Publications

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

explore how corruption uniquely affects business in emerging markets, and why it should be addressed by the public and private sectors in their case, “Corruption and Business in View Details

September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Silver Lake and Private Equity in Brazil: Carnaval or Calamity?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Stephen J. Goldstein

Keywords: Private Equity; Capital Markets; Strategy; Brazil

There is growing interest in impact investing, the idea of deploying capital to obtain both financial and social or environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation, one of the largest and... View Details

13 Nov 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Long-Run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Martin Melecky, Florian Mölders, and Tristan Reed; Financial Services

18 Apr 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Emerging Markets

Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. There, I collaborated with both private and public sector clients across various industries in Africa, focusing on speeding up private sector growth and thereby... View Details

November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger

This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in... View Details

Article

Private Equity, el socio silencioso

By: Roberto Charvel

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Latin America

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June 2017
Teaching Note

Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company

By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar

Teaching Note for HBS No. 217-011 View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Infrastructure; Emerging Markets; Africa; Structuring And Financing Large Projects; Financial Services Industry; Egypt

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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

Aziz Managing Director of Sefam Private Limited, explains how, in the early 1980s, she and her brother decided to innovate the entire production chain of Pakistani cotton embroidery in order to prove that View Details

April 2009 (Revised December 2010)
Case

Equity International: The Second Act

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Ben Creo and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

Thomas McDonald, senior vice president of Equity International (EI), is weighing an investment in the Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa. Was this the right country? The right company? The right co-investor? The right time? McDonald would be investing alongside a Brazilian... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Interests; Brazil

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

The European market remains very attractive, with strong potential for growth—especially once French and German restructuring gets more underway, according to a panel of private View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

September 2020
Case

Blackstone: Crocs Investment

By: Victoria Ivashina, John D. Dionne and Terrence Shu

This case follows Prakash Melwani (HBS MBA '86), CIO of Blackstone's Private Equity Group, and his teams’ investment in the footwear company Crocs. Instead of a traditional secondary offering, Crocs opted for a unique deal structure by taking Blackstone's cash in a... View Details

Keywords: Private Investment In Public Equity; PIPE Deal; Investment; Brands and Branding; Strategy

18 Jul 2023
Interview

Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin

This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details

Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation

07 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - COP27 and the Climate Crisis

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – COP27 and the Climate Crisis Cover image features Helmy Abouleish (left) and Runa Khan (right). In recognition of the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference... View Details

22 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

take what I learned from one situation and apply it to another while bringing people together.” While at HBS, Nneka naturalized as a US citizen and considered staying in the United States, which had also begun to feel like home. She explored consulting and View Details

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

future involvement in social enterprise? The scale of our racial wealth gap means the private sector must act boldly to advance equity; we need all hands on-deck to make significant, urgent progress towards inclusive prosperity. Luckily,... View Details

2014
Working Paper

Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting

By: Kyle Travis Welch

This study examines how accounting has informed private equity diversification claims and demand for private equity investments. Despite research showing private equity lacks portfolio diversification benefits, those marketing private equity assets continue to... View Details

SSRN

October 2013
Case

Advantage Partners: Dia Kanri (A)

By: Paul A. Gompers, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno

This case explores the opportunity to purchase the condominium management business of a distressed real estate developer by Advantage Partners, a leading Japanese private equity firm. The case explores investment structuring, bidding strategy, and the ability of... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; LBO; Roll-up; Investment; Financing; Condominium Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Asia