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    Brian L. Trelstad

     

    Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

    Keywords: emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity; emerging market private equity
    • 14 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Insider Trading Preceding Goodwill Impairments

    Keywords: by Karl A. Muller III, Monica Neamtiu & Edward J. Riedl
    • July 2024 (Revised January 2025)
    • Case

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: Bringing Systematic Investment to Philanthropy

    By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Alexander Bischoff and Sophia Pan
    Melissa Berman, CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), evaluated her client’s philanthropy project and its mediocre performance. RPA was a segment of the Rockefeller Family Office’s Philanthropy Department, becoming an independent charity in 2002. Consistently... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Philanthropic Sector; Performance Evaluations; Social Network; Collaboration; Foundation; Due Diligence; Humanitarianism; Humanitarian Assistance; Grants; Expertise; HNW Products And Services; Donations; Impact; Advisor; Advice; Consulting; Funding; Consulting Services; Family Business; Cost vs Benefits; Developing Countries and Economies; Private Sector; Spending; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Evaluation; Nonprofit Organizations; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); United States
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    • January 2021
    • Case

    Saham Group: It's In the Genes

    By: Christina R. Wing and Gamze Yucaoglu
    The case opens in August 2020 as Moulay Mhamed Elalamy (Mhamed), CEO of the Saham Group (the Group), a pan-African investment company that operates a variety of businesses out of Morocco, contemplates the Group’s identity, its investment strategy, and how to navigate... View Details
    Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Transformation; Transition; Emerging Markets; Change Management; Private Equity; Investment; Strategy; Insurance Industry; Real Estate Industry; Education Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Morocco; Africa
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    • 06 Dec 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 6

    need to determine which of the lessons learned from Haier's international operations should be implemented in China and which skills learned at home could best be applied abroad. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712408-PDF-ENG Silver Lake and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Jan 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: January 5

    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 View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • February 2021 (Revised October 2021)
    • Case

    Collab Capital

    By: Natalia Rigol, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mitchell Weiss
    Founded in 2020 by Jewel Burks Solomon and her partners, Barry Givens and Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital was a new investment firm built on two pillars: first, it would identify and support ventures founded by Black entrepreneurs, a group underrepresented in... View Details
    Keywords: Black Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Race; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Atlanta
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    • September 2011 (Revised September 2011)
    • Case

    Penn Warranty Corporation

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Penn Warranty Corporation sold warranty contracts to the used car market. During the recession in 2008/2009 Penn's sales declined by 26% Instead of growing by 11% as forecasted. Also, disruptions in financial and insurance markets created a cash shortfall. In the... View Details
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    • Spring 2024
    • Article

    One Aspirational Future for India’s Higher Education Sector

    By: Tarun Khanna
    Several recent encouraging experiments in Indian higher education suggest a plausible aspirational path toward a more salubrious future than that suggested by an otherwise struggling system. Four case studies of privately conceived and funded universities each exhibit... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; India
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    • May 2014
    • Case

    WeaveTech: High Performance Change

    By: Michael Beer and Paul Swiercz
    WeaveTech, formerly Johnson-Ware, is a clothing company that produces jackets, coats, overalls, coveralls, and fire-resistant clothing for the military. A private equity firm renamed the company after it acquired Johnson-Ware several years ago. WeaveTech now faces a... View Details
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      Andre F. Perold

      André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences,  lower middle market private... View Details

      Keywords: banking; financial services; information; investment banking industry; professional 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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      • 16 May 2018
      • News

      How Companies Can Use the Data They Collect to Further the Public Good

      • September 2024
      • Case

      Leadership for Stretch Goals: Inspiring Employees to Achieve the Impossible at Charter Next Generation

      By: Ethan Rouen and Elisabeth Powell
      In 2023, Kathy Bolhous, CEO of Charter Next Generation (CNG), set out to achieve an ambitious "Moonshot"—increasing profits by $100 million within three years, purely through internal innovations and efficiency gains, without layoffs or new revenue streams. After years... View Details
      Keywords: Profit; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Employee Ownership; Motivation and Incentives
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      • February 2024
      • Article

      An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization

      By: Mohammad Akbarpour, Eric Budish, Piotr Dworczak and Scott Duke Kominers
      We propose an economic framework for determining the optimal allocation of a scarce supply of vaccines that become gradually available during a public health crisis, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Agents differ in observable and unobservable characteristics, and the... View Details
      Keywords: Vaccine; Fairness; Public Finance; Public Goods; Allocation Problems; Allocative Efficiency; Allocation Rules; Social Welfare; Pandemics; Inequality; COVID-19; COVID-19 Pandemic; Public Sector; Resource Allocation; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Public Administration Industry
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      • November 2009 (Revised October 2010)
      • Case

      AME Learning Inc.

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ann Leamon
      Justin Joffe is about to graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small consulting... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Age; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Family and Family Relationships
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      • Research Summary

      Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

      Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

      Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
      • October 2016 (Revised February 2017)
      • Teaching Note

      Alvogen

      By: Daniel Isenberg, William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
      Alvogen is an Icelandic pharmaceutical company that makes and sells generic drugs. Founder and CEO Robert Wessman is deciding whether to take on private equity investors willing to buy out all shareholders, merge with a large and publicly-traded US pharmaceutical... View Details
      Keywords: Biotechnology; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry
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      • 14 Apr 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: April 14, 2009

      Working Papers The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds Authors: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar Abstract This paper examines the direct private View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • March 2024
      • Supplement

      ELCA's Series A Cap Table Exercise (Instructor Version)

      By: Raymond Kluender and Anke Becker
      In ELCA, the company must decide between two term sheets: one put forth by STV and one put forth by ESV.

      This exercise is an analysis of the implications of these two term sheets on the ownership structure and the payouts of common and preferred... View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Venture Capital; Investment; Ownership Stake
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