Publications

Provides an overview of key sources of information. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity

January 1994 (Revised April 1995)
Case

EMC Corporation: Response to Shareholder Litigation (A)

EMC Corp. is the target of a shareholder class-action lawsuit for the second time. CEO, Richard Egan, must decide whether to settle the case, as is done in 96% of such cases and as EMC itself did previously, or fight the action. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Lawsuits and Litigation; Going Public; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technology Industry; United States

October 1992 (Revised April 1993)
Supplement

ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation (B4): Phillip Gross

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry

Second Quarter 2024
Article

Venture Capital in a Time of Turmoil

One area of consensus among academic economists and policymakers is the need for greater innovation. This concern is rooted in worries about the lagging rate of productivity growth in many Western nations. In the U.S., for instance, the productivity growth rate... View Details

Keywords: Productivity Growth; Economic Growth; Innovation and Invention; United States; Europe

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August 2021
Teaching Note

Yale University Investments Office: November 2020

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 821-074. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; University Endowment; Asset Allocation; Connecticut

September 2021
Teaching Note

CPE and SUS Environmental: You've Got to Know When to Hold 'Em (A) and (B)

Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity

1993
Article

Innovation and the Structure of High-Technology Industries

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Information Technology; Business Ventures

January 2013 (Revised September 2015)
Case

Glynn Roberts: February 2003

October 1995
Article

Symposium on Harrison's "Lean and Mean": A Finance Perspective

March 2012
Class Lecture

The Future of Private Equity

January 2009 (Revised May 2010)
Case

Altoona State Investment Board: December 2008

Rod Calhoun, the head of the Altoona State Investment Board's private equity investment program, considered the communication he had just received. It was from Permira, the leading European buyout fund, and concerned its fourth fund, to which Altoona had made a £ 100... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Partners and Partnerships

October 2004
Class Lecture

Boom and Bust in Private Equity

July 1999
Article

The Government as Venture Capitalist: The Long-Run Effects of the SBIR Program

Keywords: Government and Politics; Venture Capital; Programs; Local Range; United States

May 2000
Case

CMGI: Organizational and Market Innovation

CMGI is considering acquiring yesmail, an e-mail marketing firm. In assessing the potential acquisition, it must assess the fit with its own organization, which consists of a unique blend of venture capital investments and publicly traded subsidiaries. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Structure; Venture Capital; Business Subsidiaries

2007
Chapter

The Governance of New Firms: A Functional Perspective

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Business Startups

Article

150 Years of Patent Office Practice

Keywords: Patents; Business Ventures

Article

When Bureaucrats Meet Entrepreneurs: The Design of Successful 'Public Venture Capital' Programs

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Design; Venture Capital; Programs

1997
Working Paper

Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview

April 2002
Article

Where Does State Street Lead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971-2000

Keywords: Patents; Finance