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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
held the record for the largest buyout, Equity Office Properties at $38.9 billion, which was eclipsed by the recent $45 billion TXU deal. How big can deals go? I don’t know. That’s a game that people always like talking about. I don’t... View Details
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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
career path? I want to jump into consulting. Many of my classmates have already consulted. I learn from the way they analyze issues and how they structure their analyses. HBS has given me a lot more exposure to consulting, plus access to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
through a host of issues including dealing effectively with all the pieces of the Harvard puzzle, from the president to the provost to the people who run the hospitals,” Melton noted. “He or she would have to know how to tackle the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
The Fed’s structure The Federal Reserve System is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an independent agency with seven members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The system is composed of 12... View Details
- Web
Real Property - Course Catalog
and portfolios effectively Think critically about real estate deals Lead in a dynamic and evolving global industry While rigorous in financial content, the course is suitable both for students pursuing full-time careers in real estate and... View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 03 Apr 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Entrepreneurship Essentials
Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures and learn to speak the language of the start-up world. Program Dates: April 3, 2019 - May 1, 2019 View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the investors might get stuck as minority shareholders if it became difficult to sell. In this case, a deal structure with a note convertible to common would allow the investors to convert if the company... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
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Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
topics covered. Course themes will include, among others, resilience; long time frames; diversification; leadership; formal and informal structures of power; technology; infrastructure; and staffing, personnel and management. We will of... View Details
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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog
Associates How and why investors structure deals How PE firms add value How investors screen and choose investments Getting a deal through the Investment Committee Role of debt... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
succeed at if we have a real partnership between the Coalition, the international community, and the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people went from a life in a police state, in a controlled, highly structured society, to no social and political... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
coordinated, wide-ranging, government-led response, which sadly is not what we’re seeing right now. But as the timing of this extends, we're going to have to rely on structural remedies—things like income support, continued payments to... View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
brick-and-mortar shops: Shove your best deals to the back of the store. Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? For multichannel retailers, pricing strategy can be difficult to execute and confusing to shoppers. Can... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
debt "massively," Rhodes-Kropf says, because it does deals one at a time and is willing to walk away from the debt and return the company to the debt holders. (Strategic companies also have a different corporate governance View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
organizations don’t completely understand how to plan for and deal with it.” Amabile also cited the need for further understanding of the motives and incentives that drive people working at various stages of the creative process. “I also... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
has to be implemented across a large, distributed organization. "Large firms definitely had some work to do to adopt," says McElheran. "But it seems that the best firms had practices in place to deal with the complexity. The real... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his three-plus-decade career as an art... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
The case concerns bidding and negotiations strategies as well as deal structuring issues. In particular, the cross border nature of the investment, a UK firm investing in Norway, leads to a number of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Student-Profile
Ta-Wei "David" Huang
neighboring MIT, where students can cross-register into courses. While the program has course requirements, David found that he had a great deal of flexibility in structuring his courses in a way that makes... View Details
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
military services begins in structuring leadership positions of 'executive officer' ... principal assistants to designated leaders having command responsibilities ... growth positions to enhance individuals' abilities." Francine... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
technical and academic writing over the past decade has focused on mergers and acquisitions, which are typically negotiauction situations. But one of the main messages in the book is that the deal strategies and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna