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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
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markets. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6424.html. “An Unfair Advantage”? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing Assistant Professor Victoria Ivashina, Professor Josh Lerner, and INSEAD’s Lily Fang... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- News
Home Grown
view (Granite Equity plans for businesses, including Granite Equity itself, to be sustainable for 100 years or more); and investment in community (often businesses owners or... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 2024
- Article
Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022
By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang
The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States
Roe, Mark J., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 8, no. 2 (2024): 211–264.
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Ryan Kim
investment banking analyst. He studied Environmental Science & Public Policy in college. Ryan lives in Newton, MA with his wife and two young children. Work Experience: Search Fund/Independent Sponsor (Castle Island Partners), Private... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
including Granite Equity itself, to be sustainable for 100 years or more); and investment in community (often businesses owners or senior officials contribute to the community financially and through... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
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Philipp Schäelli
to become more important in the management and investing process. After my summer experience in growth equity in Nigeria I knew that I wanted to focus on private equity for my... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital
eager to use their business acumen to identify growing companies and help them prosper. Each year, Jonathan and Katja see several hundred students join the Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, engage in educational programming, and... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
the minority in how they viewed this choice. “The course does a good job of highlighting the conflicts that are inherent in this business, such as the tension between investment professionals and their investors,” El-Hage says. “It trains... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
private debt and equity options. That position took her on a trip to Kenya this summer to search for investment opportunities—including microfinance, sustainable agriculture, clean cook stoves, and urban... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Two HBS Alumni to Lead Carlyle Group
who has been with the firm since 1995, began in the leveraged-buyout group, and has also served as interim chief financial officer, chief operating officer and president. Lee joined Carlyle in 2013 as deputy chief investment officer of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised the View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Power Play
equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its investors and executive teams—a luxury afforded by its independence from other firms evaluating the opportunity. SER focuses... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Growing Latino Buying Power
David Perez (MBA 1996), cofounder and managing partner of the private equity firm Avance Investment Management, recently spoke to CNBC’s Squawk Box as part of the show’s focus on Latino businesses for... 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 billion of capital under... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
its competitors in the hunt for talent in the high-stakes, trilliondollar finance industry. Ratio’s focus is on search for private equity and hedge fund firms, and its founders’ strategy for winning in that specialized, competitive market... View Details
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Investor Activism and Takeovers
By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor
Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely explained by the ability of activists to force target firms into a takeover: In... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Public Ownership
Greenwood, Robin, and Michael Schor. "Investor Activism and Takeovers." Journal of Financial Economics 92, no. 3 (June 2009): 362–375.
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details