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29 Apr 2021
News

Equal Partner

Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya A couple of years ago, Pialy Aditya (MBA 2005) got an unexpected inquiry from a venture capital firm: Would she be interested in being a partner? Though she wasn’t looking for a new... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

01 Jun 2020
News

Vital Signs

the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin HT: Venture capital is a lagging indicator, trailing what’s happening in... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal

precious,” says Khan, who focuses primarily on software. “It’s been an incredible segment to invest in over the last few years—cloud software in particular, because these are high-gross margin businesses with low costs and long, recurring... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

Founding Partner, Asset Management Company Download Johnson profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1928 Born, Quincy, Illinois 1950 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 1962 Launches Draper and Johnson View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Noted & Quoted

“If I had been leaving Harvard in 2010, this would be the area I would want to be going into.” — Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), a founder of the European venture capital industry, referring to his latest venture, Social Finance, a social... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Partnering with climate scientists. The investment management firm Wellington Management has partnered with climate scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) to understand how and where climate change may impact View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

01 Mar 2007
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Private Equity under Investigation

dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of capital in... View Details

Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

maximize the purchasing power of consumers or if it is to reinforce certain government favoured industries and, indirectly, the people who work and invest in those industries. After more than thirty years when broad international... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Patrick Connolly

bear-has further confirmed and clarified this for me. I truly could not have asked for a better platform from which to embark on my new career. How has HBS prepared you for your summer internship? In short, very well. This summer, I'm working in View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking

February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
Case

The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

Grassroots Business Initiative was set up to financially assist small enterprises engaged in creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise

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01 Mar 2003
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Books

firms. And state ownership constrains growth and investment options for domestic firms more than it does for foreign enterprises. While FDI does bring benefits such as the stimulation of privatization activity, increased venture View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2022
News

Sunny Side

When Miami-based venture capital firm ANIMO Ventures launched in 2018, cofounder Nico Berardi (MBA 2018) traveled weekly. “It was 80 percent San Francisco, maybe 20 percent New York,” he recalls. But the Argentine-born Berardi loved the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

2018
Working Paper

Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors

By: Luis M. Viceira and Zixuan (Kevin) Wang

This paper conducts a theoretical and empirical investigation of global portfolio diversification for long-horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country... View Details

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Risk and Uncertainty; Diversification; Capital Markets; Global Range

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05 May 2022
News

Like-Minded

seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Is the Foundation

language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a... View Details

19 Jun 2014
News

Life Beyond The Elevator Pitch: Venture Capital's New Formulas

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

16 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms grows, prompting firms to explore a new way of boosting the success of portfolio companies by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Jun 2017
News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2008
News

The $4 Billion Question

between generating wealth for the firm’s investment professionals via the fee stream, which is strictly a function of how many dollars you manage, and the investors in the firm — the so-called limited partners, who make money only when... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments