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  • September 1987
  • Background Note

What Do Venture Capitalists Do?

By: William A. Sahlman
Presents the results derived from 49 responses to a questionnaire mailed to 100 venture capitalists in late 1984. The purpose of the survey was to shed light on the relationship between venture capitalists and their portfolio companies. The survey revealed that the... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Recruitment; Surveys; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Relationships; Service Industry
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  • June 2010 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert Sheen
After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates (revenue) fell by as much as 90% causing prices... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Capital Markets; Financial Liquidity; International Finance; Globalized Markets and Industries; Valuation; Banking Industry; Shipping Industry; Germany
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  • September 2008 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

Odyssey Healthcare

By: Robert F. Higgins, Virginia Fuller and Umer Raffat
In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors were considering selling the hospice care company to a larger provider or making an initial public offering (IPO). With 38 hospice locations in 21 states, Odyssey had been... View Details
Keywords: Liquidity; Venture Creation/development; Hospice; Venture Capital; Financial Liquidity; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; United States
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  • 2022
  • White Paper

The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America's Chronic Skills Gap

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman
The nature of work has changed dramatically across industries in the last few decades due to rapid and repeated waves of automation. Nowhere is this more evident than in middle-skills positions—those that require less than a four-year college degree but more than... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Human Capital; Competency and Skills; Training; Higher Education; United States
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  • 03 Apr 2019
  • News

Are MBA Founders More Diverse?

  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Investing in new technologies to accelerate change

Girish Nadkami (MBA 1988), a venture capitalist in Switzerland, talks about the impact of investing in new technologies for communications, robotics, and environmental start-ups. (Published April 2014) View Details

    Andrew W. Mellon

    Mellon took over his family’s small private bank and turned it into one of the largest sources of venture capital in American history. Mellon played a substantial role in supplying capital for expanding... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 18 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

    Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the right note for the future? And is... View Details
    Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
    • 2014
    • Report

    Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills

    By: Joseph B. Fuller, Jennifer Burrowes, Manjari Raman, Dan Restuccia and Alexis Young
    The market for middle-skills jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree—is consistently failing to clear. That failure is inflicting a grievous cost on the competitiveness of American firms... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Human Capital; Education; Competency and Skills; Macroeconomics; United States
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    • September 1999
    • Background Note

    Revolution in the Communications Switching Industry

    By: Jay O. Light, Lynda M. Applegate and Daniel J. Green
    As data packet switches threatened the voice circuit switch industry in 1999, major switch and router vendors began paying high premiums to acquire venture-backed switch companies. This note explains what a switch is and suggests why large vendors might be so anxious... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Restructuring; Capital; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Communications Industry; Electronics Industry
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    • 17 Mar 2014
    • News

    Impact Investing: Patience, Please

    Keywords: venture philanthropy; social enterprise; impact investing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
    • 15 Dec 2013
    • News

    The Right Stuff

    Keywords: private sector space travel; hiring practices; Space Research and Technology; Government
    • 06 Mar 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: March 6

    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 channeled money to innovative ideas that have transformed industries... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Fast Answer

    Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

    coursework. That helps our information research staff to understand the context of your question. Research topics Suggested Resources Company/Competitors Capital IQ Profiles and data on public, private companies and investment firms such... View Details
    • April 2010
    • Teaching Note

    The DiagnoFirst Opportunity (TN)

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    Teaching Note for [309112]. View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Patents; Cash Flow; Venture Capital; Negotiation Deal; Health Care and Treatment; Opportunities; Law; Health Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Europe
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    • 01 May 2013
    • News

    Paolo M. Pellegrini, MBA 1985 & Henrietta Jones

    Although Paolo Pellegrini, president of PSQR Capital Management, has spent his career in investment banking, his support of HBS reflects an interest in technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation that began in childhood. “I was 12 when I... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2004
    • News

    Hot Tip

    and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market finishing number one in the world... View Details
    Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
    • 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Nov 2018

    HBX Leading with Finance

    Gain a deep understanding of the principles of finance a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to communicate those decisions to key stakeholders. Program Dates: November 7, 2018 - December 19, 2018 View Details
    • 15 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

    charging) and V2G (vehicle-to-grid). Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? Yes, honestly, I wouldn’t have come back to school for an MBA if not for 2+2. But being at HBS now is a great opportunity for me to explore new avenues such as Venture... View Details
    • 01 Oct 1996
    • News

    Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)

    company that specialized in make-believe was facing some very harsh realities. It had just come off the biggest money-losing year in its then130-year history -- the result, says Eyler, of a series of owners who had lacked the capital... View Details
    Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso