Publications

September 2012 (Revised July 2014)
Case

Blackstone's Investment in Intelenet

By: Josh Lerner, Sandeep Bapat and Rachna Tahilyani

Three years had passed since Blackstone's investment in Intelenet Global Services, their third largest investment in India. Great progress had been made, but now a new challenge loomed. Globank, a large global bank, was Intelenet's largest customer. Intelenet's... View Details

Keywords: India; Blackstone; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; India

03 Feb 2021
News

Power Play

a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

27 Oct 2017
News

Two HBS Alumni to Lead Carlyle Group

will become co-executive chairmen. “We are fully committed to and confident in the firm’s future and will continue to be substantial investors in Carlyle funds for years to come,” the founders of the 30-year-old private View Details

06 Jan 2020
News

Home Grown

Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee... View Details

Keywords: Finance

February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Art of the Entrepreneur

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who created The Gates in New York City in 2005, are trying to decide how best to finance their next project. Over the River, a project to drape sections of the Arkansas River with translucent fabric is a very different enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Arts; Fine Arts Industry; Arkansas

01 Sep 2010
News

Faculty Research Online

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

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

April 2020 (Revised July 2020)
Case

Teton Capital Partners, LLC: Free Fallin'

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz

Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Crisis; Real Estate Industry; Banking Industry

October 2012
Case

Antoine Leboyer and ABR

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Antoine Leboyer (HBS '92) acquired the Swiss-based software company ABR in February 2008. He managed through the recession of 2008-2009, dealt with a tumultuous separation from the founder/owner, rebuilt the management team, and upgraded the company's software... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Corporate Finance; Acquisitions; Private Equity; Growth Management; France; Switzerland

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Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

15 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 15

Publications August 2013 American Economic Review Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity By: Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract—Private View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2014
News

Innovating for International Aid

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... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

26 Oct 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

When it became clear that my summer internship with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, was going to be remote, I had a lot of questions on my mind. What would it be like to work with a team I had never met in person? Having... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

This summer I had the opportunity to intern at a venture firm based in Boston called Underscore. Their approach during the interview process really stood out to me and set me up for a summer where I was able to make an impact. What do you want to work on? During the... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

January 1992
Teaching Note

Congoleum Corporation (Abridged) TN

By: Richard S. Ruback

Teaching Note for (9-287-029). View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Equity; Manufacturing Industry

18 May 2016
News

What Does the American Dream Mean in Today’s America?

Alexander Navab (MBA 1991), head of investment firm KKR’s Americas private equity business, was honored this year with an Ellis Island Medal of Honor, presented annually to “individuals who have made it... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

affected Avance as well. Happily, Perez notes, the private equity firm is now thriving as Latinx businesses are recovering. Perez cofounded Avance with his HBS classmate Luis A. Zaldivar (MBA 1996), with... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

November 2021
Supplement

Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking II: When They Hold All the Cards (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green

This case describes, largely in his own words, how Schwarzman dealt with the eight negotiation challenges in the (A) case (922-007); with respect to each challenge, a series of generalizations follows to enhance one's effectiveness in negotiation. View Details

Keywords: Dealmaking; Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Negotiation; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship