Root Capital, Teaching Note

Rangan, V. Kasturi; Lee, Katherine

Teaching Note HBS-510090-E

Entrepreneurship

Teaching Note for [510035].

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Root Capital

Rangan, V. Kasturi; Lee, Katharine

Case HBS-510035-E

Entrepreneurship

To maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Founded in 1999, Root Capital had loaned $150 million to nearly 250 small and growing businesses, mainly in Latin America. In 2009, as the organization launched a five-year, $55 million capital campaign, it had to determine a strategic path going forward in keeping with its goal of achieving financial sustainability by 2013.

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CardioThoracic Systems, Teaching Note

Gourville, John T.

Teaching Note HBS-503092-E

Entrepreneurship

Teaching Note for (9-899-281).

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Myteam.com

Gourville, John T.; Lassiter, Joseph B.; Pirmohamed, Taz

Case HBS-503026-E

Entrepreneurship

Elliot Katzman is faced with the need to raise cash and cut spending to develop his online amateur sports software application, Myteam.com. Even with powerful allies such as Little League and Coca-Cola, "big deals with big players" had not kept the company from running out of cash. Katzman was determined to keep his dream alive.

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Managing Innovation, a Balanced Scorecard Reader

Article HBS-2692-E

Entrepreneurship

Balanced Scorecards--and the strategy formulation approaches that complement them--are increasingly being used to make innovation happen. The discipline of managing innovation as a core process, one that is fully integrated with the enterprise's other functions and activities, is still in its infancy. We can expect to see much innovation in this area in the future. In every industry, innovation is the engine that drives growth and constant change...

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A Note on Franchising (Abridged)

Gompers, Paul A.

Case HBS-217059-E

Entrepreneurship

Examines the motivations for franchising. Examines the academic literature in the area and draws implications for franchising patterns. Also provides data on franchising patterns.

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Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Lietz, Nori Gerardo; Andrade, Ricardo

Case HBS-217035-E

Entrepreneurship

Partners Group ("PG"), a Swiss based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number of large US based private equity firms followed to create a new category of firms; public private equity firms (PPEs). PG's results were superlative (565% since inception total r...

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Home Nursing of North Carolina

Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, Royce

Case HBS-212120-E

Entrepreneurship

Ari Medoff's (HBS '11) goal was to control his own professional destiny by owning his own company. His search identified a suitable acquisition in Home Nursing of North Carolina, and he had negotiated a purchase price of $3.5 million, or 4.2x trailing EBITDA. Medoff had completed his due diligence, arranged financing, and completed the legal documents required to complete the acquisition and anticipated closing the transaction in just a few weeks...

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Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Moon, Youngme

Article HBS-F0403A-E

Entrepreneurship

Sony's first household robot, AIBO, couldn't do much of anything useful. By reframing AIBO as a pet, the company found a way to capitalize on the product's imperfections and attract an unusually diverse group of new customers.

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Harvard Business Publishing

Case HBS-CC0006-E

Entrepreneurship

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