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- 05 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Intensive Bootcamp Kicked my Entrepreneurship Goals Into Gear
that we all came into the class with no prior experience together and were able to build a relationship around the experience and our venture. The strength of our team showed. By the end of the two weeks, we were gelling really well and our mock View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Long-term growth and profitability are elusive targets for many organizations. The former often is more difficult to achieve than the latter, especially for companies competing in "mature" markets. This presents a problem for today's manager to the degree... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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, resources, and education that... View Details
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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog
Lerner started the Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE) course in 1996, and it today is one of the longest-running and largest offerings in the second-year curriculum. Designed as a survey course, the curriculum examines the firm-wide managerial issues that VCPE... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Helping California Wildfire Victims Rebuild
Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes A recent article in Forbes highlights the work of the home-building management startup Homebound, cofounded by CEO Nikki Pechet (MBA 2007). Both cofounders—Pechet and View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6401.html. Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets How can multinationals, entrepreneurs, and investors identify and respond to new challenges and opportunities around the world? In this Q&A, Professors Tarun... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
basics," and are eschewing technology investments. My belief is that while many private equity investors may find such disclosures unappealing, greater transparency in the private equity industry is inevitable. —Josh Lerner Some... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
interested in the issue of governance generally.” Farient’s research indicates that investors are generally accepting of high compensation levels as long as performance is good. But not surprisingly, it’s a different story when... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
they worked with me for two months to help write my business plan.” Pao picked up additional investors through meetings and luncheons organized by Bender: “By December 2011 I had raised half the money I needed from family and friends,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
Alvaro Dominguez Alvaro Dominguez In early 2018, a New York startup called Roomi opened itself up to the type of investors known by Wall Street traders as “mom-and-pop investors,” although an IPO was nowhere in sight. The company, which... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
and diverse business issues,” he says. Wahl, an investor based in Oslo, Norway, was cofounder and partner of the private equity firm IK Investment Partners Ltd. from 1989 to 2009. Presently he runs Stromstangen AS, a privately owned... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
War, the pair met at HBS and launched Double Time in 2013. The piece details the firm’s rapid growth: In just over three years, the firm has raised seven funds, totaling $80 million, from investors including Prudential Financial, Burt’s... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High Tech Risks, article ©... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School professor first offered his Founders' Dilemmas course in 2009, a mere 42 second-year MBA... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Partners is a BlackRock and Temasek joint venture that will invest in the next generation of innovative decarbonization solutions and businesses to accelerate global efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Decarbonization Partners are late-stage venture / early... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
obligations (CDOs) and private-label mortgage-backed securities (MBS) backed by nonprime loans played a central role in the recent financial crisis. Little is known, however, about the underlying forces that drove investor demand for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
proceeds into the new deal, the only investors asked to do so. After considering the time we already had been in it, and that it would be a cross-fund investment (touting to one fund what a great exit it was while telling another that it... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
opportunities relative to similar private firms. A blow to the stock price induced by today's investment might be impossible to avoid, says Farre-Mensa. Ideally, public-firm managers would be able to convey to analysts and investors that... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
Shirish Nimgaonkar
Shirish is an entrepreneur, advisor to and investor in multiple technology companies, with a focus on software and AI. He is currently the Founder and CEO of an AI enabled predictive automation software company. In the past, he has been a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
very excited for her vision,” Wood says of Morrison. “I thought, given my background, I could come in and make a difference.” Wood, who previously ran traditional and online businesses for Bertelsmann and Pearson Education before cofounding Kapitall, an online platform... View Details