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- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
Goats and Horses Maverick Ventures is the venture arm of Maverick Capital. The team focuses mainly on investments in tech and healthcare across a variety of different verticals, and my first day with them got off to an unexpected start....
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
established its initial offices in London, Paris, and Chicago, concentrating on placements for entrepreneurial ventures for almost a decade before setting up its first fund in Great Britain in 1981 to invest in early-stage high-tech...
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HBS Course: Real Estate Private Equity - Research Resources
section and newly added screening for real estate deals. Capital IQ Data on PE transactions, public and private companies, investment firms, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous...
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- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
menu. We illustrate this result empirically in the context of 401(k) plans, where we show a negative relation between the number of investment choices in a 401(k) plan and the quality of the optimal View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Eileen Stephan
of career, family life and a family sporting goods business.Work Experience: Citigroup, Global Head of Graduate Recruitment and Program Management (covering Investment Banking, Private Banking, Sales & Trading, Technology, Operations,...
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- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses...
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Maureen Harmon
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
world and a smart investment. “Women and diverse-led companies are highly profitable, yet undercapitalized,” she says. “A perfect arbitrage investment scenario.” Among the seven companies in the WOCstar View Details
- December 2010
- Compilation
VCPE Strategy Vignettes II
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope
These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, a senior partner must decide how to manage an over-extended colleague and how to reduce the risk of the firm's portfolio; the second...
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Lerner, Josh, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon, and Lisa Strope. "VCPE Strategy Vignettes II." Harvard Business School Compilation 811-054, December 2010.
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
penicillin for Canada's armed forces, provided American Home Products with a learning base in the antibiotic revolution at its very beginning. Early in the postwar era, American Home Products moved out of chemicals but continued to expand its other lines, both by...
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- April 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Teaching Note
Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-001.
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- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
the HBS community are already familiar with Lynn and her capacity for leadership at the intersection of business and social and environmental issues. Lynn initially joined HBS in 2017 to write case studies for a new course in impact View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
His work on private equity funds has examined the relationship between general partners and their portfolio companies. Gompers recently coauthored two books: Entrepreneurial Finance and The Money of Invention. His Harvard degrees include...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
investments in the portfolios of venture capital firms to study persistence in their performance. Each additional IPO among a VC's first five investments predicted a 13% higher...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
proposals but invested in only a small percentage of them. The firm's prized portfolio companies included Circo Products (automobile tools); High Voltage Engineering Corp (high-powered generators and nuclear...
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- Profile
Max Wibaux
joining a consumer-products-focused private equity firm in a role in which he can "bring together all the elements HBS teaches us: operations, strategy, the inner workings of financing, and how to avoid investment pitfalls and traps....
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C.D. Spangler | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Carolina. Today Dick manages a diverse portfolio of investments and philanthropic donations, and is head of National Gypsum, a manufacturer and supplier of gypsum wallboard and joint treatment compounds for...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management...
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- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
given difficulties at the portfolio companies and disruptions in credit markets. The case takes the perspective of a private equity firm evaluating the deal to determine whether buying leveraged loans is a good View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance Authors:Daniel Bergstresser and Jeffrey Pontiff Abstract Taxes have a first-order impact on View Details
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