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25 Jun 2018
Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

Aaron Scheinfeld, MBA 2019, did not launch a formal search for his summer internship. Yet he found an opportunity he is excited about, largely by pursuing the interests that come naturally to him. After two years with Morgan Stanley’s View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

02 Jan 2020
News

Empowering Rural Communities

photo by Brandon Thibodeaux Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and then as director of View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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HBS Course: Private Equity Finance

personalization tools to create numerous reports. Generous data download limit. See also: PE investors by investment criteria (industry, stage and geography) Other resources: VCPE Industry Highlights... View Details

William G. Mather

Mather headed the company for 50 years. He was instrumental in consolidating several mining operations into one powerful force. He also embarked on a major diversification program by investing in iron-ore View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

01 Jun 2016
News

Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street

out on an entrepreneurial path but was thwarted by the country’s lack of a finance and lending infrastructure. A similar shortcoming in the mortgage and lending industry also delayed his family’s ability to buy a house until his father... View Details

Keywords: Wall Street; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Mar 2007
News

Private Equity under Investigation

the taking of calculated risks based on limited information. Washington must understand that the many benefits private equity provides by facilitating economic growth are unlikely to be sustained if the heavy hand of government intrudes, whether through litigation or... View Details

Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

Profile

LaToya Marc

wanted a stable job that could provide that," she says. LaToya excelled at math, and both her father (who served in the Air Force) and her high-school guidance counselor encouraged her to go into engineering. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, LaToya majored... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

Rudina Seseri

Rudina Seseri is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, leading the firm’s investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled enterprise software as a service (SaaS), cloud, Information Technology (IT) software, and vertical... View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

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Athena Ko

When I was younger I was told I could do anything and have everything if I put my mind to it. So in the first thirty-odd years I went to Oxford, Harvard, had a good investment banking career, successfully... View Details

22 Feb 2017
News

Funding Solar’s Future

Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

February 2006
Case

Adams Capital Management: Fund IV

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

The partners of Adams Capital Management must decide whether to start their fourth fund in early 2006 or to hold off until they have realized more exits from the earlier funds and have proved the viability of a recent change in strategy. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Business Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry

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Educators

Purchase

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

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... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2013
News

Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986

Celeste Guth vividly recalls the day she received her acceptance letter to HBS. “When I opened the admissions packet, I was thrilled beyond belief,” shares Guth, a partner with global responsibility for the Financial Institutions group in Goldman Sach’s View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Changing the way the world sees Africa

became a managing director of the Goldman Sachs investment banking division in New York, leaving in 2010 to launch Africa.com. The website, which generates more than 6 million page views each month, presents... View Details

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Education Sector Opportunities at HBS - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged... View Details

February 2003 (Revised August 2005)
Case

UCB (A): Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey

This case presents a complex total MIS strategy case for a $3 billion European pharmaceutical/chemicals company based in Brussels. It covers corporate strategy alignment of IT portfolio, IT operations issues, and global coordination of IT. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; System; Corporate Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Globalization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Brussels

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Educators

Purchase

Profile

Rohan Gopaldas

experienced before, serving as an analyst with Global Leisure Partners, an investment bank and private-equity firm. "Bankers and investors play a large role in the hospitality industry," Rohan... View Details

29 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 29

of several international investors has put the group's ability to fund the deal in question. With time running out, Enelamah and the ACA investment committee must decide whether the Union Bank acquisition is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Fran Seegull Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results From Milton Friedman to Larry Fink—The Rise of Impact Investing Fran Seegull 31 May... View Details

18 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale

featured Stéphane Hallegatte, Senior Climate Change Advisor at the World Bank Climate Change Group, who started off the day by establishing that we need to focus on solutions, not doom and gloom. While it’s complicated to achieve change,... View Details

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