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- November 1999
- Case
Doyle's Dealmaking Dilemma: Negotiating the Job Search
MBA student Doyle Williams searches for his ideal job in a private equity group and uses his negotiation skills to try to attain the best possible compensation package. View Details
- 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- Other Unpublished Work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
- August 1999 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Brita Products Company, The
By: John A. Deighton
Clorox's Brita skillfully exploits a tide of water safety concerns, growing a home water (filtration) business from inception to a 15% U.S. household penetration in ten years. The dilemma in the case arises as the period of increasing returns seems to be drawing to a... View Details
- April 1999 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
1-800 Buy Ireland
By: Willis M. Emmons III, Adele S. Cooper and J. Richard Lenane
After decades of poor economic performance, the Irish government adopted major changes in economic policy in 1987. By the end of the 1990s, Ireland's real GDP growth rate of almost 10% per year exceeds that of all member nations of the European Union (EU). A key... View Details
- February 1999 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
Investitori Associati: Exiting the Savio LBO (A)
By: Josh Lerner, Dino Cattaneo and Giampiero Mazza
Investitori Associati seeks to exit a leveraged buyout investment. Choosing the appropriate way in which to undertake their exit-an initial public offering or sale of the firm-proves problematic. View Details
- 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
- December 1998 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Knot, The
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Matthew C. Lieb
An online wedding resource company is seeking an equity investment to grow the business. View Details
- 1998
- Working Paper
CEO Incentives and Firm Size
By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
- November 1998 (Revised July 2000)
- Case
Deere & Company: Sustaining Value
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Marlowe Dayley
The question facing Deere & Co. is whether or not to adopt some of the organizational technologies of private equity investors (decentralized equity holdings, use of leverage to control the disposition of cash flows, the externalization of the capital budgeting... View Details
- October 1998
- Case
Farallon Capital Management: Risk Arbitrage (C)
By: Andre F. Perold and Robert Howard
Farallon Capital Management, an investment firm that specializes in risk arbitrage, has taken significant long and short positions in MCI Communications and British Telecommunications, respectively, in the belief that the proposed merger of these firms will be... View Details
- September 1998 (Revised May 2011)
- Background Note
Note on Private Equity Information Sources
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Provides an overview of key information sources about venture capital and private equity. View Details
- August 1998
- Case
Record Masters
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Kent Dauten, a former general partner at the Chicago private equity firm of Madison Dearborn Partners, has engaged in a search to personally sponsor a buyout in which he can play an active management role. He has received a selling memorandum for Record Masters, a... View Details
- August 1998
- Case
General Motors Corp. (B), The : Financial Policies
By: Peter Tufano
The second in a four-part series, the case details the financial policies and practices at General Motors from 1990 to 1996. This part describes the stated financial policies of the firm, including its approach to capital structure, liability structure, equity... View Details
- March 1998 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Xedia and Silicon Valley Bank (A)
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jon Biotti
Xedia, a networking equipment manufacturer that helps provide high-speed Internet service for corporate clients through access routing, wants a bridge loan to fund daily operations until it raises its next round of equity financing. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Negotiation; Production; Internet; Banking Industry
- March 1998 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
BCI Growth III: May 1993
By: Josh Lerner
A Vermont solid-waste company seeks mezzanine financing to finance its strategy of acquiring and consolidating local competitors. The mezzanine private equity group must decide whether this investment offers an attractive risk-return tradeoff. View Details
- March 1998 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
BCI Growth III: November 1993
By: Josh Lerner
Supplements BCI Growth III: May 1993. View Details
- March 1998
- Case
Bumper Acquisition (A1), A: Confidential Information for Thermo-Impact, Inc.
By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Located in Mundelein, IL, Thermo-Impact, Inc. is a rapidly growing, private firm that manufactures automotive bumpers. In 1995, a number of large automotive supply companies and a private equity investment firm offer to buy Thermo-Impact. The cases in this series focus... View Details
- March 1998
- Case
Bumper Acquisition (A2), A: Confidential Information for Medallion Capital, Inc.
By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Located in Mundelein, IL, Thermo-Impact, Inc. is a rapidly growing, private firm that manufactures automotive bumpers. In 1995, a number of large automotive supply companies and a private equity investment firm offer to buy Thermo-Impact. The cases in this series focus... View Details
- January 1998 (Revised September 2001)
- Background Note
A Note on Angel Financing
By: Paul A. Gompers
Discusses the economics of the private equity market and recent efforts by the U.S. Small Business Administration to promote greater angel financing. View Details