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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
health department reached out to the Harvard Club of Ukraine for assistance sourcing medical supplies, including everything from oxygen and blood to syringes and bandages. “We are using our private equity connections with local trucking,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
close to bankruptcy, oh, you will get religion. But over the course of the ensuing 10 years, that tight focus caused the industry to forget that customers matter." In 2004, AMC was acquired by the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
so long.” * * * * * As president of Echo Lake Productions, Douglas Mankoff (MBA 1995) is doing his bit to foster movies that might fall through the cracks at a big-budget studio. In 1997, Mankoff raised a private equity fund to finance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
content consumption (e.g., mobile, direct-to-consumer); and realize gains through theNFL Investment Fund, its recent partnership with Providence Equity Partners. Grubman is also heavily involved in the process of investigating whether new... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
disposable and packs flat. Learn more. Longtime advocate for equity in school funding in the Chicago area, Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) knew that the people her nonprofit serves would be particularly hard hit by COVID-19. North Chicago... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and wanted his help. “It was one of those calls you don’t say no to,” says Bernstein, now serving as the bureau’s deputy assistant director of mortgage and home equity markets. “The CFPB is the largest... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
rising prices, an underdeveloped legal system, and volatility in its equity markets. This dichotomy, Yoffie surmised, is an unmistakable sign that something is afoot - as he put it, "a paradigm shift" - glimpsed by conference participants... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
wants 15 percent of the equity and would take out a loan from your parent company to buy his shares, the loan to be repaid with dividends from those shares. Would you make him a partner? On a cold winter day in Boston, your car battery is... 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 lot of dot-coms have become... 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 of these private companies that are basically funded by... 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 within a year. I'd have a home... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
together.” As equal partners, each had to come up with $14,000 to satisfy Charterhouse. This is where Rogers’ Porsche came into play. Incredibly, its Blue Book value was exactly $14,000, so Rogers sold it to the company, used the proceeds as his View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
managing director for The Israel International Fund. "This is a private equity fund that I founded with two major banks. We are dedicated to the globalization of technologically competitive Israeli companies," Devash explains. "The HBS... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
requirements for equity ownership by directors, and bylaws should require them. The “play money” distributed in the form of stock options and gifts of restricted stock should not be included. Directors should have a meaningful percentage... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
billion or $2 billion back in the early 1980s—“kind of a rounding error,” Sahlman observes—whereas today, it’s a hundred times as big, with additional trillions of dollars sloshing around in private equity and other pools of funds.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
works with several metropolitan areas, including Boston, Hartford, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and St. Louis - and a $130 million private equity fund to make capital available to inner-city companies. Each year, the initiative partners with... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
traction the business got in the market but by the number of people we were able to employ. In 2009, while I was working in Senegal with a private equity firm, Ndidi and I noticed that a huge amount of the packaged food in stores was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd. We formed a Dean’s Anti-Racism Taskforce to examine what we need to do and announced a plan to advance racial equity at the School. We must now implement this plan and show results over... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
dirty, expensive fossil fuels. Oscilla is currently raising money on the equity crowdfunding platform StartEngine to deploy a megawatt version of Triton off the coast of Kerala in 2022. The decision to launch its commercial-scale system... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
exercises that have them realize this will be me. I can’t just shrug it off as a, “No, I’m not going to be susceptible to homophily.” There’s a magnetic pull towards equality, founding teams, the most common way that they’re going to split the View Details