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  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

guidance is needed or to make introductions to customers, prospective partners, or job candidates. Advisers may also mentor junior members of a team when you lack the funds or time to hire in an experienced leader. Advisers are usually given View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 01 Oct 2018
  • News

Learning About Leadership

years––in addition to my two years at HBS––being a really critical student of company management teams. One of the great things about being an equity analyst is you get to meet with lots of CEOs and lots of CFOs of the companies that... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

An investment of time to advance education

investment in Facebook when it was still a start-up. He is also founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a global equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact social and for-profit entrepreneurs in the media, technology, education, and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Sail Away

in the past don’t faze Robb, who, with Frank Carlucci (MBA ’56) and another partner, cofounded the Frontier Group, a private equity firm that is mounting the project. Said Robb, “The Utopia has significant financial backing as well as... View Details
Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality; Real Estate
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Making Eco Easy

HBS’s New Venture Competition (NVC) on April 23, 2019. The judges, many of them alumni, represented sectors ranging from venture capital to private equity to impact investing. Pak detailed the products’ key points and sold the judges on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 01 May 2013
  • News

Thompson Dean, MBA 1984

how I look at problems, which has been really helpful to me in my investing career,” says Dean, who cofounded the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in 2005 after 20 years with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. Avista is currently... View Details
  • November 2008 (Revised January 2009)
  • Case

Arcapita - 2002

In 2002, Arcapita Bank, B.S.C., then known as First Islamic Investment Bank, or FIIB, faced a liquidity crunch. Aracapita offered Islamic-compliant private equity, real estate, and venture capital products. In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack, however, Islamic... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Globalized Firms and Management; National Security; Religion; Financial Services Industry
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    Jennifer Lum

    Jennifer Lum is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Biospring Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in Life Sciences Technology. She is an accomplished investor and entrepreneur. Jennifer has co-founded several companies and has... View Details
    • 14 Jun 2018
    • News

    Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa

    Goncalo Neves-Correia (MBA 2007) is CEO of ThirdWay Africa, an investing and advisory firm based in London, Maputo, and Harare. ThirdWay Africa believes we are entering a new paradigm where sustainability is an absolute. In this interview, Goncalo discusses... View Details
    • February 1997 (Revised August 2016)
    • Case

    Stone Container Corporation (A)

    By: W. Carl Kester and Kirk Goldman
    In early 1993, Stone Container was heavily burdened by debt following a series of highly leveraged acquisitions. A prolonged depression in paper prices necessitated the development of a comprehensive financial plan to relieve the financial pressures on Stone. Among the... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Equity; Price; Strategic Planning
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    • 12 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Break the Rules of How Business is Done

    doesn’t always have to be time consuming or distracting. The company Amplitude challenged how businesses handle equity compensation by extending the company options exercise windows to years versus the standard 90-day window most... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
    • 13 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

    Photo by iStock Investors in global equity markets have traditionally hedged their bets, casting their investments far and wide across the world. That way, if the market in one country or region stagnated (think Japan in the 1990s or... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • January 2025
    • Case

    Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp.

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
    Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader Corporation, a Canadian classified advertising business for used automobiles with both print (magazines) and digital (website) distribution. What made this... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Network Effects; Private Equity; Growth Management; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; E-commerce; Valuation; Competition; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Transition; Advertising Industry; Auto Industry; Information Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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    • 01 Feb 2001
    • News

    High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS

    women-owned firms participate in only 9 percent of institutional equity deals, receiving just 2.3 percent of venture-capital dollars. Springboard is working to correct that gender disparity. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark, speaking at the opening... View Details
    Keywords: Singleton, Laura; Springboard 2000
    • 01 Mar 2003
    • News

    Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

    efforts center on issues affecting entrepreneurial firms and their investors. Gompers studies the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; the sources of financing, incentive design, and performance of private... View Details
    Keywords: fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 04 Jun 2024
    • Blog Post

    ClimateCAP 2024

    takeaways was the importance of equity and inclusion in climate discussions. The plenary session titled "Recentering Equity in the Climate Transition" was particularly enlightening. One speaker was from the... View Details
    • 21 Jun 2017
    • Blog Post

    Agricultural Investing: Where Boots Meet Suits

    inflation hedge. This summer, I am interning with PGIM Real Estate Finance’s agricultural equity investment team in San Francisco, CA. This group acquires farmland across the United States and across various commodities. I discovered the... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • Career Coach

    Aaron Mitchell

    with a demonstrated history of executing change, Aaron has become globally recognized for his historic work pioneering Netflix’s 2% Cash Holdings Pledge of $100 Million into Black Owned Banks. An initiative that not only led to critical acclaim, but also anchored a... View Details
    • 03 Nov 2015
    • Blog Post

    Siblings at HBS: Katie and Tyler Harris

    investment banking and private equity in New York, a little longer to come around to the idea.  But when it came to where to go to business school, the two were unanimous. After being regaled with their dad’s stories about HBS and meeting... View Details
    • 06 Jun 2017
    • News

    Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?

    tanking the market? Sultenic: The industry is capitalized and managed more transparently and thoughtfully than it has been historically, with less easy money floating around. Banks got smarter, equity sources got smarter and developers... View Details