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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
due to partial family ownership and a consolidating market for industrial gases. Aiming to make Messer Griesheim a more attractive potential acquisition, Messer Griesheim management had drawn up a restructuring plan as early as 2000. By... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
raised from private sources of equity and debt financing. According to Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero has resources to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
returns, with the goal of making a difference in important societal issues. That’s an extended form of philanthropy in my view, and I think you’ll see a bigger pool of capital engaged in that way. We also expect to see the growth of market-return View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
outsourcing operation of General Electric and was the largest outsourcing operation in India. In 2005 GE decided to partially divest this subsidiary to a number of private equity players. By 2007, the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Black History Month | Baker Library
Black History Month Explore Baker Library resources with a connection to Black culture and identity. Want to stay up-to-date on DEI topics? Consider subscribing to our monthly Diversity Equity and Inclusion Newsletter . Quick Research... View Details
- Profile
Alex Slusky
guiding new enterprises through slow periods. “There were plenty of VC firms,” says Alex, “but not private equity firms that had deep technology expertise that could be used to restructure and turn around... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
$30M (70 percent from international investors) to establish the country’s first post–civil war private equity fund providing capital to small- and medium-sized firms. YSP’s expanded offerings now include... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
downswing) was 30 percent over the last three years, 26 percent over the last five years and 16 percent over the last ten years. This compares favorably with the S&P at 10 percent, 7 percent, and 8 percent, and even well against Emerging Markets View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
increase and is greater for "creative" industries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-007.pdf Board Interlocks and the Propensity to be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
private capital sources," says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big risks and hoped for big rewards. The 1980s brought additional players to the table, none driven by... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
focused on creating social equity and economic self-sufficiency, Silbert has a simple take on what ties her career together: "I'm a problem solver. I love digging into an issue and the analytical rigor of doing a scan of existing research... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
decided to triple what it charged Chewy to fulfill each order. What should Chewy do? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818105-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-055 Omar Simmons: Franchising and Private... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
covering basic facts about the country and legal questions about travel from the United States. (“Which is still legal,” says Gordon, noting that the misconception is widespread.) But most of what Benedetti lays out about the challenges he faces operating in Cuba’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees
real results. Equity Audits The first step is to understand where your organization needs to improve so that time and money can be put behind the right efforts. Elizabeth Zwart (MBA 2023) recommended companies “explore, and then address,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
"We were shocked at how predictable the returns are in this industry." Over the course of a year, Greenwood and Hanson interviewed a variety of people, including dry bulk shipping industry leaders, private View Details
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Kraft Accelerator
100 private equity investments. Over the past five decades, the Kraft family has been one of New England's most philanthropic families, donating hundreds of millions of dollars in support of local charities,... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-033 Darby's Investment in Sirma: Professionalizing an Entrepreneurial Firm (A) In March 2010, Burak Dalgin (HBS MBA 2004) led private View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
political systems, public institutions, private organizations and philanthropy within public education. Despite the challenges of operating in this landscape, this experience has solidified my commitment to advancing View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
I realized this was something I was passionate about and that, up until then, I had been influenced by other people’s expectations.” This insight led to a decades-long interest in global business for Barry, president and CEO of the View Details