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  • May 2009 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

The DiagnoFirst Opportunity

By: Robert C. Pozen and Rukmini Balu
John Mason, a principle at Oldwell Partners, was facing a decision of whether or not to invest in DiagnoFirst, a molecular diagnostics firm. DiagnoFirst's key product was a genetic test that identified a subset of prostate cancer patients with a high risk of clinical... View Details
Keywords: Genetic Engineering; Genetically Modified; Genomics; Venture Capital; Patents; Genetics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Laws and Statutes; Investment; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 04 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

faculty, Toby Stuart studies networks and how they enable or impede certain organizational and entrepreneurial behaviors. In a working paper, "The Evolution of Venture Capital Investment Networks,"... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • November 2008 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Tottenham Hotspur plc

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a publicly-owned professional soccer team based in London, England. The club's chairman, Daniel Levy, is contemplating a significant investment in physical assets, including the development of a new stadium as well as the acquisition... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Capital Budgeting; Decision Making; Competency and Skills; Cash Flow; Investment; Buildings and Facilities; Sports; Investment Portfolio; Financial Strategy; Sports Industry; London
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  • March 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

By: Mihir Desai
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
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  • August 2005 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Partners Healthcare

By: Joshua D. Coval
Focuses on the portfolio allocation decision of a passive fund manager. Provides a setting to study portfolio theory, including mean-variance analysis, the capital market line, and the efficient frontier. View Details
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Capital Markets; Business or Company Management; Decisions; Health Industry
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  • Article

Best Practices in Estimating the Cost of Capital: Survey and Synthesis

By: Robert Bruner, Kenneth M. Eades, Robert S. Harris and Robert F. Higgins
This paper presents the results of a cost-of-capital survey of 27 highly regarded corporations, ten leading financial advisers, and seven best selling textbooks and trade books. The results show close alignment among all these groups on the use of common theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Cost of Capital
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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

    • July 2008 (Revised April 2009)
    • Case

    Advanced Micro Devices: Competing in the Shadow of a Giant (A)

    By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King
    As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund microprocessor design teams, it also had to fund silicon process R&D, and it faced huge capital... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry
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    • 18 May 2018
    • News

    Share buybacks are soaring - is this a sign of market turmoil ahead?

    • March 2024
    • Supplement

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

    By: Raymond Kluender, Anke Becker and Johnson Elugbadebo
    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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      Karen Mills

      Karen Gordon Mills is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and a leading authority on U.S. competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and innovation. She served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business... View Details

      • 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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      • October 1997
      • Case

      Polaroid Corporation: Digital Imaging Technology in 1997

      Focuses on strategic decisions regarding investment in digital imaging technology facing Polaroid Corp., a worldwide leader in the traditional imaging marketplace, in July 1997. New Polaroid CEO Gary DiCamillo must decide how much emphasis to place on digital vs.... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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      • 07 Dec 2017
      • News

      Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

      • 24 Jan 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

      Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello & Rosilene Marcon; Banking
      • August 2022 (Revised November 2022)
      • Case

      Altos Ventures (A)

      By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
      In December 2012, Altos Ventures General Partners Han Kim, Anthony Lee, and Ho Nam met to discuss the future of the firm. Altos had already adjusted its strategy multiple times. It began as a U.S.-focused venture capital investor whose first two funds were backed by a... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Partners and Partnerships
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      • November 2001 (Revised October 2006)
      • Case

      Smartix (A): Dancing with Elephants

      By: Donald N. Sull, James K. Sebenius and Noam Wasserman
      This case describes issues facing the founder-CEO of a high-tech start-up in Boston, as he negotiates with multiple large potential partners and investors. The negotiations include a potential business partnership with FleetCenter and Madison Square Garden, and a... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Venture Capital; Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Power and Influence; Technology Industry; Boston
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      • September 2014 (Revised March 2015)
      • Case

      Fast Ion Battery

      By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Stephanie Puzio
      John Davidson, a partner at Ware Street Capital (WSC) and a board member at Fast Ion Battery, had just received a phone call from Don Lerner at Bluelock Ventures telling him that Bluelock would not participate in the $5M bridge financing for Fast Ion Battery. Lerner's... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Real Options; Term Sheets; Clean Technology; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Labor Regulations and European Private Equity

      By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
      European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Insurance; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Employment; Europe
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      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Labor Regulations and European Private Equity

      By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
      European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor... View Details
      Keywords: Employment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Insurance; Investment; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Europe
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