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  • Teaching Interest

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Lena teaches the required first year MBA course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, an elective second year MBA course on Law, Management and Entrepreurship, and an elective second year MBA course on Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. View Details
Keywords: Compliance; Governance; Fiduciary Duties; Responsibilities To Investors; Responsibilities To Customers; Restaurants; Sustainability; Private Equity Documentation; Start-ups; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Law; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Food; Environmental Sustainability; Private Ownership; Private Equity; Food and Beverage Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Europe; Chile; India
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

governance, which I describe in detail, I do not suggest that boards of public companies can or should copy it directly. Public and private companies clearly differ markedly in their ownership structures and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
  • Case

Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa

By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight countries, was acquired by The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest private social impact investing funds, and by FS... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Investing For Impact; Ecotourism; COVID-19; Equity Financing; Strategy Formulation; Profitability; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Sustainability; Conservation Planning; Corporate Social Responsibility; Investment; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Financing and Loans; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Pandemics; Tourism Industry; Africa; Rwanda; Angola
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  • January 2000 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Dressen

By: Thomas R. Piper and Jeremy Cott
Divisional management must decide whether to support a leveraged buyout by a private equity group and, if so, what percent of ownership should go to the various partners involved. The appropriateness of the financing structure and the value of the equity depend on the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Valuation; Ownership Stake; Forecasting and Prediction
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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

used to analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and private companies. Individual accounts needed. Note: Follow the access instruction on the page before accessing.... View Details
  • August 2012
  • Case

Messer Griesheim (A) (Abridged)

By: Josh Lerner, Eva Lutz and Kerry Herman

In 2001, Allianz Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs acquired a majority stake in Messer Griesheim, a European industrial gas concern held by Hoechst. The dealmakers faced several challenges, including delicate corporate governance issues due to partial family... View Details

Keywords: Germany; Energy; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Energy Industry; European Union
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

and help firms and households save and manage risk. These financial services are provided in an array of organizations and structures – from fintech startups to private credit funds to multi-trillion-dollar... View Details

    John D. Dionne

    John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details

    • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Messer Griesheim (A)

    By: Josh Lerner, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Eva Lutz and Kerry Herman
    In 2001, Allianz Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs acquired a majority stake in Messer Griesheim, a European industrial gas concern held by Hoechst. The dealmakers faced several challenges, including delicate corporate governance issues due to partial family ownership... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Chemical Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Europe
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    • 20 Feb 2025
    • Blog Post

    IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

    climate-relevant initiatives is dedicated to flood resilience and water resource management, highlighting the importance of water security in the city’s climate strategy. However, despite this focus, water management remains one of the... View Details
    • February 2025
    • Case

    RedBird Capital Partners

    By: Anita Elberse and David Moreno Vicente
    In July 2024, Gerry Cardinale, the founder and managing partner of RedBird Capital Partners (‘RedBird’) has helped orchestrate a high-profile deal in the world of entertainment: one in which Skydance Media (‘Skydance’), a content production studio led by David Ellison... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment; Media; Film; Television; Sports; Superstars; Marketing; Strategy; General Management; Investing; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Asset Management
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    • March 2005 (Revised December 2005)
    • Case

    Actis & CDC: A New Partnership

    By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
    The senior managing partner of Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, must decide whether to go into the market to raise money. Actis was spun out of CDC, a 50-year-old division of the U.K.'s Department for International Development, and is... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Partners and Partnerships; Emerging Markets; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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    • February 2025
    • Supplement

    Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (B)

    By: Charles CY Wang and Billy Chan
    For years, institutional investors had experienced very limited success in influencing the management of listed companies through shareholder activist campaigns in Korea. The common practice of circular ownership and public resentment toward foreign shareholder... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Public Equity; Stocks; Investment Activism; Music Entertainment; Corporate Governance; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; South Korea
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    • December 2010
    • Compilation

    VCPE Strategy Vignettes II

    By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope
    These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, a senior partner must decide how to manage an over-extended colleague and how to reduce the risk of the firm's portfolio; the second... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Cost vs Benefits; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Portfolio; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Risk Management; Stocks; Problems and Challenges; United States
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    • Research Summary

    Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

    Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

    Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
    • February 2025 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (A)

    By: Charles CY Wang and Billy Chan
    For years, institutional investors had experienced very limited success in influencing the management of listed companies through shareholder activist campaigns in Korea. The common practice of circular ownership and public resentment toward foreign shareholder... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Public Equity; Stocks; Investment Activism; Music Entertainment; Corporate Governance; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; South Korea
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    • March 2011
    • Supplement

    Countrywide plc (CW)

    By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
    One of the world's leading investors in distressed companies, Oaktree Capital Management is contemplating a "loan to own" investment in the debt f Countrywide plc, a financially troubled residential real estate agent based in the U.K. Only sixteen months earlier,... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Assets; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Portfolio; Crisis Management; Strategy; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; United Kingdom
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    • April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
    • Case

    Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal and David Lane
    In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian Science Park. JAFCO was the only Japanese private equity firm operating in China. As such, Managing Director Vincent... View Details
    Keywords: History; International Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Effectiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China; Beijing; Japan
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    • 25 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal

    return rather than the perhaps easier task of increasing dollars under management. Judging by how fast the typical private equity firm has grown over the past several years,... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
    • 20 Aug 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Acquirers

    private equity and public companies "changes the ownership structure of assets and alters the incentives and governance mechanisms that surround the economic engine of our... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services