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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
The European market remains very attractive, with strong potential for growth—especially once French and German restructuring gets more underway, according to a panel of private equity group executives. That...
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- September 2003 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Analyst Conflicts (A): Resolved?
By: Ashish Nanda
This case tracks the events leading to the April 2003 industry settlement on equity research in financial services companies.
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Nanda, Ashish. "Analyst Conflicts (A): Resolved?" Harvard Business School Case 904-021, September 2003. (Revised February 2005.)
- Web
Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change (ROICC): Solutions Lab (By Application Only) - Course Catalog
different climate solutions. We will have as guests venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, executives of large enterprises, and private equity investors, all with substantial experience in accelerating climate...
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- April 1996 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
Activity-Based Management at Stream International
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Norman Klein
Stream International's Crawfordsville, Indiana facilities undertake the design and implementation of an activity-based costing project. After analyzing the costs assigned to 161 work activities, Crawfordsville managers present five proposals for change based on ABM...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Indiana
Kaplan, Robert S., and Norman Klein. "Activity-Based Management at Stream International." Harvard Business School Case 196-134, April 1996. (Revised April 1996.)
- October 2020 (Revised May 2023)
- Exercise
SenseAim Technologies: Pricing to Win
By: Elie Ofek, Eyal Biyalogorsky, Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg
This exercise serves to help students understand the proper role and use of costs in a firm’s pricing decisions. The exercise is designed such that the learning of students evolves across a classroom session, starting from understanding which costs are relevant when...
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Ofek, Elie, Eyal Biyalogorsky, Marco Bertini, and Oded Koenigsberg. "SenseAim Technologies: Pricing to Win." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-049, October 2020. (Revised May 2023.)
- 11 Feb 2021
- Video
Race in the Classroom and Beyond: Courtney McCluney
- February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
- Module Note
Financing Growth in Family and Closely Held Firms
By: Belen Villalonga
This note describes the second of four modules in Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms, an elective MBA course at Harvard Business School. The note analyzes the pros and cons of different equity financing options that are available to family firms such...
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Villalonga, Belen. "Financing Growth in Family and Closely Held Firms." Harvard Business School Module Note 209-014, February 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
- February 2005 (Revised March 2005)
- Case
Tots R Us
By: Thomas D. Fields and Susan L. Kulp
Presents an overview of many issues associated with cost accounting and control.
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Fields, Thomas D., and Susan L. Kulp. "Tots R Us." Harvard Business School Case 105-004, February 2005. (Revised March 2005.)
- December 2012 (Revised January 2015)
- Technical Note
Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model
By: Howard Stevenson, Michael Roberts and Jim Sharpe
The funded search model is one alternative for individuals who, at some point in their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the funded search, as a means to entrepreneurship through acquisition and describes the path to buy and run a business...
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Keywords:
Search Funds;
Search;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Investor Behavior;
Career Planning;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Fundraising;
Negotiation;
Entrepreneurship;
Capital Structure;
Borrowing and Debt;
Personal Development and Career;
Private Ownership;
Acquisition;
Finance;
Leveraged Buyouts
Stevenson, Howard, Michael Roberts, and Jim Sharpe. "Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model." Harvard Business School Technical Note 813-119, December 2012. (Revised January 2015.)
Daniel Jay Brown
Daniel Brown received a B.A. in Economics from UC-Berkeley in 2013. Thereafter, he worked as an Associate at Quant Economics (currently Intensity Corporation). His research focuses on the role of human capital and labor institutions in the direction and organization of...
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- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
expect their investments to outperform major equity indexes going forward, and they’re continuing to fund new endeavors. “It’s sort of the opposite of doom and gloom,” Gompers...
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- March 1998 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
BCI Growth III: May 1993
By: Josh Lerner
A Vermont solid-waste company seeks mezzanine financing to finance its strategy of acquiring and consolidating local competitors. The mezzanine private equity group must decide whether this investment offers an attractive risk-return tradeoff.
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Consolidation;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Acquisition;
Service Industry;
Vermont
Lerner, Josh. "BCI Growth III: May 1993." Harvard Business School Case 298-093, March 1998. (Revised December 1998.)
- November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Clear Channel 2006
By: Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
The Board of Directors of Clear Channel Communications, a radio broadcasting and outdoor advertising company, has to respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Private Equity;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Negotiation Offer;
Privatization;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Ruback, Richard S., and Leslie Pierson. "Clear Channel 2006." Harvard Business School Case 208-083, November 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
- October 1994
- Case
Olympus Optical Company, Ltd. (B): Functional Group Management
Documents the emergence of the functional group management system at Olympus's camera manufacturing facility. This system increases the pressure on the work force to decrease costs and improve output by treating the facility's 10 autonomous groups as profit centers,...
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Cooper, Robin. "Olympus Optical Company, Ltd. (B): Functional Group Management." Harvard Business School Case 195-073, October 1994.
- August 2006
- Article
Predicting Returns with Managerial Decision Variables: Is There a Small-Sample Bias?
By: Malcolm Baker, Ryan Taliaferro and Jeffrey Wurgler
Many studies find that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, predict stock or bond market returns. Recent research argues that these findings may be driven by an aggregate time-series version of Schultz's (2003, Journal of Finance...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Fairness;
Managerial Roles;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Equity;
Bonds;
Financial Markets;
Investment;
Capital Markets;
Borrowing and Debt;
Investment Return
Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Predicting Returns with Managerial Decision Variables: Is There a Small-Sample Bias?" Journal of Finance 61, no. 4 (August 2006): 1711–1730. (Section V of "Pseudo Market Timing and Predictive Regressions, NBER Working Paper Series, No. 10823, contains additional analyses.)
- Web
What theory did you just use? News brief — week of Apr 4 2016 - Forum for Growth
half — to around 1 percent since then, from about 2 percent before then. WSJ: Jet Prices Take Center Stage in Boeing Job Cuts (3/31/16): Cost will take a larger role alongside the performance of the...
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- September 1986 (Revised April 1990)
- Case
Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH
Mueller-Lehmkuhl sells apparel fasteners and rents attaching machines. It views these two products as effectively a single item and prices them accordingly, the fasteners at high profit and its attaching machines at a loss. The cost system allocates the cost of the...
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Keywords:
Cost Accounting;
Profit;
Manufacturing Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Japan;
Germany
Cooper, Robin. "Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH." Harvard Business School Case 187-048, September 1986. (Revised April 1990.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009
By: Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello and Rosilene Marcon
While some authors view development banks as an important tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap loans to politically connected firms that could obtain capital...
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Keywords:
Cost of Capital;
Credit;
Equity;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Investment;
Government and Politics;
Data and Data Sets;
Resource Allocation;
Markets;
Performance;
Banking Industry;
Brazil
Lazzarini, Sergio G., Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello, and Rosilene Marcon. "What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-047, December 2011.
- Article
Better Accounting Transforms Health Care Delivery
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mary L. Witkowski
The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that explores the implications from better measurements of health care outcomes and costs. After summarizing Porter's outcome taxonomy (Porter 2010), we illustrate how to use process...
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Research;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Mary L. Witkowski. "Better Accounting Transforms Health Care Delivery." Accounting Horizons 28, no. 2 (June 2014): 365–383.