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Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital
Nicholas, Tom; Chen, DavidCase HBS-812110-EFinanceFollowing the lean years of the Great Depression when bankruptcies proliferated and financing for new ventures virtually dried up, new demand for capital was created in a post-War environment of scientific and industrial expansion. Venture funding occurred more widely in the United States than it ever had done before. While the roots of the American venture capital industry are long-standing and multifaceted, they are frequently traced back to th...Starting at €8.20
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Venture Capital at the Harvard Management Company in Historical Perspective
Hardymon, G. Felda; Nicholas, Tom; Fouka, VasilikiCase HBS-815047-EFinanceThe compromise between capital preservation and growth has always been central to the performance of the Harvard endowment. Setting an institutional structure for effectively governing this compromise became especially important when the Harvard Management Company began operating in July of 1974. HMCs investments in venture capital, which began within a decade, created tensions around risk-return tradeoffs. HMC grappled with issues surrounding sh...Starting at €8.20
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Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King
Nicholas, Tom; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-816050-EFinanceMichael Milken, an investment banker who dominated the junk bond market in the 1980s, was sentenced to jail in 1990 after pleading guilty to a number of securities and tax related felonies. In the preceding decade, Milken had helped usher in a new wave of leveraged buy outs (LBOs) and greatly changed the structure of corporate America. By the late 1980s though, Milken and junk bonds became more heavily scrutinized, and Milken was eventually impli...Starting at €8.20