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  • August 2006
  • Background Note

Factors that Influence Cross-Border Equity Investment

Introduces students to factors that impact global equity flows, including institutional friction, investor protection, firm visibility, firm understanding, and culture. View Details
Keywords: Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Equity
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Miller, Gregory S. "Factors that Influence Cross-Border Equity Investment." Harvard Business School Background Note 107-020, August 2006.
  • March 2012
  • Article

How to Make Finance Work

By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
Once a sleepy old boys' club, the U.S. financial sector is now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Value; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Household; Financial Crisis; Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Greenwood, Robin, and David S. Scharfstein. "How to Make Finance Work." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
  • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
  • Module Note

Financing Growth in Family and Closely Held Firms

By: Belen Villalonga
This note describes the second of four modules in Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms, an elective MBA course at Harvard Business School. The note analyzes the pros and cons of different equity financing options that are available to family firms such... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance; Business Growth and Maturation
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Villalonga, Belen. "Financing Growth in Family and Closely Held Firms." Harvard Business School Module Note 209-014, February 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
  • June 2021 (Revised November 2021)
  • Case

Equity Bank: Charting the Future

By: Lauren Cohen, Michael Chitavi and Spencer C. N. Hagist
After climbing the ranks among Kenya's financial institutions from 66th to 1st, and toppling a quarter of the market share held by mobile money giant Safaricom, CEO James Mwangi must now guide Equity Bank into its next stage of development beyond "Equity 3.0." Should... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership; Decision Making; Market Entry and Exit; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Institutions; Economics; Kenya
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Cohen, Lauren, Michael Chitavi, and Spencer C. N. Hagist. "Equity Bank: Charting the Future." Harvard Business School Case 221-105, June 2021. (Revised November 2021.)
  • April 2000 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Infosys: Financing an Indian Software Start-Up

Describes the financing and growth of Infosys, an Indian software start-up. Infosys defies a number of stereotypes about barriers to entrepreneurship in India. The company was founded by a small group of entrepreneurs with little equity and without backing from a large... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Applications and Software; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; India
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Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "Infosys: Financing an Indian Software Start-Up." Harvard Business School Case 800-103, April 2000. (Revised April 2004.)
  • 13 Jan 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Private Equity and Industry Performance

Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen & Per Strömberg
  • August 1986
  • Background Note

Note on Equity Trading

By: Andre F. Perold
Keywords: Equity
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Perold, Andre F. "Note on Equity Trading." Harvard Business School Background Note 287-019, August 1986.
  • 24 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

“An Unfair Advantage”? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner; Banking
  • July 2012 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF)

By: David Hawkins
Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations questions the usefulness to management and investors of IAS41's requirement to value palm oil trees at their fair value. View Details
Keywords: Financial Accounting; International Financial Reporting Standards; International Accounting Standards; Biological Asset Accounting; IAS41; Historical Cost; Equity Valuation; Financial Ratios; Plant-Based Agribusiness; International Accounting; Valuation; Financial Reporting; Fair Value Accounting; Equity; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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Hawkins, David. "Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF)." Harvard Business School Case 113-027, July 2012. (Revised February 2013.)
  • February 2006 (Revised February 2007)
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Rico Auto Industries: Raising Private Equity in India

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
The CEO of a publicly traded Indian auto components manufacturer must decide whether to accept an investment from a consortium of private equity firms. Describes the decision process for both the private equity investors and the entrepreneur and profiles the... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Auto Industry; India
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Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Rico Auto Industries: Raising Private Equity in India." Harvard Business School Case 806-079, February 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
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Do Private Equity Firms Have Better Management Practices?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
Using an innovative survey measure of management practices on over 15,000 firms, we find private equity firms are better managed than government, family, and privately owned firms, and have similar management to publicly listed firms. This is true both in developed and... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes
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Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Do Private Equity Firms Have Better Management Practices?" American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 442–446.
  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Financing of R&D and Innovation

By: Bronwyn H. Hall and Josh Lerner
Evidence on the “funding gap” for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced underinvestment is absent. We conclude that while small and new innovative firms experience high... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance
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Hall, Bronwyn H., and Josh Lerner. "The Financing of R&D and Innovation." Chap. 14 in Handbook of the Economics of Innovation: Volume 1, by Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, 609–639. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010.
  • January 1994 (Revised April 2011)
  • Background Note

Note on Private Equity Partnership Agreements

By: Josh Lerner
Venture capital by necessity is a long-run investment. Consequently, since the mid-1960s virtually all venture financing has been raised through private partnerships with a ten-year or longer life span. To govern these investments, complex contracts have sprung up... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Investment; Governance; Contracts; Partners and Partnerships
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Lerner, Josh. "Note on Private Equity Partnership Agreements." Harvard Business School Background Note 294-084, January 1994. (Revised April 2011.)
  • 23 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?

Keywords: by Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn & Sharon P. Katz
  • May 2011 (Revised September 2015)
  • Background Note

A Note on Private Equity in Developing Countries

By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon and Abishai Vase
This note provides an overview of private equity in emerging markets as of late 2009. View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Private Equity; Investment; Emerging Markets
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Lerner, Josh, Ann Leamon, and Abishai Vase. "A Note on Private Equity in Developing Countries." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-102, May 2011. (Revised September 2015.)
  • November 2024 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Moonfare and the Democratization of Private Equity

By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu
Founded in 2016, Moonfare headquartered in Europe, was a pioneer in the “democratization” of private equity investments. Historically, private equity was accessible only to institutional investors like pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and large family... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Customers; Wealth; Business Strategy; Segmentation; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Financial Services Industry; Europe
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Srimayi Mylavarapu. "Moonfare and the Democratization of Private Equity." Harvard Business School Case 225-044, November 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
  • November 1994
  • Case

Spectrum Equity Investors, L.P.

Brion Applegate and Bill Collatos had already started a fund-raising campaign for their new venture-capital fund when the principals of a prestigious Wall Street investment bank asked them to become the two senior partners of an in-house $150 million fund. The case... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship
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Timmons, Jeffry A., Elise C Martin, and Rebecca Voorheis. "Spectrum Equity Investors, L.P." Harvard Business School Case 295-021, November 1994.
  • 2013
  • Other Unpublished Work

How ISS Dictates Equity Plan Design

By: David F. Larcker, Ian D. Gow, Allan McCall and Brian Tayan
Proxy advisory firms have long been known to influence the voting decisions of institutional investors. Now, a growing body of evidence suggests that they also influence company decisions in equity plan design. Should shareholders and the SEC be concerned? View Details
Keywords: Voting; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance
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Larcker, David F., Ian D. Gow, Allan McCall, and Brian Tayan. "How ISS Dictates Equity Plan Design." Stanford Closer Look Series, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2013.
  • April 2019
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Private Equity and Financial Fragility during the Crisis

By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Filippo Mezzanotti
Do private equity firms contribute to financial fragility during economic crises? We find that during the 2008 financial crisis, PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Crisis; Performance; Financial Condition
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Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti. "Private Equity and Financial Fragility during the Crisis." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 4 (April 2019): 1309–1373. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 23626 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 18-005.)
  • January 2025
  • Case

Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli
In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Working Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Microfinance; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit Sharing; Revenue; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Emerging Markets; Mission and Purpose; Small Business; Entrepreneurial Finance; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Nigeria; South Africa; Kenya; Uganda; California; San Francisco
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Kluender, Raymond, and Emanuele Colonnelli. "Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle." Harvard Business School Case 825-056, January 2025.
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