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- November 2024
- Teaching Note
Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?
By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Making; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Business Cycles; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Market Timing; Expansion; Diversification; Valuation; Value Creation; Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation Offer; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Strategic Management Expertise? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis A. Yao Publication:Boston University Law Review 90, no. 4 (August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
of government programs and financial investment in driving this growth, exploration, and learning will center on a few key questions: The State of Singapore – How does the country’s industrial policy work? Singapore’s industrial policy... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
book excerpt What My Research Revealed, In Broad Strokes From A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski As I began my research, it quickly became clear that there are two major ways in which companies have tried to leverage social... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
Organizations' Strategic Responses By: Heese, Jonas, Ranjani Krishnan, and Frank Moers Abstract—We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater supply of unprofitable services (beneficent nonprofits) face lenient regulatory enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
higher risk projects and new ventures. This has a domino effect on the venture capital providers and subsequently on the angel investor community. Each group is concerned that there will not be an investor willing to fund or buy into a venture down the road. The net... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Firms" presents an overarching framework better suited to such complexity. It identifies the four critical activities for effective PSF leadership: setting strategic direction, securing commitment to this direction, facilitating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
how a common strategic decision aimed at increasing one's own power, i.e., investing in outside options, can lead to opportunistic behavior in exchange relationships. Across three laboratory studies, we show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
forward in your careers? The examples and exercises in Getting Unstuck will help leaders and their employees better understand themselves and the type of work that will make them most fulfilled. Investing that kind of time and energy in... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
test! I am working in Nairobi with Botho Ltd, an Africa focused market insight, strategic management and investment advisory firm to identify a more profitable and sustainable growth path for them. I am... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
investment from an international private equity company, and it has decided to focus on expanding tertiary care capabilities in its hospitals. A consulting team has identified cardiology, oncology, and advanced surgery (orthopedic and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online
Advance beyond tactics and learn digital marketing on a strategic level. I think this course was incredibly beneficial to go beyond the basics of digital marketing and help give me real-life examples that I can use in my everyday career.... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
organizations have made sizable investments in information technology. They’ve used their IT systems to replace paper records with electronic ones and to improve billing processes, thereby boosting revenue. But so far, IT has been of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Lauren Murphy
Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details
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- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
restructuring that left the Panigoros with a 34.1 percent equity stake in Medco. Two other large shareholders are now looking to sell their combined stake of 50.9 percent, and have selected Temasek, the Singapore government's investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
personally blending and packaging the pilot batch. The chasm between small batch and bulk production is very real, and we have to be creative to optimize investment until we get to sufficient scale. I have also come to appreciate how... View Details
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Matt Thurmond
Warren Buffett himself. Creating a decision-making habit After college, Matt accrued equity research, analysis, and consulting responsibilities along a path that began as an investment analyst at Zacks and concluded with... View Details
- 14 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise
roles on the HBS recruiting platform, but most of them required previous experience in either management consulting or investment banking, neither of which I had. While business school can be a conduit to your life’s work, it’s not always... View Details