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  • 2009
  • Book

Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950

By: Aldo Musacchio
In Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly different patterns of... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Shareholder Relations; Brazil
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  • March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
  • Supplement

China Construction America (B): The Baha Mar Resort Deal

Why is a Chinese state-owned construction company building the largest mega-resort and casino in the Caribbean? This case examines the intricate deal-making by which CSCEC, China's leading global engineering and construction contractor, emerged as a key market player.... View Details
Keywords: Project Finance; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Financial Strategy; Construction Industry; Tourism Industry; China; Bahamas
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  • November 1997 (Revised January 2003)
  • Case

Martin Smith: January 2002

By: Josh Lerner
An MBA student must choose between offers from three private equity organizations. Each organization has distinct strengths and weaknesses, and different implications for the student's career development. The case presents compensation and employment data about the... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Compensation and Benefits; Analytics and Data Science; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 2010
    • Mimeo

    An Analysis of the Impact of 'Substantially Heightened' Capital Requirements on Large Financial Institutions

    By: Anil Kashyap, Jeremy C. Stein and Samuel G. Hanson
    We examine the impact of "substantially heightened" capital requirements on large financial institutions, and on their customers. Our analysis yields three main conclusions. First, the frictions associated with raising new external equity finance are likely to be... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Credit
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    • August 2001 (Revised April 2002)
    • Case

    Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A)

    By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino
    Strategic Capital Management, LLC, is a hedge fund that is planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers recently sold approximately 20% of its Internet auction subsidiary, Ubid, to the public at $15 per share. Ubid's stock... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Subsidiaries; Internet and the Web; Investment Funds; Price; Performance Efficiency; Capital Markets; Auctions; Investment Return; Equity; Planning; Financial Services Industry
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    • October 2010 (Revised November 2012)
    • Case

    Shenzhen Capital Group

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Shaohui Chen, Jessie Lin and Shelley Ling
    Haitao Jin, chairman of Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd. (SCGC), and Wanshou Li, president of SCGC, must decide how to continue to grow their venture capital/private equity firm in China. SCGC is a premier VC/PE fund in China and a pioneer of the Government Sponsored... View Details
    Keywords: Government And Business; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; China
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    • April 1994 (Revised September 1994)
    • Case

    KENETECH Corporation

    By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
    Involves a strategic decision about how fast to ramp up sales. Improvements in technology have driven down the cost of electric power generated from wind turbines to the point where they are competitive with fossil-fuel plants. KENETECH needs to raise equity capital to... View Details
    Keywords: Renewable Energy; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Going Public; Sales; Competition; Energy Industry
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    • March 2024
    • Supplement

    ELCA's Series A Cap Table Exercise (Student Version)

    By: Raymond Kluender, Anke Becker and Johnson Elugbadebo
    In ELCA, the company must decide between two term sheets: one put forth by STV and one put forth by ESV.

    This exercise is an analysis of the implications of these two term sheets on the ownership structure and the payouts of common and preferred... View Details
    Keywords: Analysis; Venture Capital; Investment; Ownership Stake
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    • November 2021 (Revised December 2021)
    • Case

    Praava Health: A New Model for Bangladesh

    By: Michael Chu
    Launched in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2018, Praava Health (‘Praava’) delivered high-quality in-clinic primary and specialist care, backed by its own high quality diagnostic laboratories, imaging and pharmacy. Praava was founder Sylvana Sinha’s response to what she saw as a... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Investment Return; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Bangladesh; Asia
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    • July 1995 (Revised May 1997)
    • Case

    Nutra Foods

    By: David F. Hawkins
    An investor reviews his equity investment and asks for help in understanding how the stock splits and dividends impact his investment and the company's stockholders' equity portion of the balance sheet. View Details
    Keywords: History; Financial Management; Private Equity; Capital Structure; Valuation; Investment Return; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • December 2002 (Revised February 2015)
    • Case

    Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (Abridged)

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Barbara Feinberg
    Jim Sharpe, 10 years after receiving his MBA from Harvard and working for others, has finally become his own boss and 100% owner of manufacturer of aluminum extrusions. After 10 months of an unfunded search, he acquires the business in an LBO and prepares to face his... View Details
    Keywords: Search Funds; Search; Entrepreneurial Management; Operations Strategy; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Unions; Union; Turnarounds; Funding Model; LBO; Bank Debt; Bank Loans; Equity Investment; Career Management; Small Business; Work-Life Balance; Negotiation; Operations; Labor Unions; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 2010
    • Case

    Vander Mining Partners, IPADE

    By: Roberto Charvel
    In 2010 Vander Mining was trying to raise one of the few private equity funds specialized in mining. This was difficult among other things because institutional investors did not have a private equity team specialized in mining and emerging markets. View Details
    Keywords: Real Assets; Business Startups; Business Plan; Economics; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Assets; Private Equity; Public Equity; Goods and Commodities; Emerging Markets; Market Participation; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America
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    • 06 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

    there's less of a negative impact on their stock price." The Payoff As a result, the acquirer has a cheaper source of equity financing when pursuing growth opportunities, Baker explains, using the... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • September 2018 (Revised January 2019)
    • Teaching Note

    Gemini Investors

    By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 211-066. Gemini Investors was a private equity firm that targeted equity investments of between $4 million to $6 million per firm. In the period from 2000 to 2015, Gemini had successfully deployed four funds, all licensed as Small Business... View Details
    Keywords: Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Small Business; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • March 1999 (Revised April 1999)
    • Case

    AccuFlow, Inc.

    By: Jay O. Light
    A small hydraulic-valve manufacturer attempts a second buyout in order to take out its current equity partners. A three-way deal must be negotiated between management, the new mezzanine lender, and the departing equity owners. View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Types; Leveraged Buyouts; Equity; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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    • November 1998 (Revised April 1999)
    • Case

    Wireless Telecom Negotiation

    By: Jay O. Light
    A venture capital/private equity fund is preparing to negotiate with the two parties in a prospective PCS joint venture: the entrepreneur and AT&T Wireless. The negotiation will decide how equity and control are shared in the venture. View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Governance Controls; Negotiation Deal; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry
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    • January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
    • Case

    Return Logic, Inc. (B)

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz
    Highlights how multiple rounds of financing work in practice and illustrates how terms agreed to in early-stage financing deals have an impact in later financing rounds. Also illustrates ethical issues that entrepreneurs confront as they build "dot-com" ventures. View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Internet and the Web; Negotiation Deal; Entrepreneurship; Ethics
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    • 31 Jan 2011
    • News

    2010 Distinguished Paper Award

    • February 2013 (Revised June 2017)
    • Case

    Project Sun Devil and Project Paris

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
    Tony Lee is preparing to present a project to the investment committee of Howard Street Capital. He will be recommending an investment in Project Sun Devil, a high-quality 225-unit student housing rental property near Tempe, Arizona. Tony Lee will compete for capital... View Details
    Keywords: General Management; Financial Analysis; Return On Assets; Accounting; Performance Measurement; Financial Ratios; Return On Equity; Financial Statements; Profitability Analysis; Portfolio Investment; Portfolio Management; Real Estate; Property; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Real Estate Industry; United States
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