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How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,... -
A Cheaper Way to Do IPOs
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleInitial public offerings are expensive, and many owners turn to M&A instead. But a little-understood mechanism known as a tax receivable agreement can... -
When It’s OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision
Venture capital Digital ArticleMore data isn’t always helpful. -
The Income Statement: Tracking Profit and Loss
Finance & Accounting VideoIncome statements-also called profit and loss statements-can give insight into an organization's financial health and its business strategy. -
The SPAC Bubble Is About to Burst
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleLimited oversight, tons of money, and hype for days. What could go wrong? -
A Call for Innovation in Job Creation
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe Gulf oil spill looks like it might be capped. U.S. financial regulation is underway, plugging holes of another kind, which won't allow sub-prime mortgage... -
A New Model to Spark Innovation Inside Big Companies
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleWith a venture buyout, an established company partners with a VC firm to spin out an internal startup. -
How Midsize Companies Can Maximize Growth and Efficiency
Organizational Development Digital ArticleOne can fuel the other. -
How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleRapid growth is more dangerous for entrepreneurs than starting from scratch. -
Corporate Governance Should Combine the Best of Private Equity and Family Firms
Corporate governance Digital ArticleA hybrid model can balance the short term with long-term continuity. -
The Other Diversity Dividend
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleResearchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance--especially at large companies, where decision... -
Is Venture Capital Broken?
Venture capital Digital ArticleA recent report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation raises serious questions about the degree to which venture capital deserves emulation. The report, provocatively titled “We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us” [PDF], summarizes its findings thus: Limited Partners — foundations, endowments, and state pension funds — invest too much capital in underperforming […] -
All Hail the Failure Sector
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleSince at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance... -
Too Soon to IPO? (HBR Case Study)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFour years ago, Diane Ashton and Sundeep Lal were working together at MIT on a titanium extraction project. Durable and highly heat resistant, titanium... -
How to Make Startup Stock Options a Better Deal for Employees
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhen companies stay private longer, stock options are less appealing. -
How to Get Over Your Inaction on Big Data
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleFor every Amazon and Netflix, there are many organizations that are doing nothing with big data. -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
Managing Risk in an Unstable World
Global Business Magazine ArticleWith emerging markets like China and politically unstable countries like Saudi Arabia figuring more than ever into companies' investment calculations,... -
Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleBeing clear on what it means is not just an academic exercise. -
Research: VCs Reward Self-Presentation Over Qualifications
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleAn analysis of more than 4,000 firms, their founders, and their funders.
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Spin Master Toys: Going Public - The IPO Process
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Spin Master, a children's toy and entertainment company, was getting ready for an initial public offering (IPO). Its founders were weighing their options... -
VCPE Strategy Vignettes
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, the general partners... -
West Teleservice
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details West Teleservice, a telemarketing firm, is considering going public at the end of 1996. Asks students to price the IPO. During the previous 18 months,... -
Digital Media Group: The Shanghai Bid
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In December 2008, Thomas G. Tsao, acting CEO of Digital Media Group (DMG), a venture-backed provider of technology and media used primarily in subways,... -
Dhahran Roads (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV6118. This case complements the A case by providing the decision-maker's view on the key sources of risk and his probability assessment... -
Susie Mulder at NIC+ZOE
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Susie Mulder must decide how to lead NIC+ZOE-the women's apparel brand she had recently joined as CEO-from its start-up phase into a disciplined growth... -
DNB Future Waves - an impact investment fund to support a sustainable ocean economy
Management Case Study11.95View Details DNB Asset Management (DNB AM), which is based in the Nordic region, has introduced responsible investment strategies across its asset classes. In addition... -
Negotiating with the Cuban Sugar Industry (A): No Way Out?
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Suitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education program in coursed on negotiation and intercultural management. This case is based on actual negotiations... -
Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005-2016
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, in 2014 Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness... -
Sorenson Research Co. (Abridged)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Presents the issues facing a high volume, high margin (but lightweight) medical products business. The company is trying to improve its inventory control... -
Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Juner New Materials (Juner) is a private China - based company that develops, produces, and distributes modified plastic compounds. Founded in 1995 by... -
Sum of the Parts Valuation: Digital Realty Trust
Finance & Accounting Case Study1.00View Details Longview Investments, an investor in alternative asset classes, had recently developed a new investment thesis to take advantage of several emerging macroeconomic... -
Grove Street Advisors
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Grove Street Advisors, a manager of customized private equity investment products, has been very successful in its first five years. To grow, the group... -
ChinaCarb
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Suitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs, this field-based case offers an opportunity to use simulation modeling to evaluate an... -
Goldman Sachs IPO (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Addresses the proposed IPO and raises questions regarding how agency costs may rise or fall as Goldman converts from a private partnership to a public... -
Beta, Leverage, and the Cost of Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note briefly discusses the versatile and widely-used technique of levering and unlevering beta, which has many and varied applications in finance.... -
TRX, Inc.: Initial Public Offering
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The "TRX, Inc.: Initial Public Offering" case provides comprehensive coverage of a firm's decision to undertake an initial public offering (IPO) and the... -
Best Self or Best Company? Peloton Searches for a Voice
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Peloton had redefined many things about the boutique exercise experience, bringing it into members' homes and eliminating per-class fees of roughly $34,... -
WH Group: A Failed IPO in Hong Kong
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In July 2014, WH Group faced the issue of attempting to launch an initial public offering for the second time, after having previously failed to list...
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Messer Griesheim (A) & (B), Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for [809056] and [809057]. -
Spin Master Toys: Going Public - The IPO Process
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Spin Master, a children's toy and entertainment company, was getting ready for an initial public offering (IPO). Its founders were weighing their options... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,... -
VCPE Strategy Vignettes
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, the general partners... -
Spin Master Toys: Going Public - The IPO Process, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for case W16567. -
West Teleservice
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details West Teleservice, a telemarketing firm, is considering going public at the end of 1996. Asks students to price the IPO. During the previous 18 months,... -
Digital Media Group: The Shanghai Bid
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In December 2008, Thomas G. Tsao, acting CEO of Digital Media Group (DMG), a venture-backed provider of technology and media used primarily in subways,... -
Box: From Seed to IPO, Teaching Note
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleTeaching note for case SM296. -
Attention and the Brain
Organizational Development Digital ArticlePeople can be irrational in the financial market setting, leading to catastrophic mistakes and costing millions of dollars. We tend to take credit for... -
Dhahran Roads (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV6118. This case complements the A case by providing the decision-maker's view on the key sources of risk and his probability assessment...