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  • 13 Feb 2014
  • News

Co-Investments Aren't Paying Off for Limited Partners

  • Spring 2024
  • Article

One Aspirational Future for India’s Higher Education Sector

By: Tarun Khanna
Several recent encouraging experiments in Indian higher education suggest a plausible aspirational path toward a more salubrious future than that suggested by an otherwise struggling system. Four case studies of privately conceived and funded universities each exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; India
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  • 28 Mar 2018
  • News

Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

    Paul A. Gompers

    Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
    Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry

      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
      • May 2022 (Revised December 2023)
      • Case

      Founder Collective

      By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
      Founder Collective ("FC") launched in 2009 with a clear mission: to be the most aligned fund for founders at the seed stage. In keeping with its mission, FC maintained smaller fund sizes and was not a lifecycle investor. By November of 2021, the seed market had become... View Details
      Keywords: Seed Investing; Business Startups; Mission and Purpose; Investment; Competitive Strategy; Venture Capital
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      • 29 Apr 2011
      • News

      Productivity Tips from Bob Pozen

      • January 1986 (Revised August 1994)
      • Case

      Citicorp--1985

      Citicorp seeks to raise medium- or long-term funding and is considering floating rate versus fixed rate and domestic versus Eurodollar bonds. Case focuses on advantages/disadvantages of these different markets and discusses many of the innovative Floating Rate Notes... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry
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        Victoria Ivashina

        Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. She also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy... View Details

        Keywords: banking; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry; private equity (LBO funds); private equity (other)
        • 24 Jan 2012
        • News

        Helping Companies do the Right Thing

        • March 1993 (Revised April 1998)
        • Case

        Viscotech, Inc.

        Focuses on the efforts of a small company to raise funds in a variety of ways. In the course of its efforts to raise equity capital, the company commits a number of SEC violations. The case includes an example of both a poor, aggressive offering circular and a tightly... View Details
        Keywords: Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Lawfulness
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        • October 2009 (Revised October 2010)
        • Case

        Grove Street Advisors: September 2009

        By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann Leamon
        The investment committee of Grove Street Advisors, a pioneer in the provision of customized private equity funds-of-funds for pension fund clients, must decide how to respond to the market opportunities and challenges presented by the turmoil of 2008 and 2009. How can... View Details
        Keywords: Private Equity; Expansion; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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        • November 1990 (Revised June 2004)
        • Case

        McDonald's and the Environment

        McDonald's decides to withdraw its polystyrene plastic packaging for sandwiches and hamburgers after years of defending itself against environmental critics. The decision occurs in the midst of a six-month Joint Task Force study, with the nonprofit Environmental... View Details
        Keywords: Announcements; Change Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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        • February 2015
        • Supplement

        MuMaté Tool: Evaluating Financing Alternatives

        By: Joseph B. Fuller
        "MuMaté Tool: Evaluating Financing Alternatives" walks students through the considerations in allocating equity amongst the members of a startup's founding team. This exercise is designed to be used in conjunction with: Shikhar Ghosh, Joseph B. Fuller, Thomas E.... View Details
        Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Business Startups; Equity
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        • 04 Apr 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research, April 4

        investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where initial experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 13 May 2016
        • News

        The finance sector is awash in pain, which could well be gain for the US economy

        • 07 Nov 2017
        • Blog Post

        Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program

        At Harvard Business School, 42% of the MBA Class of 2019 are women, and the Women’s Student Association (WSA) is the largest club on campus. Women can face unique challenges in the workplace, and we often... View Details
        • March 2001 (Revised November 2001)
        • Case

        Merrill Lynch HOLDRS

        By: Andre F. Perold and Simon E. Brown
        Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and HOLDRS (Holding Company Depositary Receipts) represent recent and highly successful capital market innovations. HOLDRS closely approximates a buy-and-hold strategy, and Merrill Lynch believes the product has significantly lower taxes... View Details
        Keywords: Capital Markets; Cost; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; Product; Success; Expansion
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        • March 2017 (Revised March 2019)
        • Case

        Ant Financial (A)

        By: Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu, Anthony K. Woo and Nancy Hua Dai
        Headquartered in Hangzhou (China), Ant Financial has grown into a fintech “Unicorn.” The fintech empire that the company established spanned verticals such as mobile and online payment (Alipay), money market fund (Yu’e Bao), wealth management (Ant Fortune),... View Details
        Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Finance; Opportunities; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry
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        • September 2011 (Revised May 2012)
        • Case

        GoodGuide

        By: George Serafeim, Robert G. Eccles and Tiffany A. Clay
        GoodGuide, a high-technology start-up company, founded by University of California Professor at Berkley Dara O'Rourke is at a critical junction. The venture capital funded company has yet to find the business model to monetize a very promising product that provides... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Goods and Commodities; Business Model; Information Technology; Knowledge; Education Industry; California
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