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  • January 2022
  • Article

Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity

By: Josh Lerner, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar and Nan R. Zhang
This paper uses previously unexplored custodial data to examine the use of alternative investment vehicles in private equity (PE) over four decades. We document a steep increase in the capital directed to alternative vehicles, with these vehicles approaching a 40%... View Details
Keywords: Alternative Investment Vehicles; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Performance
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  • Fall 2021
  • Article

When to Go and How to Go? Founder and Leader Transitions in Private Equity Firms

By: Josh Lerner and Diana Noble
Leadership transition in private equity firms is an understudied field, despite the important, albeit controversial, role such firms play in developed economies. We analyzed 260 firms in an empirical study, supplemented by qualitative interviews with a small sample of... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Transition; Private Equity; Leadership; Management Succession; Analysis
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  • April 2024
  • Article

Detecting Routines: Applications to Ridesharing CRM

By: Ryan Dew, Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Nachum Sicherman
Routines shape many aspects of day-to-day consumption. While prior work has established the importance of habits in consumer behavior, little work has been done to understand the implications of routines—which we define as repeated behaviors with recurring, temporal... View Details
Keywords: Ride-sharing; Routine; Machine Learning; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Segmentation
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    Detecting Routines: Applications to Ridesharing CRM

    Routines shape many aspects of day-to-day consumption. While prior work has established the importance of habits in consumer behavior, little work has been done to understand the implications of routines--which we define as repeated behaviors with recurring, temporal... View Details
    • March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
    • Case

    Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)

    By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh
    In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details
    Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations
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    Required Curriculum - MBA

    address. The course culminates in a one-week immersion at the company’s location during which students meet with their GP and local consumers. Social Purpose of the Firm (SPF) SPF is a short module designed to explore how, and under what... View Details
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    The Field Method - MBA

    product or service challenge for students to address. The course culminates in a one-week immersion at the company’s location during which students meet with their GP and local consumers. View Details
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    Hiring Organizations

    Gigit.ai Gilead Sciences GingerBread Capital Glamsquad Glenfarne Group GLIN Impact Capital Global Holdings Management Group Global Infrastructure Partners Global Ventures Globalgate Entertainment GlossGenius Glossier Golden State Warriors Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.... View Details
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    Help - Alumni

    address to enable location-relevant search. If we can not find your IP address you may be asked to share your location using your device’s GPS locator. If you do not share your address, you may not have access to the complete geolocation... View Details
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    What is FIELD Global Immersion? - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
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    Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

    Fabris Traxo MBA 2004 Jeffrey Farmer Sano MBA 1999 Marc-Kwesi Farrell FANLIME MBA 2010 Jorge Felipe Lemann GP Investimentos, 3G Capital Management OPM 35 Melissa Fensterstock Mikey & Momo MBA 2012 Jose Ferreira Knewton MBA 1997 John H. N.... View Details
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    Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • 23 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

    won't be buggy and there won't be a learning curve.” A follow-up experiment reversed the task. Participants learned that the firm Garmin had adopted a sequential naming approach for the first five generations of its in-car GPS receiver,... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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    RGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity

    Beninga waved her cell phone to sum up the impact she’s had as a board member and investor in the technology world. The GPS on that phone? She helped make that possible. The gaming? Check. The Bluetooth? That too. Beninga was in the... View Details
    • 15 Jun 2021
    • News

    Zone Defense

    reconnaissance of potentially hazardous spaces. The quadcopter functions in total darkness, in buildings it has never previously entered, and flies without prior knowledge or programming of the space—even in areas without GPS or... View Details
    Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation
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    Bloomberg: market index prices, members & movers

    shortcuts and hit GO: HP for historical price table with volume GP for graph of historical prices GPA for graph of historical average prices Use amber fields to modify the display; e.g., start/end date, frequency, currency, and the... View Details
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    Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

    allocation underpinnings: mean-variance analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, the Efficient Frontier, and Monte Carlo simulations The “Yale Model” Key fund terms: fees, expenses, carried interest, hurdle rates, and GP co-investment How fund... View Details
    • 19 Jul 2016
    • News

    HBS Startup Is Developing Tech-Enabled Jewelry to Stop Rapists

    at the Harvard i-lab. Working with survivors of sexual assault and with a team of MIT engineers, the cofounders of Flare Jewelry are developing wearable devices that include an alarm, text messaging to alert the wearer’s phone contacts of her View Details
    Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    Map Quest

    use your GPS to locate the brand-new Map & Atlas Museum at 7825 Fay Avenue. Or better yet, unfold a crinkly old paper street map to find it. Mike Stone (MBA ’88) might find that latter method more appropriate. A couple of decades ago,... View Details
    Keywords: maps
    • 21 Feb 2017
    • News

    Wilson Claims Title of Fastest American Solo Sailor

    Bulletin is considered “the Mt. Everest of the seas.” This year’s competition was his second successful solo ocean race. He soundly bested his time in the 2008-9 edition of the race of 121 days and 41 minutes. While battling storms, rough seas, and a gimpy View Details
    Keywords: Vendee Globe