Private Equity - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Konstantin Chebotar

year, Konstantin helped organize an energy panel for the private equity conference held on campus last February. "I met dozens of private-equity oil and gas experts open to talking to me," he says.... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

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Robert Leke

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? An MBA at HBS was important in providing the opportunity for me to step back, assess my current capabilities, and develop the additional skills I lacked to become a successful manager in the future. The diversity of... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Oct 2000
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HBS Club Flourishes in London

representing business, sports, academia, civil and military services, politics, and religious organizations, inspire thoughtful conversations. Recent forums on private equity and the Internet, along with... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

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Lauren Burrows

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I sought my MBA at HBS at a key moment of transition in my career, both in terms of industry focus and position. I was committed to pursuing a career in the energy industry, but wasn’t entirely sure what form I wanted... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity

08 Sep 2022
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Learning Curve

Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school but when her first child, Katie, struggled with learning disabilities, the private equity strategist turned her attention to... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Preparing Global Leaders

and diverse business issues,” he says. Wahl, an investor based in Oslo, Norway, was cofounder and partner of the private equity firm IK Investment Partners Ltd. from 1989 to 2009. Presently he runs... View Details

Kenneth Salas

experience includes co-founding Camino Financial, a fintech lender he successfully scaled and exited, leading to the acquisition of a competitor and doubling the company's size. His prior experience in investment banking and private View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage | Baker Library

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage Detailed descriptions of companies, industries, and mutual funds. Read More Company information includes a description of the company, stocks & bond issues, earnings estimates, dividend and split history and more. Industry Surveys... View Details

Career Coach

Warren Radtke

Warren (Kellogg '60) is a HBS Career and Professional Development Consultant and a Confidential Advisor to C-Suite Executives and Entrepreneurs. He has held executive positions in public and privately held companies as well as in the... View Details

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20 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals

skillset and knowledge base that you have or a low-risk opportunity to pivot into an entirely new field, or both. I came to the conclusion that the JD/MBA was best for me because I had dual career interests in private View Details

15 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 15

case concerns the negotiations of a deal by HgCapital, a UK-based private equity firm, to buy Visma, ASA, a Norwegian software company. Visma has received an offer from Sage Group, a strategic acquirer.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

November 1990 (Revised June 1993)
Case

FMC Corp.: A Recapitalization

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

A proposed recapitalization will use new debt to pay a large dividend to some shareholders in return for a reduction of their voting power. The result will be a highly leveraged financial structure and negative owners' equity. Students can trace the effects of proposed... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Strategy; Asset Management; Financial Management; Business Conglomerates; Borrowing and Debt; Business and Shareholder Relations; Capital Structure; Equity; Private Equity; Chemical Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

21 Nov 2017
News

Start Your Engines

to build on as Formula One’s relatively new chairman and CEO. Liberty Media bought F1 from the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in an $8 billion deal finalized in January 2017. Carey joined as CEO... View Details

Keywords: Racing; Formula One

September 2020
Teaching Note

TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-422. TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times,... View Details

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Purchase

14 Jun 2018
News

Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa

development being led by private equity. What does this mean? There's a tremendous amount of natural capital in that region, and there's also a lot of development capital that is earmarked for impact. “Historically, financial capital and... View Details

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

joined the private equity sector. Westphal took on a role with Providence Equity Partners, founded by HBS alum, Johnathan Nelson (MBA 1983). “The firm covers technology, media,... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship

priorities." The task of organizing the chair's endowment was a first-time collaboration for Corbett, managing partner for Internet Partners at Zephyr Management, a private equity venture capital firm;... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Sustainable investing and ESG resources

Information Type Recommended Resources Overview & News ImpactAlpha
News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The Brief, as well as their ImpactSpace database (see below under... View Details

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Eligibility | New Venture Competition

their careers. The Competition is designed for contemplated and embryonic businesses. The Business Track of the NVC welcomes all ideas across all sectors. However, plans to create hedge funds, investments, private View Details

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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

in), 40% a written case-based final exam, and 20% required pre-class polls (graded based on completion as long as a good-faith effort was made). Related EC Courses The four most closely related EC courses to EF are Financial Management of Smaller Firms, View Details

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