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- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
The venture organization must decide whether to shutter the investment or put more capital to work. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806059 OuterLink Corp.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
work he makes a resource allocation decision at the operating level—how to allocate his time and attention—which de facto keeps the investment from happening, even though financial resources have been procured. So this is a case where the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Global Shinjidai no Kachi Souzou (Value Creation during a Global Era) Author:Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:In Keiei... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
received extraordinary support from its oversized Scientific Advisory Board; it had developed and secured a strong intellectual property portfolio that creates high barriers to entry for any new market entrants; and, it had $13 million of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
The (B) case reveals that Sharer decided that Amgen should enter the emerging biosimilars business. However, he took the better part of a year to syndicate the decision across the senior team while in parallel investing in some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
initiative with domestic, international, and U.N. fronts; and 3) launching a new venture requiring internal, capital-raising, licensing, and industrial partnering deals. The need to negotiate multiple, related deals is not new to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
investors and investment funds. Furthermore, it was creating a network of microfinance banks through a microfinance holding company. However, in a context of rapid change and explosive growth of the microfinance sector, Jacques Attali,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 2008
- Case
Thoma Bravo - Citect Corporation Take-Private
In 2006, Citect Corporation, a publicly traded Australian software company, was the target of a takeover battle between a financial sponsor and a strategic buyer. Thoma Bravo, the U.S.-based private equity firm, had to decide on its acquisition strategy in the face of... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Privatization; Valuation; Australia
El-Hage, Nabil N., and Michelle Cathryne Simon. "Thoma Bravo - Citect Corporation Take-Private." Harvard Business School Case 209-022, August 2008.
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Komatsu and Dresser created a fifty-fifty joint venture (Komatsu Dresser Corporation, or KDC), merging manufacturing, engineering, and finance operations. The joint venture maintained equal management... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
production. Executives of European and Russian energy companies present their views. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-035 MasterCard: Driving Financial Inclusion MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
companies can set the right incentives and time horizons for investments and create a robust innovation infrastructure in the process. Buy the book: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
Drama William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen MantyHarvard Business School Case 312-025 Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
to be able to respond quickly, reliably, flexibly, and adaptively when troubles arise? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311105-PDF-ENG Yale University Investments Office: February 2011 Josh Lerner and Ann... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Case 516-059 Ocado In 2015, U.K.–based Ocado was the world's largest pure player in the online home-delivery grocery business and was gaining a growing share of the highly competitive U.K. grocery market. Ocado had made heavy investments... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Cases & Course MaterialsAnalyzing New Venture Opportunities Harvard Business School Note 809-163 The note describes a systematic process for framing and researching the issues that should be analyzed in the course of considering a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
firms also invested rapidly to build radial tire production capacity once the OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] switched to the new technology. In the case of investment in radial manufacturing... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
"cat note" that offered a high yield, but with a chance of losing the full investment if severe hurricanes struck the coastline of the United States. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace