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- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
both raise and burn cash. Its only asset was Mr. Ma, its charismatic and dynamic founder. After we wrote our first case study about the company in 2000, we were afraid it would go bankrupt before we could teach the case for the first... View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
the venture capitalist will increasingly become a team player, coordinating the firm's resources to help portfolio firms. Q: What are the opportunities and challenges for international venture capital efforts? A: For its first fifty years, venture capital (as opposed... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
thought of as something that's investable for private equity. We see exciting young, growth companies, and we want to make them available to our limited partners." Hence, the creation of Causeway Media Partners, an investment fund... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
private sources, and bank loans.9 Women have made extraordinary progress, but they still have much to learn. In spite of narrowing the debt-financing gap over the past decade, women continue to rely too heavily on personal credit cards,... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Silicon Valley is the poster child for capitalism, the synergistic geography where smart private money supports cool ideas, creates jobs, boosts national productivity, and provides a handsome return for investors. Less well understood... View Details
- March 2009
- Teaching Note
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.: An IPO in India (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [807095]. View Details
- Profile
Philipp Schäelli
strongly shaped by my path towards discovering what I wanted to do professionally. I came to HBS after my experience in Consulting knowing that I wanted to work more closely with people who were running businesses and that I wanted to have “skin in the game” when... View Details
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Daniel Sheyner
he first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
When it became clear that my summer internship with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, was going to be remote, I had a lot of questions on my mind. What would it be like to work with a team I... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] that was rolled out in 1997. Its goal was to insure children who were not covered by private insurance, but whose family income disqualified them from Medicaid. But I found that one of the... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
really paying attention to. It turns out from our research, it matters a lot.” Going beyond the term sheet McDonald, along with Columbia University’s Dan Wang and Emily Cox Pahnke from the University of Washington, examined 71,624 funding... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- Fast Answer
PE Fundraising
How do I create a list of firms by geography, type of fundraising and timeframe? In Preqin Click on Private Equity>Funds Under Advanced Search you can query by fund status, size, vintage and structure. Click on ESG to display ESG fund label View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
entrepreneurship and investing over the next two years and beyond. The Early Days and Success of Harlem Capital The Harlem Capital story begins well before that first day on campus. In 2015, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle first joined forces at ICV Partners, a middle-market... View Details
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Choosing the Right Student Loan | MBA
discretionary spending. 2. What you’ll do after graduation. The median starting salary for our MBA students typically enables them to successfully pay off debt in a relatively short time frame. If you’re planning to go into a field that... View Details
- December 2019
- Case
WeWork Files for an IPO
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
For the board of The We Company—better known as WeWork—August 14, 2019, promised to be a pivotal day. It was then that WeWork’s IPO prospectus, known as an S-1 filing, would be made public, giving potential investors, the media, and the general public a window into the... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Leadership; Management; Private Equity; Valuation; Venture Capital; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "WeWork Files for an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 320-063, December 2019.
- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
Harvard, including in his teaching the course Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Private and Social Sectors at the Kennedy School. In addition, Higgins and his wife, Kristine, support fellowships for students in the joint MD/MBA... View Details
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Networking
etc. Type 1 and hit GO to begin the search. BoardEx Profiles on over 1M Directors & Senior Managers. This platform allows for historical individual searching, connections/networking as well as automatic tagged identifiers for Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Domestic Students | MBA
to make up the difference. Private Student Loans Private student loans come from financial institutions such as banks or credit unions. Interest rates are often variable, which means your interest rate and... View Details
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Catherine Neale
help me get skills useful in the public sector." Looking ahead This summer, Catherine will work with the Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco. Once she fulfills her MBA, "I want to go into the View Details