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      Welsh Water (B): General Information and Confidential Instructions for M. Harrington, Lead Negotiator for Welsh Water
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      • February 2021
      • Case

      Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO

      By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
      During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion....  View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Restructuring; Borrowing And Debt; private Equity; Bonds; Investment Return; Institutional Investing; Profit Sharing; Business History; Management Style; private ownership; Performance Effectiveness; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom, and John Masko. "Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO." Harvard Business School Case 821-016, February 2021.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Party-State Capitalism in China

      By: Margaret Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee Tsai
      The “state capitalism” model, in which the state retains a dominant role as owner or investor-shareholder amidst the presence of markets and private firms, has received increasing attention, with China cited as the main exemplar. Yet as models evolve, so has China’s...  View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; State Capitalism; Economic Systems; China
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      Pearson, Margaret, Meg Rithmire, and Kellee Tsai. "Party-State Capitalism in China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-065, November 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

      By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
      This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Model; Change; Disruption; Fluctuation; Trends; Customers; Customer Value And Value Chain; Ethics; Fairness; Finance; Equity; Insurance; private Equity; Geography; Geographic Scope; Health; Health Care And Treatment; Markets; Demand And Consumers; Supply And Industry; Industry Structures; ownership; ownership Type; private ownership; Relationships; Agency Theory; Business And Community Relations; Business And Shareholder Relations; Business And Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Strategy; Competition; Consolidation; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Value; Value Creation; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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      Fetter, Trevor, and Kira Seiger. "Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care." Harvard Business School Case 321-049, November 2020.
      • October 2020
      • Case

      TowerBrook: ESG in Action (A)

      By: Victoria Ivashina, Brian Trelstad and Meaghan Conway
      This case is the first of a two-part series that follows Ramez Sousou and his team at TowerBrook Capital Partners as they face a challenging investment decision in February of 2013. Since its founding, TowerBrook has prided itself on its purpose-driven investing...  View Details
      Keywords: Esg; Finance; private Equity; Corporate Governance; Value Creation; Investment; Decision Making
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      Ivashina, Victoria, Brian Trelstad, and Meaghan Conway. "TowerBrook: ESG in Action (A)." Harvard Business School Case 221-045, October 2020.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

      By: Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner and Ratnika Prasad
      A variety of factors is leading to fresh approaches to the ownership and management of forestland, with an emphasis on the combination of conservation goals and private investments. But the barriers to successfully achieving attractive financial returns and desirable...  View Details
      Keywords: Financing; Forestry; Environmental Management; Natural Resources; Financing And Loans
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      Baxter, Andrew, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner, and Ratnika Prasad. "Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-137, June 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Corporate Purpose in Public and Private Firms

      By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim
      Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private U.S. companies, we find that employee beliefs about their firm’s purpose is weaker in public companies. This difference is most pronounced within the salaried middle and...  View Details
      Keywords: Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Culture; Corporate Culture; Public And Private Organizations; Hedge Fund; Executive Pay; Organizational Culture; Mission And Purpose; Employees; Attitudes; ownership; Leadership; Executive Compensation
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      Gartenberg, Claudine, and George Serafeim. "Corporate Purpose in Public and Private Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-024, August 2019. (Revised July 2020.)
      • August 2019
      • Background Note

      Note on Shared Ownership

      By: Ethan Bernstein and Nick Rekenthaler
      While several tactics can drive company performance by instilling a sense of shared ownership among employees, perhaps the most direct is to actually share ownership with employees. Many public and private companies across industries have done just that, and studies...  View Details
      Keywords: Employee Stock ownership Plan; Human Resources; Employees; Human Capital; ownership; Cooperative ownership; Employee ownership; Customer ownership; Governance
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      Bernstein, Ethan, and Nick Rekenthaler. "Note on Shared Ownership." Harvard Business School Background Note 420-030, August 2019.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Does Public Ownership and Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs

      By: Rembrand Koning and John-Paul Ferguson
      Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators and the public should lead firms to conform to legal and social norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status...  View Details
      Keywords: Ipo; Initial Public Offering; Employees; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; United States
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      Koning, Rembrand, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Does Public Ownership and Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-071, January 2019.
      • January 2019
      • Article

      Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
      The economics of partnerships have been of enduring interest to economists, but many issues regarding intergenerational conflicts and their impact on the continuity of these organizations remain unclear. We examine 717 private equity partnerships and show that (a) the...  View Details
      Keywords: Partnerships; Leveraged Buyout; Partners And Partnerships; private Equity; Venture Capital; Leveraged Buyouts
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      Ivashina, Victoria, and Josh Lerner. "Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership." Journal of Financial Economics 131, no. 1 (January 2019): 61–87.
      • December 2018
      • Case

      CIR Group: Passing Wealth through the Generations

      By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Elena Corsi
      Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter held majority shares in GEDI, Italy’s largest print...  View Details
      Keywords: Succession Planning; Transferring Shares; Wealth Management; Holding Structures; Family ownership; ownership Stake; Management Succession; Governing And Advisory Boards; Policy; Media And Broadcasting Industry; Health Industry; Italy
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      Cohen, Lauren, Christopher J. Malloy, and Elena Corsi. "CIR Group: Passing Wealth through the Generations." Harvard Business School Case 219-060, December 2018.
      • 2018
      • Other Teaching and Training Material

      Finance Reading: Corporate Governance

      By: John Coates and Suraj Srinivasan
      Core Curriculum Readings in Finance cover the fundamental concepts, theories, and frameworks in finance. This reading presents an overview of corporate governance, focusing on for-profit businesses that are privately owned by dispersed investors—that is, not owned by a...  View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Corporate Governance; For-profit Firms; private ownership; Conflict Of Interests
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      Coates, John, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Finance Reading: Corporate Governance." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 5209, 2018.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Product Recalls and New Product Development: Own Firm Distractions and Competitor Firm Opportunities

      By: George P. Ball, Jeffrey T. Macher and Ariel Dora Stern
      Product recalls create significant challenges for R&D intensive firms, but simultaneously generate potentially lucrative opportunities for competitors. Using the U.S. medical device industry as an empirical setting, we develop predictions and provide evidence that own...  View Details
      Keywords: New Product Development; Recalls; Product Failures; Medical Devices; Fda; Health Care; Product Development; Product; Failure; Competition; Opportunities; Medical Devices And Supplies Industry
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      Ball, George P., Jeffrey T. Macher, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Product Recalls and New Product Development: Own Firm Distractions and Competitor Firm Opportunities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-028, September 2018. (Revised August 2020.)
      • September 2018
      • Teaching Note

      Blackstone at Age 30

      By: Josh Lerner
      This teaching note is meant to guide in the instruction of HBS No. 316-013 "Blackstone at 30" case. It examines the process of institutionalization and scaling in private equity and alternative investments more generally, looking specifically at how Blackstone's size...  View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Blackstone; Alternative Assets; Venture Capital; private Equity; Business Growth And Maturation; Public ownership; Cost Vs Benefits; Financial Services Industry
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      Lerner, Josh. "Blackstone at Age 30." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-053, September 2018.
      • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
      • Case

      National Storage Affiliates: The REIT IPO Decision

      By: Charles F. Wu, Max de la Bruyére and Gregory D. Himmel
      In 2015, two years after founding National Storage Affiliates (NSA), Arlen Nordhagen and Tamara Fischer had an important decision to make. Should they proceed with NSA’s IPO? Although they had targeted to receive $15–17 a share, it was now apparent that the figure was...  View Details
      Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Problems And Challenges; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry
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      Wu, Charles F., Max de la Bruyére, and Gregory D. Himmel. "National Storage Affiliates: The REIT IPO Decision." Harvard Business School Case 219-026, August 2018. (Revised September 2018.)
      • February 2018 (Revised April 2018)
      • Case

      Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise

      By: Michael Chu, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai and Yuanzhuo Wang
      This case tells the story of how Wang Minghui, Chairman of Yunnan Baiyao Group since 1999, transformed a single-product traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) state-owned enterprise (SOE) into a major diversified consumer health player in China's highly competitive...  View Details
      Keywords: State-owned Enterprise (soe); Competition; Traditional Chinese Medicine; Yunnan; Yunnan Baiyao; Consumer Health; Enterprise Transformation; Transformation; Health; Business History; State ownership; private ownership; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; China
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      Chu, Michael, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai, and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 318-078, February 2018. (Revised April 2018.)
      • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
      • Case

      Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

      By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
      This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; Payg; Microfinance; Mfi; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth And Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing And Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; ownership; ownership Stake; private ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
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      Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Amram Migdal. "Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment." Harvard Business School Case 318-003, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
      • January 2018 (Revised March 2018)
      • Case

      Wenzhou Kangning Hospital: Changing Mental Healthcare in China

      By: William C. Kirby, Wei Zhang, Yuanzhuo Wang and Nancy Hua Dai
      The city of Wenzhou in the Province of Zhejiang, long known in China for entrepreneurship, now hosts the country’s largest privately owned mental health hospital group. This case traces the development of Wenzhou Kangning Hospital Co, Ltd. from founding to just before...  View Details
      Keywords: Mental Health; Hospital; Ipo; China; Zhejiang; Wenzhou; Private Healthcare; Private Hospital; Health Care And Treatment; private ownership; Corporate Governance; Growth And Development; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; China
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      Kirby, William C., Wei Zhang, Yuanzhuo Wang, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Wenzhou Kangning Hospital: Changing Mental Healthcare in China." Harvard Business School Case 318-054, January 2018. (Revised March 2018.)
      • December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
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      Alltech

      By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
      Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech...  View Details
      Keywords: Alltech; United States; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Animal; Animal Agriculture; Animal Feed; Livestock; Family Business; Vertical Integration; Strategy; Growth; Feed Additives; Feed Supplements; Kentucky; Growth Strategy; Family Businesses; Animal-based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Business Growth And Maturation; Business Model; Change Management; Trends; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Growth And Development; Intellectual Property; Leadership; Management; Markets; Organizational Culture; private ownership; Science; Quality; Risk And Uncertainty; Research; Sales; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Kentucky; Brazil; China
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      Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Alltech." Harvard Business School Case 518-001, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
      • November 2017 (Revised April 2019)
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      Summa Equity: Building Purpose-Driven Organizations

      By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
      In 2015, Reynir Indahl left top Nordic private equity firm Altor Equity Partners to found Summa Equity (Summa). After long contemplation following the financial crisis, Indahl was convinced the financial system was producing negative externalities and that the current...  View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Purpose; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Social Impact; Social Enterprise; Private Equity; Investment Management; Finance; Capital Markets; Management Practices; Leadership; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Voice; Environmental Impact; Value Creation; private Equity; Social Enterprise; Finance; Capital Markets; Management Practices And Processes; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Innovation And Management; Entrepreneurship; Mission And Purpose; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Norway; Sweden; Scandinavia
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      Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "Summa Equity: Building Purpose-Driven Organizations." Harvard Business School Case 118-028, November 2017. (Revised April 2019.)
      • August 2017 (Revised January 2020)
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      Berkshire Partners: Party City

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
      In 2005, Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in growth equity, was one year into their ownership of Amscan, the market leader of designed, manufactured, and distributed decorated party goods and accessories. However, Amscan's primary...  View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Turnaround; Vertical Integration; Fundraising; Cross-fund Investment; private Equity; Vertical Integration; Governance; Valuation; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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      Ivashina, Victoria, and Jeffrey Boyar. "Berkshire Partners: Party City." Harvard Business School Case 218-028, August 2017. (Revised January 2020.)
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