Search results
-
How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Venture Opportunities
Roberts, Michael J.; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-805019-EEntrepreneurshipFour venture capitalists from leading Silicon Valley firms are interviewed about the frameworks they use to evaluate potential venture opportunities. Questions include: How do you evaluate the venture's prospective business model? What due diligence do you conduct? What is the process through which funding decisions are made? What financial analyses do you perform? What role does risk play in your evaluation? and How do you think about a potentia...Starting at €8.20
-
PCAOB Efforts to Improve Audit Quality (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Dey, Aiyesha; Healy, Paul M.Teaching Note HBS-119017-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for cases 118108 and 118109.Starting at €0.00
-
Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations
Dey, Aiyesha; Heese, Jonas; Weber, JamesCase HBS-120006-EEntrepreneurshipStephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their employees by examining company data on employees, including email traffic. Starling had struggled to grow in the people analytics sector while RegTech was an emerging sector that might pro...Starting at €8.20
-
Fake News at DER SPIEGEL (A), (B) and (C), Teaching Note
Dey, Aiyesha; Heese, JonasTeaching Note HBS-120064-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for cases 120001, 120002 and 120005.Starting at €0.00
-
The Rise and Fall of FTX
Dey, Aiyesha; Heese, Jonas; Pacelli, Joseph; Hancock, MaxCase HBS-124014-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn November 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried's multi-billion-dollar crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed, wiping out investors and throwing the crypto industry into disarray. As FTX's founder and CEO, Bankman-Fried developed a reputation for his unerring business sense and high-profile charitable giving. To many, it came as a shock when in the wake of FTX's collapse, the attorney responsible for restructuring the company professed he had never seen "such an ut...Starting at €8.20
-
Board Diversity at Amazon (B)
Dey, Aiyesha; Atluru, AnuCase HBS-121013-EAccounting and ControlStarting at €5.74
-
Texas Pacific Group--J. Crew
Roberts, Michael J.; Sahlman, William A.; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-808017-EFinanceDescribes Texas Pacific Group's purchase and operation of J. Crew, the catalog and specialty clothing retailer. Highlights the issues involved in financing such a transaction, and then focuses on the operational challenges of turning around the business, and of TPG's intensive involvement in the running of the business. Details the improvements in the business, and then the retrenchment, leaving the business facing a significant debt payment comi...Starting at €8.20
-
Entrepreneurship Reading: Partnering with Venture Capitalists, Teaching Note
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Roberts, Michael J.Teaching Note HBS-8241-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for product #8240.Starting at €0.00
-
Analyzing New Venture Opportunities
Roberts, Michael J.Case HBS-809163-EEntrepreneurshipThe note describes a systematic process for framing and researching the issues that should be analyzed in the course of considering a new venture idea.Starting at €8.20
-
Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd (Abridged)
Roberts, Michael J.Case HBS-810114-EEntrepreneurshipThe case describes 2 individuals who have met and are in the process of starting a company together. Each is still at his/her former employer, and each has signed a different employment agreement that on paper may prohibit some contemplated acts - i.e., soliciting customers or employees. The case focuses on how individuals should think about leaving their employers in general and how these specific legal agreements may impact the situation in thi...Starting at €8.20