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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing
Investment management Digital ArticleIt might not actually work. -
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,... -
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 […] -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
The Refresher: Net Present Value
Finance & Accounting VideoNext time you're deciding about a big investment, NPV can help you make a more informed decision. -
Google's CEO on the Enduring Lessons of a Quirky IPO
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSix years ago, Google's IPO was the most hotly anticipated public offering of the year. But in classic Google style, the offering was neither typical... -
Managing Shareholders in the Age of Stakeholder Capitalism
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleHow to identify and attract investors who will support your long-term, stakeholder-focused plans. -
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,... -
Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleCorporate CFO's and venture capitalists have a common problem. They give teams large amounts of money and other resources in the hopes of creating a new... -
Corporate Venturing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies... -
Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop
Organizational Development Digital ArticleRealizing the full potential of this evolving sector requires three things. -
Should We Embrace Crypto? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIvory Tower, the world's leading online education platform, is considering whether to accept payments and invest cash reserves in Bitcoin. The gung-ho... -
Bringing Silicon Valley Inside
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleIn Silicon Valley, exciting new business ideas rapidly attract capital and talent away from less worthy ventures. But in big companies, ideas, capital, and talent are stagnant—prisoners of traditional bureaucratic ways of allocating resources. To capture the Valley’s entrepreneurial magic, your company needs to move from resource allocation to resource attraction. -
The Staying Power of the Public Corporation
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleReports of the “eclipse of the public corporation” underestimate its institutional staying power and unique capacity for renewal. In his recent HBR article, Michael C. Jensen, a distinguished scholar of corporate finance and governance, argues for a revolution in the structure of ownership and control in the U.S. economy.1 I share many of his criticisms […] -
Good Money After Bad? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleChristian Harbinson, a young associate at the venture capital firm Scharfstein Weekes, has a difficult decision to make before the next investment committee... -
How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing
Business and society Digital ArticleIt’s more global, more urban, and more winner-take-all. -
Twitter, that Old Media Darling
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleTwitter's value proposition looks awfully familiar to one researcher.
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Keller Fund's Option Investment Strategies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A closed-end mutual fund's decision to study option trading provides an opportunity to study the profit profile and pricing of multiple option investment... -
PunchTab, Inc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details PunchTab was a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2011 that was developing an Internet-based turnkey customer loyalty program for website owners, mobile... -
Introduction to the Canadian Income Tax System (Revised)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Variations in tax impact make it essential to know a person's tax status for personal financial planning and the structuring of business transactions.... -
Environmental Defense Fund and the Leveraged Buyout of TXU
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2006, the regional director for Texas' Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) was on his way to a hearing about permits for new coal plants proposed by Texas... -
The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details No abstract available. -
Merak Capital: Investing in the Future of the Middle East
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Merak Capital cofounders sought to tap into the opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, as the technology community... -
Gobi Partners: October 2004
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The general partners of Gobi Partners, a venture fund located in Shanghai, are trying to decide the best way to raise money for their first fund. Their... -
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (D)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (C) case. -
GO Corp.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details GO faces a crisis in March 1991 when Microsoft announces the introduction of a competing operating system for pen-based computers. GO's managers must... -
Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Depicts the options facing Mohammed Ibrahim, founder and chairman of Celtel International, the largest pan African wireless telecommunications provider,... -
Jeepers! Inc. in 2000
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After the company's IPO is withdrawn, the company enters a period of severe financial distress. The consultants recommend that the company be liquidated.... -
Simon's Hostile Tender for Taubman (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
"Doctor My Eyes"--The Acquisition of Bausch & Lomb by Warburg Pincus (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 2010, senior partners at Warburg Pincus met to review a report on Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, the firm's largest investment at the time. Warburg... -
Chrysler and BMW: Tritec Engine Joint Venture
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details A gifted project leader lacks significant new product development experience. The case highlights the issues and procedures related to defining the project... -
CashDrop (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In July 2020, Ruben Flores-Martinez had launched a startup, CashDrop, which provided easy and cheap sales options for small businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic... -
Broadway Angels (2022)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In late June of 2022, Sonja Perkins, co-founder of Broadway Angels, contemplated the group's future. She and her co-founders, Jennifer Fonstad, and Magdalena... -
How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Venture Opportunities
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Four venture capitalists from leading Silicon Valley firms are interviewed about the frameworks they use to evaluate potential venture opportunities.... -
Pinewood Mobile Homes, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case presents a realistic situation in which a firm in financial distress attempts an out-of-court financial restructuring by means of a debt exchange.... -
Sigma Ventures: Evaluating an Early-Stage Venture Capital Investment (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details Sigma Ventures is a venture capital (VC) firm that invests in technology, intelligent manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer services companies in their... -
Boston Beer Co., Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Capital markets may have overcapitalized the craft brewing industry during a flurry of new IPOs. In the context of this "hot" IPO market each individual...
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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Everything You Need to Know About Stock Options and RSUs
Finance & Accounting AdviceJust like salary, you should negotiate equity compensation. -
An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing
Investment management Digital ArticleIt might not actually work. -
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,... -
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 […] -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
Keller Fund's Option Investment Strategies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A closed-end mutual fund's decision to study option trading provides an opportunity to study the profit profile and pricing of multiple option investment... -
PunchTab, Inc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details PunchTab was a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2011 that was developing an Internet-based turnkey customer loyalty program for website owners, mobile...