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  • October 1998
  • Case

Farallon Capital Management: Risk Arbitrage (B)

By: Andre F. Perold and Robert Howard
Farallon Capital Management, an investment firm that specializes in risk arbitrage, has taken significant long and short positions in MCI Communications and British Telecommunications, respectively, in the belief that the proposed merger of these firms will be... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Investment; Risk Management; Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • 29 Apr 2008
  • Research Event

Venture Capital

Date: January 9-10, 2008 Faculty Chairs: Josh Lerner, William Sahlman Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: Venture Capital What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The VC Conference is one in a series of 14 alumni and practitioner... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 26 Jul 2016

HBS Women’s Information Session in Boston

This event is designed specifically for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA program and the community of women at Harvard Business School. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to ask... View Details
  • 6 PM – 8 PM EDT, 06 Sep 2018
  • HBS Alumni Events

HBS Alumnae Circles Boston Open House

HBS Alumnae Circles are taking new members - are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
  • February 2019 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Rent-a-Center/Vintage Capital

By: Guhan Subramanian and Caeden Brynie
Christopher Korst, General Counsel for Rent-A-Center (RAC), looked at the time. It was late in the evening on December 17, 2018, yet no notice of extension had come from Vintage Capital. In June, Vintage had agreed to buy RAC for $15 per share in cash, amounting to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Communication; Decision Making
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  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Students Serve the Community

In September, as part of an “Impact Initiative,” some 130 first-year HBS students visited two Boston public schools to discuss leadership with small groups of seventh graders. “We wanted the middle-school students, or Super Sevens as we... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 29 Mar 2015
  • News

Charges of sexism roil venture capital world

  • Web

In the Community | About

the HBS Association of Boston Community Action Partners (CAP) and CAP Brainstorms 8 MBA students in the Consulting for Impact Club engaged with 4 local organizations $ 357 k in funding for HBS Leadership... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects

Foundation, an HBS student organization that awards grants to small, community-based groups in the Boston area. "The trip really got me thinking," Miguel told a group of grant recipients gathered in April for an awards ceremony. "It was... View Details
  • 6 PM – 8 PM EST, 26 Jan 2017

Alumnae Circles Open House: Boston 2017

Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
  • 18 Apr 2011
  • News

Capitalism Meets Conservation

millions in investment capital and has purchased more than 60,000 acres in Chile’s Patagonia region, reported the Martha’s Vineyard Times (December 22, 2010). Adams’ approach recognizes that conserved land has many values—for recreation,... View Details
Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 22 Jun 2015
  • News

Boston 2024's New Olympic Strategy: Harvard Biz Prof Wonders If Regionalization Will Hurt or Help?

  • 24 Sep 2014
  • News

We Don't Have to Ditch Capitalism to Fight Climate Change

Keywords: climate change; capitalism; carbon tax; subsidies; alternative energy
  • 25 Jul 2018

HBS Women's Information Session in Boston

Join us for an information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective students who want to learn about the community of women at HBS and the MBA Program. The event is designed for women,... View Details
  • 2019
  • Flash Talks

Constructing a Counternormative Identity within Your Own Community

  • Web

Relocating to Boston with Your Partner - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • News

Keeping a Community Connected

600 people daily in East Boston and other neighborhoods, he has watched the COVID-19 pandemic hit his community particularly hard. In response, EBSC—whose programming includes everything from STEM education... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 2021
  • Article

Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing

By: William Janeway, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital booms and startup financing, focusing on three broad areas: First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the venture capital asset class, particularly in recent years—which are related... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Policy
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  • May 2019
  • Article

The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets

By: Sugata Roychowdhury and Suraj Srinivasan
Gatekeepers in financial markets have the power to provide the institutional stability, fortitude and direction necessary for the development and the smooth functioning of capital markets. At the same time, they are often motivated by their own private incentives.... View Details
Keywords: Gatekeepers; Capital Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing