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- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
finding his way back to Wall Street, Schwartz returned to his native Canada, and in 1984 founded Onex Corporation, a private equity firm built on the values that changed the trajectory of his life so many... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
time to invest in this industry because it was depressed, yet the long-term fundamentals were sound." By all indications, Simmons's gamble has paid off. SCF Partners, the private equity View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
is deploying private capital—a largely untapped resource when it comes to funding public water infrastructure and technology projects in municipalities that might include green infrastructure to contain... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
allows its 600,000 resellers to sell their unused telecom minutes to smaller customers for a profit. "These kinds of entrepreneurial activities strengthen the social fabric by engaging people as equity partners in their own future,"... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
City to work for the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund (EAEF), a $300 million investment initiative focused on strengthening Egypt’s private sector. On a trip to Cairo to renew her work visa, she met... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
food. “We’re raising the profile of our food because we believe it is excellent, and the world needs to embrace and celebrate it,” says Nwuneli. Runa Alam, from DPI, says many pension funds, sovereign funds, endowments and other investment View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
globalization—was what the Medici family created.” — PAUL STYSLINGER (MBA 2023) Italy’s layers of history and business resonated with Basak Sunar (MBA 2023), who worked in private equity prior to enrolling... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
helped create this situation. Or as Calvin Young (MBA 2015), a Baltimore native and 2016 mayoral candidate who now works at the private equity firm Green Street Impact Partners, puts it, “there was real... View Details
- 23 Jan 2024
- News
A Wide Net
Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
complexities of capitalizing their projects—from debt to equity funding options—on their own. This is precisely where DLS steps in, leveraging 20 years of industry experience and relationships to connect... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
and in our success as a family," notes L.E. Simmons (MBA '72), founder of L.E. Simmons & Associates in Houston, which manages a private equity fund that invests in the oil... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
support them. That kind of uncertainty poses a challenge for investors and tech companies alike, as whoever first develops a winning solution is likely to dominate the market—and everyone else will struggle to keep up. “Venture capitalists and View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
partner reporting and portfolio monitoring. Launching a startup was not Murday’s original goal in attending HBS. She grew up in a Rust Belt city outside of Chicago and expected to work in the public sector after studying policy at Georgetown. Murday saw the potential... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Like-Minded
working for Morgan Stanley and leading the Japan office of Clay Finlay, a New York–based asset management company. Matsui was the vice chair for Goldman Sachs Japan and the chief Japan equity strategist. On these evenings, they kicked... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
the world’s leading private equity firms. The decision to specialize in media and communications in 1985 might seem prescient, but the low-key Nelson claims he was merely following his passion. “I’ve always... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
trades per se, but taking in what's going on in the 165-person company he helped launch shortly after earning his MBA. Rarely using his private office, he begins each day reading four to six newspapers, surrounded by colleagues. The... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than a million households; and water and electricity payments for a portion of the population. It also included a financing and guarantee mechanism that... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Later, as a student at HBS, Stavros studied ESOPs: their initial popularity among private equity firms and their dramatic decline in use in the late 1980s.... View Details
- 28 Feb 2019
- News
New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures
Roberts’ interest and expertise in technology was honed over nearly 30 years in the business. A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, Roberts worked in consulting at Booz Allen for several years before graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar. He then joined... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
centers on a citywide effort to improve public education, led in part by an alliance of 50 business and community leaders. This focus on education is a new one for the partnership, which has historically worked on economic development. Its initial foray centers on a... View Details