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  • February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Accel Partners' European Launch

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Josh Lerner
In spring 2001, with the venture market crashing all around, the London office of Accel Partners, a major west coast venture capital firm, needs to make a decision about investing in an Irish software company. As the first investment of the new European operation, the... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Venture Capital; Global Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Expansion; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; London; United States
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Courses - Entrepreneurship

Sahlman Fall 2023 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy and General Management) Geoffrey Jones Fall 2023 Q1Q2 3.0 Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences Satish... View Details
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment

By: Zengquan Li, T.J. Wong and Gwen Yu
When emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that firms overcome this... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Market; Financial Analysts; Information; Emerging Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Corporate Governance
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  • November 1992 (Revised May 1993)
  • Case

BW/IP International, Inc.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Andrew D. Regan
Less than a year after completing a leveraged buyout of their own company, the managers of BW/IP International were presented with an attractive acquisition candidate. To buy the target company, however, BW/IP would have to borrow more money and take on more... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Leadership Style; Valuation; Resource Allocation; Capital; Public Ownership
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  • March 1989 (Revised August 1994)
  • Case

Avon Products

Avon Products announced both a change in its business focus and a reduction of its dividend in June 1988. To offset the likely stock price effect of the dividend reduction, Avon announced at the same time an unusual exchange offer, under which it would take up to 25%... View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Capital Markets; Corporate Finance; Consumer Products Industry
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  • December 2004 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Delaware Worldwide Corporation

By: Ronald W. Moore
Discusses the bankruptcy reorganization process, with an emphasis on valuation and capital structure. Serves as the basis for a bankruptcy reorganization game that has been used for many years in Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring, a second-year finance... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Valuation
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  • October 2009
  • Article

Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. Most of the closures, however, were the new ventures... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Entry and Exit; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Disruptive Innovation
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  • September 2004 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Catastrophe Bonds at Swiss Re

In 2002, Swiss Re, the world's second--largest insurance company, is considering securitizing parts of its risk portfolio in the capital markets. This would be a first for the company that, until then, had never transferred risk off its balance sheet. Peter Giessmann,... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Bonds; Natural Disasters; Insurance; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Insurance Industry; Switzerland
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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • June 2018
    • Teaching Note

    ALAC International

    By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
    ALAC International (ALAC) was awarded the U.S. distributorship of di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) which provided ALAC an opportunity to increase its sales and profits. But the opportunity required a significant additional investment in working capital. The DINP, shipped... View Details
    Keywords: Working Capital; Financing and Loans; Growth Management
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    • January 2023 (Revised August 2023)
    • Case

    Veeva Systems and the Transformation to a Public Benefit Corporation

    By: Ranjay Gulati and Allison M. Ciechanover
    Peter Gassner, the co-founder and CEO of Veeva Systems, steered the company through rapid scaling from its launch in 2007 to 2022. Year after year, the company had exceeded expectations, with its market capitalization reaching $50 billion at its peak. By 2022, the... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California
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    • 28 Sep 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller “Footprint” Strategy

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Kim B. Clark; Computer
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

    Start Up Strategy and Management
    Bussgang’s research focuses on applying Lean Startup principles to early-stage technology companies as well as the challenges and opportunities when scaling startups. His work led to the creation of the MBA elective... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Research Focus of Chris Gordon

    Chris Gordon's main area of interest and expertise is the delivery of complex capital projects. These projects can take the form of government sponsored infrastructure projects such as highways and utilities, private real estate development such as commercial and... View Details
    • June 2024
    • Case

    Alignvest Student Housing: Keep Building or Time to Sell?

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Patrick Sanguineti
    Sanjil Shah, Managing Partner of Alignvest Student Housing REIT (ASH), faces the most significant decision thus far in his career: is it the right time to sell the company? Together with his partner Reza Satchu, Shah had developed ASH into the largest student housing... View Details
    Keywords: Exit Strategy; Real Estate; Founder; Equity Valuation; Decisions; Entrepreneurial Finance; Interest Rates; Health Pandemics; Housing; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Business Exit or Shutdown; Canada
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    • 20 Oct 2022
    • Other Presentation

    4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

    By: Adi Ignatius, Lynn Paine, Mihir Desai and Carola Frydman
    A roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today.

    The idea that maximizing shareholder value takes legal and practical precedence above all else first came to prominence in the 1970s. The... View Details
    Keywords: Shareholder Value Maximization; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Medical Device Industry

    By: Cirrus Foroughi and Ariel Dora Stern
    Does the large-scale technological change that is characteristic of an industry-wide digital transformation entrench industry leaders or enable the rise of new entrants? We offer a novel approach to this question by studying the medical device industry, a unique... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Medical Devices; Digitization; Medical Technology; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Growth; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    • January 2001 (Revised March 2002)
    • Case

    Ford Motor Company's Value Enhancement Plan

    By: Andre F. Perold
    In April 2000, Ford Motor Co. announced a shareholder Value Enhancement Plan (VEP) to significantly recapitalize the firm's ownership structure. Ford had accumulated $23 billion in cash reserves and under the VEP would return as much as $10 billion of this cash to... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Structure; Cash; Financial Liquidity; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Auto Industry
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    • September 2016 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE

    By: Vikram Gandhi
    State Street Global Advisors was the investment arm of State Street Corporation, one of the largest custodians and asset managers in the world with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management. Inspired by demand from a large pension fund client for better gender... View Details
    Keywords: ETF; Asset Management; Financial Services Industry
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    • 23 Mar 2021
    • News

    Should Gig Work Be Government-Run?