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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
along with the plan. It worked with IBM to solidify blockchain’s functionality and security and found a willing, technologically progressive client in the Swiss private equity firm Unigestion. The final...
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Dan Morrell
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt proposes New Deal programs to Congress Franklin Roosevelt and the New DealArt of the New Deal 1935 National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act...
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- March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Brazos Partners and the Tri-Northern Exit
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
Randall Fojtasek, a partner at the Dallas-based Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through...
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Keywords:
Private Equity Exit;
LBO;
Leveraged Buyout Transaction;
Texas;
Security;
Brazos;
Tri-Northern;
Tri-Ed;
Northern Video;
Private Equity;
Partners and Partnerships;
Distribution;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry;
Distribution Industry;
Texas
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and Nathaniel Burbank. "Brazos Partners and the Tri-Northern Exit." Harvard Business School Case 813-157, March 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- Web
Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog
Blackstone's Tactical Opportunities Fund, its Energy Fund, and its Distressed Securities Fund. He has served on fourteen boards and raised more than $30 billion in equity capital. Professor Dionne ensures he...
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- Web
SDC Platinum - Securities Data Company | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
equity for the global financial marketplace. 49 415 SDC Platinum - Securities Data Company /find/databases/sdc-platinum-securities-data-company Provides detailed information on new issues, mergers and...
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- December 2017
- Teaching Note
Centerbridge Partners and Great Wolf Resorts: Buying from a Highly Regarded Competitor
By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 818-023 and 818-024.
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- January 2019 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets
By: Luis M. Viceira and Eren Kuzucu
In October 2007, Tarek Sakka and Fouad Dajani launched Ajeej Capital, the first independent investment advisory in the MENA region. Fittingly named ajeej, an Arabic word that translates to “growth and propagation in a chaotic setting,” the firm’s AUM grew from $20...
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Security Selection;
Investments;
Growth;
Culture;
UAE;
Finance;
Asset Management;
Emerging Markets;
Capital Markets;
Investment;
Growth Management;
Risk Management;
Middle East;
Saudi Arabia;
Dubai;
United Arab Emirates;
Egypt;
North Africa
Viceira, Luis M., and Eren Kuzucu. "Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 219-029, January 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in their communities. This year, the...
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Margie Kelley
- Web
Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
women are underrepresented: they make up 31% of all working alumni but only 18% of tech founders (and only 21% of all founders). Women also lag men when it comes to securing capital for their tech ventures, as described below. Proportion...
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- Article
Capital Market-Driven Corporate Finance
By: Malcolm Baker
Much of empirical corporate finance focuses on sources of the demand for various forms of capital, not the supply. Recently, this has changed. Supply effects of equity and credit markets can arise from a combination of three ingredients: investor tastes, limited...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Finance;
Limits To Arbitrage;
Market Efficiency;
Securities Issuance;
Supply Effects;
Corporate Finance;
Investment;
Price;
Capital Markets;
Equity;
Financial Services Industry
Baker, Malcolm. "Capital Market-Driven Corporate Finance." Annual Review of Financial Economics 1 (2009): 181–205.
- January 2017
- Case
The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd.
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In September 2016, Johnson Controls, Inc. completed the acquisition of Tyco International PLC, a $9.9 billion business with operating profits of $884 million. The purchase consideration was $14.4 billion. Although the deal was billed as a merger, Ireland-based Tyco...
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Tyco;
Dennis Kozlowski;
Edward Breen;
Fire Safety;
Fire Protection;
Security;
Packaging;
Securities And Exchange Commission;
Fraud;
Accounting;
Accounting Audits;
Earnings Management;
Financial Statements;
Goodwill Accounting;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Conglomerates;
Business Divisions;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Headquarters;
Business Model;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Restructuring;
Crime and Corruption;
Engineering;
Applied Optics;
Chemicals;
Construction;
Metals and Minerals;
Ethics;
Finance;
Cash Flow;
Public Equity;
Stock Options;
Financing and Loans;
Initial Public Offering;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Location;
Geographic Scope;
Global Range;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Disclosure;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business History;
Executive Compensation;
Selection and Staffing;
Courts and Trials;
Lawfulness;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Consolidation;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Horizontal Integration;
Value;
Chemical Industry;
Construction Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Energy Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Mining Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Semiconductor Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Republic of Ireland;
Switzerland;
Bermuda;
United States;
New Hampshire
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 717-459, January 2017.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Financing Payouts
By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin Schmalz
We study the extent to which firms rely on the capital markets to fund their payouts. We find that 42% of firms that pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with...
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Payout Policy;
Financing Decisions;
Debt Issues;
Equity Issues;
Capital Structure;
Decision Making;
Financing and Loans;
Corporate Finance
Farre-Mensa, Joan, Roni Michaely, and Martin Schmalz. "Financing Payouts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-049, December 2014. (Revised December 2016.)
- November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004
By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of...
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Keywords:
Bally Total Fitness;
Fitness;
Gyms;
Health Clubs;
Chain;
Securities And Exchange Commission;
Paul Toback;
Weight Loss;
Exercise;
Contracts;
Personal Training;
Retention;
Accounting;
Accounting Audits;
Accrual Accounting;
Finance;
Advertising;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Customers;
Customer Satisfaction;
Public Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Revenue;
Revenue Recognition;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health;
Nutrition;
Business History;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Management;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Operations;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Segmentation;
Trends;
Cost Management;
Profit;
Growth and Development;
Leadership Style;
Five Forces Framework;
Private Ownership;
Opportunities;
Motivation and Incentives;
Competitive Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States;
Illinois;
Chicago
Wells, John R., Elizabeth A. Raabe, and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004." Harvard Business School Case 706-450, November 2005. (Revised December 2016.)
- September 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Bear to Bull: An Analyst’s Journey with Netflix
By: Aiyesha Dey, Joseph Pacelli, Jennifer G. Lawson and Tom Quinn
Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said “hell freezing over” was more likely than him upgrading the “sell” rating he had maintained on movie and television streaming giant Netflix since 2011, despite meteoric subscriber and share price growth. In 2022, however,...
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Keywords:
Accounting;
Asset Pricing;
Cash Flow;
Investment;
Stocks;
Equity;
Analysis;
Attitudes;
Financial Services Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States
Dey, Aiyesha, Joseph Pacelli, Jennifer G. Lawson, and Tom Quinn. "Bear to Bull: An Analyst’s Journey with Netflix." Harvard Business School Case 123-001, September 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- 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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- February 2023
- Teaching Note
Bear to Bull? An Analyst’s Journey with Netflix
By: Aiyesha Dey and Joseph Pacelli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-001. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said “hell freezing over” was more likely than him upgrading the “sell” rating he had maintained on movie and television streaming giant Netflix since 2011, despite meteoric subscriber...
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- November 2022 (Revised September 2023)
- Technical Note
SAFE Notes: An Introduction
By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Jo Tango
A SAFE ("Simple Agreement for Future Equity") is a security increasingly used in seed financings. Not equity or debt, SAFEs allow founders to "get capital now and sell equity later." This Technical Note covers: 1. What is a SAFE and why use one?, 2. The key concepts...
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Rodríguez Arregui, Álvaro, and Jo Tango. "SAFE Notes: An Introduction." Harvard Business School Technical Note 823-026, November 2022. (Revised September 2023.)
- January 2011 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Tombstones
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and David Lane
This case consists primarily of excerpts from term sheets and prospectuses for six securities offerings made by US companies during 2009-2010, just after the financial crisis and recession of 2008-09. There are three issues of senior unsecured notes, one floating rate...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Equity;
Debt Securities;
Bonds;
Motivation and Incentives;
United States
Luehrman, Timothy A., and David Lane. "Tombstones." Harvard Business School Case 211-063, January 2011. (Revised December 2017.)