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- November 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
The Facebook IPO Litigation
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Loeb
Despite its success in the social-networking space, Facebook Inc.'s May 2012 IPO was largely considered a failure. Facebook faced multiple lawsuits and its share price had dropped significantly. Adversaries contended that Facebook had misled investors and violated... View Details
Keywords: Social Networking; IPO; Litigation Risk; Initial Public Offering; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Failure; Consumer Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Goldberg, Lena G., and Annelena Loeb. "The Facebook IPO Litigation." Harvard Business School Case 313-080, November 2012. (Revised June 2013.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
Does Public Ownership and Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs
By: Rembrand Koning and John-Paul Ferguson
Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators and the public should lead firms to conform to legal and social norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status... View Details
Keywords: IPO; Initial Public Offering; Employees; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; United States
Koning, Rembrand, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Does Public Ownership and Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-071, January 2019.
- November 2016 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Square, Inc. IPO
By: Ramana Nanda, Robert White and Lauren G. Pickle
In November 2015, Square, Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO had an offering price of $9 per share, lower than the $11 to $13 estimate that had been outlined in the preliminary prospectus and 42% below the $15.50 share price in its most recent... View Details
Keywords: Business Finance; Initial Public Offering; Equity; Capital Markets; Public Equity; Stocks; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; United States
Nanda, Ramana, Robert White, and Lauren G. Pickle. "Square, Inc. IPO." Harvard Business School Case 817-054, November 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
- October 2019
- Case
Kaspi.kz IPO
By: Victoria Ivashina and Esel Çekin
This case follows Kaspi.kz, a private equity (Baring Vostok) co-owned retail bank in Central Asia that evolved into a fintech, payments and e-commerce company. It provides insights into private equity financing, portfolio company management, and initial public offering... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Central Asia
Ivashina, Victoria, and Esel Çekin. "Kaspi.kz IPO." Harvard Business School Case 220-007, October 2019.
- January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
SIN Capital and the Fullerton Health IPO
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
In early 2016, David Sin, founder of the Singapore-based private equity group SIN Capital and chairman of its primary holding, Fullerton Health, was deeply involved in preparations for taking Fullerton public on the Singapore stock exchange. Three years after SIN... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Asia; IPO; Financing; Singapore; Growth; Health Care and Treatment; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Value Creation; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Singapore
Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "SIN Capital and the Fullerton Health IPO." Harvard Business School Case 817-030, January 2017. (Revised March 2017.)
- September 1999 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
The Goldman Sachs IPO
Addresses the proposed IPO and raises questions regarding how agency costs may rise or fall as Goldman converts from a private partnership to a public limited corporation. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Going Public; Corporate Governance; Agency Theory; Transformation; Financial Services Industry
Nanda, Ashish, Malcolm S. Salter, Boris Groysberg, and Sarah Matthews. "The Goldman Sachs IPO." Harvard Business School Case 800-016, September 1999. (Revised July 2022.)
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
No IPO in recent memory has received as much negative pre-public publicity as WeWork, which provides shared workspaces and services for startups and other enterprises. The outpouring of criticism has focused on a number of items including... View Details
- October 2002 (Revised October 2005)
- Case
United Parcel Service's IPO
By: Paul M. Healy, Brett Laschinger and Ajay Shroff
Examines the valuation of United Parcel Service (UPS) at the time of its IPO in mid-1999. Offers students the opportunity to assess UPS's current performance relative to its major competitor, Federal Express (FedEx), and to judge whether that performance is... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Performance Evaluation; Competition; Shipping Industry; Georgia (state, US)
Healy, Paul M., Brett Laschinger, and Ajay Shroff. "United Parcel Service's IPO." Harvard Business School Case 103-015, October 2002. (Revised October 2005.)
- March 2018
- Teaching Note
Blackstone—Invitation Homes IPO
By: Marco Di Maggio and Lauren G. Pickle
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-073. View Details
- March 2017 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Corey Thomas and the IPO
By: Steven Rogers and Derrick Collins
Corey Thomas, the African American CEO of the company Rapid7, must decide if it is the right time to take the 15-year-old company public, as it stood poised to capitalize on what appeared to be the next frontier for digital technology markets—cybersecurity. In spite of... View Details
Keywords: Business Finance; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Internet and the Web; Initial Public Offering; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; United States
Rogers, Steven, and Derrick Collins. "Corey Thomas and the IPO." Harvard Business School Case 317-082, March 2017. (Revised February 2020.)
- 2011
- Teaching Note
Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia and Ziqian Zhao
Juner New Materials (Juner) is a private China-based company that develops, produces, and distributes modified plastic compounds. Founded in 1995 by female serial entrepreneur Xiaomin Chen, Juner has exhibited strong performance and growth potential in the past fifteen... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Statements; IPO; Valuation; Women Executives; China; Plastics; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia, and Ziqian Zhao. "Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
- March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Blackstone—Invitation Homes IPO
By: Marco Di Maggio and Lauren G. Pickle
Di Maggio, Marco, and Lauren G. Pickle. "Blackstone—Invitation Homes IPO." Harvard Business School Case 218-073, March 2018. (Revised March 2018.)
- March 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
The Blackstone Group's IPO
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Steven Schwarzman, Chairman of the Blackstone Group, has just learned that an investment group associated with the government of China wants to buy the majority of Blackstone's leveraged IPO. As he considers how to respond to this offer, Schwarzman reviews the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Ownership Stake; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "The Blackstone Group's IPO." Harvard Business School Case 808-100, March 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- May 2004 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
AsiaInfo: The IPO Decision
The cofounder and CEO of AsiaInfo, a Chinese system integrator that built 70% of China's Internet backbone, must decide whether to list equity in the United States to fund future growth. Describes the company and the decision. A rewritten version of a previous case. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Initial Public Offering; Growth Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Equity; Information Technology Industry; China; United States
Roberts, Michael J., and Donald N. Sull. "AsiaInfo: The IPO Decision." Harvard Business School Case 804-183, May 2004. (Revised May 2006.)
- February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Snap Inc.'s IPO (A)
By: Marco Di Maggio
Di Maggio, Marco. "Snap Inc.'s IPO (A)." Harvard Business School Case 218-006, February 2018. (Revised March 2018.)
- February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Supplement
Snap Inc.'s IPO (B)
By: Marco Di Maggio
Di Maggio, Marco. "Snap Inc.'s IPO (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 218-052, February 2018. (Revised March 2018.)
- Article
Coming to America: IPOs from Emerging Market Issuers
By: Robert Bruner, Susan Chaplinsky and Latha Ramchand
We compare the issue costs of 299 companies from emerging and developed market countries making initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States between 1991 and 2001. Our results indicate that IPOs from emerging markets experience the same costs on average as IPOs... View Details
Bruner, Robert, Susan Chaplinsky, and Latha Ramchand. "Coming to America: IPOs from Emerging Market Issuers." Emerging Markets Review 7, no. 3 (September 2006): 191–212.
- February 2008 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO
By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia Cuellar
After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining growth, defending industry, leadership, preserving... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Microfinance; Initial Public Offering; Non-Governmental Organizations; Competition; Value Creation; Banking Industry; Mexico
Chu, Michael, and Regina Garcia Cuellar. "Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO." Harvard Business School Case 308-094, February 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
- October 2012 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Slater & Gordon (S&G), a midsized Australian law firm with a high-growth consolidation strategy, had an initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for May 2007. Due to a series of regulatory changes in Australia in recent years, the IPO provided an opportunity for S&G to... View Details
Keywords: IPO; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Law Firm; Value Drivers; Growth Strategy; Revenue Recognition; Roll-up; Consolidator; Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Consolidation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Corporate Governance; Business Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Australia
Esty, Benjamin C., and E. Scott Mayfield. "Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited." Harvard Business School Case 213-019, October 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
- August 2003
- Teaching Note
United Parcel Service's IPO (TN)
By: Paul M. Healy
Teaching Note for (9-103-015). View Details
Keywords: Distribution Industry