Search Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for "Data-driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen" with Dimitris J. Bertsimas, Omar Skali Lami, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, et al. Edward McFowland III : Recipient of a 2018 Adobe Faculty Research Award , a... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

all." In this episode of Skydeck, Platzer and I talk about how he built that mission, how it culminated in the founding of Spire, and what advice he'd give to anyone who is still searching for their own mission. READ MORE DM: When you... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching. Lauren H. Cohen : “AQR’s Momentum Funds (A)” (HBS Case 211-025) with Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Christopher Malloy was selected as a Case Centre Bestselling... View Details

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

a sewing factory. I was 14 when she was laid off from her sewing machine factory job. Because I was proficient in English and had computer skills, I helped her to look for another job, which included searching online and writing resumes... View Details

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical... View Details

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

Climate Stories Episode #15 – Hilton Augustine III - Finding and Funding Climate Technology Solutions Episode 15 of Climate Stories focuses on recent HBS alumnus, Hilton Augustine III. A veteran of consulting, electric vehicle... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Momentum Funds (A)” (HBS Case 211-025) with Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Christopher Malloy was selected as a Case Centre Bestselling Finance, Accounting and Control Case in 2021. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2021 John L.... View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

innovative ideas?'" Firms don’t need to necessarily fund their own research, but they should think about hiring some employees well-versed in their field’s scientific landscape to help source, read, and understand the scientific... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

funds to support them. As these students search for role models, they would do well to look to their benefactor, who worked his way up from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the business world. Ann M.... View Details

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

of his employees. It’s also delivered by way of a program that creates access to earned wages before payday to alleviate the need for payday loans, a commitment to annual wage increases, and an emergency assistance fund to get people... View Details

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

advise/prevent you against doing something completely stupid." Another experienced VC suggests that some founders may simply not know what their funding options really are: "The reason people usually go to [family and friends]... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

searched for new brand stories to tell that better reflected the new cultural environment. Consumers largely agreed with this decision, with 77 percent claiming that brands in their marketing communications should not ignore or turn a... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

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Harvard Business School

culminated in his role as COO, where he directed the historic merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand. After retiring from PwC, Brittain founded the executive search and consulting firm Professional Resources on Demand. A... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

Groysberg. "The stipend, the budget, the library - there are faculty at other schools who don't get the same level of assistance."That assistance means students can take on the topics that interest them most without worrying about funding... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

convince others to join your company?” Attracting high-quality talent is an important challenge for any young firm, and it’s critical to establishing reputation and growth. Simply publicizing a well-known venture capital firm as a funding... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

investment banks, and consultancies that once shunned the practice and from the increasing influence of proxy advisory firms. But it was the many institutional investors who eventually embraced activists in their search for better returns... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

Career Coach

Ryan Kim

independent sponsor private equity firm and completed a self-funded search to buy a regional automotive installation services business which he operated as President. Prior to that, Ryan worked in large and mid cap private equity, led... View Details

Keywords: Search Fund; Search Fund; Search Fund; Search Fund; Search Fund; Search Fund; Search Fund; Search Fund

10 Aug 2022
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Generosity Multiplied

the Reeds had hoped. “The idea then had been to donate £1 million from our Reed Foundation to the Big Give, and tell all the charities listed, ‘We will match every pound donated to you, up to £1 million,’” says Reed. “This was switched on in November 2008, and the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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