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- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-003 ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
Carlyle Japan, wants to formulate a strategy to improve his firm's ability to source high-quality deals at competitive valuations, or prices. Buyout funds like Carlyle typically have two deal phases: sourcing and monitoring. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011 it raised $30 million in venture capital for the network of 50 websites that featured an entertaining array of user-generated content. Beginning with a site based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
Case 208-069 Delphi Corporation, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has filed a plan of reorganization with the court, under which a consortium of hedge funds led by Appaloosa Management will invest up to $2.6 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
of the CDC. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/413064-PDF-ENG Predilytics Higgins, Robert F., and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Case 813-023 The management team at Predilytics, a healthcare analytics firm, must decide whether to accept a Series A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
best-in-class businesses for the rapidly evolving mobile ecosystem. Now, after nearly two frenetic years, he faces a slew of strategic questions. In which Hatch ventures should he continue to invest money and manpower? Specifically,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
investor and later-stage deals, and by an ability to avoid the deleterious effects on returns often seen in periods with large inflows into the private equity market. The poor performance of co-investments, on the other hand, appears to result from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995 to 2002, we find that the shadow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
bespoke, and digital media. Because Spiegel & Grau, a Random House imprint that holds the rights to the book, lacks the funds to market Carter's memoir at a scale deserving of a superstar, Droga5 is asking Microsoft to shoulder most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
factors: business operations, venture financing, technology, suppliers, people to recruit, and customers. The structure and composition of CIC floors has only a modest influence on these immigrant versus native differences. Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
initiative with domestic, international, and U.N. fronts; and 3) launching a new venture requiring internal, capital-raising, licensing, and industrial partnering deals. The need to negotiate multiple, related deals is not new to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot and the company had made other concessions as well. The AFL-CIO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
clear; 4) Taking the wrong approach to performance assessment. Milestones relevant to each stage of an initiative's development should be established, and key assumptions in the business plan should be linked to the financial forecast; 5) Not knowing how to View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: McDonald, Rory, Y. Sekou Bermiss, Benjamin J. Hallen, and Emily Cox Pahnke Abstract—This paper investigates the social context of entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
a new luxury brand specializing in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure Chinese luxury brand. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
Online Video Harvard Business School Case 709-447 In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online distribution venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation (Fox) is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace