Publications

Keywords: United States

October 1988
Case

Harris Seafoods Leveraged Buyout

Describes set of issues confronting Alison Lassiter, who is trying to help Charlie Harris arrange a leveraged buyout of the shrimp company he runs, a division of a publicly traded company, Katy Industries. Lassiter has prepared a memorandum discussing and analyzing the... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Equity; Cost vs Benefits; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Preparation; Financial Management; Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; Industrial Products Industry

July 1988 (Revised November 1988)
Case

Superior Wire (A)

Keywords: Industrial Products Industry

April 1986 (Revised December 1995)
Case

Analog Devices Enterprises: Bipolar Integrated Technology

Keywords: Technology; Technology Industry

February 1986 (Revised November 1987)
Case

New England Digital

August 1985
Case

CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (C)

Contains a description of some issues confronting management of CML Group. They have decided to go public, have selected an underwriting team, and must make final decisions about the size, composition and pricing of the issue. Because stock prices have fallen since the... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Going Public; Problems and Challenges; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry

March 1985 (Revised November 1985)
Background Note

Note on the Venture Capital Industry--1981

Keywords: Venture Capital

February 1983 (Revised January 1985)
Case

Long Boat Electronics

Keywords: Electronics Industry

August 2013
Background Note

A Simple Free Cash Flow Valuation Model

Explores some of the issues involved in valuing cash flow streams. A simple model is presented that reveals the effect on value of changing assumptions about the appropriate discount rate, the level of profitability, the growth rate of sales, the asset intensity ratio,... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Valuation

September 2009 (Revised November 2010)
Case

Endeavor: Creating a Global Movement for High-Impact Entrepreneurship

This case describes a critical inflection point in the growth of an international development "mentor capitalist" nonprofit, Endeavor. As Endeavor aims to scale its high-impact entrepreneurship model globally, founder Linda Rottenberg must determine what success looks... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Jordan

November 2006 (Revised March 2008)
Case

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Describes a set of issues confronting the leaders of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, an innovative cross-university effort to accelerate scientific discovery and translation in the domain of stem cells. Covers a wide range of topics, including understanding how... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Research and Development; Genetics; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts

November 2002 (Revised May 2003)
Case

Epicentric

Describes a set of decisions confronting the management of a software company that sells portal management tools to large companies. Management must raise additional funds under difficult circumstances. View Details

Keywords: Finance; Investment Funds; Business or Company Management; Product Marketing; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Information Technology Industry

November 2001
Teaching Note

Amazon.com-Going Public TN

Teaching Note for (9-899-003). View Details

Keywords: Electronics Industry; Retail Industry

December 1997 (Revised December 2013)
Case

CCBN.COM

A new service is being developed to help investor-relations managers at public companies communicate with investors over the Internet. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Internet

summer 1988
Article

Aspects of Financial Contracting in Venture Capital

Keywords: Venture Capital; Finance

January–February 1997
Article

How to Write a Great Business Plan

Keywords: Business Plan