Publications

Career Coach

Zoe Sun

Zoe wants to help students, particularly international students who require visa sponsorship, understand opportunities available in the private equity industry and in finance industry more broadly. Having... View Details

Career Coach

Mimi Sax

socially positive applications of AI. She can also support students in pursuing strategy roles in both the private and nonprofit sectors and networking for internship roles. Mimi has experience conducting... View Details

Career Coach

Rahi Patel

Rahi’s pre-MBA professional journey has provided him with invaluable experiences in the investment banking and private equity industries. He enjoys advising students interested in finance and consulting, or... View Details

Career Coach

Kaitlin Hearn

capital, private equity, consulting, and investment banking). She has a specific interest in the Health & Wellness sector, but has worked across a wide variety of industries (including, beauty, insurance, public sector, and business... View Details

Career Coach

Jonathan Lee

internships (and externships) in real estate and private equity. He serves as co-president of the HBS Real Estate Club. Employment Experience: United States Army, Blackstone (Internship), QHP Capital (Internship), Sky Harbour Group... View Details

Career Coach

Nikki Talerman

spaces. She enjoys assisting students who are interested in social impact work, consulting, or who are making career changes. She is particularly helpful for: 1) Cross-sector decisions - advising students... View Details

December 1994 (Revised September 1996)
Supplement

Tomasz Budziak

Provides private information for students assuming the role of Tomasz Budziak in a simulated negotiation of the sale of Cementownia Odra. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation

Career Coach

Jeffrey Noonan

Jeff enjoys helping students better understand the different stages of investing and pursue the stage that is right for them. Having considered post-MBA careers across VC, growth, PE, and public markets Jeff is well versed in the... View Details

December 1994 (Revised September 2007)
Supplement

Hans-Hugo Miebach

Provides private information for students assuming the role of Hans-Hugo Miebach in a simulated negotiation of the sale of Cementownia Odra. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation

November 2005 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Tad O'Malley: December 2004

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon and Sean Klimczak

Tad O'Malley, a second-year student at Harvard Business School, must choose among three offers from private equity firms. Each firm presents a unique combination of history, culture, and compensation. Traces Tad's strategy in obtaining these offers and lets students... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Compensation and Benefits; Job Offer; Negotiation Tactics; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career

Career Coach

Seamus Bann

Seamus is a veteran, ex-consultant, and career-switcher with success recruiting for PE and public markets. He enjoys helping students map their recruiting journey early in the HBS experience and then evaluate options on the other side. He... View Details

December 2009 (Revised April 2022)
Case

Lyondell Chemical Company

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott

Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest internationally diversified chemical companies headquartered in The Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Crisis Management; Chemical Industry; Netherlands; United States

24 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello & Rosilene Marcon; Banking

Career Coach

Alejandro Maldonado

also spent five years as a vice-president at H.I.G. Capital, a leading US private equity firm investing in diverse industries in the middle market space. In 2012, he founded Appian Education Ventures, a fund dedicated to consolidate... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity

October 2007 (Revised January 2009)
Case

The Hertz Corporation (A)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Douglas Scott

Examines the leveraged buyout of Hertz in 2005, a complex, high-profile deal and a good example of cutting-edge practice in private equity. The first of a two-part series on the Hertz LBO, adopts the perspective of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, the leader of a private... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Deal; Valuation; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; United States

October 2010
Supplement

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (CW)

By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson

In the fall of 2009, Fred Hochberg, Chairman of The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im), and his team struggled to find a way to help finance the sale of Boeing aircraft to Emirates. Ex-Im responds to the challenges in credit market with an innovative... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Cost Management; Credit; Financing and Loans; Innovation and Invention; Markets; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Banking Industry; United Arab Emirates; United States

14 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

to chase their dreams with fervor. Being a student at HBS and HKS allows me to explore my intellectual curiosity through public and private lenses and to recognize that solutions to the world's challenges... View Details

October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
Case

The Export-Import Bank of the United States

By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson

In the fall of 2009, Fred Hochberg, chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im), and his team struggled to find a way to help finance the sale of Boeing aircraft to Emirates. Ex-Im responds to the challenges in the credit market with an innovative... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Credit; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Banking Industry; United States

2022
Chapter

Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19

By: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Benjamin Iverson and Adi Sunderam

The authors survey the new federal subsidies and loans provided to businesses in the first year of the pandemic—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and aid targeted at specific industries such as airlines... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Government Legislation; Policy