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Venture capital firms: create a list

How can I create a list of venture capital firms by geography, industry, stage, etc? Capital IQ: Mouse over Screening, and click Companies. Find the box labeled Investment/Advisory Firms. Under it, click... View Details

Career Coach

Laurie Matthews

of change. Her approach to coaching is based on 20+ years as an advertising agency account leader in New York City and her prior years as a teacher and counselor. Laurie is now a Director in CPD and oversees relationships with 300+ recruiting View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Hospitality; Retail

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

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

Keywords: by Eric Werker

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

creation of a world of mobile capital, and the Treasury and private financial firms were influential. Unilateral liberalization, bilateral pressure, crisis management, and massive flows of capital in both... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 May 2013
News

Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991

closest friends and have enriched our family’s life over the years.” The relationships Bilden formed at HBS have also shaped his career. After completing his MBA in 1991, he joined a promising firm in Boston founded by HBS graduates that... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney

right set of experiences." One such item on Romney's résumé was his successful turnaround of the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney joined Bain in 1977, then left in 1984 to become CEO of its venture capital spin-off,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2005
News

Making History, Starting Over

At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

Island, an innovative private equity firm established by Glenn Hutchins, MBA 1983, (previously cofounder of Silver Lake and a fellow Harvard alum). Our vision is to improve on traditional View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 4

This case explores the opportunity to purchase the condominium management business of a distressed real estate developer by Advantage Partners, a leading Japanese private equity firm. The case explores investment structuring, bidding... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2010
News

Sail Away

in the past don’t faze Robb, who, with Frank Carlucci (MBA ’56) and another partner, cofounded the Frontier Group, a private equity firm that is mounting the project. Said Robb, “The Utopia has significant... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality; Real Estate

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

Another crucial step would be to ensure that public accounting firms once again become bona fide watchdogs. Too often, lucrative consulting contracts have caused accounting firms to relax their auditing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Web

Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

The first module provides an overview of the industry, an introduction to key challenges, and the existing evidence base. The second module investigates private market activity with a focus on how firms make... View Details

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2014
News

Bringing women to the boardroom table

Placing female candidates on boards of public and private companies is Beth A. Stewart’s mission as CEO of Trewstar. The search firm addresses the inequity of board representation—only 16 percent of Fortune... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line

sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a greater impact,” explains Hoffer. Lyme Timber, a Hanover, New... View Details

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

managers will use the discretion given by such estimates to convey private information on future cash flows, while agency theory predicts managers will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2009
News

Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

Americanas, with some 500 stores. In 1993, with Lemann and Telles, Sicupira founded GP Investimentos, a private equity firm that he led for eight years. Sicupira is the founder and also a director of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

in the country. The firm survived through the Civil War, financial panics, two world wars, the Great Depression, mergers, spin-offs, and 9/11—making the transition from a family-run private partnership... View Details

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

classmate Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020). The idea came to me after I saw many of my Black classmates become discouraged by being left out of recruiting processes altogether or repeatedly rejected from the small pool of coveted roles in venture capital and View Details