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How to Compete for Talent like a Private Equity Firm
Private equity Digital ArticleIf you want to be successful, you have to harness the talent. The top private equity firms have a genius for hiring superior talent. All organizations need great people, but PE measures talent with one test only: performance. It’s not that private equity firms are heartless. Rather, their three- to five-year time horizon doesn’t allow […] -
How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity Digital ArticleTimes change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […] -
Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA new paper shows how leveraged buyouts lead to more patents. -
Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhen established companies try to spawn new businesses, cultural conflict usually dooms the effort. They can succeed by finding the right balance in setting strategy, operating the business, and designing the organization. -
What Venture Trends Can Tell You
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew research from McKinsey suggests what the inevitable shakeout in the venture capital industry heralds for the broader business community. -
Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurship is more celebrated, studied, and desirable than ever. Business school students flock to courses on entrepreneurship. Managers, fearful of losing their step on the corporate ladder, yearn to step off on their own. Policymakers pin their hopes for job creation and economic growth on start-ups rather than on the once-preeminent corporate giants. Belief in […] -
How France Used Unemployment Benefits to Kickstart Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBy lowering the financial risks of starting a business. -
A New Way to Scale Social Enterprise
Social enterprise Digital ArticleA new type of security, called “mission equity,” caps investor returns so the company’s financial success can help fuel its mission. -
The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over
Venture capital Digital ArticleHere’s what that means for VCs and entrepreneurs. -
Women-Led Startups Received Just 2.3% of VC Funding in 2020
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIn a year of uncertainty, VCs acted like funding female founders was risky - but the real risk is in leaving them behind. -
Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleVC is great for a few very specific things. -
How to Write a Great Business Plan
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEvery seasoned investor knows that detailed financial projections for a new company are an act of imagination. Nevertheless, most business plans pour... -
The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleIt’s easy to turn off prospective investors. Just feed them the same old lines. -
A Stealthier Way to Raise Money
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhen entrepreneurs get financing from big VC firms, they often lose control over their idea and their business. An increasing number are unwilling to make that deal. -
Too Soon to IPO? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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... -
Research: Investors Punish Entrepreneurs for Stereotypically Feminine Behaviors
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIn a pitch competition, judges reacted poorly to warmth and expressiveness. -
Is Venture Capital Broken?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA recent report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation raises serious questions about the degree to which venture capital deserves emulation. The report,... -
Can Microcredit Work in the United States?
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleLending small amounts of cash to fledgling entrepreneurs has been a great success in developing countries, but the concept hasn’t fared as well in the United States. -
The Top 20 Start-Up Accelerators in the U.S.
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleA quantitative ranking. -
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.
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Rock Valley Physical Therapy: Private equity and culture
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In April of 2018, Mike Horsfield, CEO of Rock Valley Physical Therapy (RVPT), was scheduled to meet with shareholders to discuss the future ownership... -
Zenefits Board of Directors (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In early 2018, the time seemed right for Zenefits investor and director Lars Dalgaard to reflect on whether Zenefits had the right board of directors... -
Evaluating Venture Capital Term Sheets
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details When entrepreneurs are successful in convincing venture capital firms that they are an attractive potential investment, they are presented with offers... -
The Birth of Tencent Music Entertainment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case addresses the birth of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's music streaming leader. The case features two protagonists. One of them is... -
Securicor Wireless Networks: February 1996
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Securicor Wireless (SWN) sold software products to wireless telephone carriers. The company was incorporated in January of 1995 as a 40%-owned subsidiary... -
3i Group plc: May 2006
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Since 2004, Philip Yea, the first outsider ever to lead 3i Group, one of Europe's largest publicly listed private equity firms, has been trying to help... -
Kjell & Company: Electronics Accessories Retail in the Nordics
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Swedish electronics accessories retailer Kjell is considering several issues as it plots its next stage of growth. How should it balance opportunities... -
Officenet (B): After the Merger
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Describes the execution of a new economy merger. Officenet, a bricks-and-clicks retailer of office supplies, is sold to an Internet pure-play, Submarino.com.... -
Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal decides to play a pivotal role in re-building the country.... -
Molten Metal Technology (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case, the second in a series, describes Molten Metal Technology's problems that culminated in the company filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,... -
Patanjali Ayurved: Valuation of an Unusual FMCG Company in India
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details An investment analyst at a fictional wealth fund (SWF) is concentrating on India's high-growth, high-potential fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector... -
The Elcer Products Transaction: Confidential Information for Elcer Products Division President
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell Elcer Products Division to one of four potential buyers (industrial, financial, U.S.,... -
AM-Pharma: Creating Value (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details AM-Pharma is a biotech company developing a medicine for patients with acute kidney injury. The case describes the company's journey from inception in... -
Innova Capital: The Transition
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The partners at Innova Capital, a leading mid-market private equity investor in Poland, must negotiate a transition of power between the two ex-patriate... -
Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings -- A Corporate Governance Drama
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before... -
Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The Vermeer team is pleasantly surprised by the benefits and hospitality that their new surroundings offer. Their happiness is tempered, however, by discomfort... -
Maison Chloé: Driving purposeful transformation for sustainability
Management Case Study11.95View Details At luxury fashion house Maison Chloé, minds were focused on the first collection of new Creative Director, Gabriela Hearst, which was just hitting the... -
Budgetplaces.com (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case LBS124. This is part of a case series. John Erceg was in a quandary. It was a sunny spring day in Barcelona in April 2010, and he'd... -
AnswerDash
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details It is 2014 and AnswerDash, a startup backed by venture capital, has not seen the widespread adoption of their online self-service customer support solution... -
How Peloton Built the Foundation for Enduring Success (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case follows the experiences of Peloton Founder John Foley from concept creation in 2011 to large-scale success in 2020. Foley created his own playbook...
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How to Compete for Talent like a Private Equity Firm
Private equity Digital ArticleIf you want to be successful, you have to harness the talent. The top private equity firms have a genius for hiring superior talent. All organizations need great people, but PE measures talent with one test only: performance. It’s not that private equity firms are heartless. Rather, their three- to five-year time horizon doesn’t allow […] -
Rock Valley Physical Therapy: Private equity and culture
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In April of 2018, Mike Horsfield, CEO of Rock Valley Physical Therapy (RVPT), was scheduled to meet with shareholders to discuss the future ownership... -
Zenefits Board of Directors (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In early 2018, the time seemed right for Zenefits investor and director Lars Dalgaard to reflect on whether Zenefits had the right board of directors... -
Evaluating Venture Capital Term Sheets
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details When entrepreneurs are successful in convincing venture capital firms that they are an attractive potential investment, they are presented with offers... -
Fast Casual Food Pioneer Ron Shaich Explains How to Find a Niche — and then Scale
Customer service AudioA conversation with the founder and former CEO of Panera Bread and current chairman of Cava. -
The Birth of Tencent Music Entertainment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case addresses the birth of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's music streaming leader. The case features two protagonists. One of them is... -
Securicor Wireless Networks: February 1996
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Securicor Wireless (SWN) sold software products to wireless telephone carriers. The company was incorporated in January of 1995 as a 40%-owned subsidiary... -
3i Group plc: May 2006
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Since 2004, Philip Yea, the first outsider ever to lead 3i Group, one of Europe's largest publicly listed private equity firms, has been trying to help... -
How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity Digital ArticleTimes change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […] -
Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA new paper shows how leveraged buyouts lead to more patents.