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  • November 2024
  • Case

Moonfare and the Democratization of Private Equity

By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu
Founded in 2016, Moonfare headquartered in Europe, was a pioneer in the “democratization” of private equity investments. Historically, private equity was accessible only to institutional investors like pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and large family... View Details
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  • 04 Jun 2018
  • Blog Post

How to Create a Presence Without Being Present

The professional job search is a deeply personal journey. For MBA job-seekers, direct engagement with potential employers is essential: they want you to know who they are, and they want to know who you are. Live, face-to-face encounters... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 2024
  • Chapter

Managing, Preserving, and Unlocking Wealth through FinTech

By: Grace Headinger, Lauren Cohen and Zhaoheng Gong
In nearly every generation, a sentiment like Einstein’s has been expressed as a cautionary tale to constrain the development and application of technology. In spite of these calls, technology has time and again proven its utility and ability to improve across and upon... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Technological Innovation; Finance
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  • 20 Oct 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Elizabeth Pontikes, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health

    John Macomber, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a veteran of the real estate industry, was studying ways to make workplaces safer for employees long before the Covid-19 crisis hit. Now that issues like air and water quality are top of... View Details
    • Web

    Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense" - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • September 2013 (Revised November 2013)
    • Case

    AngelList

    By: Ramana Nanda and Liz Kind

    In early 2010, Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi posted a list of angel investors on the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform for... View Details

    Keywords: Angel Investors; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 2012
    • Chapter

    Inflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization

    By: Nancy O. Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas
    What does it cost to build a great society? More pointedly, what does it cost to lose a great society? Since the War on Poverty began almost 50 years ago, investments in America’s communities have spurred those questions. Today we face a society more unequal than... View Details
    Keywords: Income Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Income; Residency; Poverty
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    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Life-Cycle Funds

    By: Luis M. Viceira
    The U.S. retirement system has experienced a substantial transformation in recent years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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    • June 2024 (Revised September 2024)
    • Case

    Driving Scale with Otto

    By: Rebecca Karp, David Allen and Annelena Lobb
    This case asks how startup founders make scaling decisions in light of their priorities for their business and for themselves. Otto was a technology company that applied artificial intelligence technology to sales. It deployed natural language processing to find sales... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing; B2B; B2B Innovation; Scaling; Scaling Tech Ventures; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Finance; Sales; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry; United States; Cambridge; New York (city, NY); Spain
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    • June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
    • Teaching Note

    Home Nursing of North Carolina

    By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
    In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details
    Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career
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    • Web

    Application Process - MBA

    plan to serve. (up to 300 words) Leadership-Focused Essay : What experiences have shaped who you are, how you invest in others, and what kind of leader you want to become? (up to 250 words) Growth-Oriented Essay : Curiosity can be seen in... View Details
    • 09 Jan 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: January 9, 2007

    Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Paul A. Gompers

      Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
      Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
      • November 2009
      • Case

      The HLB Turnaround

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Bhaskar Chakravorti and Laura Winig
      Ford Pearson has recently taken over as CEO of HLB, a Chicago-based product design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally... View Details
      Keywords: Business Organization; Business or Company Management; Private Equity; Restructuring; Product Design; Corporate Finance
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      • October 2003 (Revised December 2003)
      • Case

      Managing a 401(k) Fund

      By: Richard S. Ruback and Kathleen Luchs
      Focuses on an individual's decision to participate in his firm's 401(k) plan and how to invest his contributions. Plan participants have a choice of 10 mutual funds with different investment strategies. Includes data from Morningstar on the composition and performance... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment; Saving; Asset Management; Financial Management; Decision Making; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry
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      • 04 Apr 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research, April 4

      businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 02 Jan 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

      George Serafeim from more than 400 senior investment professionals provides insights into why and how investors use environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information as well as the challenges in using this information. Reinventing... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • Career Coach

      Phil Wong

      operational foundation for running healthcare practices. Prior to pivoting into healthcare, Phil was a portfolio manager at a fund of hedge funds managing $1Bn+ on behalf of pension plans and insurance companies. His investing role... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking
      • Teaching Interest

      Doing Business in Africa

      By: John D. Macomber

      This course introduces frameworks and models for smart and focused investing and operations across sectors, nations, industries, and time frames in Africa.   Students will learn tools and skills to help navigate the business landscape of Africa in terms of selection... View Details

      Keywords: Africa