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The Shiny Penny: How to Maximize the M&A Value of your Company

Angel investor Steve Kirschner explains how to maximize the M&A valuation of your company heading into a private sale.

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March 2010 (Revised November 2010)
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Pandora Radio: Fire Unprofitable Customers?

By: Willy C. Shih and Halle Alicia Tecco

Pandora Radio is at a crossroads. Founder Tim Westergren has just been told by a well known VC to get rid of his unprofitable customers in order to get his costs down, but Westergren is not sure that such actions are consistent with his company's business model.... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Customer Satisfaction; Music Entertainment; Venture Capital; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Internet; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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May 2024
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Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (B): The 2024 Tech Hub Proposal

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Venture Capital; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Government Administration; City

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14 Nov 2019
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Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

August 2006
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Predicting Returns with Managerial Decision Variables: Is There a Small-Sample Bias?

By: Malcolm Baker, Ryan Taliaferro and Jeffrey Wurgler

Many studies find that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, predict stock or bond market returns. Recent research argues that these findings may be driven by an aggregate time-series version of Schultz's (2003, Journal of Finance... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Fairness; Managerial Roles; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Equity; Bonds; Financial Markets; Investment; Capital Markets; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return

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16 Mar 2010
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pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Mar 2012
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How to Make Finance Work

has been mixed. The sector's growth has been beneficial for U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry complaints that new global View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

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Preqin reports | Baker Library

Preqin Private Capital Fund Terms Advisors Report Preqin Private Capital Compensation and Employment Review Report Investor Outlooks Additional Sector Reports, Regional Performance Updates, Blogs, etc. Links... View Details

23 Sep 2024
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2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

in wind and solar power generation and is committed to driving the transition to a decarbonized energy future. As one of the top five largest capital deployers in the U.S., NextEra has been a driving force behind significant investments... View Details

24 Oct 2023
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco

Entrepreneurship and the California Research Center to bring alumni together who are working on all aspects of that innovation. On September 26th, Scott Jacobs (MBA Class of 2007) and the team at Generate Capital hosted around 75 HBS... View Details

December 2017 (Revised February 2021)
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Bega Cheese: Bidding to Bring Vegemite Back Home

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Lauren G. Pickle

In January 2017, the leadership team of Bega Cheese—the Australian dairy company—was considering a bid for Mondelēz International’s Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) grocery business, which included several leading consumer brands such as Vegemite, the iconic Australian... View Details

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January 2009 (Revised March 2009)
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A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com

By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty

Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the one they first founded in 2006. Having changed their business model from a social networking site to an... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; China

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Caitlin Reimers

assumed consulting roles, first at The Parthenon Group, then at Strategic Value Capital Management. Reaching beyond technical skills After years of consulting, "I was getting too comfortable and wanted new challenges," says... View Details

24 Feb 2023
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My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program

concert (the "Live Nation and Pharrell Williams" case), one classmate related her experience using the power of music to unite fractured communities and touch lives in a metropolitan city. When discussing the role of entrepreneurship and venture View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Truth in Lending

economies, that financial data often doesn’t exist. Without a way to evaluate credit applicants, lenders are not inclined to make the type of small-business loans—for instance, just $5,000 for working capital or $20,000 for machinery—that... View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Oct 2014
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Innovating for International Aid

jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman