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      • January 2021
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      Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent

      By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
      Five years after the company’s founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa’s greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an...  View Details
      Keywords: Education In Africa; Entrepreneur; Remote Work; Software Engineering; Edtech; Africa
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      Elkins, Caroline M., Tarun Khanna, and Joyce J. Kim. "Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent ." Harvard Business School Case 321-113, January 2021.
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      Why ESG Funds Fail to Scale

      By: Gabriel Karageorgiou and George Serafeim
      You’ve seen the headlines about the growth in environmental, social, and governance funds. Many investment professionals might read these and believe that launching a new ESG investment firm or ESG offering will be an automatic success. Our analysis of the data shows...  View Details
      Keywords: Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg Disclosure; Esg Disclosure Metrics; Esg Ratings; Esg Reporting; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Investments; Finance; Investment Fund; Investment Portfolio; Sustainability; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Investing
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      Karageorgiou, Gabriel, and George Serafeim. "Why ESG Funds Fail to Scale." Institutional Investor (January 11, 2021).
      • December 2020
      • Case

      XP: Dual Track Financing Alternatives

      By: Marco Di Maggio, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
      XP, an investment platform, was on the verge of defining whether to do an IPO or selling off a majority stake to Itaú Unibanco, Brazil´s largest financial conglomerate. Under the leadership of Guilherme Benchimol, XP´s co-founder and CEO, XP had risen to become the...  View Details
      Keywords: Expansion; Latin America; Brazil
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      Di Maggio, Marco, Pedro Levindo, and Carla Larangeira. "XP: Dual Track Financing Alternatives." Harvard Business School Case 221-029, December 2020.
      • October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
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      AfricInvest: A Pan-African Investment Platform

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Youssef Abdel Aal
      The case is set in December 2018, when Ziad Oueslati, co-managing director and co-founder of AfricInvest, a leading pan-African private equity firm headquartered in Tunisia, was reflecting on the future direction of his firm. AfricInvest started as a traditional small...  View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Strategy; Governance; Financial Services Industry; Tunisia; Africa; Middle East
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      Ivashina, Victoria, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "AfricInvest: A Pan-African Investment Platform." Harvard Business School Case 221-037, October 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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      Digging for Gold: Paulson & Co.'s Activism in the Gold Sector

      By: Suraj Srinivasan and Jonah S. Goldberg
      The case describes the efforts of hedge fund Paulson & Co to influence corporate governance and improve performance in the gold industry. In an innovative move, the hedge fund led the creation of the Shareholder Gold Council, a consortium of large investors in gold...  View Details
      Keywords: Board Of Directors; Hedge Funds; Shareholder Activism; Gold; Corporate Governance; Governing And Advisory Boards; investment funds; investment Activism; Performance Improvement; Corporate Accountability; Mining Industry; Canada; United States
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      Srinivasan, Suraj, and Jonah S. Goldberg. "Digging for Gold: Paulson & Co.'s Activism in the Gold Sector." Harvard Business School Case 121-021, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
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      Investing at Pivotal Ventures

      By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Emily R. McComb and Eren Kuzucu
      Launched in 2015 by Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pivotal Ventures is an investment and incubation company. The company aims to support and promote transformational ideas, people and organizations, and advance social progress for women...  View Details
      Keywords: investment; Management; Mission And Purpose; Venture Capital
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      Siriwardane, Emil N., Emily R. McComb, and Eren Kuzucu. "Investing at Pivotal Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 221-033, October 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The European Commission's Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique

      By: Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse Fried and Charles Wang
      In July 2020, the European Commission published the “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” by EY. The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-termism in EU corporate governance and recommends many changes to support sustainable...  View Details
      Keywords: Short-termism; Hedge Funds; Securities Regulation; Agency Costs; Political Economy; Payouts; Repurchases; Corporate Governance; investment Activism; Research And Development; investment; European Union
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      Roe, Mark, Holger Spamann, Jesse Fried, and Charles Wang. "The European Commission's Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-056, October 2020.
      • October 2020
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      Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund

      By: Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn and Ari Sunshine
      In April 2020, Scott Einsenberg, the Head of Credit at the private equity firm Francisco Partners, is deciding whether to go ahead with extending a private lending agreement to Eventbrite, Inc. (NYSE: EB), a leading global event management and online ticketing...  View Details
      Keywords: Private Debt; Private Credit; Industry Evolution; Private Equity; investment; Analysis
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      Viceira, Luis M., John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn, and Ari Sunshine. "Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund." Harvard Business School Case 221-002, October 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting

      By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen
      No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical pattern in green patent...  View Details
      Keywords: Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; investment; Decision Making; Policy; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Patents
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      Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Quoc H. Nguyen. "The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27990, October 2020. (Winner of the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business – PVH Corp. Global Thought Leadership Grant on Corporate Social Responsibility, 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Private Equity and COVID-19

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
      We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Pandemics; Private Equity; Management; investment Portfolio; Performance; Decision Making; Value Creation
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      Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "Private Equity and COVID-19." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27889, October 2020.
      • October 2020
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      HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks

      By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks
      Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in...  View Details
      Keywords: Banking; Rural Entrepreneurship; Economic Development; Black Entrepreneurs; Economic Growth; Credit; Banks And Banking; Entrepreneurship; Rural Scope; Development Economics; Race; investment; Decision Making; Banking Industry
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      Macomber, John D., and Janice Broome Brooks. "HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks." Harvard Business School Case 221-030, October 2020.
      • September 2020
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      True North: Pioneering Analytics, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence

      By: Karim R. Lakhani, Kairavi Dey and Hannah Mayer
      True North was a private equity fund that specialized in the growth and buyout of mid-market, India-centric companies. The leadership team initially believed that technology was not core to traditional businesses and steered clear of new age technology-oriented...  View Details
      Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Technology; Management; Operations; Organizations; Leadership; Innovation And Invention; Business Model; Computer Industry; Technology Industry
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      Lakhani, Karim R., Kairavi Dey, and Hannah Mayer. "True North: Pioneering Analytics, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Case 621-042, September 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

      By: Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend and Yulia Zhestkova
      The treatment of foreign investors has been a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy in recent years. This paper examines foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley from a theoretical and empirical perspective. We model a setting where such funding may...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Corporate Venture Capital; Knowledge Spillovers; Innovation And Invention; Foreign Direct investment; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Policy; United States
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      Akcigit, Ufuk, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend, and Yulia Zhestkova. "Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-043, September 2020.
      • September 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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      Catalys Pacific

      By: Joshua Lev Krieger
      In 2019, BT Slingsby founds Catalys Pacific, the first biotech “venture creation” fund in Tokyo. After convincing some of the biggest Japanese pharmaceutical firms to invest, BT hopes the fund can make a big splash and transform biotechnology innovation in Japan. After...  View Details
      Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Biotech; Health Care; Entrepreneur; Venture Capital; Innovation; International Business; Entrepreneurial Finance; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Innovation Strategy; Venture Capital; Strategy; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Tokyo
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      Krieger, Joshua Lev. "Catalys Pacific." Harvard Business School Case 821-035, September 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Minerva 2004: Discovery

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing And Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices And Conditions; Biotechnology Industry
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      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Minerva 2004: Discovery." Harvard Business School Case 721-389, September 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
      We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare their survey answers to those provided by a large sample of...  View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Health Pandemics; investment; Decision Making; Surveys
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      Gompers, Paul A., Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. "Venture Capitalists and COVID-19." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27824, September 2020.
      • August 2020 (Revised December 2020)
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      Satrix: Competing in the Passive Asset Management Industry in South Africa

      By: Mark Egan, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
      In late 2017, Satrix, one of the largest passive asset management firms in South Africa and a pioneer in the industry since 2000, had to decide its strategy going forward in a market where passive asset management had become increasingly commoditized and...  View Details
      Keywords: Asset Management; investment funds; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; South Africa; Africa
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      Egan, Mark, Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha. "Satrix: Competing in the Passive Asset Management Industry in South Africa." Harvard Business School Case 221-020, August 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • August 2020
      • Case

      PayPal: The Next Chapter

      By: Michael Porter, Mark Kramer and Annelena Lobb
      Can a social purpose and stakeholder capitalism confer a powerful competitive advantage in the age of COVID-19? For PayPal, the answer is yes. After spinning off from eBay in a 2015 IPO, the company declared its purpose as "democratizing financial services" by ensuring...  View Details
      Keywords: Mission And Purpose; Finance; Business And Stakeholder Relations; Social Entrepreneurship; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry
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      Porter, Michael, Mark Kramer, and Annelena Lobb. "PayPal: The Next Chapter." Harvard Business School Case 721-378, August 2020.
      • July 2020
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      Mortgage Backed Securities and the Covid-19 Pandemic

      By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Dean Xu
      In April 2020, global financial markets were still reeling as the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the world. Global equity markets had initially fallen by 30% in response to the pandemic, and high-yield credit markets had dropped by nearly 20%. In contrast,...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Mortgage-backed Securities; Health Pandemics; Financial Markets; Assets; Resource Allocation; Financial Instruments; Decision Making
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      Siriwardane, Emil N., Luis M. Viceira, and Dean Xu. "Mortgage Backed Securities and the Covid-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 221-010, July 2020.
      • July 2020
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      CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (A)

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Yury Kapko
      This two-part case series follows CSL Capital’s 2009 investment in the greenfield manufacturing company, Patriot Proppants. CSL, a recently established investment firm, employs a unique investment model, funding new ("green field") energy service businesses that serve...  View Details
      Keywords: investment; Renewable Energy; Business Model; Decision Making
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      Ivashina, Victoria, and Yury Kapko. "CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (A)." Harvard Business School Case 220-094, July 2020.
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