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Search Fund Fellowship | MBA

which was established by Mrs. Catherine James Paglia (MBA 1976) in honor of her 45th Reunion. Ms. Paglia currently serves as a director of Enterprise Asset Management Inc.—a New York-based, privately held View Details

October 2008
Teaching Note

Grosvenor Group Limited (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo

Teaching Note for [207064]. View Details

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Market Transactions; Property; Financial Instruments; Assets; Emerging Markets; Real Estate Industry

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Purchase

30 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

and support new family wealth creators for future generations. The family has been the foundation of your success, and it always will be. Remember, businesses come and go, but business families can last for generations. Maintaining family momentum and growing family... View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

Donald V. Fites

During his tenure as CEO, Fites grew Caterpillar, the world’s #1 producer of earth-moving machinery, from a $10 billion company to a $20 billion plus company. Fites successfully implemented a $1.8 billion modernization program to cut costs and raise profits. Fites’... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

30 Mar 2018
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

come from low-income neighborhoods.” While his background is in commercial real estate and corporate finance, since 2012 Majors has served as a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group.... View Details

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

margins provide the justification for the real and financial assets required to realize the value proposition. The margins and assets together establish the threshold for... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

01 Dec 2005
News

A Renter’s Market

Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a $15 trillion View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Real Estate

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

the end is better products and services. According to Bob DeNoble, "... information is a tool to help get the real work done. It enables us to produce food, clothing, and shelter, run our transportation and banking systems, and keep... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Raja Bobbili

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my view, the case method is the be-all and end-all of business education – I couldn’t imagine a better way to learn business than through the dynamic process of discussing and debating View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

evidence of NPE opportunism: targeting of firms that have reduced ability to defend themselves, repeated assertions of lower-quality patents, increased assertion activity nearing patent expiration, and forum shopping. We find moreover that NPE litigation has a View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Navigating a Career in Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

After my Fellowship ended, I stayed on as a permanent hire and shifted to our human assets team, focusing on an overhaul of our performance evaluation system and the way we think about leadership development. Now I'm working in... View Details

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

it creates a legally independent project company and finances that company with nonrecourse debt (i.e., the debt must be repaid by cash flows from the project company only.) The relevant question is: Why would a firm choose to finance its View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209043-PDF-ENG How Institutional Investors Think About View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Fast Answer

Sustainability in VCPE & Investing

perspective and concise coverage of key areas of ESG as it relates to private equity investors and asset managers. Climate Finance Markets and the Real Economy Report by the Global Financial Markets... View Details

22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

Proceedings Crime and Punishment: The Reputational Consequences of Withdrawals from Venture Capital Syndicates By: Zhelyazkov, Pavel Ivanov, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—Traditional research has long treated reputation as an egocentric attribute, typically described as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

proceeded when faced with multiple options. Those options — from mergers and acquisitions to leveraged buyouts and asset divestitures to "vulture" investing and tracking stock — are also explored. Gilson reminds readers that the devil is... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

differentiated capabilities. Simply replicating strategies that were successful at home is likely to be insufficient in the United States. The real lesson of this experience is that investing directly in corporate View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Competition of Countries

rising real per capita income). Capital formation (investment) and the development of human resources are key to this process. Q: Were you surprised by anything you've discovered? A: I am constantly surprised—surprised about corruption... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

University Endowment (2006) Harvard Business School Case 207-062 As with many modern-day large pools of capital, the Vanderbilt University endowment is significantly invested in alternative assets such as hedge funds, private equity,... View Details