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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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  • 1997
  • Book

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

By: Clayton M. Christensen

His work is cited by the world's best known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller, innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Leadership
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    Narayana Murthy

    Keywords: IT; Software; Consulting; Outsourcing
    • 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
    • September 2019
    • Case

    Funding Sources for Science & Technology Start-ups in India

    By: Tarun Khanna, Arjun Swarup and Rachna Tahilyani
    India's start-up ecosystem is amongst the largest globally, with a variety of funding options from angel investors, venture capital and corporate venture capital to debt. Classic consumer focused start-ups which look to leverage technology have been able to raise... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Science; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; India; South Asia
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    • 20 Aug 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

    In 2009, technology researchers at Forrester published a report entitled We Are All Media Companies Now, that looked at how publishing firms were dealing with the shift from a distribution paradigm to one based on consumption. By 2014, the paradigm is being experienced... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton
    • 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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    • November 2021 (Revised December 2022)
    • Case

    Babban Gona: Great Farm

    By: Kristin Fabbe, Tarun Khanna, Caroline M. Elkins, Zeke Gillman, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Thomaz Teodorovicz
    In 2020, Babban Gona was one of the world’s largest farming operations with over 140,000 acres of maize farms, an area over ten times as large as Manhattan, and over 80,000 member-farmers in Nigeria. According to the company, the average Nigerian farmer’s net income... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Value Creation; Agribusiness; Capital Budgeting; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • October 2003
    • Article

    The Determinants of Board Structure at the Initial Public Offering

    By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
    This paper describes board size and composition and investigates the role of venture capital in a sample of 1,116 firms' initial public offerings. First, firms backed by venture capital have fewer insider and instrumental directors and more independent... View Details
    Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering; Managerial Roles; Power and Influence
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    • 23 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

    In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, writers at the HBS Alumni Bulletin turned to five HBS... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

      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

        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)
        • 2009
        • Case

        Midland Energy Resources, Inc.: Cost of Capital: Brief Case No. 4129.

        By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
        The senior vice president of project finance for a global oil and gas company must determine the weighted average cost of capital for the company as a whole and each of its divisions as part of the annual capital budgeting process. The case uses comparable companies to... View Details
        Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost of Capital; Energy Industry
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          Boris Groysberg

          Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. Currently, he teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school's MBA and Executive Education programs. He has won numerous... View Details
          Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; information technology industry; investment banking industry; professional services