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- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it suggests—the idea that through... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
through their eyes. And we dined with one of my former students, who set up one of the pioneering private equity funds in Egypt and whose wife is bringing high-fashion retailing to a corner of the new Four Seasons Hotel. Q: What did you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five years, and in August 2022... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
take what I learned from one situation and apply it to another while bringing people together.” While at HBS, Nneka naturalized as a U.S. citizen and considered staying in the United States, which had also begun to feel like home. She explored consulting and private... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
low-income settings using open-source electronic health records. He also worked as a physician on the front lines during the civil war in Syria. Alex gained valuable experience in the financial sector as a long/short equities hedge fund... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things, prohibiting "by regulation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo
“I am a problem solver who’s passionate about diversity and equity and telling the stories I’ve seen all my life. I’m passionate about making sure that my students, future children, and grandchildren get to see a world that evolves at a... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Aspen Fellowship: MBA Student Launches Program Supporting Black Undergrads
Prior to joining HBS, I spent six years at Goldman Sachs across three different divisions (Investment Management, Investment Banking, Growth Equity Investing). From time to time students facing graduation will reach out asking for advice... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Leadership and Diversity at HBS
City. His determination and grit from the football field translated well to the workplace, and he later went on to work in private equity before applying to HBS. We checked in with Bruce to learn more about his time at HBS and his... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources for International Students
international students and the global job search outside of the U.S. While we are based in Boston, we continually build our global network of organizations that would like to hire HBS MBAs, from a mid-market private equity firm in... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
Sachs, and held C-suite roles with several large private equity firms, for help with an idea that would eventually become Millicent, their blockchain-based digital financial venture. Dyer says Millicent’s payments network will be a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
stock repurchases to net income is misleading and ignores two important factors: first, focusing on dividends and buybacks ignores the substantial (direct and indirect) equity issuances firms engage in; second, net income is a poor metric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Guy Kamguia
Guy (HBS’ 15, Villanova’ 11, UMBC’ 08) is a Director of Strategy at TOMRA, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of advanced sorting equipment. He previously worked in private equity, driving value creation in portfolio companies, in emerging markets. Guy is... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
barred sponsors from soliciting small investors for large commercial real estate. However, the JOBS Act of 2013 loosened U.S. restrictions on equity crowdfunding. Nino believes that crowdfunding will democratize real estate development by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded equity or... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
support. 34 In the first half of the century, wealthy family funds like the Rockefeller Brothers, Inc. (later Venrock) provided the majority of investments for private companies. ARD would be one of the first firms to grant private equity... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
passing on the risk would mean eliminating it, and of course, we woke up to find that very few people had much of a stake. We had effectively eliminated the down payment, so the borrower had no equity invested in the home. The lender was... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
the private equity industry, he has one last opportunity to pitch the deal to Asdar Capital. If unsuccessful, the time on Sanankoua's exclusivity agreement with the owners will run out. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Laid Off Sandra J. Sucher and Phillip AndrewsHarvard Business School Case 612-008 This case describes the experience of Anne Riley, a 28-year-old private equity analyst, who was laid off in 2008. The case explores the emotions she felt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Internet and of the international scope of Intel Capital's reach, currently encompassing more than 175 companies outside the United States. With stock markets floundering and many venture capitalists sitting on the sidelines, Intel's View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner