Equity Issues - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2023
Blog Post

New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?

specifically written for the course: Microsoft: Responsible Artificial Intelligence Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change ‘A Marshall Plan for Africa’: James Mwangi and Equity Group Holdings The Dutch East India Company... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

effective channel strategy, and produced high and increasing EBITDA margins. After holding it for eight years we decided to sell to the private equity firm Madison Dearborn, after the firm’s cofounder, Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982), made the... View Details

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Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Questions for Hiring Organizations - Alumni

Careers Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Questions for Hiring Organizations Careers Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Questions for Hiring Organizations In Fall of 2020, HBS presented a Plan For Racial Equity . Working in partnership with... View Details

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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

increased student interest in private equity, a module of the course focuses on contracts and understanding legal documentation relating to private equity transactions. The course will also explore legal View Details

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Mi Zhou

my career.” Her most thought-provoking course, Mi believes, is Leadership and Corporate Accountability. “We have to consider business issues within the larger frameworks of ethics, law, and the larger economy. There are no... View Details

21 Jun 2020
News

Rooting out Racism

John Rice (MBA 1992) John Rice (MBA 1992) Will the weeks of protest and statements of support for racial equity lead to lasting change for the country—or will we once again lose steam and move on to the next crisis, without making... View Details

May 2011
Supplement

Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (B)

By: Lakshmi Iyer and John Macomber

In July 2009, as investors prepared to submit financial bids for the $3 billion Dharavi slum redevelopment project, considerable economic and political risks remained. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Private Equity; Social Issues; Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Mumbai

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Leila Meliani

administrators to "improve the way women and underrepresented minorities experience HBS." Together, they work on issues such as diversifying the case curriculum and establishing gender equity... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

14 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

is business." This powerful idea paved the way for the new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical View Details

16 Feb 2022
News

Holding Business to Account

Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston, to discuss an... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating service businesses in highly... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Feb 2001
News

A Bankable Trust

Carla Ann Harris (MBA 1987) is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, in charge of the marketing and execution of new-issue equity financing in the technology, media, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2004
News

On the National Stage

With the fall election season now in full swing, Chris Heinz (MBA 2001) is stumping hard for his stepfather, Democratic presidential contender John Kerry. Heinz is a Kerry supporter because of his stance on the issues — jobs and health... View Details

Keywords: John Heinz (MBA 1963); Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Industries: financial analytical data and tools

analytical features. Standard & Poor's RatingsDirect (available from Capital IQ) Access to the credit research behind S&P ratings on a wide variety of debt issues from around the world. These reports can provide useful... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

planned to disclose DEI metrics to the public. And yet, a 2021 Deloitte report, The equity imperative: The need for business to take bold action now, states: “Despite agreeing that change is needed, many leaders have come to realize how... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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 of its portfolio companies,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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

01 Dec 2017
News

Bridging Domains

chairman of global private equity investing at Goldman Sachs, Sanjeev observes, “Every business in the world is interacting with science and engineering today. There’s a tremendous need for managers to become more conversant in how... View Details

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

those that are the most optimistic, on average. All else equal, managers would clearly favor hiring a brokerage with analysts that are the most optimistic about the firm's future prospects. Analysts are persistently overoptimistic in their forecasts for the firms View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

Yusuf Keshavjee Some years ago, Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) was driving near Lake Victoria in Kenya when he noticed vendors by the roadside selling honey. Not an unusual sight in Africa, but it got Keshavjee to thinking about issues... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

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