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- 01 Oct 2000
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Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
priorities." The task of organizing the chair's endowment was a first-time collaboration for Corbett, managing partner for Internet Partners at Zephyr Management, a private equity venture capital firm;... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home
As a former investment banking analyst and private equity associate, Prita Kumar (MBA 2014) knows what it means to be busy—so busy, in fact, that it was nearly impossible to incorporate the boutique fitness... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and forcing Japan’s button-down business culture to change. “My real... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Maurice Pinto, MBA 1960
During his service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in Ulm, West Germany, Maurice Pinto received an HBS admissions application in the mail from his father. "My father was always a big believer in education," says Pinto, now a semiretired View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Brahmal Vasudevan, MBA 1997
Creating educational opportunities is a way of life for Brahmal Vasudevan. Upon the 2011 launch of Creador, a private equity firm based in Kuala Lumpur, he and his partners set up a foundation funded by a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
entrepreneur? That’s the next question: What is it that VCs are actually looking for? You also address another commonly held idea about the VC world: Investments are not always made based on the numbers. PG: In first-year Finance and second-year View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
myself “Chief Treasure Hunter” because I felt unworthy of the CEO title. I asked Brad to take the title, but he refused. He believed in me so much that I began to believe in myself. Eventually, we brought in private View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991
closest friends and have enriched our family’s life over the years.” The relationships Bilden formed at HBS have also shaped his career. After completing his MBA in 1991, he joined a promising firm in Boston founded by HBS graduates that is today a worldwide leader in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups. In 2007, he cofounded Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit that is advancing ways to apply market... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
Detroit, and even the student whose idea it was to put solar panels on the roof of Shad,” he notes. Cronin is the cofounder and managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm with offices on both... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
@Soldiers Field
videos, webinars, and podcasts. (photo by Susan Young) LEAD INVESTORS Hamilton James (MBA 1975), Tricia Glynn (MBA 2008), Jim Breyer (MBA 1987), and Dayna Grayson (MBA 2006) delivered keynote addresses at February’s 26th annual Venture Capital and View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
Jackson, Sr.; John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing; Robert Johnson, CEO of Black Entertainment Television; and Stuart Alden Taylor (MBA '87), senior managing director at Bear Stearns. Interactive sessions explored private View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 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
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Start Your Engines
to build on as Formula One’s relatively new chairman and CEO. Liberty Media bought F1 from the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in an $8 billion deal finalized in January 2017. Carey joined as CEO... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
Subsequently, Westphal returned to the Boston area and joined Providence Equity Partners founded by HBS alumnus Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983). Finding a perfect fit for himself in private equity, Westphal... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
a business plan to solicit venture capital and helped with strategic planning for a new Web-based product launch. To further expand his knowledge of India's thriving entrepreneurial landscape, Khare also did some work as a summer associate at DLJ View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
El-Hage Takes Alumni Post
classroom, it was like falling in love with the experience all over again,” explains El-Hage, who had taught the first-year finance course in 1984–85 after earning his MBA with high honors as a Baker Scholar in 1984. Over the ensuing eighteen years, he gained... View Details