Publications

14 Jan 2022
News

Power Play

equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its investors and executive teams—a luxury afforded by its independence from other firms evaluating the opportunity. SER focuses... View Details

10 Dec 2024
Interview

A New Model for Funding Healthcare Innovation

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Duke Rohlen

Ajax Health founder Duke Rohlen (HBS MBA 2001) and HBS Professor Regina Herzlinger join host Brian Kenny to discuss the key success factors for both start-up and established medical technology firms. The case “Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation”... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Model; Private Equity; Health Industry

Profile

Bruce Gago

your goals & career path? In my first year, I was focused on continuing my career in private equity real estate, but in my second year, I identified an entrepreneurial opportunity to provide affordable... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Other Financial Services; Other Financial Services; Other Financial Services

October 2020
Supplement

TowerBrook: ESG in Action (B)

By: Victoria Ivashina, Brian Trelstad and Meaghan Conway

This case is the second of a two-part series that follows Ramez Sousou and his team at TowerBrook Capital Partners as they face a challenging investment decision in February of 2013. It is intended to be distributed at the end of the discussion of “TowerBrook: ESG in... View Details

Keywords: ESG; Finance; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Value Creation

01 Apr 2001
News

Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan

providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and forcing Japan’s button-down business culture to change. “My real... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

March 2020 (Revised March 2024)
Case

CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain

The case discusses the strategy of CIAM, a French activist investment firm, involved in a case of a buy-out of minority shareholders in the telecommunications sector. Altice NV, an international telecommunications company based in the Netherlands that owned more than... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Private Equity; Strategy; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Services Industry; France

August 2012
Teaching Note

Messer Griesheim (A) (Abridged) and (B) (TN)

By: Josh Lerner and Eva Lutz

Teaching Note for 813-018 and 809-057 View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Energy; Family Ownership; Energy Industry; Europe

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

should find the capital markets attractive. Private equity and venture capital have played a major role in providing equity to firms before they are ready to access the capital... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

November 2000
Case

University Technology Ventures: October 2000

By: Josh Lerner

The founders of University Technology Ventures, a fund of funds designed for university professors, face numerous challenges in raising their first fund. The role, economics, and structure of funds-of-funds are examined in the course of examining the partners' dilemma. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Problems and Challenges; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry

01 Mar 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward

Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] that was rolled out in 1997. Its goal was to insure children who were not covered by private insurance, but whose family income disqualified them from Medicaid. But I found that one of the... View Details

Keywords: April White; Private Households; Private Households; Private Households; Private Households; Private Households; Private Households

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

were building. Other days I was interviewing customers about how they use serverless products, the pain points, and the unsolved problems in the nascent technology. Sometimes I was inside the halls of MIT’s quantum computing labs talking... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

December 2017 (Revised April 2018)
Case

Area One Farms

By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B. Alvarez and Annelena Lobb

In 2017, Joelle Faulkner, CEO of Area One Farms, a Canadian private-equity fund focused on investing in the best Canadian farms and helping them expand, considered the merits and disadvantages of expanding her business to the U.S. While the markets shared some... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Canada; United States

Web

Company databases: which database to choose? | Baker Library

equity research, company profiles, histories, etc. Bloomberg Availability: In-Library for Authorized Baker Visitors* Strengths/Unique Features: Comprehensive platform used to analyze financial data from View Details

March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
Case

Apax Partners and Duck Creek Technologies

By: Josh Lerner, Terrence Shu and Alys Ferragamo

This case follows Jason Wright and Umang Kajaria at Apax Partners as they consider an investment in Duck Creek Technologies, a technology provider for property & casualty insurance companies. The deal required a complex carve-out from Accenture, Duck Creek’s parent... View Details

Keywords: Carve-out; Private Equity; Insurance; Investment; Operations; Valuation; Financial Strategy; New York (city, NY)