Publications

July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

Since its founding eight years earlier, Hidrovias do Brasil (“Hidrovias”), an integrated logistics provider serving corporate customers exporting products from South America via the Atlantic Ocean, had grown to 900 employees and $253 million in annual revenues.... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Private Equity; Brazil; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Operation Management; General Management; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Growth and Development; Leadership; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Transportation; Human Capital; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Brazil

12 Oct 2022
Video

Brandeis Marshall: The Potential for Data Equity

06 Jul 2014
News

A Mad Scramble for Young Bankers

Keywords: private equity; investment banking; recruiting; Finance

Web

Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

attempts to stroke/fondle/kiss you 24% 23% 28% 28% 24% Offered/Implied rewards if you engaged in sexual behavior 12% 11% 10% 5% 13% Exposed a private part of his/her body 4% 6% 5% 9% 4% Other Harassment,... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Advance Racial Equity in the Office

Atlantic. To make workplaces a true meritocracy, leaders need to adopt the same kind of systematic approach that they apply routinely to every other area of the business—a process that MLT has outlined in its Black View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

markedly, and in 1998 the company recorded its first profit in forty years. Reutlinger sees Sabena's shift from state to private ownership as part of a major and growing trend in the transportation and other... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

January 2022
Background Note

The Florange Law: Encouraging Long-Termism in Equity Markets?

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Tonia Labruyere

This note provides background information on a French law (“the Florange law”) passed in 2014 that the French government said would encourage long-term shareholdings. The note describes the law, what led to it, the reactions it evoked, and similar initiatives in other... View Details

Keywords: Equity; Financial Markets; Investment Activism; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Policy; Rights; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Accounting Industry; France

December 2018
Teaching Note

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice at 40

By: Josh Lerner and Terrence Shu

Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Succession Planning

Web

RGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity

Race, Gender and Equity at Work Race, Gender and Equity at Work Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board Diversity RGE Blog Filters Read posts from Author HBS... View Details

November 2017
Teaching Note

The Carlyle Group and Axalta

By: Josh Lerner and Alexey Tuzikov

Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-040. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Carlyle; Axalta; LBO; Leveraged Buyout

September 2017 (Revised October 2017)
Case

The Carlyle Group and Axalta

By: Josh Lerner and Alexey Tuzikov

Keywords: Carlyle; Axalta; Private Equity; Carve-out; DuPont; Industrials

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

returning citizens, we are leaving a lot of talented but undervalued people off the table.” It is also important to keep in mind that, when we talk about returning citizens, we’re often including other marginalized and stigmatized... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

Web

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022) | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

January 2009
Case

Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China

By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Keith Chi-ho Wong and Tracy Manty

Huang Teng founded Xi'an International University (XAIU) as a private institute of higher education in 1992. Throughout its ensuing years, the school filled a niche and met the demand of students who did not test into one of China's public institutions. In 2008, it was... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Growth and Development Strategy; Private Ownership; Expansion; Education Industry; China