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  • December 2005 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

Corning, 2002

By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
Corning, with large investments in fiber optic technology, was hit particularly hard by the collapse of the telecommunications industry in 2001. With over $4 billion in debt, the firm's survival appears to rest on raising additional equity capital. The protagonist is... View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Condition; Financial Instruments; Valuation; Capital; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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  • Blog

Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

the Advancing Racial Equity action plan, our demographic progress, and other initiatives. And there have been a number of public articles that focus on other activities relating to the plan. We are... View Details

    Brian L. Trelstad

     

    Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

    Keywords: emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity
    • February 1999 (Revised June 1999)
    • Case

    Investitori Associati: Exiting the Savio LBO (A)

    By: Josh Lerner, Dino Cattaneo and Giampiero Mazza
    Investitori Associati seeks to exit a leveraged buyout investment. Choosing the appropriate way in which to undertake their exit-an initial public offering or sale of the firm-proves problematic. View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Business Exit or Shutdown; Leveraged Buyouts
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    • 14 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 14, 2009

    Working Papers The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds Authors: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar Abstract This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • January 15, 2019
    • Article

    Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

    By: Josh Baron
    The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details
    Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage
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    • October 2004 (Revised July 2005)
    • Case

    Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

    By: Jay W. Lorsch, Dwight B. Crane and Ashley Robertson
    Raises issues about how the nature and function of a board changes as a company moves from ownership by its employees, including the founder, to ownership by a private equity firm, Fremont Partners, culminating in a highly successful IPO. Gives students the opportunity... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Initial Public Offering; Behavior; Organizations; Employee Ownership; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 18 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

    On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Auto
    • 30 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

    of an index, regardless of its performance.” This is not the only way shareholders are reengaging with management to take more corporate control. Private equity investing allows investors to take a problematic View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

      Vikram Gandhi

      Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

      Keywords: financial services
      • December 2019 (Revised January 2021)
      • Supplement

      The Leveraged Buyout of TXU: (B) Energy Future Holdings

      By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
      This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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      • 04 Aug 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: August 4

      Montgomery County Public Schools Authors:Stacey M. Childress, Dennis Doyle, and David A. Thomas, with a foreword by David Gergen Publication:Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2009. Abstract Leading for View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • March 2009 (Revised April 2011)
      • Course Overview Note

      Growing, Financing, and Managing Family and Closely Held Firms: Overview of the Course

      By: Belen Villalonga
      Most companies around the world are controlled by their founding families, including more than half of all public corporations in the U.S. and Europe and more than two thirds of those in Asia. These companies are the subject of the Financial Management of Family and... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Valuation
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        Dwight B. Crane

        Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance.  He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently... View Details

        • Research Summary

        Financing New Business Formation

        By: Paul A. Gompers
        New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details
        • 22 Aug 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

        and equity details with no pushback, the company now contemplated sharing compensation information transparently with the general public. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 23 Oct 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: October 23

        Rotemberg Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 16 Apr 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: April 16

          Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

          Jeffrey F. Rayport

          Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

          • 20 Mar 2009
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Catering to Characteristics

          Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Samuel Hanson; Technology