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January 2025
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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

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29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

Wireless; he also oversaw the divestiture of a $130 billion stake in Verizon Wireless. In 2018, Colao joined General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, leaving in 2021 to serve the Italian government as... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

continue to support the global fight against HIV/AIDS while positioning his company for growth in a changing regulatory landscape. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511050-PDF-ENG Competing through Business Models:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

Second, the emphasis on local laws as being all-important may be misplaced given the large role of foreign investment in emerging economies and the ability of these investors to avail themselves of nonlocal laws. The web of bilateral investment treaties and the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

04 Jun 2024
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Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

function. “I knew I wanted to make pursuing nonprofit and social impact careers more sustainable, but it hadn't been clicking for me that those were people-related problems,” she recalled, “But when I did the human resources internship, it felt right.” Seeking Out... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

job. People Table stakes: If they are involved with financial planning, investors should be helpful with basic headcount and organizational growth plans (what roles to fill, how many, and when). Investors are generally not shy about... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the positive spillovers from local media is needed. To date, such evidence is scant. In this paper, we exploit the rapid View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a matched control group of non-adopters. Among surviving employers, ISO adopters had higher growth rates for sales, employment,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

Ross has built a successful private equity firm focused on distressed investing, WL Ross & Co. In 2006, INVESCO, an asset management company, approaches him about acquiring his firm. INVESCO has had weak performance in recent years... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private View Details

13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

a Professor of Management Practice at HBS who serves on the boards of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs, told a forum of directors in 2008, “Serving on a board is about one thing: It’s about responsibility for the preservation and growth of... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

the Spanish superstar for the 2018 tournament after all. What is the best course of action? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518041 Harvard Business School Case 218-033 Tesla Motors (A): Financing Growth The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries. The instrumented elasticity of export View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit. This case presents the structure of these payment methods, focusing on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

leverage technology to coordinate a fleet of distributed assets and stabilize the grid as intermittent renewables continue to come down in cost. That feat, to change the way our world is powered, is undoubtedly a tech venture.” Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) Founder, Fueled... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

July 2024
Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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25 Mar 2025
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ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

ClimateCAP is an initiative manage by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business whose mission is to prepare business leaders to understand and respond to the climate challenge. They provide learning resources for MBA students interested in the intersection of business... View Details

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

of financial assets, that explains the boom in global asset markets as well as the recent upsurge of leveraged buy-out activity. Effect of Personal Taxes on Managers' Decisions to Sell Unrestricted Equity Author:Li Jin Periodical:Journal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-049.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbsolute Return for Kids Harvard Business School Case 309-036 Absolute Return for Kids [ARK] is a charity with strong financial support—what are the constraints on its View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

Challenge Accepted

First Look: June 21

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

First Look: April 17, 2007

First Look: July 21

First Look: January 15, 2008

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

First Look: September 13

M.I.A. Boards

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

First Look: November 26

First Look: February 24, 2009

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

First Look: February 12, 2007

First Look: October 7, 2008