Across
- 2. Startup investment agreement
- 5. RC pastime tracking predictable comments
- 6. Parallel project component
- 7. Luxury NYC street
- 10. Bank debt with a set maturity
- 11. Annual Labor Day weekend trip destination
- 12. Result of SPF neglect
- 14. Asset value reduction on the books
- 18. Baywatch role
- 22. Asian TikTok DJ
- 23. Schedule for equity ownership rights
- 30. Burj café dessert
- 31. Fictional West Egg millionaire
- 32. Feeling when skipping a trek
- 33. Competitive scramble among tech giants
- 34. Early entrant advantage
- 35. Island off the coast of Tanzania
- 37. Hybrid debt/equity financing layer
- 39. Student talks sometimes dubbed “Trauma Olympics”
- 40. First FIN1 case
- 42. Popular HBS communication platform
- 44. Popular dating competition show
- 48. Main HBS teaching method
- 51. Body-swap comedy sequel
- 53. Top academic honor at HBS graduation
- 54. Green tea espresso alternative
- 55. Monthly cash outflow for a startup
- 56. Tech-heavy index
- 58. JPMorgan Chase CEO
- 59. Host city for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
Down
- 1. Hottest 2025 FIELD location (temperature-wise)
- 3. Standard Oil founder
- 4. Energy firm whose collapse spurred Sarbanes-Oxley
- 5. Market with little competition
- 8. Continuous improvement in Japanese manufacturing
- 9. Ability to raise rates without losing customers
- 13. Hibachi chain taken public by Rocky Aoki in 1983
- 14. Recurring case protagonist
- 15. Ending contact without explanation
- 16. Bubbly probiotic brew
- 17. Combined value creation
- 19. Startup valued at $1B+
- 20. Federal Reserve vice chair
- 21. Infamous TOM case, familiarly
- 24. Influencer who visited HBS in spring 2025
- 25. Spiky-haired collectible
- 26. Period before IPO insiders can sell shares
- 27. Value of a public company
- 28. Group of 90 students during RC year
- 29. Longest day of the year
- 36. Brain cell that transmits signals
- 38. Entrepreneurship's biggest fan
- 41. Taylor Swift's new album
- 43. Surname behind a “Five Forces” framework
- 45. LEAD workshop simulation
- 46. Earnings metric used in valuation multiples
- 47. Funding model pioneered at Stanford in 1984
- 49. TOM factory location
- 50. Worst thing to get when you haven't read a case
- 51. Framework explaining why white-collar crimes occur
- 52. RC classroom building
- 57. Evening beach gathering