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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

therefore, become unique local centers of innovation for the likes of mutual funds, venture capital, and biotechnology in Greater Boston or aircraft equipment and design, boat and shipbuilding, and metal fabrication in Seattle. The list... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organizations and others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption decision; thus, we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2011 (Revised September 2016)
  • Case

Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Nori Gerardo Lietz
In January 2007, Hazem Ben-Gacem, managing director and co-head of Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), needs to decide what to bid at an auction for Moneybookers Limited, one of the top three e-payment solution providers in Europe. However, approximately 70% of... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Private Equity; Investment; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Europe; United States
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  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13530   Cases & Course MaterialsBest Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms Harvard Business School Note 804-176 Describes investment decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Mobile Energy Services Company

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
When Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap became CEO of the Scott Paper Co., the company owned a large, vertically integrated production facility in Mobile, Alabama. Dunlap sold part of the production facility, a cogeneration power plant (later known as Mobile Energy Services Co.), to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Investment; Projects; Vertical Integration; Energy Sources; Bonds; Ownership; Restructuring; Energy Industry; Alabama
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  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

partner of Gobi Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in China, must decide how to manage his firm's largest investment after the departure of the CEO. Tom has temporarily stepped in as CEO, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808112 SKS Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 208-137 Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

The Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) invested over $4 billion in 332 institutions, with more than 68 percent increasing their small business lending by 10 percent or more. The federal government also partnered with state governments... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52552 Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—An extensive literature on venture capital has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

to make the $3.5 million Roadside Romeo. The first-of-its-kind animated Hindi movie barely broke even. All told, Hollywood studios invested an estimated $100 million on producing films in India between 2007 and 2009. But box-office... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

the best way for Guler to optimize the company’s investment in its customer loyalty program? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516087-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-020 AnswerDash (Abridged) It is 2014... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence of fund closures resulting from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

YaleGlobal piece mentions Growing Sustainable Business and the Investment Climate Facility for Africa as positive collaborations between business, government, and nongovernmental organizations. Are there other examples that provide hope... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

how to keep growing, including development of venture capital fund and leveraging of entrepreneur ecosystem. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815110-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-402 Amazon.com, 2016... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810112-PDF-ENG Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices Nabil N. El-Hage and Kristin MeyerHarvard Business School Case 310-060 Greenbriar Growth Partners (GGP), a venture capital (VC)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold Military.com to. Within its first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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