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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

years of 35 percent compounded increases in sales and earnings. Now on the New York Stock Exchange, with revenues of $1.2 billion, profits of $62 million, and a return on equity of 43 percent, the diversified company is the world's... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Made in Italy

globalization—was what the Medici family created.” — PAUL STYSLINGER (MBA 2023) Italy’s layers of history and business resonated with Basak Sunar (MBA 2023), who worked in private equity prior to enrolling at HBS and returned to the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Dennis Campbell , Petros Kusmu and Stacy Straaberg March 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In 2013, guitar manufacturer Taylor Guitars’ co-founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug were considering several exit options including selling to a competitor or to a private View Details
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

equity Interviews Dr. Ahmed Heikal Ouided Bouchamaoui Asim I. Khwaja Visiting Professor of Business Administration John Jong-Hyun Kim Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Research Interests : education , entrepreneurship ,... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2020
  • News

James Cash Honored in HBS Building Renaming

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Eligibility & Rules - Alumni

financial returns. Ventures must have less than $2 million USD in revenue. Outside funding must be less than $2.5M total debt/invested equity capital. This amount includes money received through grants, awards, and other funding sources.... View Details
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Research Design - Impact Investments

of the fund managers. The goal of this project is to build upon previous work from the Private Capital Research Institute (PCRI) and the Harvard Business School Private Capital Project which has spent years matching private equity funds... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

access to birth control and health care. Those of us striving to advance gender equity must continue to join with the leaders and thinkers working to advance the rights of other disadvantaged groups to forge a path for our society and our... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Malcolm P. Baker & David Lane JAN 2011 | Harvard Business School Case 211-017 Dogs of the Dow By: Malcolm P. Baker , Samuel G. Hanson & James Weber JAN 2015 (REVISED AUG 2015) | Harvard Business School Case 215-020 Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

society. We’re not taking equity or intellectual property rights. We just exist to help these ventures grow and to do that, we rely on our team of staff and advisors, and the roughly 40 entrepreneurs-in-residence, 65 mentors, and 300... View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors

By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
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  • 28 Feb 2019
  • News

New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

Roberts’ interest and expertise in technology was honed over nearly 30 years in the business. A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, Roberts worked in consulting at Booz Allen for several years before graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar. He then joined... View Details
  • January 2009
  • Case

Berkshire Hathaway

By: Bharat N. Anand and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti
Berkshire Hathaway describes the history and strategy of one of the best known investment firms over the last forty years. The case describes the investment philosophy of Warren Buffett, its legendary chairman and CEO, the gradual diversification of its portfolio, its... View Details
Keywords: History; Private Equity; Diversification; Resource Allocation; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Strategy; Investment; Corporate Governance
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

connects with prospective candidates by posting internship opportunities in 12twenty, hosting an informational session in January, and networking with relevant student groups like the social impact clubs and the Venture Capital and Private View Details
  • 24 May 2021
  • News

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

  PublicationsJoining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know Authors:Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan Publication:Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    The Founder's Dilemmas


    Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in... View Details

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    Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    of Art Trading private equity for the arts, Jason Price is incubating a world-class art center in New Haven, Connecticut—and developing an impact model fo... Re: Jason Price (MBA 2003); Omar Simmons (MBA 1999); By: Jen McFarland Flint;... View Details
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    Financing New Business Formation

    By: Paul A. Gompers
    New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details