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- October 1995 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Apex Investment Partners (A): April 1995
By: Josh Lerner
The partners of Apex Investment Partners are seeking to provide financing for Accessine Technologies, a small firm specializing in providing "One Person, One Number" telecommunication services. The negotiation of the terms-and-conditions of the deal, as well as its... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Problems and Challenges; Financing and Loans; Communication Technology; Financial Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Lerner, Josh. "Apex Investment Partners (A): April 1995." Harvard Business School Case 296-028, October 1995. (Revised November 1997.)
- 07 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation
Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
- November 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Background Note
When Investing and Social Objectives Meet
By: Gregory S. Miller, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
Introduces students to a group of investors and stakeholders who evaluate firms at least partially on factors other than eventual investment payoff. Focuses on investors who evaluate and attempt to impact firms' ethical, corporate governance, or other "societal"... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Investment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations
Miller, Gregory S., Vincent Marie Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "When Investing and Social Objectives Meet." Harvard Business School Background Note 106-043, November 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- 21 Sep 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders
- June 2000
- Case
Intel Capital: The Berkeley Networks Investment
By: Henry W. Chesbrough and David Lane
Discusses how Intel Corp. uses corporate venture capital to explore new technologies in new markets. Intel combines external investments with internal research and development. View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Investment; Research and Development; Semiconductor Industry
Chesbrough, Henry W., and David Lane. "Intel Capital: The Berkeley Networks Investment." Harvard Business School Case 600-069, June 2000.
- Spring 2013
- Article
The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when... View Details
Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar. "The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 219–238.
- March 1998
- Teaching Note
Acme Investment Trust TN
By: Josh Lerner
Teaching Note for (9-296-042). View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
- February 1984
- Background Note
Managing Capital Investment (A)
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Managing Capital Investment (A)." Harvard Business School Background Note 284-048, February 1984.
- February 2000 (Revised August 2003)
- Teaching Note
Brierley Investments Limited TN
By: Paul M. Healy
Teaching Note for (9-100-014). View Details
- 2021
- Chapter
Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details
Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s." In Security and Insecurity in Business History: Case Studies in the Perception and Negotiation of Threats, edited by Mark Jakob, Nina Kleinöder, and Christian Kleinschmidt, 111–134. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021.
- November 2013
- Case
Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford and Lisa Strope
After an unusual round of doubles in May 2011, real estate investor Bobby Turner, Managing Partner, Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was... View Details
Keywords: Charter Schools; Real Estate; Fund Raising; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Real Estate Industry; United States
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford, and Lisa Strope. "Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools." Harvard Business School Case 214-033, November 2013.
- September 2009
- Case
One South: Investing in Emerging Markets (A)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Justin Seth Ginsburgh
A United States private equity fund, The Saboput Group, must decide whether to invest in a new technology park development in Chennai, India. The case provides the reader with a detailed investment memorandum from the local Indian operating partner, and the reader must... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Chennai; United States
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Justin Seth Ginsburgh. "One South: Investing in Emerging Markets (A)." Harvard Business School Case 210-024, September 2009.
- February 1976 (Revised February 1977)
- Case
Evaluation of Investment Alternatives
By: Dwight B. Crane
Crane, Dwight B. "Evaluation of Investment Alternatives." Harvard Business School Case 276-180, February 1976. (Revised February 1977.)
- Article
Investment in Commercial Construction
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. "Investment in Commercial Construction." Review of Economics and Statistics 47, no. 3 (August 1965).
- April 1984
- Exercise
Present Value Investment Problems
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Present Value Investment Problems." Harvard Business School Exercise 184-182, April 1984.
- 1991
- Chapter
Japanese Foreign Direct Investment
By: K. A. Froot
- 2017
- Working Paper
Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing
By: Samuel Antill
I develop a dynamic model of investment timing in which firms must first choose when to search for external financing. Search is costly and the arrival of investors is uncertain, leading to delay in financing and investment. Depending on parameters, my model can... View Details
Keywords: Real Options; Search And Bargaining; Time-varying Financial Conditions; Investment; Venture Capital; Mathematical Methods
Antill, Samuel. "Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing." Working Paper, December 2017.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment
When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives
Becker, Bo, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob. "Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-040, October 2010. (Revised November 2010, March 2011, September 2011, April 2012.)