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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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  • December 2000
  • Case

SupplierMarket.com (A)

By: William A. Sahlman and Jared Stone
Describes a decision confronting the cofounders of a B2B Internet firm that focuses on the purchasing process for manufactured direct materials. The company has raised one round of capital from two prominent venture capital firms and must decide if it makes sense to... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Customers; Decisions; Venture Capital; Internet
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  • September 2002 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Athleta

By: William A. Sahlman and Taslim Pirmohamed
The management team at Athleta is attempting to raise equity capital for the company in March 2002. Athleta is a catalog and online retailer of women's athletic clothing. The company has made substantial progress, with anticipated 2002 sales over $20 million, but has... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Financing and Loans; Business Model; Business Strategy; Equity; Capital; Retail Industry
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  • February 2000 (Revised September 2001)
  • Case

edocs, Inc. (A)

By: Paul A. Gompers
Describes the development of edocs, an Internet company aimed at revolutionizing the on-line bill presentment market. Kevin Laracey must negotiate a venture capital investment with Jonathon Guerster, an associate at Charles River Ventures. Can be used as a role-playing... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development; Negotiation Deal; Internet; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Right Mix: Angels, Venture Capitalists, and the Assembly of Entrepreneurial Resources

By: Benjamin Hallen and Rory McDonald
New ventures rely on external relationships for capital, knowledge, and networks. We examine how ventures assemble these resources—and whether they are all accessible from the same sources—in relationships with two types of investors: venture capital firms and angels.... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship
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  • January 1985 (Revised February 1997)
  • Case

Lotus Development Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a description of the history and venture capital financing of Lotus Development. Focuses on issues related to the possible terms of investment in Lotus by a major venture capital firm. The pedagogic objectives in the case are: to explore the elements of the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Organizational Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; Corporate Finance; Planning; Computer Industry
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    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
    • 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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    • September 2000 (Revised April 2011)
    • Background Note

    Note on the Private Equity Fundraising

    By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
    Provides an overview of raising venture capital and private equity funds. View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment Funds
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    • June 2004
    • Case

    TechnoServe and the Tanzanian Specialty Coffee Industry

    In 2003, TechnoServe, a U.S.-based, international, nonprofit organization, was deciding how to structure the capital investments required for Tanzanian business groups to acquire coffee bean central pulperies. This case explores the challenges of capital budgeting and... View Details
    Keywords: Small Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Cash Flow; Emerging Markets; Financing and Loans; Capital Budgeting; Tanzania
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    • February 2024 (Revised July 2024)
    • Case

    Korea Venture Investment Corporation

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Billy Chan
    Financial service sector Korea Venture Investment Corporation (KVIC) is the venture capital arm of the Korean government with a founding mission to build a domestic startup ecosystem that would be as competitive as Silicon Valley. KVIC manages a basket of... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Society; Investment; Venture Capital; Mission and Purpose; State Ownership; Financial Services Industry; Asia; South Korea
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    • July 2023 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    Clair

    By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Marcos Quirno
    Clair was founded with a simple mission: to expedite America’s workers access to their hard-earned wages. In the headwinds of the COVID-19 pandemic, the startup had successfully raised a seed round of $4.5 million, and within two years the earned wage access (EWA)... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Ewa; Lending; Technology; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise; Business Strategy; Business Model; Mission and Purpose; Venture Capital; Profit; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • January 2009
    • Case

    Berkshire Hathaway

    By: Bharat N. Anand and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti
    Berkshire Hathaway describes the history and strategy of one of the best known investment firms over the last forty years. The case describes the investment philosophy of Warren Buffett, its legendary chairman and CEO, the gradual diversification of its portfolio, its... View Details
    Keywords: History; Private Equity; Diversification; Resource Allocation; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Strategy; Investment; Corporate Governance
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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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    • May 2016
    • Case

    Revitalizing State Bank of India

    By: Srikant M. Datar, N. M. Bhatta, Rishikesha T. Krishnan and Rachna Tahilyani
    State Bank of India is India’s oldest and largest bank with the government of India as its majority shareholder. Arundhati Bhattacharya, a 35-year veteran of the bank, is appointed as its chairman in October 2013. Her appointment coincides with Moody’s downgrading the... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Human Resources; Employees; Compensation And Benefits; Recruiting; Capital Markets; Performance Expectations; Financial Services Industry; Asia; India
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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
    • Profile

    Henry McCance

    a few FDA-approved drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, and they won’t help,’” he recalls. McCance, a venture- capital pioneer with Greylock Partners, had spent 40 years as eyewitness to advances in technology that changed the world at... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity
    • September 1998 (Revised May 2011)
    • Background Note

    Note on Private Equity Information Sources

    By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
    Provides an overview of key information sources about venture capital and private equity. View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Knowledge Acquisition
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      Malcolm P. Baker

      Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

      His research is in the... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation
      • 07 Dec 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

      industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological tools and data to steer View Details
      Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking