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- October 2020 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
UCK Partners: Gong Cha
By: Victoria Ivashina and Sangyun Lee
In the Spring of 2017, Soomin Kim, Founding Partner of UCK Partners, and his team were debating the potential exit of UCK Partner’s investment in Gong Cha Korea, the sole local franchisor of the premium milk tea brand that they proprietarily sourced three years ago....
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Keywords:
Exit;
Strategic Decision Making;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Strategy;
Investment Return;
Decision Making;
Bids and Bidding
Ivashina, Victoria, and Sangyun Lee. "UCK Partners: Gong Cha." Harvard Business School Case 221-040, October 2020. (Revised July 2023.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations
By: Miguel Espinosa and Christopher T. Stanton
We study direct productivity changes and spillovers after a randomized training program for the frontline workers in a Colombian government agency. While trained workers improved their individual production, we also find substantial spillovers that affected managers'...
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Keywords:
Spillovers;
Labor Productivity;
Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior;
Training;
Performance Productivity
Espinosa, Miguel, and Christopher T. Stanton. "Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30224, July 2022. (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Political Economy .)
- 14 Apr 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps
- September 1992 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc.
By: Jay O. Light
A New York-based money manager owns a sizable percentage of the common shares of Cleveland-Cliffs, a U.S. iron ore producer. The money manager would prefer that Cliffs pay out or otherwise return $100 million of "excess cash" to the shareholders. The management resists...
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Keywords:
Asset Management;
Financial Strategy;
Mining;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Financial Services Industry
Light, Jay O. "Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 293-051, September 1992. (Revised September 1993.)
- 27 May 2020
- News
Why the SpaceX manned mission is critical to the private space race
- October 2018 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Arlan Hamilton and Backstage Capital
By: Laura Huang and Sarah Mehta
Frustrated by an inability to convince existing venture capital firms to invest in companies led by women, people of color, and LGBT founders, Arlan Hamilton started her own firm, Backstage Capital, in 2015. Hamilton understood the untapped potential of companies run...
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Keywords:
Black Leadership;
LGBTQ;
Women;
People Of Color;
Entrepreneurship;
Mission and Purpose;
Venture Capital;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Identity;
Personal Characteristics;
Prejudice and Bias;
Social Issues;
Diversity;
Gender;
Race
Huang, Laura, and Sarah Mehta. "Arlan Hamilton and Backstage Capital." Harvard Business School Case 419-029, October 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
- February 2018 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Kyle Thomas
This case highlights the business challenges associated with a financial technology firm, New Constructs, that created a technology that can quickly parse complicated public firm financials to paint a clearer economic picture of firms, remove accounting distortions,...
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Keywords:
Fundamental Analysis;
Machine Learning;
Robo-analysts;
Financial Statements;
Financial Reporting;
Analysis;
Information Technology;
Accounting Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
North America;
Tennessee
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Kyle Thomas. "New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts." Harvard Business School Case 118-068, February 2018. (Revised June 2021.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Stock Market Value of Human Capital Creation
By: Matthias Regier and Ethan Rouen
We develop a measure of firm-year-specific human capital investment from publicly disclosed personnel expenses (PE) and examine the stock market valuation of this investment. Measuring the future value of PE (PEFV) based on the relation between lagged...
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Regier, Matthias, and Ethan Rouen. "The Stock Market Value of Human Capital Creation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-047, October 2020. (Revised March 2022.)
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
maintain a company's culture."—Nabil N. El-Hage "The case highlights some interesting tensions and conflicts in the private equity business between generating wealth for the firm's investment professionals via the fee stream,...
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- July 2019
- Teaching Note
Arlan Hamilton and Backstage Capital
By: Laura Huang
Teaching Note for HBS No. 419-029. Frustrated by an inability to convince existing venture capital firms to invest in companies led by women, people of color, and LGBT founders, Arlan Hamilton started her own firm, Backstage Capital, in 2015. Hamilton understood the...
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Vikram Gandhi
Vikram S. Gandhi is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches a new course, Sustainable Investing, in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. He also teaches Leadership & Corporate Accountability and FIELD Global... View Details
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financial services
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
as those in group practice. Peer interaction is important for professional learning and quality care. Working Papers Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2019
- News
SoftBank Bet Big on Disruptive Companies. Many Have Not Paid Off.
- June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile
By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas Ibanez and Jay Verjee
Warren Adams founded Patagonia Sur in 2007 as one of the world's first for-profit land conservation businesses. His goal was to purchase over 100,000 acres of land in southern Chile and to run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Environmental Sustainability;
Profit;
Investment;
For-Profit Firms;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment Return;
Revenue;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Capital;
SWOT Analysis;
Real Estate Industry;
Chile
Segel, Arthur I., Nicolas Ibanez, and Jay Verjee. "Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile." Harvard Business School Case 211-103, June 2011. (Revised October 2012.)
- February 2010 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Barclays Wealth: Reignite WAR or Launch AlphaStream?
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Elisa Farri
In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays Wealth's most promising offshore funds of hedge funds, and halted the Fund's...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Financial Liquidity;
International Finance;
Investment Funds;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
London
Goldberg, Lena G., and Elisa Farri. "Barclays Wealth: Reignite WAR or Launch AlphaStream?" Harvard Business School Case 310-090, February 2010. (Revised July 2010.)
- May 2000
- Case
Intel 64 Fund
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Laila Partridge of Intel's Corporate Business Development group has been charged to create a special investment fund to speed the adoption of a new chip architecture. The last architecture upgrade, from 16 to 32 bits, had needed almost a decade to become fully adopted....
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Technology Adoption;
Innovation and Management;
Computer Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Intel 64 Fund." Harvard Business School Case 800-351, May 2000.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting
By: Kyle Travis Welch
This study examines how accounting has informed private equity diversification claims and demand for private equity investments. Despite research showing private equity lacks portfolio diversification benefits, those marketing private equity assets continue to...
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Keywords:
Fair Value;
Access To Capital;
IAS 39;
FAS No. 157;
FASB;
IASB;
ASC 820;
Covariance Risk;
Accounting Beta;
Accounting;
Private Sector;
Valuation;
Corporate Finance;
Asset Management;
Cost of Capital;
Private Equity;
Accounting Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Europe;
North and Central America
Welch, Kyle Travis. "Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting." Working Paper, January 2014.
- November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care
By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Model;
Change;
Disruption;
Fluctuation;
Trends;
Customers;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Ethics;
Fairness;
Finance;
Equity;
Insurance;
Private Equity;
Geography;
Geographic Scope;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Supply and Industry;
Industry Structures;
Ownership;
Ownership Type;
Private Ownership;
Relationships;
Agency Theory;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Networks;
Strategy;
Competition;
Consolidation;
Expansion;
Integration;
Horizontal Integration;
Vertical Integration;
Value;
Value Creation;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
United States
Fetter, Trevor, and Kira Seiger. "Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care." Harvard Business School Case 321-049, November 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
- June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund
By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in...
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decisions;
Capital;
Investment Banking;
Investment Funds;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Ownership;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Wealth;
Expansion;
Financial Services Industry;
China;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Xiaoyu Gu. "Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund." Harvard Business School Case 311-137, June 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions...
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Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Philipp Chvanov. "Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-066, January 2024.