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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
benefits to part-time workers. We have a consulting firm poll our workers every year to find out how they feel about the company, and they've told us that they've never seen such a positive response in an organization of this View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
globalor local, an early- or late-stage investor, confines itself to certain industries, and what size fund best meets your needs. The proper homework can also tell you where a firm sits in its funding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
see that there are a lot more female investors that are getting involved. But there’s a bottleneck for the exits that typically venture capitalists are looking for in terms of going public. Now you have a lot of these private companies that are basically funded by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
customer-oriented firms such as American Express and RJR Nabisco, Gerstner proceeded to shake up Big Blue's culture, reinventing IBM “from the customer back, not from the company out,” so the firm would... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
their responsibility to their constituencies, emphasize knowing their customers, and invest heavily in training employees. Further, Mittelstand firms tend to occupy narrow niches, often tools or component parts, with a strategy to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
United States. Fuller collaborated with labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies—led by CEO Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999)—to identify occupations best suited for the apprenticeship model. One criterion: The occupation must... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
marketing found among the most successful Asian firms in the study appears to hold true across the board - in consumer goods organizations, industrial firms, product companies, and service providers alike, without regard to the View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
interested Latino professionals prepare themselves to be considered for board positions. The virtual event was the second in a series of webinars offered as part of a coordinated campaign by the two alumni clubs, with consulting help from executive search View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
of profitability. But those changes have made a level playing field for everyone; there’s no competitor of size that is not now a bank holding company. Goldman Sachs is always changing its various businesses — often greatly — but the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
investments to both nonprofit and for-profit social impact companies. It also offers philanthropic fund management, and it partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to provide additional services to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
breeding, and temperament. He sometimes uses an outside firm to take a horse’s measurements and conduct a biomechanical analysis, including a sonogram of its heart to evaluate size and efficiency: “You don’t... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
the nonprofit sector. In addition to its lending platform, SITAWI offers philanthropic fund management and has partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to provide additional services to clients. By... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
and nearly 100 fellows in the field. We have doubled in size each year, and plan to engage 1,000 fellows in the next five years. Is there something you're particulalry proud of? I am most proud of our commitment to diversity: To date,... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
enough to be able to make a gift for their endowment, so they can accept qualified students without regard to the size of their pocketbooks.” Five years ago he returned to the helm of Bloomberg LP. He donates all profits from his share of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
we need.” With almost three years of operational experience, the ten-person company has adapted and survived. A pending project for 42 multifamily affordable-housing units would cause the firm to triple in View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s venture-capital firms and scores of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
particularly crucial; yet it is also difficult for external parties to assess the quality of a young firm." Higgins had noticed that in many pre-IPO discussions, venture capitalists would invariably ask company executives what firms they... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross