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Kraft Accelerator

100 private equity investments. Over the past five decades, the Kraft family has been one of New England's most philanthropic families, donating hundreds of millions of dollars in support of local charities,... View Details
  • 19 May 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

running a large industrial organization in India; Arvind adds financial acumen and investing skills from his private equity experience; and Raj has been through the start-up life in the for-profit world. At... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services
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Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources

Public company profiles, equity research, etc: LSEG Workspace for analyst reports and public company data. Note that student accounts are limited to 150 pages of after market research (AMR) per day. For a multimedia learning module... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

activity, but a gap remains for seed-stage financing. The founders are evaluating the best way to structure their private equity fund to reflect their own assets and abilities and the needs and resources of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

should be able to command more compensation, but never tried to see if that was true. So I decided to collect data on the executives in new ventures and on the ventures themselves, to see what the real story was. My dataset for this project included 1,238... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • September 2020
  • Teaching Note

TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-422. TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times,... View Details
Keywords: Value Capturing; Pricing Strategy; Supplier Power; Buyer Power; Porter's Five Forces; Bargaining Power; Monopoly; Aerospace; Acquisition Strategy; Value Drivers; Ethical Behavior; Regulation; Growth Strategy; Business Ethics; Defense; Procurement; Sustainability; Value-Based Business Strategy; Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • October 2023
  • Case

Shredder Setups or Straightlining into Risk?: Investing in What You Love

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Bob Hall, President of Green Gables Partners, evaluated whether to angel invest into an up-and-coming ski brand. As the son-in-law of the founder of Vera Bradley and having retired from a lengthy career on Wall Street, Hall was well-versed in both direct investing and... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Angel Investors; Direct Investment; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Small Business; Financial Strategy; Personal Finance; Investment Portfolio; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty; Consumer Products Industry; Montana; United States
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  • 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

assessment and valuation technique used in the private equity industry. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218106-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-484 Institutionalized... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

I am working on a variety of related questions. First, venture capital's "big brother"—private equity or buyout funds—are attracting increasing scrutiny as regulators seek to prevent another potential economic meltdown. We are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

negotiation exercise draws on and illustrates the "3-D Negotiation" logic of Lax and Sebenius. Purchase the exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908033 The Elcer Products Transaction: Confidential Information for Pearl... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

a board of directors as you create and grow your company. Others will join private equity or venture capital firms where you will serve on the boards of the firm’s portfolio companies. Still others will be... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

Furthermore, a third experiment shows that people tend to discount the wrongness of crossing ethical boundaries to hurt or help others when the action restores equity. The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

HBS Club Flourishes in London

representing business, sports, academia, civil and military services, politics, and religious organizations, inspire thoughtful conversations. Recent forums on private equity and the Internet, along with... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Going Against the Flow

all into our computers, in advance of the government. It gave us great insights - like having our own private polls - on what inflation would be doing. We then bought and sold equity and debt securities... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
  • 09 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

to capital, which was a primary focus of hers at the SBA. Spreading The Wealth Having spent over 25 years in private equity and venture capital firms before becoming SBA Administrator, Mills has perspective... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)

president of the bank. They wanted to run the bank. They didn't just want to write a book. They wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize. When Asif and I were working on our first business, SupplierMarket, we were funded by Sequoia, KKR, all these folks. My brother was a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • News

A Capitalist in China

positioned to take advantage of other investment opportunities in China. Kuhns Brothers, his Connecticut-based investment bank, raises financing for Chinese companies, and his private equity firm, the China... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2019
  • News

Connecting Patients and Providers

Ivan Zhivago and Philippe Schucht (both PLD 21, 2016). Jarzabek and his co-founder Lukasz Rzeczkowski had sought out Zhivago, who is a part of a large healthcare-focused private equity fund, for advice.... View Details
Keywords: April White