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Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions
By: Paul A. Gompers and Yuhai Xuan
We study the role of common venture capital investors in alleviating asymmetric information between public acquirers and private venture capital-backed targets. We find that acquisition announcement returns are more positive for acquisitions in which both the target...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Knowledge Sharing;
Market Transactions
Gompers, Paul A., and Yuhai Xuan. "Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions." 2009.
- May 2011
- Case
Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange
By: Josh Lerner and Keith Chi-ho Wong
When ChiNext opened in October 2009 as the second tier market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), it aimed to provide Chinese entrepreneurs with equity capital and to facilitate the exits of venture capital firms and other investors which had previously relied on...
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Keywords:
Capital Markets;
Stocks;
Financial Markets;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
International Finance;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Lerner, Josh, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange." Harvard Business School Case 811-105, May 2011.
- 29 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Trade Credit and Taxes
- November 1989 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.--1988
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Set two years after a takeover attempt forced the company to restructure by leveraging up, selling assets, and repurchasing stock. The case affords an opportunity to analyze what effect the restructuring had on: 1) the cost of capital, 2) investment decisions, and 3)...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Restructuring;
Assets;
Cost of Capital;
Investment;
Competition;
Rubber Industry
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.--1988." Harvard Business School Case 290-016, November 1989. (Revised March 1995.)
- May 2018
- Case
Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah
A geriatrician in Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She introduces a new care model, Primary Care Plus, using an interdisciplinary team of a primary care doctor, palliative care...
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Keywords:
Primary Health Care;
Elderly Patients;
Integrated Practice Unit;
Interdisciplinary Care;
Health Care and Treatment;
Age;
Cost Management;
Performance Improvement;
Health Industry;
United States;
Colorado
Kaplan, Robert S., and Mahek A. Shah. "Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus." Harvard Business School Case 118-053, May 2018.
Laura Alfaro
Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International... View Details
- June 2007 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Zoots - Financing Growth (A)
By: Michael J. Roberts, William A. Sahlman and Todd Krasnow
Traces the genesis and founding of Zoots, the largest chain of dry cleaning establishments in the U.S. Founded by some of the founders of the very successful Staples chain, the company raises a very large amount of capital without fully proving its business model, and...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Venture Capital;
Financial Strategy;
Investment Return;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Valuation;
United States
Roberts, Michael J., William A. Sahlman, and Todd Krasnow. "Zoots - Financing Growth (A)." Harvard Business School Case 807-139, June 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn...
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- January 1994
- Exercise
Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds
Walt Disney Co. issues a 100-year bond. This case describes the terms of the bond and immediate capital market reaction.
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds." Harvard Business School Exercise 294-034, January 1994.
- July 2010
- Supplement
Post-Crisis Compensation at Credit Suisse (B)
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
The (B) case describes how Credit Suisse management allocated the cost of the 25% U.K. banker's tax among shareholders, U.K. managing directors, and the other employees globally.
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Cost;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Taxation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Switzerland;
United Kingdom
Rose, Clayton S., and Aldo Sesia. "Post-Crisis Compensation at Credit Suisse (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 311-006, July 2010.
- June 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Driving Towards a Disruption?
By: Willy Shih and William Noble
As Clayton Christensen drove to the studio to deliver an online executive education class, he pondered the future of management education. How big a threat did online degree programs, corporate universities, and other innovations in the delivery of management training...
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Keywords:
Disruptive Technology;
Performance Trajectories;
Disruptive Innovations;
Business Education;
Business School;
Internet And Online Services Industries;
Disruptive Innovation;
Higher Education;
Corporate Strategy;
Internet;
Performance;
Education Industry;
Boston
Shih, Willy, and William Noble. "Driving Towards a Disruption?" Harvard Business School Case 612-101, June 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
- February 2000 (Revised February 2001)
- Background Note
Ecotourism: A Brief Introduction
Introduces the concept of ecotourism, discusses consumptive and non-consumptive programs, and reviews the benefits and costs of this approach to development.
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Kennedy, Robert E., and Brian Irwin. "Ecotourism: A Brief Introduction." Harvard Business School Background Note 700-099, February 2000. (Revised February 2001.)
- 09 Jun 2011
- News
Will Groupon Survive Until 2016?
- February 2018
- Article
Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection
By: Robert F. Engle and Emil N. Siriwardane
During the financial crisis, financial firm leverage and volatility both rose dramatically. Consequently, institutions are being asked to reduce leverage in order to reduce risk, though the effectiveness depends upon the role of capital structure in volatility. To...
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Keywords:
Leverage;
Credit Risk;
Crisis Management;
Equity;
Volatility;
Credit;
Risk Management;
Financial Crisis
Engle, Robert F., and Emil N. Siriwardane. "Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection." Review of Financial Studies 31, no. 2 (February 2018): 449–492.
- March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Lehigh Steel
By: V.G. Narayanan and Laura Donohue
Lehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead...
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Keywords:
Measurement and Metrics;
Product;
Cost;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Profit;
Accounting;
Corporate Finance;
Steel Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Laura Donohue. "Lehigh Steel." Harvard Business School Case 198-085, March 1998. (Revised April 1998.)
- Article
Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Reaching for yield—the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields—is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyzes this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for...
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Keywords:
Fixed Income;
Reaching For Yield;
Financial Intermediation;
Insurance Companies;
Insurance;
Assets;
Bonds;
Investment Return;
Investment Portfolio;
Risk Management;
Insurance Industry
Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market." Journal of Finance 70, no. 5 (October 2015): 1863–1902.
- December 1967 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Super Project, The
Describes the proper use of incremental analysis for capital investment decisions.
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Vancil, Richard F. "Super Project, The." Harvard Business School Case 112-034, December 1967. (Revised May 2004.)
- March 1993 (Revised March 1994)
- Case
Sierra On-Line, Inc. (A)
Sierra On-Line, a fast growing software developer, is criticized by a Forbes journalist for excessively capitalizing software development costs. In contrast to most other software developers that typically capitalize about 20% of R&D costs, Sierra capitalizes 80%....
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Financial Statements;
Corporate Finance;
Information Technology Industry
Wilson, G. Peter, and Elizabeth H. McNair. "Sierra On-Line, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-142, March 1993. (Revised March 1994.)
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
greater potential cost to themselves. When you use the "irrational" label, you limit your options, because there is not much you can say to someone who you truly believe is unable to reason, uninterested in fulfilling her own...
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by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- December 2021 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Troverie (A)
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Lindsay N. Hyde and Olivia Graham
Six months after the August 2018 launch of Troverie, a U.S.-based online retailer of luxury watches, the average cost of acquiring a customer is much higher than originally projected, and the startup is incurring a substantial loss on each sales transaction. Could...
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Keywords:
Startup;
Luxury Goods;
Customer Acquisition;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Luxury;
Failure;
Internet and the Web;
Revenue;
Fashion Industry;
United States
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Lindsay N. Hyde, and Olivia Graham. "Troverie (A)." Harvard Business School Case 822-068, December 2021. (Revised May 2022.)