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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
me that we could combine business and nonprofit and make one plus one equal more than two,” he says. “Seventy percent of what I was doing in my private equity and business life was extremely relevant; but in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Recent studies have found that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom can enhance dialogue, curb excessive risk-taking, and boost both performance and share price. And yet, women still hold only about 19 percent of S&P 500 company... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
Africa for five years, teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and serving on the investment committee of a private equity fund. It was also during this time that she acquired the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
produce—to tell a story while maintaining creative control over the project itself—is something Singer aspires to in the future. “You’re paid well as a screenwriter if you’re successful, but you don’t have equity in the company, so to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
implementation of new technology as a particular highlight. Observed Deborah McConchie (MBA '79), whose Boston-area consulting business has many high-tech clients, "It was a well-organized conference with a good View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Marketing—and a longtime attendee of the School’s Agribusiness Seminar—has closely tracked the industry’s ascent. He estimates that there’s some $2 billion invested in the space right now, with money flowing in from VCs, sustainable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
“punishment posting” or perhaps a move that signaled her desire for a slower-paced lifestyle after a fifteen-year career in various areas of ICICI Bank. “There were no visible indicators that signaled the potential for private View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
creating resources, adapting to the unexpected, and managing creativity. Important empirical and clinical work in venture capital and private equity has shed new light on the structure, governance, and impact View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
where they have some special hold over those receiving the money," explains Hayes. There are a number of acceptable financial contracts dating from the Middle Ages that do allow certain investments other than a straight View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
in the 1990s. It was, in the satisfied words of one attendee, "not your typical business conference." Buttner began the morning by urging women Ð who are more likely to raise children alone or survive their spouses than are men Ð to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
Some aspects of Paul E. Tierney's (MBA '68) first weeks at Soldiers Field were easy to get used to. “Our apartment in Peabody Terrace had a kitchen with a refrigerator and a bathroom with a toilet that flushed,” he recalls with a smile.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
in the period of your life just before business school. Can you talk a little bit about the circumstances of your life at that time? And how did they lead you to this moment of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
contractions could be more severe since there are fewer governmental controls and safety nets than in other countries. The second quarter of this year provided a "correction" in U.S. equity markets, and a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
CEOs 70 alumni are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies In January 2007, Daniel Birnbaum (MBA 1992) was running Nike's operations in Israel when he got a call from his friend and fellow HBS alum Yuval Cohen (MBA 1991). "Dani, I need your help,"... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
see that there are a lot more female investors that are getting involved. But there’s a bottleneck for the exits that typically venture capitalists are looking for in terms of going public. Now you have a lot View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
you either-- basically, it's the point of no return, where you either take off or you crash. And so I had a V1 marker that I wanted to have moonlighting revenue at half my salary. I'd have a business plan to get to the remaining half... View Details