Publications

01 Jun 2000
News

A Canadian Hero

list of the most successful business leaders this country has ever produced," according to the Toronto Globe and Mail, is president and CEO of ONEX, a thriving public company he founded sixteen years ago. A diversified global firm specializing in View Details

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this positive business impact is likely caused by... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity

Career Coach

Rohit Sahni

second focused on leveraged buyouts (LBO). During his time in private equity, Rohit traveled to Brazil, India, and multiple countries in Europe. After seven years in private equity, Rohit co-founded a... View Details

06 Jan 2020
News

Home Grown

Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

Fast Answer

PE Fundraising

of analyzing fundraising. In Pitchbook Click on Funds > Private Equity Funds Select criteria including fund status,... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

The $4 Billion Question

students consider topics such as deal sourcing, due diligence, deal structuring, governance issues, and the all-important question of how private equity firms create value. And in a mini-module on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

October 2012 (Revised August 2014)
Case

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: October 2012

By: Josh Lerner, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program of investment management. In October of 2012, Mark Wiseman was just 12 weeks into his role as... View Details

Keywords: Canada; CPPIB; Pensions; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Canada

07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

last decade. It was founded by an entrepreneur who, as he was approaching age 65, was starting to do some life and estate planning. After poking around to find the successor and the next board and CEO, he chose Granite Equity over... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

Profile

Henry McCance

drug development, exponentially increasing the chances of finding effective treatment and prevention. In 2004, the three families founded the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CAF) to support Tanzi’s work and other Alzheimer’s research. At McCance’s... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

about hedge fund managers and private equity managers raking in billions while decimating companies and destabilizing markets more than we worry about whether the CEO of Ford... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

developments, such as the congressional proposal to augment the Social Security system with a program of private savings, a plan that presumably would include the mutual fund industry. Ultimately, it is the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
Case

Return Logic, Inc. (A)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz

Follows three graduating HBS students as they build a business-to-business Internet venture and highlights the challenges they confront in structuring financing terms with venture capitalists. Requires students to carefully read a six-page term sheet to identify which... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Internet and the Web; Negotiation Deal; Entrepreneurship

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

characteristics and director networks are also associated with deal generation. We find that a company that has a director who has had LBO experience through prior board service is ~40% more likely to receive a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Preqin | Baker Library

Preqin Data and information on private equity and venture capital companies, funds, and deals; debt, real estate and infrastructure. Read More Preqin, a part of BlackRock, is known as the home of... View Details

April 2020 (Revised July 2020)
Case

Teton Capital Partners, LLC: Free Fallin'

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz

Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Crisis; Real Estate Industry; Banking Industry

October 2012
Case

Antoine Leboyer and ABR

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Antoine Leboyer (HBS '92) acquired the Swiss-based software company ABR in February 2008. He managed through the recession of 2008-2009, dealt with a tumultuous separation from the founder/owner, rebuilt the management team, and upgraded the company's software... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Corporate Finance; Acquisitions; Private Equity; Growth Management; France; Switzerland