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  • October 2020 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund

By: Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn and Ari Sunshine
In April 2020, Scott Einsenberg, the Head of Credit at the private equity firm Francisco Partners, is deciding whether to go ahead with extending a private lending agreement to Eventbrite, Inc. (NYSE: EB), a leading global event management and online ticketing... View Details
Keywords: Private Debt; Private Credit; Industry Evolution; Private Equity; Investment; Analysis
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  • April 2011 (Revised April 2012)
  • Case

Angels in British Columbia

By: Josh Lerner, Thomas Hellmann and Ilkin Ilyaszade
The case study provides an overview of the angel investment practices and describes government policies towards angel and venture capital investing in British Columbia, Canada. It focuses in particular on the Equity Capital Program (BCECP henceforth), which provides... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Policy; Taxation; Performance Improvement; Programs; British Columbia
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  • 30 Sep 2022
  • News

News from the Gender Initiative: Q+A with Robin Ely and Colleen Ammerman

    Josh Lerner

    Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
    • September 2008 (Revised December 2011)
    • Case

    Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur

    By: Noam T. Wasserman and Antony Uy
    Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his first four ventures, two were sold, one went public, and in the last he decided to close the venture and return unused capital to his investors. With the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Equity; Selection and Staffing; Groups and Teams
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    • April 2004 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    Enron Corporation: May 6, 2001 Sell Recommendation

    By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
    A consulting firm to institutional investors recommends selling Enron Corp.'s equity short on May 6, 2001, while many sellside analysts are recommending the stock as a "buy." View Details
    Keywords: Judgments; Financial Reporting; Investment; Competency and Skills; Financial Statements; Consulting Industry
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    • 25 Apr 2014
    • Video

    Sam Duboc - Making A Difference

    • October 2001 (Revised February 2002)
    • Case

    Acme Investment Trust: January 2001

    By: Josh Lerner
    The managers of a large corporate pension fund must decide whether to invest in a private equity fund that is offering a guaranteed rate of return of 20% on part of its portfolio. The background behind and implications of the guarantee are explored. View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Private Equity; Motivation and Incentives; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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      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

      • 19 Jan 2021
      • News

      How to Be a “Glass-Shattering” Organization

      • November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
      • Case

      Centre Partners - American Seafoods 2003

      Centre Partners, a leading private equity firm, is contemplating ways to realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Capital Structure; Financial Services Industry
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      • July 2022 (Revised October 2024)
      • Case

      3G Capital

      By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
      In June 2022, 3G Capital Co-Managing Partners Alex Behring and Daniel Schwartz were in a partners’ meeting. On the agenda were three potential investments. Code named “Alpha,” “Bravo,” and “Charlie” (real target companies that have been disguised), they were the... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Decisions; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts
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      • October 2013 (Revised October 2016)
      • Case

      Steward Health Care System

      By: Robert F. Higgins and Noah Fisher
      Steward Health has raised private equity and has converted from not-for-profit to for-profit. The case describes its Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and asks whether it should continue this experiment. View Details
      Keywords: Accountable Care Organization; ACO; Medicare; Medicaid; Medical Services; Cerberus; Caritas; Health Care Policy; Health Care Industry; Provider Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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      • 09 Jun 2023
      • Blog Post

      Learning Curve

      Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to invest the private View Details
      • 08 Nov 2018
      • Blog Post

      Career Choices for the Class of 2018

      The Class of 2018 has continued the trend of finding opportunities in diverse sectors across the landscape of MBA hiring, including positions in hospitality, real estate and health care delivery in addition to roles in consulting, private View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
      • Case

      Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board

      By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari
      A real estate developer decides whether to enter into a public private partnership with the government of West Bengal to develop a township on farmland. The decisions include whether to expand operations from the company's base in Kolkata to Bardhaman, 100 km away;... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Private Equity; Design; Housing; Infrastructure; Projects; Real Estate Industry; West Bengal
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      • 1999
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists

      By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
      We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19... View Details
      Keywords: Equity; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Venture Capital; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation
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      • October 2007 (Revised November 2010)
      • Module Note

      Evaluating M&A Deals-Equity Consideration

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      What the acquiring company pays for a target in a merger or acquisition is called "consideration." Consideration can be in the form of cash, shares, or a combination of the two. Lays out the basic mechanics of equity consideration. Derives formulas for the Deal NPV of... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Equity
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        Nori Gerardo Lietz

        Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. She presently teaches Real Estate Private Equity and Starting a Private Investment Firm.

        Nori Gerardo Lietz is the founder of Areté... View Details

        • November 2008 (Revised January 2009)
        • Case

        The Restructuring of Daiei

        By: Richard S. Ruback
        In 2004, the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ) was given the task of restructuring Daiei, one of the largest Japanese retailers and the country's most prominent zombie companies. The IRCJ was a government-sponsored organization that was funded with... View Details
        Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Performance Effectiveness; Retail Industry; Japan
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