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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
(Illustration by Peter Arkle) What is really at stake when we talk about patents? Lauren Cohen: Innovation is the future of the US economy. Given that the value of firms is shifting toward intellectual property, if we don’t get patents... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
as an investment manager? A focus on earning the trust and confidence of our clients and providing them with compelling value for their money. Has your philosophy of value... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
December 2016, reached almost $20,000 in December 2017, and retreated to as low as $3,200 in December 2018.) So we called in an expert: Dianna Raedle (MBA 1993), CEO, president, and founder of Deer Isle Group, an investment bank that uses... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill was so impressed with its... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact screens, leaving no doubt that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Business World Gone Global
Today, even small firms dare to think globally and invest accordingly - closing deals in Dubai has become almost as commonplace as doing business in Dubuque, thanks to quantum leaps in travel and transport, geopolitics, and... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
In his work managing real estate investments at Samson Investment Partners in New York, Lloyd Zuckerberg (MBA 1990) often draws on the same sensibilities that guide his leadership of the nonprofit New York... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm
Photo via The Wall Street Journal Photo via The Wall Street Journal Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) is leaving Berkshire Hathaway after a decade to start her own investment firm, reports the Wall Street Journal. Britt Cool is currently the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
dividends and compounding matter; explains options-trading techniques that will be beneficial no matter what the market does; analyzes real-life examples of investing opportunities; and provides tips on how to construct a portfolio, View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
investment in business performance (IT helping divisions and departments boost profitability), and personal value (CIOs contributing well beyond their area of specialization) — and then communicate these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
down the road?” PE managers can also teach you the value of managing cash. Most PE-acquired firms are capitalized with 70 percent debt, compared with the 40 percent average of U.S. public companies. Thus PE managers know how, in the... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
out an alternative deal: “We’ll value your company at $20 million, and you keep half. You sell half the company for the same valuation, hold on to the upside, and still get money up front.” McAfee said, “I’d love that. I hadn’t even... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)
there are plenty of merchandising opportunities around great content in China. Last year, we made an investment in Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners and released A Dog’s Purpose in China. It’s very different from visual spectacles like... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
companies taking on these challenges. It’s been a steep ascent for ESG in recent years, from a fringy outlier straight to the mainstage, as investments increased tenfold from 2018 to 2020. And there’s no sign of that pace slowing. Some... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
value contained in the land as possible, while simultaneously protecting and enhancing the ecological value. Patagonia Sur has spawned several nonprofit entities, including the Patagonia Sur Foundation, which supports Patagonia's isolated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
day she applies what she learned at HBS and interacts with someone from the School’s worldwide community. “It’s not here and there or now and then; it’s everywhere and all the time.” Serra arrived at HBS with a law degree and experience working in communications,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
entrepreneurs in an organized way,” says Arnold Kroll, an investment banker at Lehman Brothers who worked with ARD. Doriot was not a physically imposing fellow, but he exuded a magnetic aura. “It was almost like knowing someone like... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
and outputs. Even so, art can have considerable value to business as an investment and that requires a healthy supply chain, that is, a healthy art community. “It is the classics that today have the greatest... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
relatively young leaders. It’s a huge priority to understand what motivates and concerns them,” she notes. Curry says she values great leadership and agrees with Dean Nitin Nohria’s observations about the global crisis of leadership. “If... View Details