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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Is the epicenter of venture capital shifting from the United States to Asia and Europe? There’s no doubt the venture capital business continues to expand. In many ways it’s very similar to what we’ve seen... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
priorities." The task of organizing the chair's endowment was a first-time collaboration for Corbett, managing partner for Internet Partners at Zephyr Management, a private equity venture View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
$30M (70 percent from international investors) to establish the country’s first post–civil war private equity fund providing capital to small- and medium-sized firms. YSP’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Helping high achievers achieve even more
As cofounder of Summit Partners, E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) spurred economic growth and created jobs in a broad range of industries, from fiber optics to pathology laboratories, to electronics and semiconductor manufacturers. Established in 1984, Summit Partners is a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
While the economics of the music industry have always been a little convoluted, there’s at least one simple reason contributing to all the attention from private equity, according to Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004): interest rates. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
bidders with much of the same information, but deeper pockets. “It’s very similar to the private equity world, with a lot of capital chasing deals,” he says. “Except it’s... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
companies that would eventually become big successes in the 1960s, including ACNielsen, Dun & Bradstreet, and Xerox. During those years, as DLJ began to diversify by managing corporate pension funds in its Alliance View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
invest in venture capital. Guided by Cohen, who is regarded as the father of the European venture capital industry, Apax emerged as one of the world’s preeminent VC and private View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and forcing Japan’s button-down... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone
Simmons (MBA 1972), president of a Houston-based private equity firm. “I’m thrilled to support his work, especially in this financial climate when his expertise is even more valuable.” View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
firm is pioneering interventions in Sri Lanka that will help transform the nation. In the past two years, York Street Partners has arranged the largest private equity investment in a non-banking financial... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
law of what was done commonly by VCs at the time,” says Fenwick-Smith, who had private equity know-how but had never been involved in creating venture funds. That lack of direct experience gave him the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
prepared a business plan, conducted a usability analysis, and tested the product with thirty HBS students. Currently, he is patenting the methodology. With a post-HBS job at the private equity investment... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
equity ownership in corporations and generally do not intervene in management. Such equity investments allow firms to alleviate capital constraints and increase View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
all into our computers, in advance of the government. It gave us great insights - like having our own private polls - on what inflation would be doing. We then bought and sold equity and debt securities... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
HBS’s New Venture Competition (NVC) on April 23, 2019. The judges, many of them alumni, represented sectors ranging from venture capital to private equity to impact investing.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
the HBS community.” The enduring attraction of entrepreneurship informed a well-attended Venture Capital and Private Equity Summit that preceded the conference. Organized by... View Details