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- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
were building. Other days I was interviewing customers about how they use serverless products, the pain points, and the unsolved problems in the nascent technology. Sometimes I was inside the halls of MIT’s quantum computing labs talking... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- August 2017 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
PFA Pension: Expansion of Alternatives Portfolio
By: Victoria Ivashina, Federica Gabrieli and Jérôme Lenhardt
PFA Pension was the biggest commercial pension provider in Denmark. At the end of 2015, the company had decided to boost its investments into the alternative asset class, an area where it was lagging behind its competitors. The aim was to privilege direct investments... View Details
Ivashina, Victoria, Federica Gabrieli, and Jérôme Lenhardt. "PFA Pension: Expansion of Alternatives Portfolio." Harvard Business School Case 218-025, August 2017. (Revised January 2020.)
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Hollywood and Humility
found a niche: It turned to Wall Street and private equity for capital while establishing its own talent relationships and keeping creative control over MRC-produced content. Asked about his philosophy of... View Details
- Article
How will Emerging Markets Shape the Alternative Assets Arena?
By: Roberto Charvel
This article looks at the growth of pensions in Latin America and its future impact in local alternative assets' investments locally and in the developed world. View Details
Keywords: Emerging Economies; Emerging Markets; Pension; Institutional Investments; Alternative Assets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
Charvel, Roberto. "How will Emerging Markets Shape the Alternative Assets Arena?" Venture Equity Latin America 10, no. 15 (September 15, 2011).
- Profile
Henry McCance
drug development, exponentially increasing the chances of finding effective treatment and prevention. In 2004, the three families founded the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CAF) to support Tanzi’s work and other Alzheimer’s research. At McCance’s... View Details
- September 2017 (Revised July 2019)
- Supplement
Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (B)
By: Victoria Ivashina and Eren Kuzucu
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Transformation; Valuation; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey
Ivashina, Victoria, and Eren Kuzucu. "Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 218-021, September 2017. (Revised July 2019.)
- 18 May 2016
- News
What Does the American Dream Mean in Today’s America?
Alexander Navab (MBA 1991), head of investment firm KKR’s Americas private equity business, was honored this year with an Ellis Island Medal of Honor, presented annually to “individuals who have made it... View Details
- Fast Answer
Industries: financial analytical data and tools
href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Guides/Venture-Capital-Private-Equity" target="_blank">Venture Capital & Private Equity Research Guide A guide of resources at Baker Library available to uniquely... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
I’d recommend to other companies looking to bring new employees into the fold. For example, we had a Maverick-wide poker tournament (nothing like losing money that bonds you), and organized a wine tasting experience across the country... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
should find the capital markets attractive. Private equity and venture capital have played a major role in providing equity to firms before they are ready to access the capital... View Details
- Profile
Bruce Gago
your goals & career path? In my first year, I was focused on continuing my career in private equity real estate, but in my second year, I identified an entrepreneurial opportunity to provide affordable... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and forcing Japan’s button-down business culture to change. “My real... View Details
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Rohit Sahni
Rohit (HBS ’08) has deep experience in financial services. He started his career in investment banking (Goldman Sachs), where he worked for three years. Thereafter, he worked at two different private equity... View Details
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Patrick Connolly
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my life before business school, I was a concert pianist and music theorist-disciplines that require truly deep, vertical expertise. My decision to attend HBS was consciously designed to broaden my intellectual... View Details
- October 1998
- Case
Terry Hinge & Hardware
Presents Andrew Cousin's efforts to buy a manufacturing business via a search fund. Includes the investment memorandum for the proposed purchase of Terry Hinge & Hardware. View Details
Roberts, Michael J. "Terry Hinge & Hardware." Harvard Business School Case 899-096, October 1998.
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
projects the private sector was planning to do on its own. The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933 is perhaps the most famous example of this. Other dollars appear to indirectly crowd out View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- November 2000
- Case
University Technology Ventures: October 2000
By: Josh Lerner
The founders of University Technology Ventures, a fund of funds designed for university professors, face numerous challenges in raising their first fund. The role, economics, and structure of funds-of-funds are examined in the course of examining the partners' dilemma. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Problems and Challenges; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry
Lerner, Josh. "University Technology Ventures: October 2000." Harvard Business School Case 201-043, November 2000.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
thousands of small nonprofits in Pakistan that were doing amazing work on the ground remained undiscovered by mainstream donors. Borrowing from his private equity training, Wasim employed a metrics-driven... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
On the National Stage
lot of music out of her ears,” Heinz told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 17, 2004). “John Kerry brought that back.” On leave from Jacobson Partners, a New York private equity firm, Heinz has seen his own... View Details