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  • June 2021
  • Case

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments): April 2021

By: Josh Lerner, Reza Satchu and Alys Ferragamo
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the largest pools of investment capital in the world and follows a rigorous “Total Portfolio Framework” in its approach to investment management. In April of 2021, John Graham was just two months into his role... View Details
Keywords: Pension Funds; Investment Strategy; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Investment; Asset Management; Financial Institutions; Private Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Assets; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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  • September 2020
  • Teaching Plan

Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship

By: George Serafeim
Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their MBA program fund raising for their start-up venture capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the principle that addressing the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital Firm Compensation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Financing; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Leadership; Black Inventors; Inclusion; Minority-owned Businesses; Race And Ethnicity; Race Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Diversity; Race; Gender; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • March 2021
  • Case

Yale Investments Office: November 2020

By: Josh Lerner, Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments—hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, natural resources—given the impact of the COVID-19... View Details
Keywords: University Endowment; Asset Allocation; Real Estate; Equities; Fixed Income; COVID-19; Asset Management; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Natural Resources; Resource Allocation; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Health Pandemics; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Energy Industry; Connecticut
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    Paul A. Gompers

    Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
    Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
    • March 2014
    • Background Note

    VCPE Simulation User's Guide

    By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
    This user guide is intended for HBS students and ExEd participants who are using the Private Equity and Venture Capital Simulation. View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity
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    • October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
    • Case

    Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa

    By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
    In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight countries, was acquired by The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest private social impact investing funds, and by FS... View Details
    Keywords: Investing; Investing For Impact; Ecotourism; COVID-19; Equity Financing; Strategy Formulation; Profitability; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Sustainability; Conservation Planning; Corporate Social Responsibility; Investment; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Financing and Loans; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Pandemics; Tourism Industry; Africa; Rwanda; Angola
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      Victoria Ivashina

      Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. She also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy... View Details

      Keywords: private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds)
      • 27 Oct 2020
      • Blog Post

      Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

      entrepreneurship over the next two years and beyond. The Early Days of Harlem Capital The Harlem Capital story begins well before that first day on campus. In 2015, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle first joined... View Details
      • 03 Sep 2010
      • News

      More PE reform and more emerging markets

      • 14 Oct 2020
      • Blog Post

      Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

      entrepreneurship over the next two years and beyond. The Early Days of Harlem Capital The Harlem Capital story begins well before that first day on campus. In 2015, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle first joined... View Details

        Josh Lerner

        Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

        Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
        • December 2010
        • Compilation

        VCPE Strategy Vignettes II

        By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope
        These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, a senior partner must decide how to manage an over-extended colleague and how to reduce the risk of the firm's portfolio; the second... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Cost vs Benefits; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Portfolio; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Risk Management; Stocks; Problems and Challenges; United States
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        • September 2016 (Revised April 2018)
        • Case

        Western Technology Investment

        By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Nicole Keller
        Based in Portola Valley, California, Western Technology Investment (WTI) specialized in a hybrid form of debt and equity financing for early-stage companies. Like traditional venture capital and private equity firms, WTI raised funds from institutional investors and... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Equity; Finance; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; California
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        • April 2025
        • Case

        Japan Industrial Partners Powers the Leveraged Buyout of Toshiba

        By: Brian K. Baik, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
        The case explores Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) $14 billion takeover of Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba). JIP was a private equity firm that took over the troubled electronics corporation in late 2023. The deal, which had been labeled one of the largest leveraged... View Details
        Keywords: International Accounting; Borrowing and Debt; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Accounting Industry; Electronics Industry; Energy Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; Japan
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        • 21 Feb 2005
        • Research & Ideas

        The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

        home run" or for U.S. firms that need to penetrate the European market. Mullen spoke as a member of the panel "State of the Venture Capital Industry: Past, Present and Future" at the 11th Annual Venture View Details
        Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

          Brian K. Baik

          Brian Baik is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

          Professor Baik studies how information, financial reporting, and... View Details

          Keywords: private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds)
          • November 1998 (Revised July 2000)
          • Case

          Deere & Company: Sustaining Value

          By: Malcolm S. Salter and Marlowe Dayley
          The question facing Deere & Co. is whether or not to adopt some of the organizational technologies of private equity investors (decentralized equity holdings, use of leverage to control the disposition of cash flows, the externalization of the capital budgeting... View Details
          Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Wealth; Adoption; Manufacturing Industry
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          • 21 Jan 2013
          • News

          Christensen: We are living the capitalist's dilemma

          • October 2010 (Revised January 2012)
          • Case

          Hony, CIFA, and Zoomlion: Creating Value and Strategic Choices in a Dynamic Market

          By: Josh Lerner and Yiwen Jin
          The private equity group Hony Capital considers what to do with their investment in Zoomlion, which has been successful to date. The question is whether to take their money off the table or to invest in their acquisition of a large Italian competitor. View Details
          Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Investment; Emerging Markets; Financial Services Industry; China
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            Edward B. Berk

            Ted Berk is the Barry and Teri Volpert Fellow and a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Private Equity Finance in the elective curriculum and Finance I & II in the required curriculum.

            Ted... View Details