Venture Capital / Private Equity - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Oct 2020
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Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

At the onset, he was heavily leaning towards the private equity option. However, for Pierre-Jacques it quickly became obvious in his early days at HBS that there was a gap in View Details

14 Oct 2020
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Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

At the onset, he was heavily leaning towards the private equity option. However, for Pierre-Jacques it quickly became obvious in his early days at HBS that there was a gap in View Details

September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
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Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann Leamon

In fall 2008, a venture lender must decide whether to make a loan to Avid, a small but promising venture-backed life sciences firm. In reviewing her proposal, Cristy Barnes considers the company's characteristics and how they differ from a typical investment. At the... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Health Industry

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Capital IQ: Introduction, Help, Etc.

events, transactions, and affiliations. Capital IQ Search Examples Screen for private equity or venture capital... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

(both MBA 1996) proposed the contest as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. “We looked at it as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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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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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab at Brown University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and earned her PhD in Psychology at the... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

manufacturing firms and one retail operation. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Professor Rogers worked at Bain and Company Consulting firm, Cummins Engine Company and UNC Ventures, a venture capital firm.... View Details

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HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

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September 2020
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Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship

By: George Serafeim

Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their MBA program fund raising for their start-up venture capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the principle that addressing the... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital Firm Compensation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Financing; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Leadership; Black Inventors; Inclusion; Minority-owned Businesses; Race And Ethnicity; Race Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Diversity; Race; Gender; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; United States

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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA

entities include all for-profit and nonprofit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge... View Details

December 2019
Teaching Note

Hony Capital and Jushi Group

By: Josh Lerner, Shai Bernstein and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for HBS No. 820-040. View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Investing; Manufacturing; Private Equity; Asset Management; Investment; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Finance; China; United States

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24 Apr 2014
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From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'

chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups. In 2007, he cofounded Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit that is advancing ways to apply market... View Details

January 2008
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Parks Capital - Investment in US Retail, Inc.

Parks Capital acquired a Children's Apparel Manufacturer , American Child Clothing Manufacturers, Inc. (ACCM), in 2001. Two years later ACCM's largest retail customer, U.S. Retail, Inc., decided to evaluate strategic alternatives due to financial difficulties. Parks... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Value and Value Chain; Private Equity; Vertical Integration; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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September 2017
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Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal

In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

student. These entities include all for-profit and nonprofit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity... View Details

04 Feb 2014
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VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!

The Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, a student club at Harvard Business School, will hold its 20th Annual View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Professor of Management Practice. Another 20 leading investors and entrepreneurs spoke on panels and in private break-out sessions to round out the conference, which was timed in three-hour blocks over the two days to accommodate... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

March 2021
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Yale Investments Office: November 2020

By: Josh Lerner, Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo

David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments—hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, natural resources—given the impact of the COVID-19... View Details