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- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to go out and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2024
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Firm Foundation
firm specializes in building partnerships to help successful midsize and family-run businesses shape their legacies. “In my mind, the world doesn’t need another middle-market private equity firm,” Britt Cool says. “Companies that endure... View Details
- 14 Jul 2022
- News
Is It Time for Creditor Activism to Address ESG Risks?
- 15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Later, as a student at HBS, Stavros studied ESOPs: their initial popularity among private equity firms and their dramatic decline in use in the late 1980s. Stavros concluded that... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
the list. They could sell the company and donate all the money, for example, but then there would be no way to guarantee a new owner would maintain its core values. They could sell a minority stake to a like-minded private equity firm but... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
always rule. "If the CEO is overconfident, he will feel undervalued by the equity market, and an equity issue will seem too expensive," she observes. "An overconfident CEO will therefore end up investing... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- News
Home Grown
view (Granite Equity plans for businesses, including Granite Equity itself, to be sustainable for 100 years or more); and investment in community (often businesses owners or senior officials contribute to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
closely held businesses. And they want to grow them right where they are. The firm was founded by a group of 12 family business owners who were interested in creating a local ownership vehicle for retiring business owners. Generally,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
Benetton Brain Trust: After learning at the knee of his father, Luciano, Alessandro is taking the family business forward. Working for his family’s company, whose colorful sportswear and controversial advertising made it a brand of international renown, Alessandro... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Changing the way the world sees Africa
Teresa Clarke (AB 1984, JD 1987, MBA 1988) wants to reveal the real Africa. The chairman and CEO of Africa.com, the fastest growing Africa-related website, is working to change preconceptions about the world’s second-largest continent with over a billion people. “I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
some have suggested. “For one out of five of these sales, the process is really just about transferring ownership of an ongoing, operating enterprise to another owner,” says Gilson. “That’s exactly what happens in the market for mergers... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the company," Graham said. And two years later, when Meyer transferred ownership of the paper, his son-in-law received two-thirds and his daughter one-third of the shares. "My father believed that no man should ever have to work for his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Brazilian companies reveals a correlation between corporate statutes that protected small shareholders and less-concentrated ownership and control. Musacchio maintains that corporate governance rules help explain the peak in Brazil’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
1991 to 1994, he served as the first senior associate dean, director of financial and information systems, at HBS. He has coauthored five books and written nearly two hundred cases and articles. The Managerial Implications of Deregulation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
elections, yet the new owners had promised to find a way to finance and build a new home for the team. That Baer was able to help the ownership group keep that promise has to do, in no small part, with a well-honed instinct for marketing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
effective channel strategy, and produced high and increasing EBITDA margins. After holding it for eight years we decided to sell to the private equity firm Madison Dearborn, after the firm’s cofounder, Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982), made the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
Ron Mitchell says his most valuable learning experience at HBS did not take place in the classroom. Rather, it emerged from his work as student government president. "That's where I learned about working with people in a political and professional environment and about... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
innovative concepts and models (including The Managerial Target); and describes, interrelates, and integrates about 100 gurus’ major concepts, processes, models, and practices into a single unified practice of management model. The Speed... View Details