equity - Publications - Faculty & Research

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 taught her how to invest. On... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

Europe, a private equity investment company, had worked in the family business for a few years but had developed a career mainly outside of the family business. The transfer of the shares’ ownership had tightened the three brothers’ bonds... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of change in commercial and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

November 2010
Teaching Note

Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (TN)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro and Carliss Y. Baldwin

Teaching Note for 208129. View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mergers and Acquisitions; Banks and Banking; Equity; Business Earnings; Banking Industry; New York (state, US)

Citation

Purchase

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

of accounting earnings in predicting future cash flows using out-of-sample predictions and market value of equity as a proxy for all future cash flows. We find that, on average, accruals improve upon current cash flow from operations in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets. "Increasingly, there is more interest in private View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

to pressure firms to be more responsive to social problems. Examples range from TIAA-CREF's board diversity initiatives (Carleton, Nelson & Weisbach, 1998), to the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility's (ICCR) tactic of taking an View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

was undergoing the non-tradable share reform. Its current controlling shareholder, private equity firm Newbridge Capital LLC, needs to negotiate with its diverse minority shareholders to find a compromise on the terms of the conversion of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

to work in this space post-graduation as I’ll be going back to NextEra to join their Venture Capital and Private Equity team. What advice do you have for prospective MBA students considering 2+2? Use this time to think about what you... View Details

30 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Reflecting on my service

early weeks of March, I found myself drawing on lessons learned from the Marines: adapting to continuously shifting circumstances, seizing the initiative to combat the evolving virus, building and leading teams to flexibly solve the social, economic, and View Details

Web

Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

organized into the following modules: Personalizing learning: How can schools meet the unique needs of each student? What role can technology play in this effort and how is it changing the role of the teacher and the classroom? Striving for View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy

including sitting on the boards of travel companies, advising private equity firms, continuing to educate MBA students, and developing Jungian coaching techniques to help leaders improve their decision-making. “I think interest in... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; career planning; creativity; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Oct 1998
News

A Marketable Skill

explains Gehrke. "I am definitely not the type to climb the corporate ladder." In 1978, she launched Design Lines, Inc., a small housewares business. When the company failed in 1980 ("a textbook case of being unwilling to let anybody come in for View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

21 Oct 2013
News

Moving the Needle

private debt and equity options. That position took her on a trip to Kenya this summer to search for investment opportunities—including microfinance, sustainable agriculture, clean cook stoves, and urban sanitation—viewing them through a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Feb 2013
News

Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line

Hourdequin (MBA 2005), managing directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire, work hard to make the double bottom line a reality. Founded in 1976, Lyme Timber Company is a timberland investment management organization (TIMO), a private View Details

Keywords: Louisa Rigali; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

Profile

Kristen Jones

an example, Kristen cites a case about an entrepreneur weighing the pros and cons of accepting a venture-capital partner. “Most of the class looked at in terms of valuation, of what the deal would mean from an equity perspective. But I... View Details

30 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie

the course? My guests are leaders in the respective topics of each class. For example, a class on leadership would have the President or Vice President of a country. A class on private equity would have individuals who lead the most... View Details

March 2011
Supplement

H Partners and Six Flags (B)

By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Gorzynski

Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant amount of the firm's capital in the senior bonds of U.S.-based Six Flags, following that company's bankruptcy filing. View Details

Keywords: Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Price; Acquisition; Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Funds; Opportunities; Bonds; Investment Activism; Financial Services Industry; United States