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- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
photo by David Tejada Aravaipa Ventures was inspired by the smell of clean, crisp Colorado air. Founder Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) and his family had moved from France to Boulder in 2007 as he contemplated his next professional move after a successful View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
law of what was done commonly by VCs at the time,” says Fenwick-Smith, who had private equity know-how but had never been involved in creating venture funds. That lack of direct experience gave him the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
There may be a simple solution to the complex problem of climate change. Don Wiviott (MBA 1984) is cofounder and partner of Sustainable Farm Partners (SFP), a combination farming operation and private equity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Clubs: Capital Improvements
president and COO of global private equity firm The Carlyle Group. Youngkin, the recipient of the club’s first alumni achievement award, participated in a panel discussion on the changing face of business in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
allocation to this new asset class of social investment, the same way that venture capital and private equity benefit today from such allocations.” The idea is taking off in the United States. President... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Changing the way the world sees Africa
of Africa.com to both be a tremendous opportunity and a great responsibility,” she says. Clarke acquired the domain name when she was teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa, and serving on the investment committee of an African... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
York; and Washington, D.C. Cleantech venture capital Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) Eco Mobilite Partners, SNCF Paris Transportation Craig Huff (MBA 1993) Reservoir Capital Group LLC New York Private equity... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) is cofounder and retired managing director of the Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund. In this video interview, he talks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
bidders with much of the same information, but deeper pockets. “It’s very similar to the private equity world, with a lot of capital chasing deals,” he says. “Except it’s horses.” Nabbing a coveted colt at... View Details
- 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 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
community. There's also Earl Junior (MBA '88)-known more familiarly as Butch - the president and COO of the family's company, Earl G. Graves, Ltd., which includes the magazine, a private equity fund, and a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] that was rolled out in 1997. Its goal was to insure children who were not covered by private insurance, but whose family income disqualified them from Medicaid. But I found that one of the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) Dan Krebs majored in engineering at MIT, but he was drawn to consulting and private equity after earning his undergraduate degree. “When I applied to HBS,” he notes, “my goal was to get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
HBS’s New Venture Competition (NVC) on April 23, 2019. The judges, many of them alumni, represented sectors ranging from venture capital to private equity to impact investing. Pak detailed the products’ key... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
invest in venture capital. Guided by Cohen, who is regarded as the father of the European venture capital industry, Apax emerged as one of the world’s preeminent VC and private equity investment groups,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
To date, HCA has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (nearly half are female), and is aiming to impact one million people by 2020. The social enterprise is now embarking on a massive investment with equity partners and scaling... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
all into our computers, in advance of the government. It gave us great insights - like having our own private polls - on what inflation would be doing. We then bought and sold equity and debt securities... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
prepared a business plan, conducted a usability analysis, and tested the product with thirty HBS students. Currently, he is patenting the methodology. With a post-HBS job at the private equity investment... View Details