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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
discussed other key points from the book: Martha Lagace: What do you mean by “possibility government”? Mitchell Weiss: Possibility government is the pursuit of novel programs and services by public officials and their outside private... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
other projects. Third, studying projects requires significant up-front investment to understand the institutional details. When equity holders have too little "skin in the game," moral hazard becomes a real danger. This... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
always have to attract other resource providers—co-founders and non-founding hires on the human resources side, investors on the financial resources side—to the venture. To attract them, the founder has to give up things of value, most... View Details
- Fast Answer
Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research
href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/factset.html">FactSet A comprehensive platform used to analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and private companies. Individual... View Details
- Profile
Tariro Goronga
private equity group making infrastructure investments on behalf of a pension plan. For Tariro, “the skill sets I acquire as part of an investment team will be very valuable when I go back to Africa.” His... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
genuinely lit up when they talked about their jobs pre-HBS, with the work itself ranging from founding and scaling a startup to analyzing private equity investments. I was... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-011 Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company This case follows Qalaa Holdings, a successful Egypt-based private View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
HBS’s New Venture Competition (NVC) on April 23, 2019. The judges, many of them alumni, represented sectors ranging from venture capital to private equity to impact investing. Pak detailed the products’ key... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Profile
Mira Mehta
conversation with a man who worked for the Chancellor of Texas Tech University, a woman who worked for a small logistics company in Minnesota, and a man who worked at a Private Equity fund in New York. I... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
You get a lot of good advice at HBS. I’ve kept pretty much every single sheet of paper I’ve received while I’ve been here, trying to retain it for later. One sticks with me now as I head back into the world of work. On the last day of my Venture Capital & View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut. At TSG he was introduced to one... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
What happens when a father and son team up to attend executive education programs together? Bracken Seaberg (BS) and Jim Seaberg (JS) discuss their shared experiences in Private View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) is cofounder and retired managing director of the Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund. In this video interview, he talks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
reason why private equity partnerships were able to borrow money left, right, and center to finance leveraged buyouts. And Chimerica — or the Asian “savings glut,” as Ben Bernanke called it — was the... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2024
takeaways was the importance of equity and inclusion in climate discussions. The plenary session titled "Recentering Equity in the Climate Transition" was particularly enlightening. One speaker was from the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn’t reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period, the equity markets in the United States outperformed the rest of the world in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Trust your instincts. “Make sure you can raise your hand and say, ‘Something doesn’t look right.’ ” Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference February 1, 2003 Sponsor: HBS Venture Capital & View Details
- Profile
Ralph Johnson
education. In what ways has HBS impacted your career? The big thing is access to so many opportunities, and to so many people who have been in various roles and have helped me understand what those roles are really like. Through my peers, I learned, for example, that... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
FDI to the United States has averaged 4.3 percent while the average for outbound FDI from the United States has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn't reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai