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- June 2021
- Technical Note
SPAC Space
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2020, over half of all initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States were special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), blank-check companies that typically had two years to find a business to take public, usually through a reverse merger. Together, 248... View Details
Keywords: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies; SPACs; Mergers and Acquisitions; Going Public; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Strategy
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "SPAC Space." Harvard Business School Technical Note 721-456, June 2021.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
INK-STAINED ORACLE: Buffett's Media General bid focused on small-town papers. AP Photo/Nati Harnik by Deborah Blagg In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
SVMP a High-Energy Success
SVMP chair Ben Esty, flanked by two participants. Classroom discussions, with an overall theme of international business, were exercises in engagement and learning for Jabulani Barber and Victoria Beatty. photos View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
have our first customers and revenue by early fall, when we plan to start actively raising our first round of financing.” Family support: Michelle “My entire family is supportive. My sister came to the final presentation. Her son, who is... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
and more efficiently?—with in-the-weeds tactical questions—would more people click here if the button were red? Much of the innovative work going on at DoIT was spearheaded by Lauren Lockwood (HBS 2014), and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
- Web
Site Credits - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Elisabeth Koll, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Exhibition Staff: Priscilla Anderson Katherine Fox Benjamin Johnson Ayako Letizia Laura Linard Tim Mahoney Melissa Murphy Christine Riggle Abigail... View Details
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Site Credits - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Collections Site Credits Site Credits Content : Melissa Banta, Rachel Wise Editing : Julia Collins, Katherine Fox Web Design and Production : Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design Web Project Team : Katherine Fox, Benjamin Johnson, Laura Linard,... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
and more efficiently?—with in-the-weeds tactical questions—would more people click here if the button were red? Much of the innovative work going on at DoIT was spearheaded by Lauren Lockwood (HBS 2014), and... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 7 PM – 9 PM PST, 16 Nov 2015
HBS San Francisco Young Alumni Reception
HBS alumni MBA 2011-2015 are invited to an evening of socializing and networking in San Francisco View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
AWARD WINNERS: Benjamin Fenton (MBA '00), Iris Chen (MBA/JD '01), and Marc Sternberg (MBA '00) at the HBS Club of Greater New York's annual Leadership Dinner. Recognizing the many accomplishments of senior business executives has always... View Details
- 8 PM – 10 PM EDT, 06 Apr 2016
- HBS Alumni Events
HBS New York Young Alumni Networking Reception
HBS alumni MBA 2011-2015 are invited to an evening of socializing and networking in New York. View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
than none at all. “When you set high expectations for voters, you’ve got to make sure you deliver on them. If you want democracy to work well, you need both the winners and the losers to be on board and accept the results.” “The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa,”... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners,... View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
institutions also included collections of Chinese art from mercantile families like the Heards. Augustine Heard advised that money enabled one “to gratify his taste for literature and the fine arts, but most all, money was worth acquiring, from the amount of good which... View Details
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Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Services, Harvard Business School Digital Photography : Boston Photo Inc.; Imaging Services, Harvard College Library Editing : Julia Collins, Katherine Fox, Abigail Thompson Exhibition Design : Chris Danemayer, proun Design Exhibition Staff : Priscilla Anderson,... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credits
French, Benjamin Johnson, Laura Linard, Tim Mahoney, Melissa Murphy, Christine Riggle, Abigail Thompson Editing Julia Collins, Katherine Fox Catalog Design Eleanor Bradshaw, EB Fine Design Website Design/Production Aaron Carmisciano,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training great principals to lead great schools
At New Leaders, Benjamin Fenton (AB 1996, MBA 2000) directs strategy for the only national organization focused on developing exceptional school leaders for high-need district and charter schools. Between 2000 and 2013, the organization... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to... View Details