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  • January 2025
  • Case

Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli
In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Working Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Microfinance; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit Sharing; Revenue; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Emerging Markets; Mission and Purpose; Small Business; Entrepreneurial Finance; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Nigeria; South Africa; Kenya; Uganda; California; San Francisco
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  • Research Summary

Formulating technology commercialization strategies

Even if young organizations succeed in acquiring the specialized talent necessary to further develop a recently-discovered technology, they may face an uncertain path in commercializing the original invention. Initial conceptions of what might constitute a useful... View Details

  • January 2018 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

Colombia's 4G Road Program: The Pacífico 3 Bond Offer

By: John Macomber, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
Colombia conceived its 4G (Fourth Generation) Road Program to try to attract $17 billion from the private sector for investment in toll roads. The nation had also created the National Infrastructure Agency of Colombia (ANI) to oversee multiple investments, and the... View Details
Keywords: Private Public Partnerships; Infrastructure; Projects; Finance; Emerging Markets; Colombia
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  • June 2010 (Revised November 2013)
  • Case

Momentive Performance Materials, Inc.

By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
After nearly violating its loan covenants in 2009, Momentive Performance Materials, backed by its financial sponsor Apollo Global Management, took a variety of actions to restructure its debt. The restructuring steps included an open market repurchase of publicly held... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Financing and Loans
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  • November 2008
  • Supplement

NEC Electronics (CW)

By: C. Fritz Foley, Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Why do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate NEC trade at a discount to their fundamental value? Can Perry Capital, a U.S. hedge fund, restructure this subsidiary and generate significant returns? This case provides students with... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Decisions; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Price; Ownership; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Electronics Industry; Japan; United States
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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: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
    • 26 Jan 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Rise and Fall of Demand for Securitizations

    Keywords: by Sergey Chernenko, Samuel G. Hanson & Adi Sunderam
    • December 2017 (Revised July 2020)
    • Case

    Opportunity Growth at Grupo Torre Médica

    By: Juan Alcácer, J. Ramon Lecuona-Torras and Katherine Grozier
    Senior management must make a decision for how to grow their search fund to reach the final margins for investors. View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Growth Management; Decision Making; Strategy; Mexico; Latin America
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    • 09 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever—A Case Study

    This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership and control, in practice the... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
    • 09 Nov 2022
    • In Practice

    COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

    The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
    • Article

    What Do State-Owned Development Banks Do? Evidence from BNDES, 2002–09

    By: Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello and Rosilene Marcon
    Defendants of state-owned development banks emphasize their role in reducing capital constraints and fostering productive investment; detractors point out that they may benefit politically connected capitalists or bail out inefficient firms. We study the effect of... View Details
    Keywords: State Capitalism; Development Banks; Industrial Policy; Banking Industry; Brazil
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    • July 2009 (Revised July 2009)
    • Case

    Delphi Corp. and the Credit Derivatives Market (A)

    By: Stuart C. Gilson, Victoria Ivashina and Sarah Abbott
    In 2005, Jane Bauer-Martin, a hedge fund manager, is considering what she should do with the fund's large investment in the publicly traded bonds of Delphi Corp., a financially troubled auto parts supplier. Delphi is General Motor's key auto parts supplier, and, like... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Bonds; Financial Management; Risk Management
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    • 15 Sep 2021
    • News

    Impact Investing’s Next Challenge

    • 14 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 14, 2010

    http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/IPRImit.pdf Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector Authors:Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda Publication:In America's Energy Innovation Problem Abstract We examine the extent to which venture... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Profile

    Raja Bobbili

    HBS opened the world of investing to me. The school’s investing courses exposed me to the practical challenges faced by investors. I experienced some of these challenges first-hand while getting my feet wet... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
    • 2014
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Entrepreneurship Reading: Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures

    By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and James McQuade
    "Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures" introduces students to the key issues involved in the financing of entrepreneurial enterprises. The Reading begins by examining how business models shape external financing requirements. It then contrasts the choice to bootstrap... View Details
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    • November 2022
    • Case

    Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo
    This case teaches key success factors for both startup and established MedTech firms. It examines how to structure a firm to maximize innovation and financial returns with organizational structures that better align the incentives for the different skill sets... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Success; Innovation Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Entry and Exit; Financial Strategy; Business Model; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Technology Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • Article

    The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

    By: Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler
    Classical models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity to consume from... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Investment Return; Economics; Stocks; Capital; Business Earnings; Investment Portfolio; Investment Funds; Cost; Saving
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    • Career Coach

    Peter Platzer

    market. Having re-invented his career path multiple times, he is particularly adept in helping individuals navigate career changes also later in life. Work Experience: Entrepreneurship (CEO and co-founder of a space exploration company), View Details
    Keywords: Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management
    • November 2018
    • Case

    David Hysong and SHEPHERD Therapeutics

    By: Ananth Raman, John Masko and Aldo Sesia
    In 2016, David Hysong, at age 27, found out he had a rare, incurable cancer. Rather than wait around to die, Hysong, a recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School, decided to launch a biotechnology company called Shepherd Therapeutics to development treatments for his... View Details
    Keywords: Cancer; Therapeutics; Drugs; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Product Development; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges
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