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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D funding, saw an eightfold increase in year-over-year premium... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
of the industry cannot be overemphasized: they included pioneering players who launched important firms and invested in some of society's most important companies. As VC increasingly becomes a worldwide phenomenon, moreover, HBS will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
bottom line is all business. Said Dodi, “As with any private equity firm or venture capital fund, it’s our fiduciary duty to look out for our investors and get a return.” View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Value A transnational brand is the corporate brand of firms that market globally in order to leverage economies of scale and scope, according to HBS professors Douglas Holt, John Quelch, and co-author Earl Taylor of Research... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
©Rick Friedman As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting analysts; the elite. "Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
most firms are reducing spending on the market research that would help manage that uncertainty. In the United States, spending on market research has dipped for four consecutive quarters, and chief marketing officers don't expect the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
incremental revenue for an airline with $3 billion in gross revenue. After serving as senior vice president of marketing for Continental Airlines, Brierley returned to his entrepreneurial roots in 1985 to start a consulting firm... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
which he had moved for an earlier job. As a financial consultant, he assisted start-ups and performers such as Seals & Crofts, ZZ Top, and Larry Gatlin. In 1991, he and a partner founded a market research View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
decades, and I identify remedies well-grounded in antitrust precedent. Paper: http://journaloflaw.us/0%20JoL/2-2/JoL2-2.pdf#page=197 The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the 21st Century Authors:Lorsch, Jay W. Publication:European View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 27 Mar 2020
- News
CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis
pandemic. During the current crisis, CPD Managing Director Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003) notes, most larger companies are honoring their internship commitments to first-year students, but many smaller firms and startups either need to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
economic development of host countries and what is the role of local financial markets in mediating the potential benefits? We first define FDI and discuss general theories on types and drivers of FDI. This review takes a host-country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
the age of 57, Charles Rossotti made a self-described "huge detour" from a 28-year career at American Management Systems, Inc., the Virginia-based computer systems consulting firm he cofounded. He went from helping corporate clients... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
my professional goals and interests. Following 1L year, I wanted to see how private equity and M&A transactions were conducted from a legal standpoint. Following RC year, I hoped to apply the technical financial skills I had learned... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
Investors diligently manage financial portfolios to maximize returns on their assets; yet corporate managers who invariably proclaim their business customers to be "valuable assets" rarely manage their relationships with them... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Zou Abstract—There is relatively little prior evidence on the potential impact of rank and file employees on financial reporting choices outside union negotiations. We contribute to the literature by providing new evidence that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
equity with Berkshire Partners, Aaron came to HBS “to gain an understanding of how businesses function from a perspective beyond the financial analysis and business due diligence lens.” But during his time at Morgan Stanley and Berkshire,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
of Staples, Inc., will be the first to tell you, thank goodness he got canned. On July 4, 1985, Stemberg - who had been let go by First National Supermarkets earlier that year as the firm prepared to sell his division - ran out of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of... View Details