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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
entrepreneur—would take him far away from Calhoun, he returned in 1997 to give his three daughters the opportunity to grow up in the close-knit community he remembered from his childhood. He continued his work across the private and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
on the inner life of executives and leaders.” For many years, he maintained a private clinical practice while serving on the faculty at HBS, where he taught his popular elective, The Psychodynamics of Leadership, and conducted research... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
cost of the health care that they’re paying for their subscribers has gone down by 50 percent in the last month or so. It seems irresponsible for the private insurance industry to realize a windfall at a time when providers are... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing... View Details
- 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 freedom to create a fund... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
After HBS, I went to Starbucks where I loved the company and it showed. My work was featured in the press and Howard Schultz had me present to his board. Yet my male manager gave me a “meets expectations” review for weakness in... View Details
- 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
- 03 Feb 2021
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Power Play
a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, and brought in partners... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
privately owned, for-profit companies that guarantee mortgage-backed securities and pay the government to back those guarantees in case the companies themselves fail? That’s... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- News
Home Grown
Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
firms hold twice as much cash in reserve, on average, as large, privately held firms. To come to his counterintuitive conclusion, Farre-Mensa analyzed 4,259 public firms and 25,477 private ones—the latter... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
focus on asset management and service would yield superior results. The approach worked so well that the company became the largest privately owned, independent asset management firm in southern Africa.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
point in public consciousness as private equity has bought more companies and larger companies, some of which are household names. Last year, private-equity firms raised a record amount of funds. Do you... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- News
Family Values
After earning his MBA, he transformed an opportunity to spin off the shipyard and manufacturing companies of the New York–based Ogden Corporation into Connell Limited Partnership, growing it into one of the largest View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Named Top School for Producing Entrepreneurs
repeat victory—with PitchBook counting 1,310 entrepreneurs, 1,186 companies founded, and $39.28 billion in capital raised. The School was also ranked first for its alumnae founders, with 220 entrepreneurs and companies, with $8.46 billion... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
instance, who are the customers, and how do they make decisions? O'Lear: I have been involved in microeconomic (company specific) upheaval. Prior to starting a company with two others, I worked at two high-tech companies: a 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 Mar 2006
- News
Robots to the Rescue
firm has landed two rounds of private financing and placed pilot systems at operations of a major retailer and food company. If all goes as planned, Mountz sees “no limit to the number of companies that want... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
What do thirty second-year MBAs know about automotive technology? When it comes to communications and infotainment systems, more than you might think. That’s why Ford Motor Company executive vice president Mark Fields (MBA ’89) welcomed... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
The Business of Access
her business know-how—revenue generation and growth in the private sector—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in social services. She was brought aboard to assist San Mateo–based Shelter Network implement a merger with another homelessness... View Details