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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
organizations such as Harvard University, HBS will not provide funding for political campaign work. Founders of consulting, research, and/or brokerage services, as well as investment funds (including but not limited to hedge funds, private equity funds, search funds,... View Details
- April 2016 (Revised June 2017)
- Teaching Note
Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar
By: Jonas Heese, Paula A. Price and Suraj Srinivasan
In spring 2015, Dollar General CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market leader in the U.S. discount retail world. Dollar General operated over 11,500... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
Capital Partners, a venture capital firm based in Boston that he cofounded. Now also a senior lecturer at HBS, Higgins passes that knowledge on to students in the MBA elective... View Details
- October 2014
- Teaching Note
MuMaté
By: Thomas Eisenmann
This teaching note is designed for use with "MuMaté: Funding Growth," "MuMaté (B-1): Confidential for Maxwell," "MuMaté (B-2): Confidential for Cantor," HBS Nos. 814-063, 813-149, 813-150, to help faculty deepen student comprehension of business issues and energize... View Details
William C. Norris
An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
pieces on a chessboard. It assumes that the most deserving dot.coms will get financed or bought. The question is, are the venture capital or strategic investment markets as perfect as the stock market? In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Analysis of Corporate Capital Structures: An Empirical Investigation." Journal of Finance 39, no. 3 (July 1984): 611-625. Kester, W. Carl. "Today's Options for Tomorrow's Growth." Harvard Business Review 62,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
“Globalization, the Internet, and instant communications combine to subject every corporate action to scrutiny whether the company communicates or not.” There are two main reasons to use One Report, according to its originators, Robert G.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Grassroots Business Initiative was set up to financially assist small enterprises engaged in creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 508-063, February 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
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Jon Puz
roles have included general management, strategy, business development, sales, account management, product, operations, marketing, technology, finance, HR and more. Jon has partnered with a variety of investors, including angel, venture... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
Catching Outliers: Committee Voting and the Limits of Consensus When Financing Innovation
By: Andrey Malenko, Ramana Nanda, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Savitar Sundaresan
We document that investment committees of major VCs use a voting rule where one partner `championing' an early-stage investment is sufficient to invest. Their stated reason for this rule is to `catch outliers'. The same VCs use a more conventional `majority' rule for... View Details
Keywords: Optimal Voting Rules; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Voting
Malenko, Andrey, Ramana Nanda, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Savitar Sundaresan. "Catching Outliers: Committee Voting and the Limits of Consensus When Financing Innovation." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs... View Details
Keywords: April White
- February 1986
- Case
General Foods Corp.: Project Duck Soup
General Foods must decide whether to acquire Entenmann's Bakery. Price and financing must also be decided. The teaching objectives include analysis of strategic fit, selection of purchase price, and financing method. Another issue is the debt to equity ratio that is... View Details
Fenster, Steven R., and Robert R. Glauber. "General Foods Corp.: Project Duck Soup." Harvard Business School Case 286-071, February 1986.
- November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
- Case
Restructuring European Petrochemicals: ENI
By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
Aguilar, Francis, Joseph L. Bower, and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres. "Restructuring European Petrochemicals: ENI." Harvard Business School Case 385-208, November 1984. (Revised March 1985.)
- November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
- Case
Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Royal Dutch/Shell Group
By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
Aguilar, Francis, Joseph L. Bower, and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres. "Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Royal Dutch/Shell Group." Harvard Business School Case 385-206, November 1984. (Revised March 1985.)
- November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
- Case
Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Imperial Chemical Industries, P.L.C.
By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
Aguilar, Francis, Joseph L. Bower, and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres. "Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Imperial Chemical Industries, P.L.C." Harvard Business School Case 385-203, November 1984. (Revised March 1985.)
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Heart Foundation, Lewis is a founding member of Impact X, a venture capital firm supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs across Europe. “My parents taught me generosity,” he says. “We didn’t have a whole... View Details
- September 2020
- Case
Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Rich or King
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
The case examines issues such as cascading problems within the organization, changing founder roles, founder success criteria, as well as company exit consideration. In 2017, Dr. Torben Antretter, a former competitive tennis player and academic researcher, founded... View Details
Keywords: Exit; Startup; Financing; Founders; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Success; Financing and Loans; Business Growth and Maturation; Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Germany
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Amir Reza Rezvani. "Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Rich or King." Harvard Business School Case 821-028, September 2020.
- January 2002
- Case
Metromove.com Business Plan
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Sheila Marcelo
Enables analysis of a business plan in a volatile market. Also enables analysis of the decisions entrepreneurs must make as they start a new business, develop the concept, choose partners, and find funding. View Details
Dawn Dobras
has been founding team on a consumer tech start-up that was exited and active angel investor. Currently, she is founder/ GP of Capital F, an early stage venture fund focused on technology that shapes women's... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products and Services (B2C)