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  • February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO

By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion.... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Bonds; Investment Return; Institutional Investing; Profit Sharing; Business History; Management Style; Private Ownership; Performance Effectiveness; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 17 Jan 2023
    • In Practice

    8 Trends to Watch in 2023

    As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 22 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS

    single-parent household in rural Kentucky - I am talking about a town of 4,000 people and one incredible Betty’s OK Country Cooking restaurant with an out-of-this-world catfish buffet. My parents did not graduate from college, neither did... View Details
    • Web

    Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

    a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire staff? The industry is moving from hardware to software in the form of smart, connected elevators. But instead of laying off legacy hardware staff and hiring new... View Details
    • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
    • Supplement

    LendingClub (C): Gradient Boosting & Payoff Matrix

    By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
    This case builds directly on the LendingClub (A) and (B) cases. In this case students follow Emily Figel as she builds an even more sophisticated model using the gradient boosted tree method to predict, with some probability, whether a borrower would repay or default... View Details
    Keywords: Data Analytics; Data Science; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction
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    Global

    School’s innovative online programs are focused on business fundamentals and strategy for a worldwide audience. Our faculty have developed these online programs, leveraging the case method learning model, and focusing on active View Details
    • 10 Sep 2020
    • Blog Post

    Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

    nodules from CT scans. As I looked at the business opportunity for commercializing such a platform, the capital efficiency of pure software products became clear and I began looking for new opportunities within this area.  Over the... View Details
    • Web

    About - Case Method Project

    History of American Democracy, developed mainly for undergraduates. The course quickly became one of the highest-rated classes at Harvard College. Students described the teaching method as highly engaging and credited it with helping them to View Details
    • Web

    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    trading companies with sprawling global footprints)—reflected on the company’s record-breaking profits. Its operations spanned multiple industries—including energy, chemicals, healthcare, and infrastructure—and more than 80% of its profits were generated overseas. The... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
    Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This working paper suggests that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more... View Details
    Keywords: Tourism; Latin America; Business History; Sustainable Strategy; Sustainability; Nonprofit; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Entrepreneurship; History; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Costa Rica
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    MBA Experience - Health Care

    investments Proven techniques to stand out in competitive VC recruitment processes Whether you're an aspiring investor, entrepreneur, or healthcare innovator, this is your chance to hear unfiltered perspectives from professionals funding... View Details
    • January 2018
    • Case

    Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

    By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
    In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed... View Details
    Keywords: Child Care; Childcare; Day Care; Daycare; Early Childhood Education; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Marketing; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Education Industry; United States; Canada
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      The Treasure You Seek: A Guide to Developing and Leveraging Your Leadership Capital

      Most leadership books are written for people who are already labeled as “leaders”—corporate execs, high-ranking managers, entrepreneurs. They may not speak to the underrepresented young person or uncommon experienced person with a dream to create change in the... View Details

      • Teaching Interest

      Applied Business Analytics

      Course Overview:

      Business Analytics has become a core function in many firms today and is driving innovation in the form of new business and operating models. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding of statistics, computer... View Details

      • September 2024
      • Case

      Xendit: Hiring for Growth

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steve Castano, Quoc Anh Nguyen and Claire Wu
      In 2019, Xendit, a growth-stage Southeast Asia (SEA) fintech venture based in Jakarta, was looking to hire a Head of Sales and Head of Product to lead its next phase of growth. Founded by Moses Lo and Tessa Wijaya, Xendit provided payment infrastructure, modeling... View Details
      Keywords: Fintech; Financing and Loans; Entrepreneurship; Jobs and Positions; Sales; Product; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Philippines
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      • 28 May 2024
      • In Practice

      Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

      New graduates entering the job market will face a very different landscape from even a year ago, with a murky economy and potentially more limited career prospects. Though unemployment figures in the US remain near historically low... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 08 Mar 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

      Keywords: by Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder & Michael W. Toffel; Auto
      • 09 Aug 2016
      • Blog Post

      Startup Balancing Act

      said to my coworker, and with that I stepped off the hover board. “Hopefully, you can learn it by the end of the summer” he replied while laughing. I gave him a firm handshake and returned to my desk. My summer internship is at a medical... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care
      • 30 Sep 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

      should represent a broad range of potential emergency situations that the organization could plausibly face. Examples include: shooter on site, epidemic, bomb threat, major fire, major external terrorist attack, major economic dislocation, infrastructure View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Watkins