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  • November 2024
  • Teaching Note

Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Making; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Business Cycles; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Market Timing; Expansion; Diversification; Valuation; Value Creation; Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation Offer; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

and vertical mergers. Our model highlights a collective action problem: what is good for an individual firm is often not good for the cluster. We speculate that this conflict may be a source of strategic tension in platform firms.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a destination firm trigger analysts following the origin firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Sonnefeldt July 3, 2025 | Article | Harvard Business Review Digital Articles Despite decades of initiatives to address healthcare inequities in the U.S., disparities across race, gender, geography, and income remain stubbornly persistent.... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

race, gender, geography, and income remain stubbornly persistent. This article introduces the Strategic Fingerprint Framework for Health Equity, a practical, principle-based tool designed to help healthcare organizations tailor equity... View Details
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Patent terminology: Kind codes (or Status codes)

may also be called as "status codes" Examples: US7293573B2, or US20050117326A1.  "A" indicates patent application, “1” indicates initial publication of... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2021
  • Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

Unfortunately, many organizations lack a strong development culture. They view leader development as a tactical issue instead of a strategic imperative. In contrast, companies with strong development cultures invest in their middle... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

individuals or teams of students work on a project of strategic importance to the organization and report their recommendations at the end of the term. Students undertaking a Social Enterprise Independent Project may be eligible for the... View Details
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Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

levels: Providing social sector organizations with access to analytic and strategic talent to deliver high-impact results Encouraging emerging leaders to appreciate and understand the complexities of leading in the social sector For... View Details
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Christina Byrd

proud of working on Uber’s inaugural fair pay/equal pay analyses – we made sure we were paying men and women, black and white, the same pay for the same performance. I became the go-to equal pay person.” Expanding her “language” skills “While working on... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(1) Information Technology (65) Information Types (1) Information (52) Infrastructure (55) Initial Public Offering (3) Innovation Leadership (22) Innovation Strategy (47) Innovation and Invention (454) Innovation and Management (96)... View Details
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

School Case 308-094 After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

returned to their organizations to lead inspiring projects that developed wonderful, strategic Balanced Scorecards. But not all of these companies were able to sustain the energy to deliver the results we reported in Chapter 1. What helps... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
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Business History - Faculty & Research

quantitative and qualitative evidence highlights how inventors and intermediaries in Japan interacted to create a market for new ideas. Article The Way to Wealth Around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism By: Sophus A. Reinert... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

their own, Yamato mobilized 500 employees and 200 trucks on March 23 to voluntarily deliver relief supplies to evacuation centers in the Tohoku region. The program was initially supposed to last two weeks but continued for eight months,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli, Sabrina T. Howell and Karina Souza
In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the unprecedent crypto momentum as a window of... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Making; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Business Cycles; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Market Timing; Expansion; Diversification; Valuation; Value Creation; Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation Offer; Financial Liquidity; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; South America; Brazil; Sao Paulo; United States
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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

of the foundation and limited partner at Goldman Sachs, was an early supporter of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and served on the Advisory Board. Recipients are invited to participate in events with current and former recipients,... View Details
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Academics - Health Care

continuous improvement, organizational redesign, population health management, precision medicine, patient engagement, and payment reform. Course Catalog Listing US Health Care Strategy This course will introduce participants to the key View Details
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Events | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (2) Submit Events Upcoming Events Past Events 2 Results Jul 27 July 27, 2025 Executive Education: Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management This week-long on-campus program for nonprofit leaders explores how to create... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

which had historically been very manual in nature. CEO Juan Villarzu's initial turnaround attempts introduced a customer-centric corporate culture to his ranks, but he was still challenged by how to create an outsourcing strategy given... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace