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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
When you look at two of the biggest developments in business in the last 25 years — globalization and the Internet — Jeanne P. Jackson has been right in the thick of it. Before launching her own small investment and consulting View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling reputation for character and integrity. For example, in 1978... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
executive of the Rockefeller family’s global investment company. Intent on narrowing his international focus and extending his impact, Barry founded Zephyr Management in 1994. The firm invests in small and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a number of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
planned to stay in Boston after graduation; part of her learning curve has been getting up to speed on the ins and outs of state and local government, as well as zoning regulations and other hurdles to development that were nearly nonexistent in Houston. “Boston is a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
with the Owner/President Management Program, in which he began teaching in the late 1970s, when it was known as the Smaller Company Management Program. As faculty chair, he changed the curriculum after noticing that participants no longer represented just View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
opportunities to working with founders and managers to sponsoring over 120 successful initial public offerings. As well known as the venture capital industry is today, that was far from the case in 1965, when Greylock opened a small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
right to buy into privately held firms was limited to high-net-worth individuals or other businesses. Federal regulators have now opened up a world between the two categories, creating a new asset class in which “non-accredited investors”... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer product questions: Should the product be sold at big-box stores or through upscale specialty boutiques? (In the beginning, Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
commonsensical, and proven to work.” Klarman’s long-term outlook has served him — and large numbers of clients and community members — extremely well. At Baupost, the Boston-based 165-person firm he has led since earning his MBA, Klarman... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 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 Equity (VCPE), a course taught since 1993, focuses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
shared their latest research on US competitiveness and issued calls to action urging alumni to get involved in helping solve the country’s or their communities’ competitiveness challenges. “Hundreds of alumni attended these events, and since then many have stepped up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
schools. We All Leak Eventually: Stories from a Humorously Unbalanced Mind by Larry Castriotta (MBA 1973) (Larry Castriotta) Writing of his life growing up in a small town within a tight, loving family, Castriotta revisits his childhood... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
2010 to $9.2 billion in 2014, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. In the second quarter of this year, European venture capital firms raised a combined $2.25 billion, 63 percent more than over the same period last year. But that doesn't... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
entrepreneurial odyssey that, at long last, has positioned Greentech on the brink of profitability. The company set out to be different. Greentech aimed to produce custom-designed modular homes that are highly energy efficient. Reflecting the partners’ personal values,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
equipment. “We decided that we weren’t going to be in any business that wasn’t global. You can’t compete in a small pool anymore,” he observes. M&M’s single largest product investment has been the Scorpio, which gave the corporation a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
help San José partner with innovative tech firms to address high-impact civic challenges. He knew the city had worked with Airbnb to make emergency housing available after the recent disaster, and he reasoned, why not establish a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg