private equity (other) - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

private donors, gain the cooperation of governments, and catalyze private markets to achieve its goals. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2018
News

Innovation Outside the Boundaries

Kent Thiry and Denise O’Leary (both MBA 1983) Noting the accelerated pace of change in society today, venture capital private investor Denise O’Leary (MBA 1983) calls innovation in the MBA curriculum “the flywheel that drives continued... View Details

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Daniel Sheyner

As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Fundraising - Alumni

alignment with the School’s commitment to advancing racial equity , we are actively seeking alumni volunteers who represent the full range of racial and ethnic backgrounds; diversity of gender, region, and industry is also desired.... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An Arabic word for entrepreneur... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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

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

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

through the writings of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek among other foundational thinkers. "Many economists think of it as a positivist system that does not impose morality upon society, but this is not the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

an entrepreneur. With several other HBS graduates, he undertook a decidedly low-tech startup: plastic phone book covers to carry local advertisements in Massachusetts. The company, the National Merchandising Corporation, was such a... View Details

02 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were pulling back. But with technology threatening to disrupt Eastern’s relationship banking model, CEO Bob Rivers is getting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

home by asking, "As HBS alumni, don't we have an obligation to lead out on this topic and set an example? We must encourage, cajole and inspire each other to make the American dream available to all. But we must also be free to choose."... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

of the debt has partially offset the Federal Reserve's attempts to reduce the supply of long-term bonds held by private investors through its policy of quantitative easing. We then examine the appropriate debt management policy for the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2024
Case

Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney

In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details

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21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

from other productive uses? Will the consumer "protections" and other limitations on bank fees ultimately reduce the availability of credit? Will capital requirements go too far? Will the Volcker... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

development of theory with the teaching of it in a single enterprise we'll call course research. Conclusions such as those that Shugan and others have reached stem from misconceptions about the relationship of research, theory, case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

Business School Prior to coming to HBS I created a company Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. that advised some of the world’s largest institutional investors concerning their private market investments. I was asked to be their advocate... View Details

23 May 2018
News

Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Garantia S.A. is sold to Credit Suisse First Boston 1999 Acquires Ibmec with other investors 2004 Through a donation, Ibmec São Paulo becomes a nonprofit institution 2009 Ibmec renamed Insper 2010 Insper accredited by AACSB 2015 Steps... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

Facebook.” Dyl would “allow users to ‘upgrade’ to a premium paid version where amongst other features (advanced posting abilities, greater post visibility, etc.), ads are not shown and therefore private data... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

have the market capitalization to back it up. Among multinationals doing business in China, many others have endured cyber attacks on their private networks, although it is unlikely those attacks had the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

private equity firm, offered both funding and expertise on scaling businesses in Africa. For NBA Africa, scaling requires building local, on-the-ground relationships, region by region. For NBA Africa,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

Harish Hande and Neville Williams as a private for-profit social enterprise. SELCO initially aimed to sell and service photovoltaic systems in Dr. Hande’s home state of Karnataka, with a mission of providing sustainable energy services to... View Details

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