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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Think globally, crowdfund locally
E ric Sonnier (MBA 2014) cofounded Local Lift (formerly Equity Endeavor) to help small businesses find the resources to make enhancements to their operations. The crowdfunding platform Sonnier launched with HBS classmate Broderick... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
30,000 Indian businesses and created nearly 1,000 jobs. “It’s really structured in the exact same way as a small venture capital or private equity firm,” says Chorengel. “It’s a proven model—you get a group... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976
working as a securities analyst for Merrill Lynch in Asia, running a private equity firm, and serving as managing director of a Hong Kong merchant bank. In 1998, she founded StarVest Partners, a New York City–based venture View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
related to capital structure and governance, the book transitions to examining operational changes and management of the capital structure, closing with a set of cases related to exit. Intended for readers... View Details
- 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a greater impact,” explains Hoffer.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
should find the capital markets attractive. Private equity and venture capital have played a major role in providing equity to firms before they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
transparent spirit of Kickstarter with the rigors of Securities and Exchange Commission oversight. The world of so-called equity crowdfunding holds the promise of democratizing both ends of the earlystage investment game, its advocates... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
allocation to this new asset class of social investment, the same way that venture capital and private equity benefit today from such allocations.” The idea is taking off in the United States. President... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
equity ownership in corporations and generally do not intervene in management. Such equity investments allow firms to alleviate capital constraints and increase View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
how I look at problems, which has been really helpful to me in my investing career,” says Dean, who cofounded the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in 2005 after 20 years with DLJ Merchant Banking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
capitalism.” “From the ’70s to the late ’80s, real estate was fundamentally driven by entrepreneurs with private capital sources,” says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
Veronica Serra (MBA 1997) In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, the founder of Pacific Investments, a private equity firm based in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
surprising that the venture capital industry was essentially dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
$30M (70 percent from international investors) to establish the country’s first post–civil war private equity fund providing capital to small- and medium-sized firms. YSP’s expanded offerings now include... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
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 finding the best learning... View Details