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- September 2004 (Revised October 2005)
- Case
Mt. Auburn Partners Search Fund
By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath
Provides background on search funds and follows two partners as they try to raise financing for a search fund.
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Sahlman, William A., and Dan Heath. "Mt. Auburn Partners Search Fund." Harvard Business School Case 805-030, September 2004. (Revised October 2005.)
- May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Teaching Note
Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 212-006. In 2008, Jay Davis (HBS’ 08) and Jason Pananos (HBS’ 08) formed Nashton Partners and raised $500,000 from investors to fund their search. After 30 months of searching, and exhausting the money they raised to fund their search, Davis...
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- 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.)
- Fast Answer
Search Funds
Stanford Search Fund Primer and Studies - the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies has conducted a series of studies going back to 1996. The search View Details
- July 2011 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Nashton Partners was a search fund founded by two HBS MBA's that raised $500,000 to finance a search for a company that they could purchase and then run for the next five to ten years. The case examines the search fund structure, the two-year search, and two potential...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Capital Structure;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Funds;
Partners and Partnerships
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process." Harvard Business School Case 212-006, July 2011. (Revised September 2018.)
- Web
Search Fund Fellowship - MBA
Financial Aid Search Fund Fellowship Tuition Assistance Summer Fellowships Career Support & Exploration Funds Fast Facts MBAid Stories Consumer Information RISE Career...
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- 05 May 2014
- News
Seeking A Fortune Through Search Funds
- November 2018
- Supplement
Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 219-703, November 2018.
- 2022
- Working Paper
Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market
By: Zach Y. Brown, Mark Egan, Jihye Jeon, Chuqing Jin and Alex A. Wu
Index funds are one of the most common ways investors access financial markets and are perceived to be a transparent and low-cost alternative to active investment management. Despite these purported virtues of index fund investing and the introduction of new products...
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Keywords:
Mutual Funds;
Passive Investing;
Asset Management;
Financial Markets;
Investment Funds;
Financial Management;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Brown, Zach Y., Mark Egan, Jihye Jeon, Chuqing Jin, and Alex A. Wu. "Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-019, October 2023. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31778, October 2023.)
- Article
A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations
By: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg and Karim R. Lakhani
We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which search costs affect matching among scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by...
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Keywords:
Search Costs;
Cost;
Marketplace Matching;
Groups and Teams;
Science;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Boudreau, Kevin, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg, and Karim R. Lakhani. "A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations." Review of Economics and Statistics 99, no. 4 (October 2017): 565–576.
- 07 Oct 2012
- News
In Search of Funds That Don't Rock the Boat
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Buying a Small Business Pt2: Search funds (For HBS Alumni)
Would you point me to some guides and best practices related to search funds? You may begin with the following: Search Funds – a website by the Center for Entrepreneurial...
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- September 2021
- Case
Pacific Lake and the Rise of Professional Capital in Search Funds
Pananos, Jason, Jay Davis, Richard Ruback, and Royce Yudkoff. "Pacific Lake and the Rise of Professional Capital in Search Funds." Harvard Business School Case 222-015, September 2021.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
"Of course it would be a different story entirely if we could extract crude oil from stem cells." © Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again government View Details
- 2018
- Case
Search Fund Company Boards: How CEOS Can Build Boards to Help Them Thrive
By: Jason Pananos and A.J. Wasserstein
Pananos, Jason, and A.J. Wasserstein. "Search Fund Company Boards: How CEOS Can Build Boards to Help Them Thrive." Yale School of Management Case 18-017, 2018.
- September 2019
- Case
Dementia Discovery Fund
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy Giusti and Sarah Gulick
The case is set in March 2019, and tells the story of the founding of the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF). The idea for the fund began in 2015, when then-Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the importance of making breakthroughs in dementia research, and pledged...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Investment Funds;
Mission and Purpose;
Recruitment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Boston;
Massachusetts;
London;
England
Hamermesh, Richard G., Kathy Giusti, and Sarah Gulick. "Dementia Discovery Fund." Harvard Business School Case 820-045, September 2019.
- May 1999
- Teaching Note
Explo Leisure Products TN
Teaching Note for (9-399-053).
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Keywords:
Search Funds
- Fast Answer
International Job Search Resources
Search for > Fund Managers > Advanced Search More Filters Location: check box for "Include Secondary Office Locations". Choose your preferred geography and...
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- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
advertising agency on how much money was spent and how the funds were allocated. In addition, he received data on how many consumers "converted" after clicking on search and display ads. Because a decision...
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Bloomberg: funds
How do I look up specific funds in Bloomberg? To search for funds (e.g., hedge funds,) type FSRC and hit GO. Type LPHP FSRC:0:1:602152 and...
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