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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
speakers: Maria Bartiromo, anchor, CNBC; Betsy D. Holden, president & CEO, Kraft Foods North America Bartiromo on gauging a company’s strengths: Watch the fundamentals. “Cash flow does not lie.” Scrutinize the management. “Governance is... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
product, with a case study and clear pricing. It can be a little scary to give up the consulting revenue, which likely provides cash flow to fund the development of the productized offerings. The downside of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
company like Roomi launches on the crowdfunding platform Republic, all of a sudden anyone with some spare cash can ride the highs and lows of its future performance. Until recently, the only way in for mom-and-pop investors was to wait... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company to buy and run, move to Atlanta... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
euros, so people buy into the coin and cash out of it in more or less the same way as you would with deposits at a bank. Wang: And the reason this is desirable is presumably that it’s a superior system for transparency and trust.... 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
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of schools. In Massachusetts, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
kitchen, how it’s designed and how it flows is to help us achieve those really high throughputs. And some of the customer engagement you were talking about is really designed to help people understand and appreciate all the new things on... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
also apparent that a dollar of earnings generated through business expansion may be an annuity, and perhaps even a growing one, while a dollar gained from cost savings is a one-time improvement, an incremental cash View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
and read a twelve-month operating cash flow statement. Many HBS readers will recognize "The R&R Case," by HBS professor Howard Stevenson. Introduced in the 1980s, the case focuses on one of Reiss's business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly—beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist operations, riches View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Runway, Good Start Genetics, EGG-energy, Urban Water Partners, RelayRides, and Birchbox, among others — the Business Plan Contest has grown and evolved from its first iteration in 1997. Back then, 37 teams submitted plans. Last year, a record-breaking 110 teams vied... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Historically, public equities have been the anchor to growth in most of my clients' portfolios. After three years in a row of negative public-equity returns, which hasn't happened since 1939, I have seen growing frustration and a movement... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Rothschild’s private placement group), took an interest in her and became a mentor. After graduating, Brown worked at CSFB in New York for four years in real estate and private equity before enrolling at HBS. Last summer, she worked in... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
the farming aspect of the business is very capital intensive. But they’ve pursued a project financing model rather than venture financing. “Project financiers are not starry-eyed venture capitalists,” she says. “They’re not romantic at all.” They want to see View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
seat. Campaign spending on both sides has flowed freely. As of mid-October, Edwards had raised about $2.8 million to Taylor’s $1.9 million, according to the New York Times. About half of Edwards’s contributions came from political action... View Details