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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
likens clean-tech energy production companies to the biotech firms that were sprouting up in the early 1980s. Their success, too, relied on government policy much more than that of general high-tech firms. He recalls former students who... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
change has brought over the last two decades, it is that business is becoming fully engaged on the issue. Firms may not have the answers or even the will to make changes toward sustainable practices, but they can't do nothing.... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Maurice Pinto, MBA 1960
During his service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in Ulm, West Germany, Maurice Pinto received an HBS admissions application in the mail from his father. "My father was always a big believer in education," says Pinto, now a semiretired 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... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 May 2013
- News
Brahmal Vasudevan, MBA 1997
Creating educational opportunities is a way of life for Brahmal Vasudevan. Upon the 2011 launch of Creador, a private equity firm based in Kuala Lumpur, he and his partners set up a foundation funded by a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Robots to the Rescue
firm has landed two rounds of private financing and placed pilot systems at operations of a major retailer and food company. If all goes as planned, Mountz sees “no limit to the number of companies that want... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
uninformed about the opportunities. For the HBSWANY panel, Greub was joined by classmates Rachel Brannan (MBA 1987), a former investment banker, and Corinne Nevinny (MBA 1987), a General Partner with Avestria. “Many in our audience were surprised to learn how very few... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog
students who want to work as part of senior leadership teams, particularly finance executives; as strategy consultants or investment bankers who advise organizations; or as private equity, public equity, venture capital, or hedge fund... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
http://www.ftpress.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132779781 Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We provide evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, and then to private equity, asset allocation, and now, to leading operations. Ma recently was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Index Ventures, a 25-year-old international venture capital firm. “We... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
showing how certain investors spend a lot of time in private meetings with corporate executives—and how this gives the investors an unfair advantage, in spite of Federal regulations that are supposed to level the investment playing field.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Owusu-Kesse’s original introduction to HCZ came in 2008, during a three-year, post-college stint as a Morgan Stanley financial analyst. Chosen from a worldwide pool to represent the firm in a community outreach initiative, he spent a year... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 May 2013
- News
Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991
closest friends and have enriched our family’s life over the years.” The relationships Bilden formed at HBS have also shaped his career. After completing his MBA in 1991, he joined a promising firm in Boston founded by HBS graduates that... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
short-term debt against the refinancing risk implied by the need to roll over its debt more often. We then extend the model to allow private financial intermediaries to compete with the government in the provision of short-term,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
just one example, some of you will be going to work in the field of private equity, which has emerged over the last decade as a popular career for MBA graduates. It’s important to recognize that when the people leading PE View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Matthew, and Michael Ewens Abstract—This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
these reforms led to sustained economic growth. However, these reforms were legislated by a parliament under the domination of a military dictatorship, and were followed by economic instability, the need to renationalize some firms and by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
capital for Brazilian firms following capital control announcements. The results suggest significant variation across firms and financial instruments. Large firms and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Another crucial step would be to ensure that public accounting firms once again become bona fide watchdogs. Too often, lucrative consulting contracts have caused accounting firms to relax their auditing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons