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01 Jun 2012
News

Giving Through HBS

Investing in HBS Giving Together Jump-Start From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’ FAQ In talking to alumni about supporting the School, one of the things I like to remind people is that they don’t... View Details

Keywords: Professor Howard Stevenson

25 Jun 2014
News

An International Perspective

School “opened my eyes to a whole new spectrum of opportunities” in the field of financing and building entrepreneurial energy services companies. His most recent focus as managing director at Houston-based SCF Partners is the development of View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

invests significant resources in software such as Java and Linux that IBM does not own in order to integrate many companies' products and services for IBM's customers. Intel invests significant resources in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

with a rapid increase in capital commitments have led to less restrictive partnership agreements, large investments in portfolio firms, and higher valuations for those investments. These patterns have led... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

premium. Click Here to Watch Semi-Finalists Social Enterprise Track Semi-Finalist: EarthQuake Arnaud Pincet, MBA 2023; Edmund Lee, MBA 2023 At EarthQuake, we believe investing is just the first step toward transforming the companies of... View Details

Profile

Paul Luning

match." The objective: a position within a clean energy startup in Africa. To his surprise, Paul received four offers. "I decided to work for E+Co, a clean tech VC firm that invests in developing countries. I'll be doing due... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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.... View Details

Keywords: CPG

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... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

government-mandated requirements to a 3-inch endangered bait fish. When Good Deeds Invite Bad PublicityMany executives assume that investments in corporate social responsibility create public goodwill. But do they? Felix Oberholzer-Gee... View Details

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Tort Liability and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence By: Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54705 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Social Risk, Fiscal Risk, and the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

Investors diligently manage financial portfolios to maximize returns on their assets; yet corporate managers who invariably proclaim their business customers to be "valuable assets" rarely manage their relationships with them... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

01 Mar 2014
News

Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

Initiative (SEI), they did just that. "Even the funding broke new ground," notes former SEI director Laura Moon. "John Whitehead provided staged investments based on meeting certain milestones. We now call that venture philanthropy." The... View Details

Keywords: SEI

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

consortium of asset management companies (AMCs) that included the Turkish branch of Lehman Brothers. When Lehman went bankrupt, Turkasset acquired a $200 million portfolio of non-performing loans (NPLs). After that, it continued to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

July 2025
Teaching Note

Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours

By: Jung Koo Kang, Krishna G. Palepu and Charles C.Y. Wang

Keywords: Accounting Standards; Bank Runs; Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting; Social Media; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment Portfolio; Interest Rates; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Statements; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; United States

Citation

Purchase

30 Jan 2012
News

Shopping Around

quasi-judicial processes. Moreover the planning authorities in just about every country still dislike out-of-town retail developments.” Overcoming this resistance requires an “extraordinary” investment in soft costs to enable McArthurGlen... View Details

Keywords: real estate; shopping; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

26 Oct 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.... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

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

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

1993), after each launching their careers in investment banking. “Joining ICV was a great experience and eye opening for us because we were used to being in majority environments,” said Tingle. “Also, at a smaller firm you were involved... View Details

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