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- October 2023
- Case
Social Finance: Driving Accountability
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
Social Finance is a Boston-based nonprofit that works at the intersection of finance and policy. It raises, allocates, and manages capital to fund projects in the areas of education, early childhood development, criminal justice, and health. The case explores how...
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- June 2023
- Case
Rent Control in Boston, Again?
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback, Robert Ialenti and Tom Quinn
This case explores the merits and drawbacks of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal to bring rent control back to the city in 2023. It lays out the features, objectives, and potential unintended consequences of this policy, before highlighting the expected impact of...
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- January 2023
- Case
Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk - Making an Impact
By: Richard S. Ruback, Marco Di Maggio, Dave Habeeb and Ruth Page
- December 2022
- Case
Managing Pain in the Midst of an Opioid Epidemic
By: Joshua D. Coval, Richard S. Ruback and Christopher Diak
- November 2022
- Case
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: Brian's Journey
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Sarah Livick-Moses
- August 2022 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Forest Park Capital
- August 2022 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Rooted in Roxbury: Race and Equity in the Boston Cannabis Industry
By: Joshua D. Coval, Richard S. Ruback and Christopher Diak
- May 2022
- Case
What's Next
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Is there a typical long-term career path for people who become entrepreneurs through acquisition? What choices do searchers and investors make subsequent to their first search? The former searchers profiled here identified five common longer-term career paths and...
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- September 2021
- Supplement
Helena Divišová
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Video supplement to 220-020.
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- September 2021
- Case
Pacific Lake and the Rise of Professional Capital in Search Funds
- September 2021
- Supplement
Systems Design West (A) and (B) Case Supplements
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Video supplement to HBS Case No. 220-004.
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- June 2020
- Case
gWorks
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In January of 2019, Joe Heieck (HBS '14), CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size of gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was...
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- May 2020
- Teaching Note
Talismark
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 211-097. Talismark negotiated waste hauling contracts for small and medium size companies. Its owners, Charles Muszynski and Marshall Staiman, were able to grow the business by more than 30% per year since it was founded, but believed...
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- May 2020
- Teaching Note
Baskits Inc.
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 217-001. Robin Kovitz (MBA 2007) acquired Baskits, a Canadian gift basket company, in October of 2014. The business was highly seasonal with two-thirds of its sales occurring in November and December. Baskits dealt with its seasonality...
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