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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
this platform so that other papers can come in? Maybe that means bringing in local investors and building a cap pooled fund at the state level so we can make other acquisitions. Maybe that means transitioning to a nonprofit, or spinning... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
helped create this situation. Or as Calvin Young (MBA 2015), a Baltimore native and 2016 mayoral candidate who now works at the private equity firm Green Street Impact Partners, puts it, “there was real... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
a private upstream-energy company in Houston. Within months, I discovered that principals were using raised funds for personal benefit. I resigned, even though the energy industry was in an economic downturn... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Two HBS Alumni to Lead Carlyle Group
will become co-executive chairmen. “We are fully committed to and confident in the firm’s future and will continue to be substantial investors in Carlyle funds for years to come,” the founders of the 30-year-old View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
the donut shop business that my second year of business school, I accompanied my dad to a meeting with a private equity firm in New York. My dad was asking a million-and-a-half dollars for the business. He... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
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
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
rise of private equity here and abroad hasn’t gone unchallenged. The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether buyout deals involving multiple private-equity firms are anticompetitive. In... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Think globally, crowdfund locally
E ric Sonnier (MBA 2014) cofounded Local Lift (formerly Equity Endeavor) to help small businesses find the resources to make enhancements to their operations. The crowdfunding platform Sonnier launched with HBS classmate Broderick... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- News
Home Grown
Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
its competitors in the hunt for talent in the high-stakes, trilliondollar finance industry. Ratio’s focus is on search for private equity and hedge fund firms, and its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
students consider topics such as deal sourcing, due diligence, deal structuring, governance issues, and the all-important question of how private equity firms create value. And in a mini-module on... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
last decade. It was founded by an entrepreneur who, as he was approaching age 65, was starting to do some life and estate planning. After poking around to find the successor and the next board and CEO, he chose Granite Equity over... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
New Post for Finnegan
Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm. “Harvard means a great deal to me, and I’m grateful for this opportunity to help guide its future,” said Finnegan, a 1975 graduate of the College. View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
we could donate to a cultural institution in one of those cities. "We either go very deep with an artist or fund ideas that support the industry in an overarching way," Evans notes. To accomplish these goals, Evans has raised View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
(founded in 2013) and too small (valuation of $55 million) to pass muster for listing on any exchange. But for the 1,080 people who otherwise would have been shut out of owning a piece of the startup—lacking the wealth or credentials to invest in a View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Hollywood and Humility
found a niche: It turned to Wall Street and private equity for capital while establishing its own talent relationships and keeping creative control over MRC-produced content. Asked about his philosophy of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building businesses that benefit a community as well as the bottom line
Richard Sussman (GMP 12, 2012) is using his work in private equity to guide start-up firms toward benefiting others as they grow their businesses (Published April 2014) View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
affected Avance as well. Happily, Perez notes, the private equity firm is now thriving as Latinx businesses are recovering. Perez cofounded Avance with his HBS classmate Luis A. Zaldivar (MBA 1996), with... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
Aravaipa Ventures, a fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in Colorado. Fenwick-Smith had private equity know-how but had never been involved in... View Details
Keywords: April White