were considering how best to continue to diversify their investor base and how to optimize...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Family Business;
Investment;
Ownership;
Value Creation;
Financial Services Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
United States;
Latin America;
Chile
Wing, Christina R., and David Lane. "Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners." Harvard Business School Case 621-065, March 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- October 2022
- Case
An Heir with No Spare: The Deitch Family Office
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Joe and Matt Deitch, father and son, knew it was time to start their own family office. Matthew had recently joined his father at the family’s three enterprises, and they both realized that their family’s needs had grown increasingly complex over the years. In search...
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Keywords:
Family Office;
Philanthropy;
Charitable Giving;
Family;
Family Business;
Talent and Talent Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Governance;
Values and Beliefs;
Job Search;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Family Ownership;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Family and Family Relationships;
Financial Services Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
Florida;
Miami
Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "An Heir with No Spare: The Deitch Family Office." Harvard Business School Case 223-019, October 2022.
- September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Chai Point: Disrupting Chai
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani
Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based tea...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Stock;
Business Model;
Mobile Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Food;
Selection and Staffing;
Employee Stock Ownership Plan;
Resignation and Termination;
Compensation and Benefits;
Resource Allocation;
Product Positioning;
Distribution Channels;
Product Design;
Supply Chain;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Retail Industry;
Asia;
India;
Karnataka;
Bangalore
Ghosh, Shikhar, Ramana Nanda, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Chai Point: Disrupting Chai." Harvard Business School Case 818-020, September 2017. (Revised March 2018.)
Reinventing State Capitalism
In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath
By: Antonio Falato, Giovanni Favara and David Scharfstein
We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from private to public ownership through a public listing or an acquisition. The increase...
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Falato, Antonio, Giovanni Favara, and David Scharfstein. "Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath." Working Paper.
- Research Summary
Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)
In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals... View Details
- July 2012 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged)
By: Clayton Rose and Aldo Sesia
In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with...
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Keywords:
Banking;
Family Business;
Strategy And Execution;
Banks and Banking;
Family Ownership;
Financial Institutions;
Strategy;
Banking Industry;
United States;
Alabama
Rose, Clayton, and Aldo Sesia. "Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 313-010, July 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- 2014
- Book
Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond
By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran corporations and broadly controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a...
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Keywords:
State Capitalism;
State-owned Enterprises;
Industrial Policy;
Development Banks;
Capitalism;
Financial Markets;
Corporate Governance Theory;
CEO Effects;
Public Sector;
Economic Systems;
Financial Institutions;
Corporate Governance;
Business and Government Relations;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
State Ownership;
Privatization;
Public Ownership;
Emerging Markets;
Banking Industry;
Mining Industry;
Energy Industry
Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini. Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
- 27 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms
- May 2010 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Friend Bank: The Time for Hope
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Financial Crisis;
Banks and Banking;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk Management;
Family Ownership;
Competitive Advantage;
Banking Industry;
Alabama
Rose, Clayton S., and Aldo Sesia. "Friend Bank: The Time for Hope." Harvard Business School Case 310-070, May 2010. (Revised September 2013.)
- 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
- February 2004
- Case
Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny (A)
By: Mihir A. Desai, Alberto Moel and Kathleen Luchs
This case examines how insiders can expropriate value from shareholders in emerging markets when property rights are ill-defined. As such, it provides a platform for considering how institutions and legal rules impact financing patterns and economic outcomes. CME,...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Fairness;
Financial Institutions;
Corporate Governance;
Rights;
Ownership Stake
Desai, Mihir A., Alberto Moel, and Kathleen Luchs. "Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny (A)." Harvard Business School Case 204-118, February 2004.