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  • 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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  • 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  • Other Unpublished Work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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  • 30 Sep 2022
  • News

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

  • 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

    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

      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

      • 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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      • 12 May 2014
      • News

      Noam Wasserman | Not all founders are equal

      • 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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      • 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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      • 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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      • 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
      • 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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      • December 1998 (Revised March 2001)
      • Case

      Korea Stock Exchange, 1998

      By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and James Chang
      Following a major financial crisis, the South Korean government attempted to revive the Korea Stock Exchange to spur equity investment in Korean companies. This case describes the reforms undertaken so far and the challenges that lay ahead. View Details
      Keywords: Equity; Stocks; Restructuring; Emerging Markets; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; South Korea
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      • October 2018 (Revised February 2018)
      • Case

      Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund

      By: Tom Nicholas, Ramana Nanda and Benjamin N. Roth
      In October 2016, SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese conglomerate giant caused a significant shock to the worldwide market for venture capital and private equity by announcing the Vision Fund, the largest tech investment fund in the world at close to $100 billion. The... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Competitive Strategy
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      • 05 Sep 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Global Currency Hedging

      Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros & Luis M. Viceira; Financial Services
      • 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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      • January 2013 (Revised June 2017)
      • Case

      The Perfect Storm: What Happens When the Market Moves Four Standard Deviations?

      By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
      Adam Carter was the portfolio manager for Tate Modern Finance III, L.P. (“Tate” or the “Fund”), the third in a series of U.S. commercial real estate debt funds sponsored by the London-based Tate Partners. The Fund was capitalized with $700 million of equity... View Details
      Keywords: CMBS; CLO; Repo Financing; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Financing and Loans
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      • December 2010 (Revised October 2021)
      • Case

      Silver Lake

      By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth A. Kind
      Dave Roux, co-founder and chairman of Silver Lake, a private equity (PE) firm specializing in technology investments, was meeting with the firm's investment committee via video conference to discuss options for Silver Lake's future growth. While the private equity... View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Private Equity; Expansion; Global Range; Financial Services Industry
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