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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Lifelong Learning about Leadership

careers and lives, and the other utilizes HBS’s online learning platform to share the School’s pedagogy with broader audiences. More than 70 MBA alumni from the classes of 1995– 2005—all seasoned professionals at an inflection... View Details
  • Web

Podcast - HBS Online

24 Feb 2025 The Parlor Room Season 2 Finale: Top 8 Q&As with Harvard Business School Faculty In The Parlor Room's season two finale, host Chris Linnane shares his favorite questions and answers from his... View Details
  • 08 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Meet the Entrepreneurship Club

entrepreneur, “Pitch the Pit” time with student pitches, and a networking session which brings together students from HBS and other schools, entrepreneurs, investors, and potential advisors in a two-hour event. Throughout the month, HBS students learn from View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 11 May 2021
  • Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

syndicates, the study says. Public companies also typically require more infrastructure and legal support to handle shareholder and regulatory demands. “For a lot of entrepreneurs, it's just about the term sheet and how much equity... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 21 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management

development, operations, and project management. Conor Sullivan, Investment Director for the Social Outcomes Fund, and Claudia Cheung, Program Director for the Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, shared their experience as HBS recruiting partners and View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Faculty Books

They offer guidance on how to balance the benefits of open-ended talk with the realities of strategic execution. Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon (Wiley... View Details
Keywords: Professor Amy C. Edmonson; Professor Boris Groysberg; Professor Josh Lerner; Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon; Professor Leslie A. Perlow; Professor of Management Practice Felda Hardymon;; social media; Finance
  • 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
  • March 2008 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

The Blackstone Group's IPO

By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Steven Schwarzman, Chairman of the Blackstone Group, has just learned that an investment group associated with the government of China wants to buy the majority of Blackstone's leveraged IPO. As he considers how to respond to this offer, Schwarzman reviews the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Ownership Stake; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • January 2006 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...?

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Brian DeLacey
Endo Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1997 as a leveraged buyout spin-off from DuPont Merck. In 1999, it must decide whether to do an IPO or merge with a smaller company. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 11 Jan 2021
  • News

Strengthening Democracy

system and possible solutions. FACULTY Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm Harvard Business School faculty members share their expectations for a Biden presidency and offer advice to the commander in chief as he takes on... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

James Ellman shows how to invest wisely as climate change impacts multiple sectors across the stock market. The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market performance over the next two decades. As... View Details
  • 12 Oct 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

stepped up their game by revamping the offer letter. CEO Henry Ward decided that, being in the business of equity management, they should excel in helping job candidates and new employees fully understand... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • News

Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.

Surveying the panic and pressure of college admissions season in the New York Times, Abby Falik (MBA 2008), CEO and founder of Global Citizen Year, suggests that few involved in this cultural pressure cooker realize “how little these... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2007
  • Op-Ed

How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

shortages at Apple and AT&T retail stores. Despite a retail price over $500, iPhones were quickly being offered on eBay for $100 extra. Two problems then arose: First, the reviews were mixed. At that retail price and with that level... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products
  • 09 Dec 2015
  • Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

Ferreira was a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rue La La is a so-called flash sales business, offering deeply discounted, extremely-limited-time offers on designer clothes and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories
  • Career Coach

Sarah Bua

Executive Leadership Program - China (SELP-China), Owner President Manager Program (OPM) and Leading Change through Organizational Renewal (LCOR) executive education offerings.  She has worked extensively with early-, mid-career and View Details
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  • 2024
  • Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang
The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States
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  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

of the selling season, the retailer may offer several different prices to try to learn demand at each price (“exploration” objective). Over time, the retailer can use this knowledge to set a price that maximizes revenue throughout the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

About | HBS Online

real-world challenges facing seasoned business leaders and discuss and debate solutions with peers from around the world—all while learning from renowned Harvard Business School faculty. It’s an online business education like no other.... View Details