Growth Equity - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 May 2020
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Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

I’m Gaurav Bhogale, from the HBS class of 2021. While I grew up in Mumbai, before HBS I spent 8 years at Google in San Francisco and Sydney, helping drive product engagement and growth for apps like Google Maps, Search and Gmail. It was... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Centre out of more than 8,000 authors. Robin Greenwood : Winner of the 2022 Roger F. Murray Award from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group) for “Predicting Financial Crises.” Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2022 Doriot Award for the Best Private... View Details

27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

spent much of his post-HBS career in energy finance, corporate finance, and public and private equity investment. In 2001, he cofounded ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

dramatically shifted the nature of business education. Part four discusses the implications of our findings and the potential for future research on institutional change. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-070.pdf Leviathan as a Minority... View Details

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

a U.S. citizen and considered staying in the United States, which had also begun to feel like home. She explored consulting and private equity as potential paths forward, leveraging MBA internships and exposure to various industries that... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

spent four years in London as cohead of the firm's European operations before resigning in 1996 to found Compass Partners International, a privately held investment banking advisory and investment firm that manages a large European private View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

dataset enables high growth companies to align corporate sustainability, social equity, and financial profitability. Stakeholders are demanding more of the private sector, and Metric uses the ESG dataset to build a business case for... View Details

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. She presently teaches Real Estate Private Equity and Venture Capital and Private Equity. Rory M. McDonald Assistant Professor of Business Administration Rory McDonald is... View Details

07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

disproportionate stock price hit to an earnings miss reflects that informational problem. The promise of private equity involves solving that gap between owners and managers. Buybacks must be interpreted in that context as either... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

and in our success as a family," notes L.E. Simmons (MBA '72), founder of L.E. Simmons & Associates in Houston, which manages a private equity fund that invests in the oil service industry. "We all believe in and support what Kim Clark is... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

the lower end of the seven peer schools tracked by HBS and amounted to 14 percent of the School's total revenues. Harvard Business Publishing Four of HBP's five market-facing groups—Harvard Business Review, Higher Education, Advertising, and Press—delivered... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

current preoccupation in the media and politics with what is wrong, rather than how to fix problems at scale. Confronting Climate Change Professor Daniel Schrag + More Info – Less Info The last 200 years have seen a remarkable explosion in the use of energy, allowing... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

ever-expanding growth of the market and the siren song of get-rich-overnight IPOs, the need for a precise formula to measure stock risk against performance is more pressing than ever. "If I tell you that a technology fund has a higher... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
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Restaurant Brands International: Version 2.0

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

In 2010, 3G Capital acquired Burger King, the second largest burger chain globally. 3G expanded Burger King’s operations via acquisitions into a multi-brand business, renamed Restaurant Brands International. The acquisition had been a financial success story for 3G.... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development; Performance Evaluation; Private Equity; Franchise Ownership; Culture; Change Management; Strategy; Human Resources; Information Technology; Competition; Retail Industry; United States

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

valuation. The average CAPE from 1900 through 2017 is 16.9; it is currently 31.5. Figure 3: Risk in U.S. Government Bond, High Yield, Real Estate, and U.S. Equity Markets Sources:Data for Treasury yields, BoAML yield, Case-Schiller index... View Details

18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

designed to introduce students to a wide variety of choices faced by founders, including whether to quit a big-company job to found a new venture, whether to found with a best friend, how to split the equity within the founding team, how... View Details