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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
private equity firm AEA Investors, which expanded Burt’s into stores like CVS, Walgreens, and Target. Burt’s subsequent acquisition by Clorox raised eyebrows. After all, Clorox is best known for making... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
impact on our lives," Young added. The HBSAAA's second annual preconference, Venture Capital and Private Equity Summit, was held on Friday. The program, titled "Building New Networks," drew 160 participants,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
side, I probably could have done more, but I wouldn’t change my balance if I had to do it over again. You learn a lot by looking through a spreadsheet and talking to classmates about the work they actually did when they were working in View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Seattle-based Elevar Equity. Her childhood summers in the Philippines, with its extreme poverty and extreme wealth, inspired an interest in development; a career in private equity and investment banking had... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
crowd-funding and the end of the prohibition of solicitation for private placements." What the iCrowd founders have learned, however, is that laws may be passed quickly, but their implementation can take time. In the case of the JOBS Act,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
being channeled to private companies, reminding Perkowski of Wall Street’s go-go years in the 1980s. “Today, there are over a thousand private equity firms in China. And the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
returns, with the goal of making a difference in important societal issues. That’s an extended form of philanthropy in my view, and I think you’ll see a bigger pool of capital engaged in that way. We also expect to see the growth of market-return View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
Africa for five years, teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and serving on the investment committee of a private equity fund. It was also during this time that she acquired the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
group, Depatie oversaw Kimpton’s $430 million sale to the InterContinental Hotels Group in 2015 before stepping down to co-lead KHP Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm focused on boutique and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
community. There's also Earl Junior (MBA '88)-known more familiarly as Butch - the president and COO of the family's company, Earl G. Graves, Ltd., which includes the magazine, a private equity fund, and a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
entrepreneur who initially thought he’d have a career in the private sector before pursuing academia. He spent the summer between his first and second years as an MBA working as a consultant and discovered he loved the process of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
traction the business got in the market but by the number of people we were able to employ. In 2009, while I was working in Senegal with a private equity firm, Ndidi and I noticed that a huge amount of the... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- 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 2003) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
both saw an opportunity for a new kind of research geared toward the professional investors who were on the rise at mutual and pension funds. At the time, institutions accounted for less than 25 percent of equity ownership, but the way... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
losses, improve his finance department with the help of a Wall Street private equity firm, and make it a matter of policy to pay closer attention to managing the balance sheet. Makihara then turned his... View Details