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- 01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall
of Finance and Banking When searching out the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, Professor Robin Greenwood says one needs to look to the root of nearly every crisis: human behavior. With his focus on behavioral finance, Greenwood wears... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the names associated with this surge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
real estate, inflated LBOs, securitization, high-tech fantasies, and inflated housing prices. For lack of productive investment, private and public (infrastructure, education), the foundation of the U.S. economy has been gravely weakened.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
physician’s assistant major. But somewhere in my first semester at Howard my roommate’s father came to visit. He was an entrepreneur. He started talking about finance and accounting and how it all worked. That was a pivotal moment for me.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
explores the hidden world of statistics that rule individuals’ lives, jobs, commutes, vacations, food, health, money, and success. Statistics are how engineers calculate a person’s quality of life, how corporations determine individual needs, and how politicians... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
wellness and medical technology—always seeking to maximize financial returns while delivering social and environmental impact." During her time at Funk, she connected with the Calvert Foundation, a non-profit investing institution providing View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Shining Knight
his pet passion, educational philanthropy." The article reported how in 1998, Ogden went public on the London Stock Exchange with Computacenter, the giant computer services company he cofounded, with all proceeds from its 3.5 million... View Details
- 09 May 2014
- News
Giant Alibaba Sale Grew Out of '80s IPO Chaos and a Guy From Goldman
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
financial sponsors to help them think about the right time to take a company public or to raise equity capital, the right valuation for a stock, and which investors to target. I also help the company craft its story for the marketplace,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
be paid for that social performance at a rate that enables it to give a satisfactory return to the investors,” says Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), a cocreator of the idea. Cohen has emerged as the public face of social investing in the UK... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment banking group at Blyth Eastman PaineWebber, he became a partner in corporate View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and Italian investors who View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
SUPERFAN When Sonnenberg attends a game, she often doesn’t watch the court or field. “I’m always intrigued by stuff that the public doesn’t necessarily think about—like the width of concourses and the mix of seating types,” she says. (Photo: Benjamin Norman) “In... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
When public television’s Charlie Rose asked Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry M. (“Hank”) Paulson Jr. (MBA ’70) whether his firm, a pure investment bank, could survive in a world dominated by consolidations, Paulson didn’t miss a beat:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Zofnass Photo courtesy Paul Zofnass A longtime environmentalist, Paul Zofnass (MBA 1973) founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) in 1990, after 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer (where he was managing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that destroyed the company and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain’s Financial Services Authority has an-nounced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to... View Details