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- November 2000
- Case
Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank (B)
Describes the evolution of Wit Capital from its origins as a small brewery to an online investment bank advising both small technology-based companies seeking to raise capital and large companies seeking to acquire Internet companies, as well as offering retail...
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Internet and the Web;
Disruptive Innovation;
Service Delivery;
Investment Banking;
Entrepreneurship
Hallowell, Roger H., and Charles Ruberto. "Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank (B)." Harvard Business School Case 801-265, November 2000.
- 2020
- Working Paper
How Do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?
By: Juliane Begenau and Emil Siriwardane
We study how investment fees vary within private-capital funds. Net-of-fee return clustering suggests that most funds have two tiers of fees, and we decompose differences across tiers into both management and performance-based fees. Managers of venture capital funds...
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Keywords:
Pension Funds;
Fee Dispersion;
Search And Negotiation Frictions;
Private Equity;
Investment Funds
Begenau, Juliane, and Emil Siriwardane. "How Do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-073, January 2020. (This working paper has been subsumed by the published paper "Fee Variation in Private Equity." Please see the final version of this paper under "Journal Articles.")
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
Disney, and Iridium, and Boston's Central Artery Project (the "Big Dig") in the public sector, are examples of some recent efforts that went bankrupt or had to be restructured. The managerial challenge is to figure out how to...
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by Julia Hanna
- October 1999 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank
Wit Capital brings democracy to the IPO process via the World Wide Web. This case encourages debate about the role service will play in this technology-intermediated investment bank and the sources and sustainability of its competitive advantage.
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Keywords:
Initial Public Offering;
Service Delivery;
Competitive Advantage;
Investment Banking;
Web;
Banking Industry
Hallowell, Roger H., and Tonicia C. Hampton. "Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank." Harvard Business School Case 800-145, October 1999. (Revised November 1999.)
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
its share of the capital that American taxpayers have invested in Medicare’s infrastructure, including its buildings, equipment, and workers. "The public option would harness Medicare’s pricing...
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- 10 Sep 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations
- October 2022
- Case
Spaceport America, Public Sector Risk-taking, and Political Accountability (A)
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Dava Newman, Rebecca Browder and Angela Acocella
Sitting quietly in the heart of the New Mexico desert in the summer of 2014, Spaceport America (SA) housed little of the activity its supporters anticipated when opening its hangar doors in 2011. Despite $1 million in annual rent from Virgin Galactic, British...
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Keywords:
Funding Sources;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Public Sector;
Business and Government Relations;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Aerospace Industry;
New Mexico
Weinzierl, Matthew, Dava Newman, Rebecca Browder, and Angela Acocella. "Spaceport America, Public Sector Risk-taking, and Political Accountability (A)." Harvard Business School Case 723-011, October 2022.
- Fast Answer
Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis
public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. Individual...
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- Web
Finance & Investing - Business & Environment
and public sector responses. The wide-ranging effects of environmental risks, technological advances, infrastructure challenges, business model innovations, and national and international policy shifts are impacting the financial sector...
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- 26 Feb 2019
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
prices, Davis says. This is just the start of an approach that Davis says is both a good investment and a public good. Over the next three to five years, Steinbridge plans to View Details
- 1999
- Other Unpublished Work
Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists
By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19...
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Keywords:
Equity;
Ownership;
Motivation and Incentives;
Initial Public Offering;
Investment;
Venture Capital;
Managerial Roles;
Cost Management;
Governance Controls;
Executive Compensation
Baker, Malcolm, and Paul Gompers. "Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists." November 1999. (First draft in 1998.)
- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board
at approximately $300 billion (CDN), CPPIB is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan to help ensure its long-term sustainability. CPPIB...
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Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,...
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- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
recent Harvard Business Review article, "How the Quest for Efficiency Corroded the Market," proposes a number of radical remedies including tax breaks for long-term investors, the establishment of an investor's union, and making stock exchanges responsible...
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- February 2009 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B)
By: Laura Alfaro, Lakshmi Iyer and Namrata Arora
In October 2008, Tata Motors canceled their car manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of...
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Keywords:
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Rights;
Emerging Markets;
Property;
Business and Government Relations;
Conflict and Resolution;
Auto Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
West Bengal
Alfaro, Laura, Lakshmi Iyer, and Namrata Arora. "Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B)." Harvard Business School Case 709-029, February 2009. (Revised October 2012.)
- 21 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings
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by Timothy Simcoe & Michael W. Toffel
- February 2017
- Case
Eve Hall: The African American Investment Fund in Milwaukee
By: Steven Rogers and Alterrell Mills
The case highlights the role of minority chambers of commerce and the background of Eve Hall, a well-regarded multi-sector leader asked to revive Wisconsin's African-American chamber. This case study examines the lending options that a minority chamber of commerce...
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Keywords:
Business Organization;
Business Plan;
Change Management;
Demographics;
Diversity Characteristics;
Ethnicity Characteristics;
Race Characteristics;
Investment Fund;
Cost Of Capital;
Banks And Banking;
Micro Finance;
Interest Rates;
Business Or Company Management;
Management Styles;
Management Succession;
Mission And Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Leadership Style;
Leadership Change;
Business And Community Relations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Wealth And Poverty;
Organizations;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Race;
Small Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
United States;
Wisconsin
Rogers, Steven, and Alterrell Mills. "Eve Hall: The African American Investment Fund in Milwaukee." Harvard Business School Case 317-076, February 2017.
- October 2012 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Slater & Gordon (S&G), a midsized Australian law firm with a high-growth consolidation strategy, had an initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for May 2007. Due to a series of regulatory changes in Australia in recent years, the IPO provided an opportunity for S&G to...
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Keywords:
IPO;
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Law Firm;
Value Drivers;
Growth Strategy;
Revenue Recognition;
Roll-up;
Consolidator;
Initial Public Offering;
Valuation;
Consolidation;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Strategy;
Growth Management;
Corporate Governance;
Business Strategy;
Legal Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Australia
Esty, Benjamin C., and E. Scott Mayfield. "Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited." Harvard Business School Case 213-019, October 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
of high institutional quality cannot be used for other things (such as investing in a local R&D base), that might have pushed the country into a deeper reliance on FDI. Extremely attractive compensation packages in the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
working to solve that problem by investing in single-family homes in gentrifying communities, renovating them to high standards, and then offering them as rental units to working-class residents at rent-reasonable prices. It is an...
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