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  • Research Summary

Research

The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

  • November 2019
  • Teaching Note

Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) and (B)

By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu (HBS MBA 1994) led private equity firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second larger player in the market, AFM,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Transformation; Valuation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey
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  • September 2017
  • Supplement

Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A)

By: Victoria Ivashina and Eren Kuzucu
In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu (HBS MBA 1994) led private equity firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second larger player in the market, AFM,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Transformation; Valuation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey
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  • September 2017 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A)

By: Victoria Ivashina and Eren Kuzucu
In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu (HBS MBA 1994) led private equity firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second largest player in the market, AFM,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Transformation; Valuation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey
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  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

A few years ago, DJ DiDonna seemed to have everything going for him. He had started a successful venture called the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, which used psychometric factors to help banks issuing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Private Capital Project

common was 6% with Stanford Graduate School of Business. Notably, HBS was also the first major business school to offer classes in Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital and Private Equity. Today, both... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2024
  • News

Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award

“He started his first business at age nine, cutting grass for neighbors. Along with his entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. LeFebvre had a passion for learning, which he attributes to his great-grandmother. Against the odds, Mr. LeFebvre attended... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607032 MD Beauty, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 806-045 Describes some of the issues confronting the entrepreneurial team responsible for creating a highly successful... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Bharti Tele-Ventures

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Ingrid Vargas
Following the liberalization of India's telecommunications service industry in the early 1990s, Bharti Tele-Ventures grew from a small entrepreneurial telephone equipment importer and manufacturer to become India's largest private-sector telecommunications service... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Growth and Development; Customers; Foreign Direct Investment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Competition; Public Ownership; Profit; Partners and Partnerships; Rank and Position; Telecommunications Industry; India
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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

Authors: Ferguson, Niall, and Moritz Schularick Publication: International Finance 14, no. 1 (2011) Abstract For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been marked by an economic order that combined Chinese export-led... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Latin America - Global

Catena, a graduate of Harvard University. Laura serves as the managing director of Bodega Catena Zapata, a world-renowned family-owned winery started by her great-grandfather. She also owns Luca Wines, further proving her leadership and View Details
  • September 2017
  • Supplement

Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (B)

By: Victoria Ivashina and Eren Kuzucu
In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu (HBS MBA 1994) led private equity firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second larger player in the market, AFM,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Transformation; Valuation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)

Weinstein: Standing tall and seeing all of the strategic possibilities in a highly competitive industry. I grew up in New York City and worked in every store along our 10-block radius. I learned how to sell and negotiate at a young age. There’s a scrappiness and View Details
Keywords: Edited by Julia Hanna; Photo by Chris Sorensen; search firm; entrepreneurship; hedge funds

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    Keywords: federal government; real estate
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    Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

    Thomas R. Eisenmann Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs Co-Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management Unit Head Shai Benjamin Bernstein MBA Class of 1960 Professor of... View Details
    • 05 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 5, 2006

    http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107028 The Virtual Entrepreneurial Team Exercise—VETE; Overview and Instructions for Participants Harvard Business School Note 806-158   PublicationsCRM Implementation:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    HBS - The year in Review

    Faculty Brian K. Baik Accounting & Management Sebastian Hillenbrand Finance Ebehi Iyoha Entrepreneurial Management Elisabeth Kempf Finance Jacqueline Ng Lane Technology &... View Details
    • April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil

    By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza
    This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil
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    • 15 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 15

    of investors―extracted from co-search patterns―in addressing long-standing benchmarking problems in finance. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171497 August 2013 Academy of Management Journal Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 28 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 28, 2009

    Surgical to develop some, but not all, of Incept's IP. The specifics of which IP Confluent would develop were described by a licensing agreement between Incept and Confluent. Venture capitalist Charles Warden of Schroder Ventures Life Sciences was deciding whether to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace