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- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly traded corporations in Brazil, looking at the effects of equity purchases by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) on View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
Private Equity By: Ewens, Michael, Charles M. Jones, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27
or form networks. Firms make complementary choices when determining production inputs, entering related markets, and strategic mergers. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/ComplementaryChoices.pdf August 2013 Relations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
property regimes; procurement policies that favor new firms; standards that allow competition by component rather than by system and—sometimes—antitrust enforcement that forces large, well-established firms to share the market. I'm firmly... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
leaders. Inspired, Kloeblen formed a boutique, “CFO for hire” firm called “C-Street” that built a book of small business clients eager for seasoned financial expertise. Word spread and soon, Kloeblen was leading a small network of... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
says. Over the next decade he proved that he was up to the task, so much so that in 1993, when the firm hit hard times, Bain CEO Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975) asked Tierney to head the company. “The rational response would have been to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent General Management, Business, Government & the International Economy Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Ted Berk Private Equity Finance Finance Fall... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
forbid the most popular form of life insurance (tontine insurance), limit the growth of life insurers (which included several of the nation's largest financial institutions at the time), and prevent insurance firms from owning the stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
flight, hop onboard, conduct business in the private cabin, attend their meeting, and fly home later the same day. The same would hold true for a Boston–New York traveler using the area’s smaller, regional airports. Leiman, Ogden, and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Power of Business in the Energy Transition
from solar and wind farms. Project development of major transmission lines to handle alternative sources must intently focus on stakeholder alignment across public and private sectors to speed project delivery. Both speakers touched on... View Details
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Lauren Booker
New Haven Economic Development Corporation. And in her junior year, she studied abroad in the Dominican Republic, awakening "an interest in development within emerging markets," says Lauren, "specifically regarding collaboration across the View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
experience never left Chertavian, who wrote his HBS application essay about starting a school to close what he saw as an “opportunity divide.” After HBS, Chertavian set that goal aside to cofound a successful software firm in England. By... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
found in poor countries; bad legislation and ineffective judiciaries in rich nations can enable it.” Defined by the watchdog group Trans-parency International (TI) as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain,” corruption includes a... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
Journal of Law & Economics Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
in the ranks of investors. She also knew that some firms were seeking to diversify their partnerships without addressing underlying structural problems. “Partner” did not always mean check-writing abilities or a voice on the investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
years that they won anything at all. When I was at McGill, I sent out over 100 résumés to Wall Street firms and was rejected everywhere. Then I found out there was a Canadian working in HR at Merrill Lynch. I called her, and after we... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Thoughts on the JD/MBA From a Recent Grad
of career recourses offered by HBS and HLS, it is extremely easy to recruit at both schools and to receive resume and interview guidance from both career services offices. During my time in the program, I interned at a private equity... View Details