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- February 2000 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Gray Security: Building a South African Services Firm
Describes Gray Security Services, an entrepreneurial South African firm that has recently gone through a financial restructuring with the help of Brait Capital Partners, a private equity firm. Gray provides complete security services to companies in South Africa, other...
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Keywords:
Initial Public Offering;
Entrepreneurship;
Equity;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Industry;
South Africa
Kuemmerle, Walter, William J. Coughlin Jr., and Chad S Ellis. "Gray Security: Building a South African Services Firm." Harvard Business School Case 800-193, February 2000. (Revised April 2005.)
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
social networks in the form of school ties—bonds formed based on attendance at a common educational institution—helped equity analysts outperform on stock recommendations when the analysts enjoyed an educational link with a company's...
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- 12 Feb 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity: Reply to Ayash and Rastad
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
RISE Fellow: Xonana Scrubb (MBA 2022)
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
RISE Fellow: Lanita Patton (MBA 2023)
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
RISE Fellow: Diego Salas (MBA 2022)
- 02 Feb 2022
- News
2021 RISE Fellow: Aaron Hancock (MBA 2022)
- Career Coach
Lauren Weston
Lauren enjoys helping students navigate career paths in investment banking, venture capital/growth equity, and impact investing. In the six years prior to HBS, she worked in a number of roles across capital markets, equity research,...
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- November 2012 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners
By: Boris Groysberg and Kerry Herman
Private equity firm XAF Partners, created out of the 2003 merger of Shanghai-based Xuan Partners and AF Group, a spin out of the Shanghai-based, emerging market-focused private equity arm of a large European bank, had grown steadily over the last decade, establishing...
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Keywords:
Professional Service Firms;
Leading Teams;
Producing Managers;
Delegation;
Giving And Receiving Feedback;
Managing Performance;
Leadership;
Work-Life Balance;
Managerial Roles;
Talent and Talent Management;
Service Operations;
Time Management;
Performance;
Financial Services Industry;
Asia
Groysberg, Boris, and Kerry Herman. "Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners." Harvard Business School Case 413-032, November 2012. (Revised July 2014.)
- 30 Oct 2013
- News
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- September 2016 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company
By: Victoria Ivashina and Marc Homsy
This case follows Qalaa Holdings, a successful Egypt-based private equity firm, and gives insight into the types of investments it pursued, its growth over time, and the limited partner base it had at hand. It also allows students to consider and debate whether the...
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Keywords:
Africa;
Structuring And Financing Large Projects;
Private Equity;
Infrastructure;
Project Finance;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
Egypt;
Africa
Ivashina, Victoria, and Marc Homsy. "Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company." Harvard Business School Case 217-011, September 2016. (Revised March 2018.)
- January 2008
- Background Note
Valuing Risky Debt
By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford
This lesson develops the classical structural approach to pricing and hedging credit risk: Merton's (1974) contingent claims model of debt and equity claims. This model is used to make investment and risk management decisions in an over-the-counter (OTC) market for...
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Keywords:
Borrowing and Debt;
Credit;
Investment;
Price;
Risk Management;
Mathematical Methods;
Valuation
Coval, Joshua, and Erik Stafford. "Valuing Risky Debt." Harvard Business School Background Note 208-111, January 2008.
- 19 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
An Invitation to Market Design
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Kevin P. Mohan
Kevin P. Mohan joined the Negotiation unit at Harvard Business School in 2012. He teaches Negotiation and Deals in the MBA program, in the Owners, Presidents, and Managers program, and in a number of other Executive Education programs at Harvard. He also... View Details
- 11 Sep 2020
- Video
James Mwangi
James Mwangi, CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank, which has one of the largest customer bases of any bank in Africa, explains the challenges faced by his bank as it expanded into neighboring countries, especially lack of infrastructure, security and politics
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Negotiation Analysis and the Structuring of Financial Transactions
Jay O. Light is developing materials that will explore how negotiation analysis and related techniques can be used in structuring financial transactions in the context of entrepreneurial situations, and how they might be used to enhance value in private equity...
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- 09 Feb 2022
- News
When Will Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
- March 2024
- Case
Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan
Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Transition;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Law;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financing and Loans;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Ownership Stake;
Expansion;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Financial Services Industry;
Estonia;
Republic of Ireland;
United Kingdom;
Singapore