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  • October 1993
  • Case

Analyst's Dilemma (A), The

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
A young investment banker returns home one night to find that her roommate and best friend has been laid off from Universal Bank because Universal is shutting down its capital finance group. Her roommate makes her promise to keep this information confidential because... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Leveraged Buyouts; Conflict of Interests; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • April 2023
  • Case

Drive Capital: A New Road for Venture

By: Paul A. Gompers and Alicia Dadlani
Founded by two former Sequoia Capital partners, Columbus-Ohio-based Drive Capital’s mission was to build a world-class venture capital firm in the middle of the U.S., an area historically overlooked by VCs. Drive faced early challenges of attracting investors, sourcing... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Ohio
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    Narayana Murthy

    Keywords: IT; Software; Consulting; Outsourcing
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Financing Payouts

    By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin Schmalz
    We study the extent to which firms rely on the capital markets to fund their payouts. We find that 42% of firms that pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with... View Details
    Keywords: Payout Policy; Financing Decisions; Debt Issues; Equity Issues; Capital Structure; Decision Making; Financing and Loans; Corporate Finance
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    • January 1986 (Revised March 1993)
    • Case

    Centex Telemanagement, Inc.

    By: William A. Sahlman
    Contains a description of the events surrounding the financing of Centex Telemanagement, Inc. by Sierra Ventures, a venture capital fund. The case is written from the perspective of the venture capitalists and is designed to teach students about the process of venture... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital
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    • 21 Jan 2013
    • News

    Christensen: We are living the capitalist's dilemma

    • February 1998 (Revised July 1998)
    • Case

    Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (A)

    Rob Parson was a star producer in Morgan Stanley's Capital Markets division. He had been recruited from a competitor the prior year and had generated substantial revenues since joining the firm. Unfortunately, Parson's reviews from the 360-degree performance evaluation... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Personal Development and Career; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry
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    • Article

    The Effect of Institutional Factors on the Value of Corporate Diversification

    By: Venkat Kuppuswamy, George Serafeim and Belen Villalonga
    Using a large sample of diversified firms from 38 countries we investigate the influence of several national-level institutional factors or 'institutional voids' on the value of corporate diversification. Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a... View Details
    Keywords: Diversification Discount; Institutions; Labor Market; Competition; Human Capital; Diversification; Value; Capital Markets
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    • 04 Feb 2014
    • Blog Post

    VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!

    The Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, a student club at Harvard Business School, will hold its 20th Annual Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference February 9, 2014, on the Harvard Business... View Details

      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)

        Tom Nicholas

        Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; high technology
        • October 1995
        • Case

        Centex Telemanagement, Inc. (B)

        By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
        Contains a description of the events surrounding the financing of Centex Telemanagement, Inc. by Sierra Ventures, a venture capital fund. The case is written from the perspective of the venture capitalists and is designed to teach students about the process of venture... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Financial Institutions; Business Startups
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        • 29 Jan 2018
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Do Banks Have an Edge?

        Keywords: by Juliane Begenau and Erik Stafford; Banking
        • June 2006 (Revised April 2007)
        • Case

        Nephila: Innovation in Catastrophe Risk Insurance

        By: Kenneth A. Froot and Michael Heinrich
        At the cross-section of capital markets and the catastrophe insurance space stands the hedge fund Nephila. Nephila must decide how best to take advantage of the newly presented market opportunities post hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Rita. Nephila has a plethora of... View Details
        Keywords: Hedge Fund; Investment Management; Uncertainty; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Disasters; Insurance; Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Bermuda
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        • 29 Oct 2020
        • Blog Post

        Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

        Can you share a bit about your background and where you grew up? Zainab Raji I am one of four children born to my Nigerian parents. I grew up in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest commercial hub, and in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. I have fond... View Details
        • January 2009
        • Article

        Multinationals as Arbitrageurs? The Effect of Stock Market Valuations on Foreign Direct Investment

        By: Malcolm Baker, C. Fritz Foley and Jeffrey Wurgler
        Empirical evidence of imperfect integration across world capital markets suggests a role for cross-border arbitrage by multinationals. Consistent with multinational arbitrage as a determinant of foreign direct investment (FDI) patterns, we find that FDI flows increase... View Details
        Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Financial Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Valuation; Capital Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Cost; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital; Stocks; Integration
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        • October 2012
        • Case

        Hill Country Snack Foods Co.

        By: W. Carl Kester and Craig Stephenson
        Hill Country Snack Foods, located in Austin, Texas, manufactures, markets, and distributes snack foods and frozen treats. The CEO is passionate about maximizing shareholder value and believes in keeping tight control over costs and operating the business as efficiently... View Details
        Keywords: United States; Financial Strategy; Debt Management; Retail Trade; Risk Management; Food; Capital Structure; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Texas
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        • July 2014
        • Case

        Paramount Equipment, Inc.

        By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Wei Wang
        Paramount Equipment, Inc., based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a large manufacturer of cranes and compact construction equipment, aerial work platforms, and food service equipment. Founded in 1987, Paramount now had manufacturing operations in 24 countries. However, it... View Details
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        • November – December 2007
        • Article

        Fundamentally Flawed Indexing

        By: Andre F. Perold
        A new theory of finance is being advanced as providing definitive proof that holding stocks in proportion to their market capitalizations is an inferior investment strategy. The claim is that capitalization weighting necessarily invests more in overvalued stocks and... View Details
        Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Stocks; Financial Management; Valuation
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        • 2007
        • Working Paper

        The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data

        By: Laura Alfaro and Faisal Ahmed
        We use highly disaggregated data on trade in capital goods to study differences in the price of capital across countries. This strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment from a small number of industrialized countries.... View Details
        Keywords: Price; Goods and Commodities; Trade
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