Private Equity Buyouts - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

the list. They could sell the company and donate all the money, for example, but then there would be no way to guarantee a new owner would maintain its core values. They could sell a minority stake to a like-minded private View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Industry Information - Alumni

Preqin Pro for additional access. Pitchbook News News and industry analysis covering private equity and venture capital markets. Pitchbook also offers a paid research and data platform that is used in the... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

securities firm, Carl Ferenbach entered theworld of investment banking, spending five years as the head of Merrill Lynch's mergers and acquisitions group. In 1984, he and four other HBS alumni organized what would become Berkshire Partners' first View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

Michigan, and graduated from Oberlin College, initially wasn't sure she'd like living in Manhattan. Now she is perfectly at home in the West Village with her husband (and former HBS sectionmate) Nicholas McGrane, a specialist in private... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Module 3 Venture, Private Equity, and Sustainable Debt Identify sources of value-add in private impact investing, analyze how managers weigh financial and social returns, and explore different types of... View Details

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

limited to working at law firms, management consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, venture capital firms, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, the U.S. court system,... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Action Plan: To the Letter

most of his career in travel and in private equity. In 2019, the private equity firm HGGC acquired Monotype for $825 million and recruited Chacko in 2021 to run it. At... View Details

Keywords: April White; design; typography; change management; leadership; Special Design Services; Professional Services

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” (December 2019) with Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun. Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2022 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “Investing... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

support. 34 In the first half of the century, wealthy family funds like the Rockefeller Brothers, Inc. (later Venrock) provided the majority of investments for private companies. ARD would be one of the first firms to grant View Details

September 2021 (Revised October 2021)
Case

Dream: Impact Through Real Estate

By: Michael Chu and John Masko

The Canadian city of Toronto had one of the largest housing affordability problems of any city in the developed world. One company trying to address this problem was Dream, one of the largest real estate groups in Canada. In 2021, Dream had just launched a new system... View Details

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18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

founder’s verbiage, speak for itself. About the Author Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School. She presently teaches Real Estate View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce analyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. The grant competition, launched by venture... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

emphasized the need for immediate action by global leaders. “This is an existential crisis,” he said. The featured panelists, comprised of entrepreneurs, politicians and academics, included: Harald Mix (MBA 1987), Founder of Altor Private... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

investors. If these results were replicated in health care, in the short term, patients could select hospitals with more adequate surge capacity arrangements and investors in hospital debt and equity would reward them. In the longer run,... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

was the first cold call in my section. So, my excitement was on another level talking about her. Whitley Cargile: Sandra Horbach, the Americas co-head of corporate private equity at Carlyle. I chose to join... View Details

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

the reorganization plan. And, critically, it was able to raise over $8 billion in new DIP financing—a remarkable feat, given the timing. Funded by a consortium of commercial banks, investment banks, private View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

IPO” case in her Private Equity Finance class in the fall of 2019. Lomtadze, at the tail end of an international roadshow in preparation for an IPO on the London Stock Exchange, returned to HBS to attend the... View Details

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Scott Wu

jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity

22 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

take what I learned from one situation and apply it to another while bringing people together.” While at HBS, Nneka naturalized as a US citizen and considered staying in the United States, which had also begun to feel like home. She explored consulting and View Details

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