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  • 31 Oct 2019
  • Video

Dato' Sri Tahir

Dato’Sri Tahir, founder of a large financial services group in Indonesia, ascribes the frequency of bank failures in the country to their owners diverting funds to support their other businesses, at the expense... View Details
  • October 2006 (Revised June 2007)
  • Case

Deferred Taxes at Obadiah Vineyard

Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with deferred taxes and the differences between tax and financial reporting... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Taxation; Financial Statements; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • August 2001
  • Supplement

Teradyne-Managing Discontinuous Change

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Presents the top executives of Teradyne. Alex d'Arbeloff, the CEO who drove the project, Jim Prestridge, the vice chairman (and top engineer), Owen Robbins, vice chairman and CFO, and Ed Rogus, the division head who wouldn't fund Aurora. View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Projects; Management Teams
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  • January 2011 (Revised January 2015)
  • Case

Matrix Capital Management (A)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Cash Flow; Stock Shares; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Strategy; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
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  • December 2004 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Cutlass Capital, L.P.

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Brian DeLacey
David Hetz and Jon Osgood are forming a new venture capital fund in 2001 to invest in health care start-ups. Describes their fundraising activities at a time when venture capital investing has reached an all-time high. Although their background skills and experiences... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Negotiation Process; Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; United States
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  • 07 May 2014
  • Video

Maureen Harrington - Making A Difference

  • January 2011
  • Supplement

Matrix Capital Management (B)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
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  • June 2013
  • Teaching Note

Rock Health

By: Robert Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell
This is the teaching note associated with HBS Case #813035. The case should enable students to identify emerging challenges, evaluate Rock Health's funding model, debate the effectiveness of its incubation service and assess its long-term viability. View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Incubation; Healthcare Technology; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; San Francisco; California; United States
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    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
    • December 2014 (Revised April 2015)
    • Case

    Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Hanoch Feit, Edward A. Minasian and Brandon Van Buren
    In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
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    • 2010
    • Case

    Vander Mining Partners, IPADE

    By: Roberto Charvel
    In 2010 Vander Mining was trying to raise one of the few private equity funds specialized in mining. This was difficult among other things because institutional investors did not have a private equity team specialized in mining and emerging markets. View Details
    Keywords: Real Assets; Business Startups; Business Plan; Economics; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Assets; Private Equity; Public Equity; Goods and Commodities; Emerging Markets; Market Participation; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America
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    • 24 Oct 2011
    • News

    Top 'Innovators' Rank Low in R&D Spending

    • November 2013
    • Supplement

    Arch Wireless, Inc. (B): Food for Vultures

    By: Stuart C. Gilson
    In 2002, a hedge fund investor acquires the distressed bank debt of a bankrupt wireless paging company and converts his holding into common stock of the reorganized entity. Determining his likely return from this investment is challenging, given that the entire... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Distress Investing; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Investment Funds; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 14 Nov 2012
    • News

    Can Huge CEO Golden Parachutes Hurt You?

    • 30 Mar 2023
    • Video

    The Economics of Science: Turning Ideas into Applications

    • February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    CalPERS Private Equity 2.0

    By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Alys Ferragamo
    Yup Kim, the Head of Investments, Private Equity at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), reflected on the pension fund’s private equity strategy. In July of 2022, the fund was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround strategy with the goal to... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Retirement; Leadership; Strategy; Public Sector
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    • November 2002
    • Case

    Siemens ShareNet: Building a Knowledge Network

    By: Alan D. MacCormack, Sven Volpel and Kerry Herman
    Describes the development of ShareNet, an innovative knowledge management system used by a division of Siemens. ShareNet attempts to capture the knowledge and experience of Siemen's many dispersed sales and marketing units around the globe, making it available to all.... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Investment Return; Revenue; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Management; Sales
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    • October 2024
    • Supplement

    NOW PT (B)

    By: George A Riedel, Allison J. Wigen and Dave Habeeb
    Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

    Abstract: In fall 2021, a team of students from the HBS Impact Investing Fund considered Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Business Model; Investment; Health Industry; United States
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    • July 2024
    • Case

    Gates Ventures: Making Alzheimer's a Forgotten Past

    By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks, Shardule Shah and Calvin Marambo
    After a personal journey and interest in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) by Bill Gates, Gates Ventures set out to find the best way to accelerate innovation in the field of AD. In partnership with the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, Gates Ventures created the... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Entrepreneurial Finance; Health Disorders; Mission and Purpose
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    • October 2019 (Revised June 2020)
    • Case

    Pantheon Ventures in 2019

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Tonia Labruyere
    The case discusses the strategy of Pantheon, a UK-based fund of funds investing in private equity. Client demands and preferences had changed in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis and Pantheon had to adapt its business model to accommodate requests for... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Management; Private Equity; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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