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  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Remote Surgeries Digitally Transform Operating Rooms?

Keywords: Health
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Jonathan Shepherd

What did you do before coming to HBS? I was lucky enough to have literally stumbled upon my HBS job after spending the prior part of my career working exclusively in finance roles. Before HBS, I worked in investment banking, asset... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Insider Trading Preceding Goodwill Impairments

Keywords: by Karl A. Muller III, Monica Neamtiu & Edward J. Riedl

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 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
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Negotiation Deal; Investment
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    • October 2020
    • Case

    TowerBrook: ESG in Action (A)

    By: Victoria Ivashina, Brian Trelstad and Meaghan Conway
    This case is the first of a two-part series that follows Ramez Sousou and his team at TowerBrook Capital Partners as they face a challenging investment decision in February of 2013. Since its founding, TowerBrook has prided itself on its purpose-driven investing... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; Finance; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Value Creation; Investment; Decision Making
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    • 16 Oct 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein
    • March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
    • Supplement

    China Construction America (B): The Baha Mar Resort Deal

    Why is a Chinese state-owned construction company building the largest mega-resort and casino in the Caribbean? This case examines the intricate deal-making by which CSCEC, China's leading global engineering and construction contractor, emerged as a key market player.... View Details
    Keywords: Project Finance; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Financial Strategy; Construction Industry; Tourism Industry; China; Bahamas
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    • August 2001 (Revised April 2002)
    • Case

    Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A)

    By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino
    Strategic Capital Management, LLC, is a hedge fund that is planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers recently sold approximately 20% of its Internet auction subsidiary, Ubid, to the public at $15 per share. Ubid's stock... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Subsidiaries; Internet and the Web; Investment Funds; Price; Performance Efficiency; Capital Markets; Auctions; Investment Return; Equity; Planning; Financial Services Industry
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    • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

    By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
    This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
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    • 16 Dec 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

    the government work program, with women’s labor force participation rising in the private sector. In addition to increasing financial inclusion and autonomy among women, Rigol and her coauthors found that one year into the study, women in... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    The Rise of Alternatives

    By: Juliane Begenau, Pauline Liang and Emil Siriwardane
    Since the 2000s, U.S. public pensions have shifted their risky investments towards alternative assets like private equity and hedge funds, some more aggressively than others. We explore several explanations for these cross-sectional trends, focusing on those implied by... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Return; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • February 2006 (Revised June 2007)
    • Case

    Brazos Partners and Cheddar's Inc.

    By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
    Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would fund a real estate subsidiary that would own the... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Price; Partners and Partnerships; Management; Investment; Leadership; Business Subsidiaries; Stocks
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    • October 2013 (Revised November 2013)
    • Case

    Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    The credit boom that preceded the 2007-2009 financial crisis led to several lending practices that exposed banks to large risks. In particular, when the financial crisis unraveled, there were several billion dollars' worth of leveraged buyout (LBO) loans that were... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Markets; Investment; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • March 2017
    • Case

    SKS Microfinance (Abridged)

    By: Shawn Cole and Theresa Chen
    Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable, for-profit institution with a social mission. In what is one of the first... View Details
    Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; India
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      Jacqueline Ng Lane

      Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a co-Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard. She... View Details

      • June 2024
      • Supplement

      Heritage Holding (B)

      By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
      Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

      Abstract: The summer of 2022 marked a crucial period for Heritage Holding co-founders, Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter. The... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Private Equity; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; North America
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      • 27 Jan 2019
      • News

      Harvard study questions benefits of fund manager diversity

      • 06 Nov 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: November 6, 2007

      some implications for the future growth of the industry. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=804176 Blue River Capital Harvard Business School Case 708-448 Examines the strategy and experience of Indian View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • April 1994 (Revised September 1994)
      • Case

      KENETECH Corporation

      By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
      Involves a strategic decision about how fast to ramp up sales. Improvements in technology have driven down the cost of electric power generated from wind turbines to the point where they are competitive with fossil-fuel plants. KENETECH needs to raise equity capital to... View Details
      Keywords: Renewable Energy; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Going Public; Sales; Competition; Energy Industry
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