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  • August 2019
  • Case

Subscription Lines Dilemma

By: Victoria Ivashina and Terrence Shu
This case follows a fictional managing partner of a private equity firm, as she contemplates whether to utilize subscription lines of credit in her firm’s funds. Subscription lines are revolving lines of credit secured by commitments from a fund’s investors. Private... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Credit; Strategy
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  • August 2012 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Preem (A)

By: Bo Becker, Annelena Lobb and Aldo Sesia
High yield bond fund Proventus Capital Partners (PCP) has invested in underwater bonds issued by Preem, a large oil refinery. As maturity approaches, in the midst of financial crisis, Preem appear unlikely to be able to refinance. Meanwhile, Prreem has a complicated... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Restructuring; Courts and Trials; Negotiation; Bonds; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; Europe
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  • May 1998 (Revised February 1999)
  • Case

Diamond in the Rough (A)

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Catherine M. Conneely
Diamond Technology Partners, a consulting firm based in Chicago, was founded in 1994 by Mel Bergstein and Chris Moffitt, with investment from founding partners and Safeguard Scientifics. In April 1996, just after fiscal year-end, the two largest clients withdrew from... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Going Public; Crisis Management; Finance; Consulting Industry; Chicago
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  • 07 Nov 2014
  • News

INCAE Observes 50th Anniversary at Celebration at Harvard Business School

    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

      One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

      Over a decade ago, renowned innovation... View Details
      • October 2007
      • Case

      iPhone vs. Cell Phone

      By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
      The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of digital music players with mobile phones). The iPhone combined an iPod music player, a cell phone, and a mobile Internet device, along with a camera and other... View Details
      Keywords: Communication Technology; Music Entertainment; Product Launch; Partners and Partnerships; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Communications Industry; Music Industry
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      • 26 Jul 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      The Strategic Way to Go to Market

      repository of lost opportunities" that serve neither end users nor channel partners very well. Why is this? A: That is because most channels are constructed from the supplier out, rather than from the customer in. In other words, the... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

        Derek C. M. van Bever

        Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

        • February 2024
        • Case

        Nuwa Capital: Investing During Uncertainty

        By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
        Nuwa Capital (Nuwa) was a venture capital firm based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. The business was founded in 2020 by Khaled Talhouni and his partners Sarah Abu Risheh, and Stephanie Nour Prince (they were later joined by Nitin Reen... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Decisions; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Bahrain
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        • 2012
        • Case

        Robert Whelan and the Student Loan Crisis (A)

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Olivia Leskinen
        Robert Whelan and the Student Loan Crisis (A) 2009 AL Fellow Bob Whelan developed an idea with partners that was a seed before his fellowship year and seemed to address a significant national challenge - college financing - with a creative concept and experience from... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation; Entrepreneurs; Leadership Skills; Student Loan Crisis; Student Loans; Students; Low-income; Postsecondary Education; Debt-free; Income-share Agreements; ISA; College; Master’s Degree; Google; Purdue Research Foundation; Kanter’s Law; Elida Gonzalez; 13th Avenue; Ed Lowry; Flexibility; National Student Debt Jubilee Project; Fundraising; Difficult Middles; Investing In Student Success Act Of 2014; State Engagement; State Level; Pay It Forward; Student Movement; Tuition; Financing College; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Education; Higher Education; Financing and Loans; Social Enterprise
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        • October 2012 (Revised September 2015)
        • Case

        Altoona State Investment Board: July 2012

        By: Josh Lerner and Nathaniel Burbank
        Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice between three... View Details
        Keywords: Management Fees; Bain Capital; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Banking Industry; Boston
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        • July 2010 (Revised March 2016)
        • Case

        MacroMarkets LLC

        By: Robin Greenwood and Luis M. Viceira
        MacroMarkets co-founder and CEO Samuel Masucci III is meeting with a strategic partner for his firm. Co-founded with Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, MacroMarkets' main innovation is the "MacroShare," which allows investors to take long or short, levered or... View Details
        Keywords: Macroeconomics; Financial Instruments; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Innovation and Invention; Risk Management; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Financial Services Industry
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        • May 2009
        • Case

        Global Health Partner: Obesity Care

        By: Michael E. Porter, Zayed Muhammed Yasin and Jennifer F Baron
        Global Health Partner (GHP) was founded in 2006 as a privately owned health care provider in Sweden serving both public and private paying patients. In contrast to most providers in the country, GHP organized around specific service lines where it saw the potential to... View Details
        Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Quality; Competitive Advantage; Integration; Health Industry; Sweden
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        • 18 Nov 2020
        • Video

        Taking it to the Street: Health Care Startups Bet on Success Despite COVID-19

        • 6 PM – 7 PM EST, 04 Mar 2021
        • Virtual Programming

        Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency

        The Harvard Business School Business & Environment Initiative and Food, Agriculture, & Water Club invite you to join us for Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency. This discussion will aim to highlight the connection between climate change and... View Details
        • February 2024
        • Case

        Vespucci Partners: The New World of Venture Capital in Hungary

        By: Paul A. Gompers, Tonia Labruyere and Emilie Billaud
        Julia Sohajda was the young, female founding partner of the Hungarian VC firm Vespucci Partners, which focused on investing at seed stage into Hungarian deep tech startups and prepare them for a launch in the U.S market. Vespucci's first fund had largely been comprised... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Investment Funds; Financing and Loans; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Hungary; United States
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        • October 2022 (Revised January 2025)
        • Case

        Founders First Capital Partners: An Approach to Capital Access Equity

        By: Brian Trelstad, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
        In June 2021, Kim T. Folsom, the founder and CEO of revenue-based financing firm Founders First Capital Partners (FFCP), must decide whether to issue another loan to OnShore Technology Group, an up-and-coming software validation company. FFCP provided revenue-based... View Details
        Keywords: Finance; Financial Instruments; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment Return; Revenue; Capital; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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        • October 2020 (Revised November 2023)
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        COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell

        By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
        In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in at-home lab testing. After making dramatic budget cuts, she decides to pivot the organization to address the... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Venture Capital; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Leading Change; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Science; Adaptation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Crisis Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government Legislation; Health; Health Testing and Trials; Health Pandemics; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Texas; United States
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        • July 2007 (Revised March 2008)
        • Case

        ABRY Fund V

        By: Nabil N. El-Hage, Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
        In January 2006, Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media industry and... View Details
        Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Venture Capital; Customer Relationship Management; Asset Management; Private Equity; Judgments; Competitive Strategy; Media; Corporate Finance; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Financial Services Industry
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