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Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund, Teaching Note
Perold, Andre F.; Ivashina, VictoriaTeaching Note HBS-210065-EFinanceTeaching Note for [209088].Starting at €0.00
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Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund
Ivashina, Victoria; Perold, Andre F.Case HBS-209088-EFinanceIn December 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Rosetree Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages from banks and other motivated sellers. The idea was to purchase mortgage loans at a discount and to work with individual borrowers to restructure their debts. Performing mortgages...Starting at €8.20
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Kaspi.kz IPO
Ivashina, Victoria; Cekin, EselCase HBS-220007-EFinanceThis case follows Kaspi.kz, a private equity (Baring Vostok) co-owned retail bank in Central Asia that evolved into a fintech, payments and e-commerce company. It provides insights into private equity financing, portfolio company management, and initial public offering practices. In particular, the case focuses on (i) the bank's journey from a traditional bank that serviced only corporations to an online platform, and (ii) the timing and process ...Starting at €8.20
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Just Trying to Help (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Kirby, Julia; Buckingham, Marcus; Bischmann, Joanne; Kolind, Lars; Blomquist, TomasArticle HBS-R0606A-ELeadership and People ManagementEvery year, at the annual summit of Ralston Crane's marketing group, Chief Marketing Officer Ruth McViney homes in on an important organizational objective. Last year, the architecture and design firm was focused on green building initiatives. This year, Ruth says, is the year of customer loyalty. Toward the end of her keynote remarks, she introduces two kickoff projects. The goals of one, Project Holding Pattern, sound familiar to Ralston's Guy ...Starting at €8.20
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TPG China: Daphne International
Ivashina, VictoriaCase HBS-813055-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color.Starting at €8.20
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Inventing HBR
Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1211E-EHarvard Business Review was launched in 1922 by a Harvard Business School dean who wanted to equip managers-in-training with better tools of the trade. Its initial print run was only 6,000 copies, and its initial subscription price--$5--was a point of contention between the dean and his outside publisher. For the next 25 years the magazine barely broke even. But between its founding and World War II, the HBS faculty became competent at translatin...Starting at €8.20
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Beyond Automation
Davenport, Thomas H.; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1506C-EPeople in all walks of life are rightly concerned about advancing automation: Unless we find as many tasks to give humans as we find to take away from them, all the social and psychological ills of joblessness will grow, from economic recession to youth unemployment to individual crises of identity. What if, the authors ask, we were to reframe the situation? What if we were to uncover new feats that people might achieve if they had better think...Starting at €8.20
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Wall Street Is No Friend to Radical Innovation
Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-F1007D-EHow Wall Street stifles innovation.Starting at €8.20
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Runaway Capitalism
Meyer, Christopher; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1201C-EEconomicsCapitalism remains the most powerful, flexible, and robust system for driving broad-based prosperity and enhancing quality of life. But keeping capitalism on track will depend on our ability to rethink the priorities that guide everyone in the system, from entrepreneurs to regulators to investors. In particular we will need to throttle back the headlong pursuits of competition and ROE, and that process begins with recognizing them for what they a...Starting at €8.20
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HCA, Inc. LBO Exit
Ivashina, VictoriaCase HBS-813056-EEntrepreneurshipThis case discusses the events following the 2006 $33.2 billion buyout of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) by a consortium of private equity firms, including Bain Capital, KKR, and Merrill Lynch's private equity arm. The case highlights some of the core features of private equity investing. The first objective of the case is to allow students to understand a range of issues associated with the process of exit through an initial public offeri...Starting at €8.20