Equity Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

D), Summer Internship: Strategy and Marketing MBA Intern at Agriculture Capital Agriculture Capital is an investment advisor that invests in farmland and food processing assets to build consumer-driven,... View Details

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Ralph Johnson

education. In what ways has HBS impacted your career? The big thing is access to so many opportunities, and to so many people who have been in various roles and have helped me understand what those roles are really like. Through my peers, I learned, for example, that... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Mar 2025
News

Work of Art

Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Chris Sorensen; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

reduced the temptation governments face to intervene in the operation of large strategic enterprises. In the Leviathan as a minority shareholder mode, governments have small equity ownership in corporations and in general do not intervene... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

With many of today's entrepreneurs starting ventures simultaneously in several countries, it is critical for the global businessperson to understand the financial and business environments in different countries and to accurately assess View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, and activist investors... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

business school faculty at the University of Chicago, where he created a new course titled Entrepreneurial Finance and Management. Gompers joined the HBS faculty in 1995. His research focuses on the structure, governance, and performance of private View Details

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Betas

the ticker symbol (e.g., IBM) then click on "equity," type "beta," then click on GO. For historical averages, change the date range. To change the default index, change the mnemonic for index. Capital IQ Data on public and private companies,... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Technology Making HBS More Accessible

as an investment banker focused on educational technology makes her very familiar with the topic. “The platform will enable people to collaborate across great distances,” she notes. Steve, who is a private View Details

28 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship

Devon Gethers (MBA 2025) Where is your hometown? I’ve lived half of my life in Washington State and the other half in Salt Lake City, Utah. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Before pursuing my MBA, I dedicated several years to a growth View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

entrepreneur? That’s the next question: What is it that VCs are actually looking for? You also address another commonly held idea about the VC world: Investments are not always made based on the numbers. PG: In first-year Finance and... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Private companies: fast growing | Baker Library

Best Small Companies) Fortune Rankings (ex: 100 Fastest Growing Companies ) Inc. 5000 FormDs.com Nearly all startups and investment firms file Form Ds with the SEC when they raise money. Form D filings contain: amount of money raised,... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS

women-owned firms participate in only 9 percent of institutional equity deals, receiving just 2.3 percent of venture-capital dollars. Springboard is working to correct that gender disparity. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark, speaking at the opening... View Details

Keywords: Singleton, Laura; Springboard 2000

01 Dec 2009
News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170 billion in pension and mutual funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 2000
News

Vivek Ranadivé

software bus and plug applications into that." As simple as it sounds, this insight had a dramatic impact on the financial services institutions that were among Ranadivé's first customers. (TIBCO is an acronym for The Information Bus Company.)In 1985, View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Making History, Starting Over

partner. In what proved to be a fortuitous stroke, Cohen then recruited Alan Patricof, a pioneering venture capitalist based in New York, to join the partnership. Under Patricof’s influence, the firm shifted focus from advising to View Details