investment banking - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

to recent research. Enter the era of “spray and pray,” where venture firms over the last decade have seeded more firms than previously, but with less upfront investment of time and money. As someone who teaches entrepreneurial finance,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Banking; Banking

01 Mar 2003
News

A Casual Approach to Success

to Hellman & Friedman, LLC, the well-respected private equity investment firm he cofounded (with Tully Friedman) in 1984. Hellman is one of the Bay Area’s most successful investment bankers, generous... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Sophia Virani

Even as she worked in investment banking and hedge funds, Sophia Virani felt drawn to science and medicine. "I really wanted to be in a career that was more service-oriented, that allowed me to interact... View Details

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Contemporary Corporate Archives | Baker Library

of Venrock Associates, a venture capital company founded by members of the Rockefeller family. Lehman Brothers Records Records the history of the investment banking firm from 1868 until 2007, the bulk of the... View Details

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Jonathan Bailey

job after graduation, but for many years to come." For Jonathan, that future involves bringing the best of his past forward. Having spent his last summer at the World Bank working on infrastructure View Details

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Feb 2017
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Anddria Varnado (Clack-Rogers)

and cross-brand initiatives across Williams-Sonoma’s iconic eight-brand portfolio. I joined WSI after a few years in management consulting, where I managed projects across my firm’s retail and technology portfolios, and pre-MBA roles in View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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John Clayton

John Clayton speaks French, Italian, Chinese, and Spanish, and his resume looks less like a CV than an atlas: He has studied in Bologna, Italy, and Shanghai, China, and worked on the sustainable-development portfolio of the World Bank on... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Liquid and Efficient

president and COO of Goldman Sachs, with a background in both trading and investment banking as well as an electrical engineering degree from MIT, Thain is known for his understanding of markets and... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Student-Profile

Elliot Tobin

he took an entry-level econ course and discovered he was a natural at it. Hoping to build on his theoretical basis through practical efforts, Elliot worked as a product manager at Staples and then as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship

priorities." The task of organizing the chair's endowment was a first-time collaboration for Corbett, managing partner for Internet Partners at Zephyr Management, a private equity venture capital firm; James, chairman of Investment View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

the space before he arrives, Mareva sits down to reminisce about HBS. She came to appreciate it all anew in 2011 when, after a dozen years in investment banking at Deutsche View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 May 2013
News

Thompson Dean, MBA 1984

how I look at problems, which has been really helpful to me in my investing career,” says Dean, who cofounded the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in 2005 after 20 years with DLJ Merchant Banking... View Details

24 Feb 2016
News

Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in... View Details

01 Jan 2009
News

Henry M. Paulson Jr., MBA 1970

and motivating others to do difficult and important things.” Hank Paulson’s leadership spans the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. During his 32 years at Goldman Sachs, Paulson rose through the ranks, becoming head of investment... View Details

08 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity

Equity/Venture Capital/LBO roles after graduation. Often students are returning to Private Equity after two years of previous banking experience and two years of Private Equity experience before business school. There is also strong... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

Alumni WDYDWYD

Athena Ko

When I was younger I was told I could do anything and have everything if I put my mind to it. So in the first thirty-odd years I went to Oxford, Harvard, had a good investment banking career, successfully... View Details

22 Feb 2017
News

Funding Solar’s Future

Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

employment, investment among the three nations increased, and productivity also grew. Furthermore, the agreement led to lower prices. By 2018, all countries experienced low unemployment rates. With changes in NAFTA looming, many... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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