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- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm interested in acquiring the innovative fertility treatments company. The company's first promising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
a social mission. In what is one of the first commercial financing deals in the world, Akula must decide at what value to sell equity in SKS, and to whom to sell it. The case focuses on valuation, which is difficult because at the time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Supplement
Dulcie Madden (B)—A Difficult Choice
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Family; Family Conflicts; Founders' Agreements; Growth And Development; Hardware; VC; Scaling; Start-up; Female Ceo; Risk Assessment; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Cash Flow; Equity; Success; Failure; Acquisition; Business Model; Information Technology; Valuation; Family and Family Relationships; Information Infrastructure
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Dulcie Madden (B)—A Difficult Choice." Harvard Business School Supplement 820-053, October 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
framework allows for wage rate uncertainly, variable labor supply, social security benefits, and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, and activist investors... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
face. Without frontier technology, they are not competitive. But they cannot adopt frontier technology by themselves. They need a partner that is familiar with the frontier, but this partner will not come for free. She will demand an View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
options to their employees, ranging from indexed bond funds to microcap equity funds. Second, sources providing advice and information about mutual-fund investment results proliferated, with companies like Morningstar supplying individual... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
comprehensive and shareable information on their suppliers; Broadview, a global M&A adviser and private equity investor focusing exclusively on the IT, communications, and media industries; and SCB Enterprise Solutions, an off-site... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
hard selling—and a great way to do that is to spend a little brand equity on playfulness to spark conversations. The Rules Of Play Marketing—in the form of the mish-mosh of online posting, uploading, commenting, and sharing on YouTube,... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
a reasonable request and deliver it with a smile, hopefully you can keep the other person in the room and see what happens next." Mohan—former managing director and now senior advisor of $15 billion VC and private equity firm Summit... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
now the government says they really meant 180. That takes its toll. Q: What about the effect on the financial markets? A: When it comes to the shutdown, I'm less concerned about them. I think that equities respond to a lot of things, and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
concerns that environmental initiatives are too expensive, she offers the case on the private equity firm KKR. "Through its Green Portfolio Program, KKR achieved $160 million per year in cost savings," she says. “At the moment both... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
barred sponsors from soliciting small investors for large commercial real estate. However, the JOBS Act of 2013 loosened U.S. restrictions on equity crowdfunding. Nino believes that crowdfunding will democratize real estate development by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded equity or... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
coders display pervasive stereotypes, associating warmth with women and competence and negativity with men. We also find that warmer participants, particularly warmer women, are under-rewarded by their groups. Equity Concerns Are Narrowly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of 1.05. In sharp contrast, standard factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power internationally. We show analytically and empirically that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2025
- Case
TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis
By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney and Carlota Moniz
On September 27, 2022, Padmesh Shukla, CIO of the Transport for London (TfL) Pension Fund, was keeping a careful eye on the turmoil in the U.K. sovereign bond (or gilt) market. When the new government announced the largest tax cuts the U.K. had seen in half a century,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Assets; Asset Management; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital Markets; Equity; Financial Liquidity; Financial Instruments; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Investment; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London; Europe
Siriwardane, Emil N., Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney, and Carlota Moniz. "TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 225-098, June 2025.
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Litigation Strategy in EMC Corporation v. Donatelli (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-020 Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
with less efficient governments. The findings suggest that country-level factors have an economically significant impact on the rate of corporate profitability mean reversion. The study has implications for forecasting profitability and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne