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    Malcolm P. Baker

    Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

    His research is in the... 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); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds); private equity (LBO funds)
    • June 2001
    • Case

    ESL Golf (A)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Christopher R Gordon
    Todd Peterson and his colleagues have spent five weeks analyzing CMP Capital Partners' potential leveraged buyout of ESL Golf. They are about to present their analysis and bid proposal to the investment committee, consisting of all CMP partners, which must approve any... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation
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    • November 1991 (Revised June 1993)
    • Case

    Accounting for Frequent Fliers

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    Airline frequent flier programs offer members the opportunity to earn free flights by accumulating mileage. Accounting and reporting the obligations of airlines and the cost of frequent flier programs raises difficult measurement issues. In 1991, the U.S. Securities... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Fair Value Accounting; Policy; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • 30 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 30

    increase the cost of capital, reduce the availability of external finance, and lower firm-level investment. Download working paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Sep 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital

    Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang

      Reza R. Satchu

      Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in... View Details

      • April 1997
      • Case

      Peoria Engine Plant (A): (Abridged)

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Amy P. Hutton
      Describes the cost control system used at an automobile engine plant for labor and overhead costs. The finance staff prepares daily, weekly, and monthly variance reports against budgets. Department supervisors, finance staff, and the plant manager discuss the use and... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Cost Management; Financial Reporting; Performance Improvement; Budgets and Budgeting; Auto Industry
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      • April 2014 (Revised October 2015)
      • Case

      Texas Teachers and the New Texas Way

      By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne and Nathaniel Burbank
      In 2011 Britt Harris, the Chief Investment Officer for the $107.4 billion Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS), was considering whether to pursue strategic partnerships with a group of large private equity firms. After spending four years aggressively moving the... View Details
      Keywords: Texas; TRS; Texas Teachers; Private Equity; Texas
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      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret

      By: Julio J. Rotemberg
      A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price increases is less... View Details
      Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods
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        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: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry

          Eva J. Sudol

          Eva Sudol is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching Finance 1 in the required curriculum of the MBA program. She is also a Retired Partner at the Capital Group, a global investment management company, where she worked from 1994 – 2023 as an... View Details

          • 05 Sep 2018
          • Video

          James Mwangi CEM Full Interview (Private Link)

          • February 1997 (Revised October 2002)
          • Case

          The Exxel Group: September 1995

          By: Josh Lerner, Alex Hoye and Gonzalo Pacanins
          The Exxel Group, a private equity group based in Buenos Aires, is considering a buyout of Argencard, Mastercard's exclusive licensee in Argentina. To complete the deal, however, it will need to raise additional financing from U.S. investors. Both the valuation and the... View Details
          Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Developing Countries and Economies; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Problems and Challenges; Valuation; United States; Buenos Aires
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          • December 2023
          • Article

          What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data

          By: Alberto Cavallo and Oleksiy Kryvtsov
          We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability and stockouts to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2022 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in stockouts in nearly all sectors early in the... View Details
          Keywords: Prices; Stockouts; Inventories; Supply Disruptions; COVID-19 Pandemic; Supply Chain; Product; Demand and Consumers
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          • March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
          • Case

          AMC: The Zero Revenue Case

          By: C. Fritz Foley and Donal O'Cofaigh
          The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic put theatre company AMC’s already perilous financial situation under even further strain. The company’s high levels of debt resulted in a monthly cash-burn which left it facing an imminent Chapter-11 filing in the absence of... View Details
          Keywords: Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Health Pandemics; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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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... View Details
          Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services
          • September 2007 (Revised November 2008)
          • Case

          Sinopec: Refining its Strategy

          By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Julia Galef
          China's oil industry, with majority ownership vested in the government, had engaged in an "equity oil" strategy for the past few years-acquiring equity interests in oil producing nations including Sudan, Angola, and Iran. Outside critics, however, suggested that the... View Details
          Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Equity; Foreign Direct Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; State Ownership; Energy Industry; China
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          • October 1991 (Revised September 1998)
          • Case

          Maxwell Appliance Controls

          By: Robert S. Kaplan
          A profitable manufacturing division of a large company is looking for new ways to identify sources of productivity improvements. Led by its senior finance officer, an activity-based cost system is developed to identify activities performed for its highly varied product... View Details
          Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Management Teams; Quality; Performance Improvement; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Production; Manufacturing Industry
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          • 20 Mar 2012
          • First Look

          First Look: March 20

            PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
          • 19 Aug 2022
          • Blog Post

          Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future

          difficult it is to align on transmission planning and cost allocation rules with so many competing resources, state policies, and economic interests at play. It leads to literal gridlock in more ways than one. Transmission is the... View Details