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- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
security services to companies in South Africa, other African countries, and parts of Europe. In the case, Gray has recently undergone a financial restructuring with the help of private equity firm Brait... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
passed on by the employer. Venture capital partners, acting independently with their personal funds, make investments into younger firms with less educated and younger founding teams than their employing VC firms, but these investments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
investment in people have remained steadfast as he has grown the company into a leading global financial services firm. In the 1970s, RJF expanded into brokerage offices across the country, working with affiliates that acted as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
807-126 PRG-Schultz will run out of cash within a couple of months unless the new CEO can reduce costs and restructure the company's debt. PRG was the dominant market leader in the audit recovery industry. The industry consisted of firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
firms are the management arsenals of many public companies — strategic due diligence, blueprints for action, tying compensation to performance — but they are not applied with sufficient consistency, rigor, or thoroughness. In short, what... View Details
Carissa Bryce Christensen
Carissa Bryce Christensen is the founder and CEO of BryceTech LLC, an analytics and engineering firm serving clients with deep tech-enabled missions, including NASA and the US Department of Defense. Known for driving strategy with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
Tope Lawani Tope Lawani (MBA 1995) is a man on a mission—make that two missions, actually. The cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, Lawani says his firm aims to reward investors with "attractive,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
strategy is to achieve specialization by taking explicit advantage of the opportunities provided by the ecosystem while avoiding the kinds of traps that challenge firms in such environments. Our observation of a variety of niche... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
doing so, we match the data from the CEO interviews with financial performance data for the set of firms led by those CEOs as well as market performance data from the countries in which these View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
accounting performance. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964011 August 2013 Journal of Financial Intermediation Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
affected Avance as well. Happily, Perez notes, the private equity firm is now thriving as Latinx businesses are recovering. Perez cofounded Avance with his HBS classmate Luis A. Zaldivar (MBA 1996), with whom he had worked at Palladium... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael Tushman Abstract—Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Kress Collection of Business and Economics Graphic Materials | Baker Library
views of stock exchanges, banks, mints, and treasuries portraits of bankers, statesmen, and financiers political and personal satires national finance and taxation images of money lenders, avarice, corruption, poverty, charity, and... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial frictions and the use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Papers The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the aftermath of the global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
if the government is subject to oversight, and whether bureaucrats and politicians are independent from one another. Companies should gauge the level of actual trust among the populace as opposed to enforced trust. For instance, if people believe companies won't vanish... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
companies, remain overwhelmingly white and male (81% of VC firms don’t have a single Black investor. Not one). Due to a notorious reliance on personal networks for deal sourcing, most VCs lack the network infrastructure necessary to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries