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Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers
By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor
We examine long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors between 1993 and 2006. Abnormal returns surrounding investor activism are high for the subset of targets that are acquired ex-post, but not... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance
Greenwood, Robin, and Michael Schor. "Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers." 2007.
- 01 May 2013
- News
Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976
working as a securities analyst for Merrill Lynch in Asia, running a private equity firm, and serving as managing director of a Hong Kong merchant bank. In 1998, she founded StarVest Partners, a New York... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
beekeeping demonstrations and training. It purchases honey at fair-trade prices and also processes, packages, and distributes the honey to markets. HCA’s business model, which is being replicated in other African countries, places an... View Details
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Eileen Stephan
challenges MBA students, alumni and other job seekers encounter, and has extensive insight into how businesses approach talent acquisition. Eileen holds a BA in History and International Relations from Boston University. She lives in... View Details
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
raised from private sources of equity and debt financing. According to Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero has resources to... View Details
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Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) - Course Catalog
open to negotiations, the sources of equity investments, including search funds, private equity partnerships and individual investors. We will also learn about the due... View Details
- 18 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the HBS Search Summit
Private Equity and Entrepreneurship Clubs, hosted the inaugural HBS Search Summit. The event provided a forum for nearly 150 students, searchers, entrepreneurs, investors, faculty, thought leaders and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a greater impact,” explains Hoffer. Lyme Timber, a Hanover, New... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
community. There's also Earl Junior (MBA '88)-known more familiarly as Butch - the president and COO of the family's company, Earl G. Graves, Ltd., which includes the magazine, a private equity fund, and a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
skills development." Other essentials for governments, Donovan said, are a willingness to privatize businesses, and to follow the rule of law "as opposed to the rule of individual parties and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
The Alumni Network at HBS
My name is Carl Culicchia and I am from Madisonville, LA. I went to Middlebury College for my undergraduate degree and worked for a private equity firm prior to HBS. I came to HBS because I thought it was... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- News
The Power of Education
Attendance at Harvard reunions requires a little extra time from Robert Howard and his wife, Dr. Brenda Pagán-Durán. “This year, our 20th Reunion at Harvard College happened a week before my 15th at HBS,” says Howard, head of Equity... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
Joyner to Receive Harvard’s DuBois Medal
partner of Avid Partners, a San Francisco firm that provides strategic consulting services for private equity and venture funds. Also a former member of the Obama administration’s Committee on the Arts and... View Details
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Introducing the HBS Heartland Club - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+... View Details
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International Job Search Resources
or screening for HBS alumni (under Education: Colleges/Universities). Additional details about Capital IQ screening. Preqin If you are searching for private equity or venture capital investors, Preqin... View Details
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Stamps Reading Room | About
decade learning the ropes of venture capital in Chicago and Boston. By 1984 he was ready to launch his own endeavor and asked his colleague, Steve Woodsum, to join him in the founding of Summit Partners. Today, Summit is a leading, Boston-based View Details
- November 1998 (Revised July 1999)
- Case
Spyder Active Sports, Inc. and CHB Capital Partners (B)
By: John A. Davis, Louis B. Barnes and Peter K. Botticelli
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Equity; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry
Davis, John A., Louis B. Barnes, and Peter K. Botticelli. "Spyder Active Sports, Inc. and CHB Capital Partners (B)." Harvard Business School Case 899-111, November 1998. (Revised July 1999.)
- January 2008
- Case
Parks Capital - Investment in US Retail, Inc.
Parks Capital acquired a Children's Apparel Manufacturer , American Child Clothing Manufacturers, Inc. (ACCM), in 2001. Two years later ACCM's largest retail customer, U.S. Retail, Inc., decided to evaluate strategic alternatives due to financial difficulties. Parks... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Value and Value Chain; Private Equity; Vertical Integration; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States
El-Hage, Nabil N., and Stephen Parks. "Parks Capital - Investment in US Retail, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 208-104, January 2008.
- June 2017
- Teaching Note
The U-Turns of National Truck Stops
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Alexander W. Schultz
Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (“NTS”) as a senior member of Oaktree Capital Management’s (“Oaktree”) Mezzanine finance business within their Corporate Debt platform. It was the first time... View Details