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  • July 2024
  • Supplement

Pacific Lake Partners (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: In 2009, Coley Andrews and Jim Southern endeavored to raise a private equity fund for investment solely in search... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Search Fund; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Organizational Structure; United States
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  • January 2006 (Revised August 2008)
  • Case

Vivaldi Food Concepts--The Start-up of an Asian Venture (A)

Joel Silverstein needs to raise an additional $1.5 million from private investors to round out the equity financing for his new Quick Service Restaurant venture in China, Korea, and Japan. How should he pitch the opportunity? What should be the terms? View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business Startups; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan; China; South Korea
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  • July 2024
  • Supplement

Pacific Lake Partners (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: In 2009, Coley Andrews and Jim Southern endeavored to raise a private equity fund for investment solely in search... View Details
Keywords: Search Fund; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Investment; North America
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  • 16 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018)

first worked as a legislative fellow for my Congresswomen (now Senator) Kyrsten Sinema, who had recently been elected to office. I then pivoted to work in private equity at Cube Hydro Partners - a firm... View Details
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Alejandro Maldonado

also spent five years as a vice-president at H.I.G. Capital, a leading US private equity firm investing in diverse industries in the middle market space. In 2012, he founded Appian Education Ventures, a fund... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity

    Jo Tango

    Jo Tango is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. He helps teach "The Entrepreneurial Manager" (TEM), a required course for all 900 first-year students and of which he... View Details

      A New Way to Understand Corporate Leverage

      The link between measures of risk and return within the equity market has been very weak over the past 47 years: in the United States, returns on high-risk stocks have cumulatively fallen short of the returns on low-risk stocks, during a period when the equity market... View Details
      • September 2016
      • Case

      Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

      By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
      Partners Group (PG), a Swiss-based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Management Practices and Processes; Entrepreneurship
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      • November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
      • Case

      Centre Partners - American Seafoods 2003

      Centre Partners, a leading private equity firm, is contemplating ways to realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Capital Structure; Financial Services Industry
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      • 09 Jun 2023
      • Blog Post

      Learning Curve

      Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to invest the private... View Details
      • July 2007 (Revised March 2008)
      • Case

      ABRY Fund V

      By: Nabil N. El-Hage, Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
      In January 2006, Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media industry and... View Details
      Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Venture Capital; Customer Relationship Management; Asset Management; Private Equity; Judgments; Competitive Strategy; Media; Corporate Finance; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Financial Services Industry
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      • January 2000 (Revised May 2007)
      • Case

      Dressen

      By: Thomas R. Piper and Jeremy Cott
      Divisional management must decide whether to support a leveraged buyout by a private equity group and, if so, what percent of ownership should go to the various partners involved. The appropriateness of the financing structure and the value of the equity depend on the... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Valuation; Ownership Stake; Forecasting and Prediction
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      • 20 Aug 2020
      • Blog Post

      “Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis

      For Nikki Mason, Rachael Henley, and their team at Actis, it was never a matter of if they should continue their Global Summer Associate Programme in 2020, but how they would do it well. The Actis Internship Program Actis is a global emerging markets View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity
      • March 2024
      • Supplement

      ELCA's Series A Cap Table Exercise (Student Version)

      By: Raymond Kluender, Anke Becker and Johnson Elugbadebo
      In ELCA, the company must decide between two term sheets: one put forth by STV and one put forth by ESV.

      This exercise is an analysis of the implications of these two term sheets on the ownership structure and the payouts of common and preferred... View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Venture Capital; Investment; Ownership Stake
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      • March 2024
      • Supplement

      ELCA's Series A Cap Table Exercise (Instructor Version)

      By: Raymond Kluender and Anke Becker
      In ELCA, the company must decide between two term sheets: one put forth by STV and one put forth by ESV.

      This exercise is an analysis of the implications of these two term sheets on the ownership structure and the payouts of common and preferred... View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Venture Capital; Investment; Ownership Stake
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        Christina R. Wing

        Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

        • 03 Oct 2013
        • News

        Who Wants to Buy BlackBerry? Prem Watsa Does

        • September 2018 (Revised January 2019)
        • Teaching Note

        Gemini Investors

        By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
        Teaching Note for HBS No. 211-066. Gemini Investors was a private equity firm that targeted equity investments of between $4 million to $6 million per firm. In the period from 2000 to 2015, Gemini had successfully deployed four funds, all licensed as Small Business... View Details
        Keywords: Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Small Business; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; United States
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        • 2015
        • Case

        Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Lennox-Choate
        In 2013, Howard Fischer (hedge fund founder) and Eric Jacobsen (serial entrepreneur and private equity investor) established Gratitude Railroad as a community of impact investors in nine different "tracks." Each track represented a different concept for using... View Details
        Keywords: Impact Investing; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Social Change; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; United States
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        • May 2017
        • Teaching Note

        Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

        By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
        Partners Group (PG), a Swiss-based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Private Equity
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