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  • 20 Apr 2021
  • News

Get Ready for the Relationship Renaissance

designed to be deleted,” according to The Telegraph. While other dating apps value time-spent, McLeod says Hinge measures the success of features by whether or not they lead to more successful dates. Research suggests the company is... View Details
Keywords: Private Households; Private Households
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

increases sharply during peaks of private equity cycles. Deals done by bank-affiliated groups are financed at significantly better terms than other deals when the parent bank... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2015
  • News

Looking to Rwanda’s Future

advisor at the private equity firm TA Associates. “They asked, ‘What do we need to do today to help us attract international investors in the future?’ They were considering investments in infrastructure,... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

in), 40% a written case-based final exam, and 20% required pre-class polls (graded based on completion as long as a good-faith effort was made). Related EC Courses The four most closely related EC courses to EF are Financial Management of Smaller Firms, View Details
  • Career Coach

Shruti Rao

Shruti wants to help students explore the opportunities available to HBS students in the banking, private equity and venture capital industries. Having worked in these industries, Shruti can provide insights... View Details
  • April 2000
  • Case

Francisco Partners

By: Josh Lerner and David L. Gallo
Francisco Partners (which focuses on buyouts of high-technology firms) aims to be the largest first-time fund ever raised. The rationales for the fund, fundraising strategy, and partnership terms and conditions are among the topics explored. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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  • 18 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Use Baker Library to Build a Target List

IQ, these lists can be created for you by Baker library based on your geographic preference, industry of interest, and even include companies that currently employ other HBS alumni. If you are particularly interested in working in the... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Catalysts for Climate Solutions: Corporate Responses to Venture Capital Financing of Climate-tech Startups

By: Shirley Lu, George Serafeim and Simon Xu
We study whether incumbent firms increase their product focus on climate solutions in response to venture capital (VC) financing of climate-tech startups. Using large language models to measure a firm's focus on climate solutions, we find that incumbents in similar... View Details
Keywords: Climate Finance; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Environmental Sustainability; Business Startups
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  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)

interest from private equity investors. “There is a mortgage on these stadiums, but it’s a little different than the mortgage on your house. Here the revenues being generated by the project—tickets, suite... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

slowdown of wireless technology, and the increasingly bright outlook for venture capital and private equity. Global private equity funding has been on the order of $300 billion... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
  • Case

Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann Leamon
In fall 2008, a venture lender must decide whether to make a loan to Avid, a small but promising venture-backed life sciences firm. In reviewing her proposal, Cristy Barnes considers the company's characteristics and how they differ from a typical investment. At the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Health Industry
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  • January 1999 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

Metapath Software: September 1997

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Bill Wasik
In September 1997, John Hansen called together his board to debate an interesting choice that his company had to make. Hansen--the CEO of Metapath Software, a provider of software and services to wireless carriers--had two offers to describe. The first was an offer to... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Stocks; Public Ownership; Negotiation Deal; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 15 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"

have the continued counsel of peers who have already tackled hundreds of such cases at our side. Sumit Malik (MBA ’19) is Editor-in-Chief of The Harbus, President of the Global Business Club, and Trustee of the Harbus Foundation. Prior to attending HBS, he worked in... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Finnegan Heads HBS Fund

a longtime volunteer. As cofounder and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based investment firm, Finnegan attributes much of his success to HBS. “It would have been impossible for me to get a position in private View Details
  • 19 Jan 2024
  • News

Blockchain for Good

After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
  • Web

Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School

Featuring Julian De Freitas and Elie Ofek . By Scott Nover on July 24, 2025 . Finance and Investing Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission Featuring Victoria Ivashina . By Avery... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2014
  • News

The Power of Education

Attendance at Harvard reunions requires a little extra time from Robert Howard and his wife, Dr. Brenda Pagán-Durán. “This year, our 20th Reunion at Harvard College happened a week before my 15th at HBS,” says Howard, head of Equity... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2015

HBS & HKS Information Session in Senegal

Organized by the HBS Africa Business Club and the HKS Africa Caucus – and hosted by AFIG Funds, a leading Africa focused Private Equity firm - this event is designed for prospective students to learn about... View Details
  • 02 Nov 2015
  • News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut. At TSG he was introduced to one... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

other projects. Third, studying projects requires significant up-front investment to understand the institutional details. When equity holders have too little "skin in the game," moral hazard... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services