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  • 28 Mar 2017
  • News

Japan’s Misaki Capital teaches Harvard about taking the long view

  • 24 May 2017
  • News

One Trick for Getting Bosses to Buy In to Your Idea

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
    • July 2021 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Fynd

    By: Ranjay Gulati, Kairavi Dey and Rachna Tahilyani
    Fynd is a fast-growing venture that in 7 years since its founding has become India's largest omnichannel retail company with real-time access to over 9,000 stores' offline inventory. It started as a B2B business supporting retailers who didn’t have an online business,... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Model; Acquisition; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry; Communications Industry; India; Mumbai
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    • August 2013 (Revised November 2015)
    • Case

    Prudential Financial - General Motors Pension Risk Transfer: Back to the Future?

    By: Luis M. Viceira and Emily A. Chien

    In November 2012, Prudential Financial and General Motors closed on a $25.1B pension risk transfer (PRT) transaction, the largest of its kind to date by an order of magnitude both in the U.S. market and globally. In exchange for an in-kind transfer of $25.1B in... View Details

    Keywords: Risk Management; Asset Management; Insurance; Retirement; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry
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    • March 2017 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    Floodgate: On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards

    By: Rory McDonald, Alix Burke, Emma Franking and Nicole Tempest
    Founded in 2008, Floodgate pioneered the “micro-VC” category, a new type of investment firm that raised smaller funds and made earlier, smaller investments in technology startups than traditional venture-capital firms. By 2015, Floodgate had raised three funds totaling... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Business Models; Angel Investors; Crowdfunding; Incubators; Accelerators; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Information Technology; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Competitive Strategy
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    • July 2012
    • Article

    The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation

    By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
    We study the real effects of market segmentation due to credit ratings using a matched sample of firms just above and just below the investment-grade cutoff. These firms have similar observables, including average investment rates. However, flows into high-yield mutual... View Details
    Keywords: Segmentation; Credit; Investment; Investment Funds; Quality; Markets; Measurement and Metrics; Business Ventures
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    A model is developed that rationalizes contracts that give depositors the right to obtain funds on demand even when depositors intend to use these funds for consumption in the future. This is explained by depositor overoptimism regarding their own ability to collect... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Financial Services Industry
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    • September 2016 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE

    By: Vikram Gandhi
    State Street Global Advisors was the investment arm of State Street Corporation, one of the largest custodians and asset managers in the world with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management. Inspired by demand from a large pension fund client for better gender... View Details
    Keywords: ETF; Asset Management; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    The Financing of R&D and Innovation

    By: Bronwyn H. Hall and Josh Lerner
    Evidence on the “funding gap” for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced underinvestment is absent. We conclude that while small and new innovative firms experience high... View Details
    Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance
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    • November 2013 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Valuing Yahoo! in 2013

    By: Luis M. Viceira and Atul Khosla
    In late July 2013, Danielle Engle, Managing Director of Clairemont Capital, was contemplating what to do about a large investment her fund had in the stock of Yahoo! Inc. In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Decision Making; Investment Activism; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation
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    • January 1985
    • Case

    Business Research Corp. (A)

    By: William A. Sahlman
    Contains a description of a decision confronting an entrepreneur: which of two investment proposals should he accept to fund the creation and marketing of a database that comprises the full text of research reports produced by Wall Street investment banking firms? The... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Valuation; Investment Banking; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Service Industry
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    • Working Paper

    Measuring the Perceived Liquidity of the Corporate Bond Market

    By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
    We propose a novel measure of bond market liquidity that does not depend on transaction data: the strength of the cross-sectional relationship between mutual fund cash holdings and fund flow volatility. Our measure captures how liquid funds perceive their portfolio... View Details
    Keywords: Bond Market; Bonds; Financial Liquidity; Measurement and Metrics
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    • July 2020
    • Case

    CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (A)

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Yury Kapko
    This two-part case series follows CSL Capital’s 2009 investment in the greenfield manufacturing company, Patriot Proppants. CSL, a recently established investment firm, employs a unique investment model, funding new ("green field") energy service businesses that serve... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Renewable Energy; Business Model; Decision Making
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    • February 2013 (Revised February 2013)
    • Case

    King Abdullah Economic City in 2009: Population Drivers and Cash Flow

    By: John D. Macomber
    CEO of high profile new economic city in Saudi Arabia must decide how to allocate limited investment funds across projects under duress. Issues include understanding core economic drivers, planning infrastructure investment and return, attracting multinationals, energy... View Details
    Keywords: Urban Development; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Saudi Arabia
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    • November 2010
    • Case

    Morgan Asset Management

    By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Sarah Abbott
    It is 2010 and Guillermo Araoz, the equity research director at Morgan Asset Management (MAM), is considering his research budget for the year. Due to recent declines in the equity markets and MAM's sale of its mutual funds business, MAM has seen a decline in its... View Details
    Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Investment; Resource Allocation; Research and Development; Financial Services Industry
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      Randolph B. Cohen

      Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details

      Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry
      • November 1994
      • Case

      Spectrum Equity Investors, L.P.

      Brion Applegate and Bill Collatos had already started a fund-raising campaign for their new venture-capital fund when the principals of a prestigious Wall Street investment bank asked them to become the two senior partners of an in-house $150 million fund. The case... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship
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      • 20 Oct 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Financing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation

      Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services
      • October 2010 (Revised June 2014)
      • Case

      Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
      A new management team at VW do Brazil develops and deploys a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align... View Details
      Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Management Teams; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Balance and Stability; Motivation and Incentives; Communication Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Brazil; Germany
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