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Jo Tango
Jo Tango helps teach "The Entrepreneurial Manager" (TEM), a required course for all nearly 1,000 first-year students and of which he is co-course head. He also revamped and helps teach
- November 2022
- Case
Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo
This case teaches key success factors for both startup and established MedTech firms. It examines how to structure a firm to maximize innovation and financial returns with organizational structures that better align the incentives for the different skill sets...
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Business Startups;
Success;
Innovation Strategy;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Market Entry and Exit;
Financial Strategy;
Business Model;
Partners and Partnerships;
Entrepreneurship;
Private Equity;
Technology Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ben Creo. "Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 323-043, November 2022.
- March 2013 (Revised July 2014)
- Supplement
Bay Partners (B)
By: Josh Lerner and Lauren Barley
In December 2012, Salil Deshpande has rejoined Bay Partners (Bay), which had been restructured following the 2010 departures of three of its general partners. Life was good for Deshpande: his firm had distributed roughly $1 billion to its limited partners (LPs) over...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment Funds;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Financial Services Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Lauren Barley. "Bay Partners (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 213-103, March 2013. (Revised July 2014.)
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Jonathan Shepherd
Jonathan is CPD's Corporate Relations Director overseeing principal investing: VC/PE, investment management and real estate. Since 2007, he has coached thousands of students & alumni and forged recruiting relationships with hundreds of firms across these...
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- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
acquired than those in a control sample. We argue that the combination of hedge funds' short investment horizons and their large positions in target firms makes M&A the only attractive exit option. The results also suggest that hedge...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism
- January 2014
- Article
The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings
By: William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use strong discontinuities in angel funding...
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Business Ventures;
Financing and Loans;
Interests;
Employment;
Patents;
Internet and the Web;
Operations;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Exit or Shutdown
Kerr, William R., Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar. "The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings." Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 1 (January 2014): 20–55.
- November 2017 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Summa Equity: Building Purpose-Driven Organizations
By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
In 2015, Reynir Indahl left top Nordic private equity firm Altor Equity Partners to found Summa Equity (Summa). After long contemplation following the financial crisis, Indahl was convinced the financial system was producing negative externalities and that the current...
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Keywords:
Corporate Purpose;
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Social Impact;
Investment Management;
Management Practices;
Innovation;
Voice;
Environmental Impact;
Private Equity;
Social Enterprise;
Finance;
Capital Markets;
Management Practices and Processes;
Innovation Leadership;
Leadership;
Innovation and Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Mission and Purpose;
Value Creation;
Financial Services Industry;
Norway;
Sweden;
Scandinavia
Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "Summa Equity: Building Purpose-Driven Organizations." Harvard Business School Case 118-028, November 2017. (Revised April 2019.)
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
- December 2020 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Riverstone
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
In 2020, Luke Minion and the leadership team at Riverstone, a hog producer founded in 2013 in Shandong, China, were evaluating Riverstone’s strategy as it rebounded from outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) in two of its three farm complexes. Riverstone was a joint...
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Strategy;
Globalization;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Disruption;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Risk Management;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Consulting Industry;
United States;
China
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Riverstone." Harvard Business School Case 521-063, December 2020. (Revised May 2021.)
- February 1997
- Case
Advent of Venture Capital in Latin America, The
By: Debora L. Spar
Widely regarded as the leader in international private equity, Advent International is considering the establishment of a private equity fund in Latin America in 1996. Typically, Advent entered new private equity markets through the creation of multicountry regional...
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Venture Capital;
Joint Ventures;
Market Entry and Exit;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Financial Services Industry;
Boston;
Latin America
Spar, Debora L., and Elizabeth B. Stein. "Advent of Venture Capital in Latin America, The." Harvard Business School Case 797-077, February 1997.
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by randomly assigning individuals to 90-minute structured information-sharing sessions as part of a grant funding opportunity....
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 2020 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Beyond Beer: Brewing Innovation at Molson Coors
By: Derek C. M. van Bever, Stephen P. Kaufman, James Barnett and Shaye Roseman
In March 2019, Molson Coors CEO Mark Hunter considered a request to pull forward $65 million CAD in anticipated future funding for Truss Beverages, a Toronto-based cannabis beverage company that Molson Coors created in a joint venture with a Canadian cannabis...
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Budgets and Budgeting;
Joint Ventures;
Ethics;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
Canada;
Colorado
van Bever, Derek C. M., Stephen P. Kaufman, James Barnett, and Shaye Roseman. "Beyond Beer: Brewing Innovation at Molson Coors." Harvard Business School Case 321-008, August 2020. (Revised November 2021.)
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
venture investors are not needed. For most of its history, Intel's fund has emphasized making passive investments in a wide variety of companies in selected categories, analogous to a mutual fund following...
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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
has not yet exited or written off at cost, less a 25-percent discount for illiquidity) indicates that the $30 million fund generated capital gains of $219 million. Given the 80/20-percent split established...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- July 2010
- Case
Fidelity Retires in Canada
By: Robert C. Pozen and Edward Warren Scott
The head of Fidelity Canada was faced with a decision about what to do with its retirement business there. Although Fidelity as a fund manager has made some headway in Canada, the competition has been very tough for the administration of retirement plans—a separate...
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Keywords:
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Investment Funds;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Retirement;
Competition;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Edward Warren Scott. "Fidelity Retires in Canada." Harvard Business School Case 311-023, July 2010.
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
exiting shareholders receive fair value in MBOs. This article identifies four factors that create an unlevel playing field in that market check: information asymmetries, valuable management, management financial incentives to discourage...
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 1998
- Case
Venture Capital in Ireland: Getting Their ACT Together
By: Paul A. Gompers and Catherine M. Conneely
Analyzes the decisions of Niall Carroll, an Irish banker, to start a venture capital fund focused on Ireland. The context of the Irish markets and the nature of Irish opportunities are explored.
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Markets;
Market Entry and Exit;
Financial Services Industry;
Republic of Ireland
Gompers, Paul A., and Catherine M. Conneely. "Venture Capital in Ireland: Getting Their ACT Together." Harvard Business School Case 298-001, April 1998.
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
always self-sufficiency on the part of the funded entity. "When we exit our investments, over a 10-year period we've helped an organization get from one level to another level, and it is able to sustain...
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- 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;
Financial Services Industry;
Estonia;
Republic of Ireland;
United Kingdom;
Singapore