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  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity‐debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' incentives to take... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • December 2002 (Revised November 2003)
  • Case

Tympani Board, The

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Mike Tarkington, a partner at Reality Venture Partners, must recommend a course of action to his colleague, Steve Bonhomme. Bonhomme is trying to decide whom he should put on the board of a company that is acquiring one of Reality's portfolio companies. Reality will... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Equity; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Finland; United States
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  • February 2011
  • Teaching Note

Citigroup's Exchange Offer (TN)

By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for 210009. View Details
Keywords: Equity; Government and Politics; Stocks; Price; Capital; Banks and Banking; Performance Evaluation; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital Markets; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • January 2018
  • Case

Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia
It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Venture Capital; Investment Strategy; Investment; Strategy; Ownership; Valuation; Energy Conservation; Equity; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Efficiency; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

labor-intensive industries, contractual arrangements with foreign buyers are technically feasible and might provide the same business benefits as FDI. (As a form of equity financing, FDI is typically prominent elsewhere in the world in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • June 2020
  • Supplement

TransDigm in 2017: Congressional Hearing on the DoD Inspector General’s Report (5/15/19)

By: Benjamin C. Esty
This video accompanies the case, “TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?” 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 Health Care; 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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  • April 2009
  • Teaching Note

Apple's Core (TN)

By: Noam T. Wasserman and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [809063]. View Details
Keywords: Product Design; Resignation and Termination; Decisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Equity; Selection and Staffing; Electronics Industry; Computer Industry
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  • 24 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

increased the odds of a crisis to 40 percent." “Previous authors had shown that there was some ability to predict financial crises,” says Hanson, a professor of business administration in the HBS Finance Unit. “But we were surprised by... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 01 May 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

idea was that maybe it was alright for GE, but could a smaller, less well financed organization employ it? And how safe should an organization play it when employing such a strategy? Several of you offered other examples of performance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion, said one ingredient for his... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

project,” says Oakes, who brings experience in finance and development to the table, plus a degree in architecture and the ability to flowchart anything. “It takes figuring out where there might be opportunities, and then being willing to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

entrepreneur? That’s the next question: What is it that VCs are actually looking for? You also address another commonly held idea about the VC world: Investments are not always made based on the numbers. PG: In first-year Finance and... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Web

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Creation Entrepreneurial Management Satish Tadikonda Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems Finance John Dionne Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Public Markets Investing... View Details
  • April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
  • Supplement

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

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
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, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown... View Details
Keywords: 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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  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

including deficits of 8 to 10 billion Deutsche marks and debts of over 20 billion marks. "Results were not important; markets were not a concern," he said. "Money came in courtesy of the Finance Minister, and the various... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry

private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • September 2017 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

Tempur Sealy International (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Lauren G. Pickle
This case explores the long-term relationship between Tempur Sealy (TPX, a mattress manufacturer) and Mattress Firm (MFRM, a bedding retailer and TPX's largest customer). For almost 20 years, the firms enjoyed a mutually beneficial and commercially prosperous... View Details
Keywords: Porter's 5 Forces; Bargaining Power; Buyer Power; Customer Power; Supplier Power; Negotiations; Value Capture; Consumer Durables; Consumer Discretionary; Mattresses; B-2-B; Industry Dynamics; Compensation; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Competition; Cooperation; Private Equity; Distribution; Negotiation; Industry Structures; Customers; Relationships; Leadership; Distribution Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; South Africa
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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). High taxes will favor firms that can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Robert C. "The Changing Nature of Debt and Equity," discussion. In Are the Distinctions Between Debt and Equity Disappearing? Conference Series #33, edited by R. W. Kopeke and E. S. Rosengren. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1990. Merton,... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

financial advisor, Barclays Capital, had also been working with KKR and its partners to create a bid process that could favor them. In addition to the fee from Del Monte for advising on a successful sale, Barclays also desired to play a leading role in the lucrative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne