Fund Of Hedge Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

accounting developments, as well as techniques for improving group process — like a Six Sigma Black Belt for directors. A fee of one one-hundredth of one cent per share on the current volume View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

“social” prong of their environmental, social, and governance aspirations. But Honest Jobs still struggles to attract funding from firms beyond the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions. “I was making it to the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

venture funding while others raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Course Content Through a series of case studies and intimate conversations... View Details

Profile

Casey Gerald

cities and towns not (yet) known for entrepreneurship. Throughout the summer of 2013, the MBAs Across America team will travel across country in an RV, making week-long stops to record and promote the stories View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Retail; Nonprofit / Government

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Danny Lipsitz

At Columbia, Danny Lipsitz pursued a major not commonly associated with business: classics. “I had a terrific Latin teacher in high school who drew me in,” he says. In college, Danny sustained his interest in the classics and wrote his thesis on “the mythologization... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

L. John Doerr (MBA '76) is widely recognized as one of the country's preeminent venture capitalists. A partner in the California VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KPCB), he is known for backing startups that presaged entire... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

offers four humanitarian Rainbows of Hope, personal and ambitious projects that have yet to reach fruition: the Hope Scholarship, which provides funds to help eligible high school graduates attend college;... View Details

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Powerful Ideas - Annual Report 2014

of the freedom that the School’s internal funding of research provides. Individual scholarship has yielded groundbreaking concepts such as competitive strategy and the balanced... View Details

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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

equity and buyouts, also touching on closely related investing strategies such as distress and private debt. Students will examine a wide variety of investment settings: from lower middle market companies to mega-cap, from the United... View Details

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Field Course: Venture Capital Journey - Course Catalog

Fundraising with high net worth and institutional Limited Partners (LPs) and how funds evolve over time. Recent innovations, including the role of incubators and accelerators, investor/operator funds,... View Details

Fast Answer

Sustainable investing and ESG resources

by ERM, this report synthesizes survey responses from investors and companies to assess the value and quality of ESG ratings from leading ratings firms. ESG data (public company focus) MSCI ESG Research This platform includes access... View Details

02 Dec 2021
News

Learning Curve

Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to invest the private equity... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. It’s trendy to say that Silicon Valley is over—that this place and the philosophy that it became is past its apex, and... View Details

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Europe - Global Activities 2021

platform aimed at newcomers and employers in need of low-skilled jobs for short-term contracts. Funded by angel investors, the for-profit enterprise uses a business approach to solve one View Details

27 Jan 2023
News

Turning Up the Volume

When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty to fill the role until a... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 2011
News

A Modest Tax Proposal

build factories, or create jobs in the United States. Our economy needs all of these. —HBS senior lecturer Robert C. Pozen is a longtime investment executive, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and coauthor View Details

Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance policies, under consumer-driven... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

those needs as well as the geopolitical challenges of saving the entire planet, not just the developed world. Questions coming out of the panel include: How can readers/attendees contribute to some View Details

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

within the euro zone. This is hardly a recipe for growth, especially at a time of severe fiscal tightening. Moreover, European banks are in a difficult position. Depositors in countries that are seen as candidates to abandon the euro are... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

how sensitive corporations are likely to be to facing a negative rate of return on their cash holdings. But the goal would be more to trigger behavior that feeds that economy rather than raising revenue for the government. Ideally, firms... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

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