HBSP (USA)
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Pathfinder Capital
Sahlman, William A.; Janower, AndrewCase HBS-396067-EEntrepreneurshipTwo former consultants have raised a search fund and are looking for a company to buy and run. After eight months of looking at deals, they have just signed a letter of intent to buy the second largest book retail chain in Canada in a turnaround situation. They must now decide whether to go through with the deal and, if so, how to raise the necessary financing.Starting at €8.20
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Accounting for Loan Losses at JPMorgan Chase: Predicting Credit Costs, Teaching Note
Heese, Jonas; Kang, Jung KooTeaching Note HBS-124039-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for 123042.Starting at €0.00
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Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup
Healy, Paul M.; Kang, Jung KooCase HBS-124015-EAccounting and ControlThe case explores the challenges of revenue recognition and financial reporting for Stride Funding (Stride), a fintech startup that has disrupted the student loan market. Stride leveraged proprietary machine learning and financial models to underwrite alternative student loans via Income Sharing Agreements (ISA). Under an ISA, borrowers agree to share a portion of their future earned income with a lender for a set period of time. Stride has adopt...Starting at €8.20
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Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup, Teaching Note
Kang, Jung KooTeaching Note HBS-124058-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for case 124015.Starting at €0.00
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Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William A.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-809004-EFinanceBy 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars required by his portfolio companies, he wondered how he should position his firm at this stage of development. Should Khosla develop a new fund that focused on later-stage investments?...Starting at €8.20
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Foro Energy (A)
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William A.; McQuade, JamesCase HBS-812136-EEntrepreneurshipForo Energy developed proprietary and patent-pending fiber-laser technologies that could disrupt existing processes and services for the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. These breakthrough laser technologies were protected by a strong intellectual property (IP) portfolio, which provided Foro with the flexibility to pursue a number of different business models. The market potential for oilfield applications was large, as global s...Starting at €8.20
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TerraPower
Sahlman, William A.; Nanda, Ramana; Lassiter, Joseph B.; McQuade, JamesCase HBS-813108-EEntrepreneurshipJohn Gilleland, CEO of TerraPower, returned to his office after a lengthy meeting with potential investors. It was October 2012, and TerraPower was in the process of raising a $200M Series C round to finance the ongoing development of its next-generation nuclear reactor. Though early in the fundraising process, Gilleland noted that this most recent conversation was similar to conversations with other interested cleantech growth equity investors. ...Starting at €8.20
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WebTracker (Spanish version)
Sahlman, William A.; Roberts, Michael J.Case HBS-917S02EntrepreneurshipThis case describes the evolution of a tech startup, WebTracker, and focuses on the decision of two aspiring entrepreneurs (Julie Stern and Mark Foster) who have just received offers for Venture Capital (VC) financing for the company. These offers, or term sheets, are similar in some respects and different in others. The two firms offering financing are also different. The heart of the case involves comparing these term sheets and determining the...Starting at €8.20
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Reviving Entrepreneurship
Lerner, Josh; Sahlman, William A.Article HBS-R1203K-EEntrepreneurshipNew enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging from capital markets to tax treatment to intellectual property to health care. Their decisions could shore up--or further weaken--what has long been America's greatest economic ass...Starting at €8.20
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Mt. Auburn Partners Search Fund
Sahlman, William A.; Heath, DanCase HBS-805030-EEntrepreneurshipProvides background on search funds and follows two partners as they try to raise financing for a search fund.Starting at €8.20