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- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
with a PhD after completing my masters at the London School of Economics. From London, I moved to New York and worked in consulting at Deloitte, and then to San Francisco to join a mid-market private equity... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
re-nominating one male director and the second by expanding the board by one in anticipation of further retirements—that would solve the supply problem by creating 1,000 new board seats. The 19.9 percent quickly becomes 40 percent if women are considered first for... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
which provides safety and environmental services and products to the energy industry, knew the city from his undergraduate days at Rice University. He moved back in 2010, and when he did, his mentor, L. E. Simmons (MBA 1972), president of a Houston-based View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for private equity. There is not enough of a track record of cash... View Details
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
enable companies to carefully control the compensation of executives and the percentage of that compensation derived from option grants. Fixed value plans are therefore ideal for the many companies that set executive pay according to studies performed by compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
common. Each of the successful organizations they studied, including Mobil, CIGNA, and Duke Children's Hospital, used the balanced scorecard to align and focus all resources on strategy. The authors document how executives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
side, I probably could have done more, but I wouldn’t change my balance if I had to do it over again. You learn a lot by looking through a spreadsheet and talking to classmates about the work they actually did when they were working in View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Seattle-based Elevar Equity. Her childhood summers in the Philippines, with its extreme poverty and extreme wealth, inspired an interest in development; a career in private equity and investment banking had... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in documented crimes against women in India. Our evidence suggests that this increase is good news, driven primarily by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
show that the decline in auctions was not driven by changes in the type of sellers and items. Instead, seller incentives changed. We estimate the demand facing individual sellers at different points in time and document falling sale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
Valley, California, Western Technology Investment (WTI) specialized in a hybrid form of debt and equity financing for early-stage companies. Like traditional venture capital and private View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
founders. 23 However, in the case of the agent-led focused firms, the entrepreneurs' ownership stakes had been diluted by issuing new equity to fund expansion. Owner-managed focused firms also financed their growth by issuing additional... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community
of course, classes such as The Entrepreneurial Manager, Founder’s Journey, and Venture Capital & Private Equity helped me understand not only business decisions, but also the personal life and tradeoffs... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
crowd-funding and the end of the prohibition of solicitation for private placements." What the iCrowd founders have learned, however, is that laws may be passed quickly, but their implementation can take time. In the case of the JOBS Act,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
focused on the white goods affiliate Arçelik. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-102 Brentwood Associates: Exiting Zoës Kitchen The case discusses the trade-offs associated with the different... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
from true private equity operations; the other is a government agency charged with creating a clean energy economy for the United States. Each opportunity will help Iris achieve her long-term goal of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
prevalent Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648 The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves By: Greenwood, Robin, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen Abstract—We document a strong effect... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17
Susie Mulder at NIC+ZOE Susie Mulder must decide how to lead NIC+ZOE-the women's apparel brand she had recently joined as CEO-from its start-up phase into a disciplined growth phase. With growing revenues, a successful product line, and savvy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
Co Seteng My ClimateCAP project is focused on the "missing middle" of climate funding, where Series B+ companies often have trouble raising capital because their risk return profile may not be suitable for traditional private View Details