Equity - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

purchase intent while the latter is not. Publisher's link: http://www.affdex.com/assets/Entertainment-effects-on-Purchase-Funnel.pdf August 2013 Columbia FDI Perspectives Government-held Equity in Foreign Investment Projects: Good for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

risk on bonds has been significantly smaller that the short-term return per risk on stocks. Thus short-term investors that value assets based on their expected return per unit of short-term volatility may find equities more attractive... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
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Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices

Greenbriar Growth Partners (GGP), a venture capital (VC) firm, has been an investor in Microsurgery Devices (MSD) for four-plus years and has come into conflict with the company's founder. Should the Board's nominating committee re-nominate the VC investor, and should... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict of Interests; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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Business Track | New Venture Competition

role in the business and is present at the Super Saturday judging. The HBS student should be a part of the founding team and a significant equity holder, if equity has been distributed. Judging Judges are... View Details

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Patrick Connolly

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my life before business school, I was a concert pianist and music theorist-disciplines that require truly deep, vertical expertise. My decision to attend HBS was consciously designed to broaden my intellectual... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity

09 Jan 2013
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers

product. How Can I Understand My Customers Better? Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers can offer great product selection and value, but those who lack empathy for their customers are at risk of losing them, says professor Ananth... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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International Job Search Resources

or screening for HBS alumni (under Education: Colleges/Universities). Additional details about Capital IQ screening. Preqin If you are searching for private equity or venture capital investors, Preqin also offers a simple way to... View Details

09 Apr 2024
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2017
News

Bridging Domains

chairman of global private equity investing at Goldman Sachs, Sanjeev observes, “Every business in the world is interacting with science and engineering today. There’s a tremendous need for managers to become more conversant in how... View Details

Harvey H. Lamm

his tenure, Subaru was rated as one of the best financially managed automobile companies in the United States, regularly achieving 55%+ return on equity ratios. View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

01 Jun 2004
News

Hot Tip

something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

debt. QE3 saw the Fed add a little more than $800 billion each of mortgage-backed securities and long-term Treasury debt. “We find that such a strategy would have allowed more households in distressed areas to lower their monthly payments and extract View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

Supplements the case "Nestle's Milk District Model: Economic Development for a Value-Added Food Chain and Improved Nutrition." Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907402 A Note on Private View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

Race, Gender and Equity at Work Race, Gender and Equity at Work Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board Diversity RGE Blog Filters Read posts from Author HBS... View Details

15 Jan 2014
News

Deal Maker Relies on Extensive Database

Keywords: big data; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

concentrate on operational excellence based on an assumption of continuity rather than on an assumption of discontinuity: creative destruction. Instead of holding up long-term survivors of corporate warfare as the ideal, they point to private View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Club Conferences | MBA

22, 2025 Middle East & North Africa Club Investment Club Conference December 7, 2025 Investment Club 2026 VCPE Conference January 31, 2026 Venture Capital & Private Equity Club WSA Conference February 7, 2026 Women's Student Association... View Details

16 Oct 2017
News

Take Time to Serve Others

Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details

25 May 2016
News

Supporting Critical Initiatives

focuses research and teaching on the advancement of women leaders and the promotion of gender equity in business and society. Raun Schlesinger, managing director/head of self-storage investments at W.P. Carey Inc., applauds Dean Nitin... View Details

02 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

reduce the principal as part of loan modification. Consider a commonplace scenario. The value of a house has dropped 30 percent from its mortgage. The owner has already lost whatever equity she sank into the down payment. There is very... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

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