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- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
You get a lot of good advice at HBS. I’ve kept pretty much every single sheet of paper I’ve received while I’ve been here, trying to retain it for later. One sticks with me now as I head back into the world of work. On the last day of my Venture View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB [Financial Accounting Standards Board] has overacted by... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
creating resources, adapting to the unexpected, and managing creativity. Important empirical and clinical work in venture capital and private equity has shed new light on the structure, governance, and... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
better ex-ante characteristics, bank-affiliated investments have slightly worse outcomes than non-affiliated investments. Also consistent with theory, the cyclicality of banks' engagement in private equity and favorable financing terms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Michael Kaplan
positions in the venture capital and financial space before his entrepreneurial spirit led him and his brother to launch Fashion to Figure as a single store they ran themselves for two years before expanding the business. Recently, Kaplan... View Details
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Club Rugby Football Club S Salsa Society Sneakers Club Social Impact Club South Asian Business Association Southeast Asia Club Squash Club T Tech Club Tennis Club Texas Club V Venture Capital & Private View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
or private equity funds and from engaging in proprietary trading. The ban has been dubbed the Volcker Rule, in recognition of the former Federal Reserve chairman, Paul A. Volcker, who has championed the proposal. The administration says... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
first refusal, but only a four-month window to raise the capital needed to head off Temasek's bid. Hilmi and Arifin Panigoro are considering a two-stage plan: a Leveraged Buy-Out (LBO) to be followed by a secondary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
The data show a statistically significant drop in cumulative abnormal returns for Brazilian firms following capital control announcements. Large firms and the largest exporting firms appear less negatively affected compared to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do about It. Government has played similar catalytic roles in creating hubs of innovation is places such as Tel Aviv and Singapore. Such success stories... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
genuinely lit up when they talked about their jobs pre-HBS, with the work itself ranging from founding and scaling a startup to analyzing private equity investments. I was proud of my jobs, but never felt that they were part of my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
the HBS community.” The enduring attraction of entrepreneurship informed a well-attended Venture Capital and Private Equity Summit that preceded the conference. Organized by Paula Groves (MBA '91) and... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find that entrepreneurial activity is higher in industries that have a large share of foreign firms in vertically linked industries. Second, we find that entrepreneurial activity in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
my professional goals and interests. Following 1L year, I wanted to see how private equity and M&A transactions were conducted from a legal standpoint. Following RC year, I hoped to apply the technical financial skills I had learned... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
Keywords: by Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
increased during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Diversification gave firms both financing and investment advantages. First, conglomerates became significantly more leveraged relative to comparable focused firms. Second, conglomerates' access to internal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
managing investments the same way in both areas. "We're helping them stay alive during a horrible economic downturn so they can last on a minimum amount of capital during a period in which their top line is not going to grow very... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)
Address label: Born outside Cleveland, Ohio, Chen grew up in California and Texas before attending Emory University in Georgia, where she majored in business. “My three siblings live in New York now, and I’ll be working there this summer, so that feels closest to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
prepared a business plan, conducted a usability analysis, and tested the product with thirty HBS students. Currently, he is patenting the methodology. With a post-HBS job at the private equity investment firm TSG View Details