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  • 24 Apr 2013
  • News

Windfall or bust? Crowdfunding may not turn out to be boon that many small businesses expect

    Christina R. Wing

    Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front payment before people receive any benefits... View Details
    Keywords: Age; Annuities; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Saving; Retirement
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    • 01 Mar 2014
    • News

    Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

    • February 2001 (Revised March 2002)
    • Case

    Korea First Bank (A)

    In December 1999, Newbridge Capital, an equity investment fund based in San Francisco, successfully negotiated with the Korean government to acquire a controlling interest in Korea First Bank. It was the first time a foreign financial institution acquired a Korean... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Foreign Direct Investment; Acquisition; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; San Francisco; South Korea
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    • 01 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

    usually required in a venture capital presentation. “A lot of companies that probably shouldn't get funding will get it” As enticing as crowdfunding is as a concept, it may ultimately have little power to shake up the View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • February 2004 (Revised May 2005)
    • Case

    In-Q-Tel

    By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Kevin Book and Ann Leamon
    The Central Intelligence Agency establishes a venture-enabled fund, In-Q-Tel, to allow it to access cutting-edge technologies. Fund managers face a variety of difficulties, some similar to those facing other institutionally affiliated venture funds and some unique. View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Problems and Challenges; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • August 2019 (Revised March 2023)
    • Case

    Rand Fishkin at Moz (A)

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    In 2016, senior management at Moz, a venture capital–backed startup providing software tools for digital marketing professionals, must decide how to address a looming cash flow crisis precipitated by failed efforts to broaden its product line. Seattle-based Moz had... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Failure; Business Startups; Diversification; Growth Management; Technology Industry
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    • March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
    • Case

    Cadre

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and David Lane
    Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial real estate (CRE) equity. Cadre was a... View Details
    Keywords: ＂Cadre,＂; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    • October 1992
    • Case

    Vanguard Group, Inc. (B)

    By: Jay O. Light
    A large mutual fund complex decides on its future product line. View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Strategic Planning; Financial Services Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Islamic Financing Practices

    By: Samuel L. Hayes
    Samuel L. Hayes III is examining (with faculty of Harvard University's Law School and Center for Middle Eastern Studies) Islamic banking and investment practices. Because the Koran prohibits the payment of fixed interest and guarantees on funds invested either with... View Details
    • 06 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

    Business school is a valuable investment in your future. HBS supports that investment through generous need-based scholarships. In addition to scholarships, many HBS students utilize student loans to help... View Details
    • 10 Apr 2020
    • News

    Managing the Liquidity Crisis

    • November 2023 (Revised July 2024)
    • Case

    'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (A)

    By: Debora L. Spar, Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta and Julia M. Comeau
    Since 1834, eight generations of the Ayala family have used their conglomerate to fund nation-building projects in the Philippines, including investments in tramcars, telecommunications, hospitals, and schools. In 1997, Ayala’s subsidiary, Manila Water, took control of... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Economic Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Natural Resources; Crisis Management; Failure; Privatization; Social Issues; Urban Development; Adaptation; Public Opinion; Mission and Purpose; Utilities Industry; Asia; Philippines
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    • 03 May 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership

    Keywords: by Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner; Banking; Financial Services
    • 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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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Private Equity and Industry Performance

    By: Josh Lerner
    The growth of the private equity industry has spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Common Law; Industry Growth; Performance Productivity; Europe; United Kingdom; United States
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    • May 2010 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    Breaking the Buck

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Elizabeth Leonard
    After an incredibly volatile six months since Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, Finbar McCall contemplated his options. As the investment manager of RPG Prime Reserve Fund, Inc. (RPGXX), McCall had just heard the news that the U.S. Treasury was extending the... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Insurance; Investment Funds; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry
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    • 21 Jul 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

    Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • February 2017 (Revised February 2018)
    • Case

    Frank Baker: Siris Capital Group and Titan Systems

    By: Steven Rogers and Derrick Collins
    Private equity firm, Siris Capital Group, must decide if they should raise their offer to take Titan Telecom private by acquiring its publicly traded stock. Siris’ decision to pay a premium for Titan must be made in the context of their unique (and somewhat complex)... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Mobile Technology; Financial Services Industry; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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