Private Firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program

LLP, a multinational corporate law firm headquartered in New York City. While there, I divided my time between their Private Equity/Mergers and Acquisitions group and their Capital Markets group. I had the... View Details

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 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

are putting pressure on intermediaries to do more with the companies that they’ve invested in. That’s in both the public and the private markets. And so at this point I don’t think it’s a question of whether this is niche or mainstream.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

21 Sep 2016
News

Ideas with Economic and Social Impact

While many countries are facing mounting economic, social, and political challenges, Karen Wilson (MBA 1991) says that “there’s a lot of potential in leveraging private sector approaches to address these challenges in new ways. The... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Dreaming big for Africa’s future

Tope Lawani (MBA 1995, JD 1996) is cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, a private investment firm concentrating on socioeconomic development in Africa. Helios is virtually the... 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... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Dec 2002
News

Straddling Two Worlds

the firm was bought (by Merrill Lynch), he and two colleagues decided to branch out on their own and founded Gollust, Tierney & Oliver in 1978. For the next eighteen years, the firm grew, expanding from its... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

Aziz Managing Director of Sefam Private Limited, explains how, in the early 1980s, she and her brother decided to innovate the entire production chain of Pakistani cotton embroidery in order to prove that emerging markets can create... View Details

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

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

and private venture funds. Corporate efforts lack the partnership-based organizational structure that many have identified as critical to the success of private equity funds. On the other hand, corporations... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

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

01 Sep 2012
News

Women and VC

bottom line is all business. Said Dodi, “As with any private equity firm or venture capital fund, it’s our fiduciary duty to look out for our investors and get a return.” View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Oct 2018
News

For the Greater Good

John A. Paulson (MBA 1980) is president of the investment firm Paulson & Co. and a 2018 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he offers his views on the nature and role of philanthropy as a means to have a positive... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 May 2013
News

Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977

Detroit, and even the student whose idea it was to put solar panels on the roof of Shad,” he notes. Cronin is the cofounder and managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm with offices on both... View Details

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

and policies is a crucial aspect in taking informed managerial decisions. Adverse macroeconomic and political phenomena can have a catastrophic impact on firm performance: witness the strong companies destroyed by the Mexican tequila... View Details

14 Sep 2016
Blog Post

The Alumni Network at HBS

My name is Carl Culicchia and I am from Madisonville, LA. I went to Middlebury College for my undergraduate degree and worked for a private equity firm prior to HBS. I came to HBS because I thought it was... View Details

17 Feb 2011
News

Field Report: Rwanda

Karisimbi Partners, a three-person private consulting group that works with small- to mid-sized enterprises. “The idea behind Karisimbi’s model is that sustained economic growth in Rwanda requires private... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

March 2019
Supplement

KITEA (D): Further Changes

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in February 2016, when the official date of IKEA’s store opening (March 16, 2016) is announced after a five-month delay. It reviews the changes that Amine and Othman Benkirane had made to KITEA’s workforce in the extra five months afforded by the delay... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Retail Industry; Africa; North Africa; Morocco

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Purchase

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

within their private networks, who then transmit the information to arm’s length analysts outside the network. Specifically, we show that firms with more connected analysts have more accurate consensus... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This... View Details