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- October 2005
- Case
Portfolio & Partnership
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Explores issues around the portfolio management and partnership behavior in a venture capital setting. View Details
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Strategy
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Portfolio & Partnership." Harvard Business School Case 806-036, October 2005.
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
its competitors in the hunt for talent in the high-stakes, trilliondollar finance industry. Ratio’s focus is on search for private equity and hedge fund firms, and its founders’ strategy for winning in that specialized, competitive market... View Details
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Investor Activism and Takeovers
By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor
Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely explained by the ability of activists to force target firms into a takeover: In... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Public Ownership
Greenwood, Robin, and Michael Schor. "Investor Activism and Takeovers." Journal of Financial Economics 92, no. 3 (June 2009): 362–375.
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
Emeritus André Perold, who taught an investment management class and with whom Callaghan did research. Callaghan's subsequent career included portfolio management at Equitable Capital and hedge fund Odyssey Partners; small capitalization... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
In an activist role, the hedge fund Third Point LLC has three board seats and an ownership stake of 9.5% in Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. Third Point believed that Ligand had a strong drug portfolio and pipeline but that it was... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Governing and Advisory Boards; Bids and Bidding; Ownership Stake; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
El-Hage, Nabil N., and Michael Gorzynski. "Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated." Harvard Business School Case 208-019, November 2007. (Revised October 2009.)
- 18 May 2016
- News
What Does the American Dream Mean in Today’s America?
Alexander Navab (MBA 1991), head of investment firm KKR’s Americas private equity business, was honored this year with an Ellis Island Medal of Honor, presented annually to “individuals who have made it... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and forcing Japan’s button-down business culture to change. “My real... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
syndicates, the study says. Public companies also typically require more infrastructure and legal support to handle shareholder and regulatory demands. “For a lot of entrepreneurs, it's just about the term sheet and how much equity... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Return Logic, Inc. (A)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz
Follows three graduating HBS students as they build a business-to-business Internet venture and highlights the challenges they confront in structuring financing terms with venture capitalists. Requires students to carefully read a six-page term sheet to identify which... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Internet and the Web; Negotiation Deal; Entrepreneurship
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Michele Lutz. "Return Logic, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-167, January 2001. (Revised May 2001.)
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
firm is pioneering interventions in Sri Lanka that will help transform the nation. In the past two years, York Street Partners has arranged the largest private equity investment in a non-banking financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Contrarian and Proud of It
Rogers: Stellar stock picker. Courtesy T. Rowe Price Brian Rogers (MBA ’82) has made a career out of being a contrarian. As manager of the $18.9 billion T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund, the firm’s largest offering, Rogers has produced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten View Details
- April 1975 (Revised November 1984)
- Case
Enzone Petroleum Corp.
By: Thomas R. Piper
A large integrated oil company is debating whether to switch from a single hurdle rate to multiple hurdle rates for project analysis purposes. Raises questions on: 1) determination of the cost of equity; 2) the usefulness of multiple hurdle rates to adjust for project... View Details
Piper, Thomas R. "Enzone Petroleum Corp." Harvard Business School Case 275-113, April 1975. (Revised November 1984.)
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn’t reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period, the equity markets in the United States... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
I realized this was something I was passionate about and that, up until then, I had been influenced by other people’s expectations.” This insight led to a decades-long interest in global business for Barry, president and CEO of the private View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
environmental record. Cohen, who serves as chairman of the Portland Trust and the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS, is a philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator. He is also the author of... View Details
- Profile
Kayode Ogunro
"The chapter that struck me was on VCPE in emerging markets," says Kayode. "I realized that this was the way to bridge the gap between small-scale angel investing and large-scale equity... View Details
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Patrick Connolly
bear-has further confirmed and clarified this for me. I truly could not have asked for a better platform from which to embark on my new career. How has HBS prepared you for your summer internship? In short, very well. This summer, I'm working in View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact screens, leaving no doubt that... View Details
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