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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
entrepreneur? That’s the next question: What is it that VCs are actually looking for? You also address another commonly held idea about the VC world: Investments are not always made based on the numbers. PG: In first-year Finance and second-year View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
ecosystem: Did you know that there are about 3,000 brokers in the US alone who specialize in brokering smaller firms? Or that there are private equity firms whose sole business is financing smaller firm... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
of the largest users of petroleum products.” Robert Tichio (MBA 2005) Principal, Riverstone/Carlyle “I’m partner and managing director at Riverstone Holdings, one of the world’s largest private equity firms... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
he calls a brand genealogy. He overlays the trajectory of the brand's allegories over history—through analysis of ads supported by archival documents and interviews with managers—with American cultural history, focusing particularly on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
four “Leaders Who Make Difference.” Steven Klinsky (MBA 1979), founder & CEO of private equity and credit firm New Mountain Capital, and his wife, author and screenwriter Maureen Sherry Klinsky, served... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
“You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” Add it all up and you have an early-stage funding problem, with marine-energy projects proving too capital-intensive for venture capitalists and too risky for private... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
economics, in business education over the other behavioral disciplines. We document the key role of these institutions in diffusing "Chicago-style" economic approaches-offering support for deregulatory policies and popularizing... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
be investing alongside a Brazilian private equity firm, GP Investments, and must decide how to structure the investment. Especially, he must decide how to align his interests with those of GP. GP has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
correlations of equity cash flow news or stock market volatility shocks. Our findings imply that the benefits of global equity diversification have not declined for long horizon investors despite the secular... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
with these companies in a variety of roles, including those of founders, shareholders, or managers of their own family's firm, as well as those of non-family managers and employees, investors or business partners (e.g., private View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
grateful to Professor Nick Retsinas for supervising me in my HKS Policy Analysis Exercise; and Professor Rebecca Henderson had a great way of framing ethical challenges and decisions in LCA. “But I’d have to say that Nori Lietz left the greatest lasting impact on me in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
works with several metropolitan areas, including Boston, Hartford, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and St. Louis - and a $130 million private equity fund to make capital available to inner-city companies. Each year,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
Harvard Gazette spoke with Nori Gerardo Lietz, a senior lecturer who teaches real estate private equity at Harvard Business School, about what’s going on and whether rising interest rates may offer some... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
his total compensation would come from the options. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211073-PDF-ENG Gemini Investors Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 211-066 Gemini Investors was a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
to another level, Ferguson compared evolutionary developments in the natural world with recent developments in the global economic system. Over the past two decades, he explained, there has been an “incredible financial evolution,” from the proliferation of View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
which habits can lead people to make suboptimal decisions; for thinking too much, we discuss research documenting the ways in which careful consideration of attributes, and careful consideration of options, can do the same. We end by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
the private sector has responded rationally, by exiting the business. Of the twenty-five companies that made vaccines in the U.S. thirty years ago, only five remain today. The Federal Government has, regrettably, permitted this to happen... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
market bubbles and frothy credit markets—and how those are different from equity market froth. Layne: How so? Greenwood: Frothy stock markets happen when people get excited about companies and are very focused on the potential upside.... View Details
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Ruzwana Bashir
HBS (MBA 2011) and became intrigued by the startup culture, specifically in the high tech space, and made the decision to eschew the lucrative world of private equity for the lure of the Silicon Valley.... View Details