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Rohit Sahni
Rohit (HBS ’08) has deep experience in financial services. He started his career in investment banking (Goldman Sachs), where he worked for three years. Thereafter, he worked at two different private equity View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
38,000 active international organizations from 300 countries and territories - including intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Capital IQ - profiles of public and private... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First, we examine how firm characteristics reflecting dependence on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
efforts center on issues affecting entrepreneurial firms and their investors. Gompers studies the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; the sources of financing, incentive design,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
how knowledgeable and proactive the firms we visited were about sustainability; some of them are far ahead of firms in the developed world. They understand that it’s essential to their long-term survival.”... 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 industrial market, Clark forged a... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
to capital, which was a primary focus of hers at the SBA. Spreading The Wealth Having spent over 25 years in private equity and venture capital firms before becoming SBA Administrator, Mills has perspective... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
and diverse business issues,” he says. Wahl, an investor based in Oslo, Norway, was cofounder and partner of the private equity firm IK Investment Partners Ltd. from 1989 to 2009. Presently he runs... View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment platform for View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
the world. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49090 Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti Abstract—Do View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
programs offered by organizations like the COMMIT Foundation (full disclosure: I volunteer with COMMIT) and many private sector companies through which you can get exposed to those companies and jobs. Read as many books as you can; I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
successful firms or nonprofits would get free advertising through the popular press, eliminating their need for private marketing while increasing their ability to win elections in other locales around the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
explains. At GE, students worked on developing a plan for shifting from large-scale energy generation projects to smaller-scale ones to take advantage of solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources. The NASA project challenged students to figure out ways for View Details
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Industries: financial analytical data and tools
not only a comparative analysis of a group of companies, but of entire industries overall as well. A note about free financial portals on the web: At most financial firms the financials from free Web sites such as yahoo.finance.com and... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
"It appears that some career histories mattered more than others in helping to get the biotechnology firms founded and to move from private to public status," Higgins writes. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Behrad Mahdi
leaders." Behrad will apply his newfound skills as a summer intern at Censeo Consulting Group, a boutique operations consulting firm recognized for its emphasis on values and work/life balance. "After HBS," Behrad says,... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
technologies could be used to create a captive one-to-one relationship between firms and consumers, so that customers could literally be viewed as assets. We should start to realize that things are not that simple. Ultimately, a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006
American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne