Publications

01 Jun 2008
News

The $4 Billion Question

It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

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

Keywords: Asset Management; Private Equity; Investment; Denmark; Europe

30 Jul 2024
News

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

23 Jan 2024
News

When Diversity Initiatives Fail

16 Mar 2023
News

Bringing DEI into the Core of Our Institutions

28 Jun 2021
News

HBS Appoints Terrill L. Drake Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

07 Jan 2021
News

We the Possibility: It’s Helping Time

18 Dec 2020
News

HBS and ELC Team Up to Build Pipeline of Black Executives

10 Dec 2020
News

Managing Diversity: A Conversation with Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO & President of Ariel Investments, and Hubert Joly

August 2021 (Revised April 2022)
Case

KKR

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo

In June of 2021, KKR’s executive team convened to prepare for an upcoming board meeting. From a small, three-person partnership that started in 1976 and invested only in U.S. LBOs, the firm 45 years later was a public company that employed over 1,600 people and managed... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Public Equity; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Profit; Strategy; Finance; Private Equity; United States

23 Jul 2024
News

Transforming the Workplace for People with Disabilities

01 Sep 2023
News

Incorporating DEI into Decision-Making

13 Dec 2021
News

Piloting an Experimental and Experiential Course

19 Nov 2021
News

Harvard Business School to Teach Case Study on EbonyLife

16 Feb 2021
News

Fostering Authenticity and Employee Engagement at John Deere

September 2019 (Revised September 2020)
Case

SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)

By: Herman Leonard, Mitch Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman

James "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. Overseeing acquisitions in one of the... View Details

Keywords: Open Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Prototyping; Navy; Entrepreneurship; Public Equity; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Acquisition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; United States

Web

Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) - Course Catalog

open to negotiations, the sources of equity investments, including search funds, private equity partnerships and individual investors. We will also learn about the due diligence process and legal concerns... View Details

Web

2.3.4 Sexual & Gender Based Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct | MBA

2.3.4 Sexual & Gender Based Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct The University’s policies on sexual and gender based harassment and other sexual misconduct and their associated grievance procedures, can be found on the Harvard University Office for Gender View Details

10 Dec 2024
Interview

A New Model for Funding Healthcare Innovation

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Duke Rohlen

Ajax Health founder Duke Rohlen (HBS MBA 2001) and HBS Professor Regina Herzlinger join host Brian Kenny to discuss the key success factors for both start-up and established medical technology firms. The case “Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation”... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Model; Private Equity; Health Industry