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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
exploded, the strength of the apprenticeship process has weakened, and partner quality has likely been diluted. Turbulence in the tech and private equity labor markets have also closed off opportunities for consultants wishing to leave,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of schools. In Massachusetts, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall Street career in private View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when private View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto
and so the final step of my pre-HBS journey was interning with a global private equity firm which had just opened an office in my hometown of Athens, Greece. It was a fantastic experience because it combined learning about finance and the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
Ivan Zhivago and Philippe Schucht (both PLD 21, 2016). Jarzabek and his co-founder Lukasz Rzeczkowski had sought out Zhivago, who is a part of a large healthcare-focused private equity fund, for advice. Zhivago saw promise in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
firm, they can’t offer benefits; they can’t offer health insurance; they can’t even offer job stability. And in many cases, they pay with equity rather than with high wages. That’s a very risky thing to do, to join a small firm. And you... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
firm is pioneering interventions in Sri Lanka that will help transform the nation. In the past two years, York Street Partners has arranged the largest private equity investment in a non-banking financial institution and enabled one of... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense negotiations with numerous firms,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
classmate at Harvard, and super engineer – to build a better device. Neither Olivia nor I planned on using our Harvard MBA to build “kitchen appliances” (in our case, a cold brew coffee maker). An app, maybe. But an actual, physical app-liance (ha ha)? With friends... View Details
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FAQ - Alumni
company. Applicant must be a first- or second-time founder/co-founder only. No Subsidiaries are eligible to apply. Outside funding must be less than $2.5M total debt/invested equity capital. Invested capital is defined as funding... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
at Care.com Marcelo at her desk at Care.com Marcelo with her younger son Marcelo with her younger son Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983 Founder and CEO, Providence Equity Partners, LLC Nelson in his Providence office “You partner with... View Details
- 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 household bleach. “We did not want... View Details
- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
course, there were practical obstacles to consider. As the founder of a small private equity firm, I was nervous about the impact on my career and the reaction of my partners, deal sources and investors. For my wife, it was even more... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for a broad array of service domains where operations are hidden and levels of consumer trust and engagement are faltering. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
impact in business and society. This effort is amplified by HBS’s Racial Equity Plan, which calls for the School to attract additional Black talent to all parts of the community and that has, in turn, inspired new efforts by the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
with a PhD after completing my masters at the London School of Economics. From London, I moved to New York and worked in consulting at Deloitte, and then to San Francisco to join a mid-market private equity firm, Kingfish Group. I’ve... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
and how to practically access them, including early grants, non-dilutive financing sources, equity financing, and more Identify best practices for building teams (incl. compensation structures) & boards Explore ethical considerations... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
While the economics of the music industry have always been a little convoluted, there’s at least one simple reason contributing to all the attention from private equity, according to Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004): interest rates. The founder and CEO of HarbourView... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
re-nominating one male director and the second by expanding the board by one in anticipation of further retirements—that would solve the supply problem by creating 1,000 new board seats. The 19.9 percent quickly becomes 40 percent if women are considered first for... View Details