Fund Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2013
News

Minding The Gap

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the program—which seeks to turn best practice... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

William J. Ruane

Through his strong analytical skills and conservative, bottom-line driven investing approach, Ruane became one of the most successful fund managers on Wall Street. Over the past thirty years, Raune’s... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Alex Jiang

to Alpha Startup Fund, Alex was Co-Managing Partner at Sinovation Ventures (top tier Chinese VC fund with USD1.5 billion under management across five funds) and General Partner at WI Harper Group (San... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#20;#Ecommerce;#75;#Venture Capital;#47;#International Development

01 Mar 2010
News

How to Spur Prosperity

Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

October 2011 (Revised March 2013)
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Yale University Investments Office: February 2011

By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

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, real estate—given the impact of the recent market turmoil. The case explores the risks... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Resource Allocation; Investment; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Property; Private Equity

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01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Growth Fund, run by CEO Kevin Hall (MBA 1996), to raise a $30 million fund dedicated to starting and growing new charter organizations in Tennessee. One of the Growth Fund's grantees is Melissa Megliola-Zaikos (MBA 2000), founder and CEO... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

09 Mar 2021
News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

goes to education—about $800 million. Business people are also allocating a lot of private philanthropy money. JOSEPH FULLER Professor of Management Practice and Co-chair of HBS’s Managing the Future of Work... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2011
News

What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!

the Harvard Innovation Lab—depends on new gifts. The bottom line is that the School needs annual support to maintain its excellence. If we didn’t receive alumni gifts each year, we couldn’t fund emerging needs, ensure our faculty’s... View Details

Keywords: William A. Sahlman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Harvard Business School

Council for Opportunity in Graduate Management Education (COGME) with nine other leading graduate business programs. Funded initially by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, these schools agreed on a mandate to... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Righting the Ship

engineers. Right off the bat, Stuckey identified two issues. One, there was no standard to evaluate the CIP managers at the division level. And two, the way the funds were being distributed at the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

17 Feb 2022
News

A Big Bet

Finance, and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), founder and CEO of Year Up. The initiative tackles training for the nearly two-thirds of American workers who lack a four-year college degree. Palandjian’s Social Finance is designing the initiative and View Details

Keywords: jobs training; social enterprise; upskilling; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

Shereen Shermak

Shereen is a founder of multiple Boston-based startups, most recently Nth Party (acq. MGNI) and Atlantic Quantum. She was previously a Boston-based venture capitalist, entrepreneur and active angel investor. Previously, Shereen served as a View Details

Keywords: Finance;#45;#Insurance;#64;#Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital;#53;#Media & Publishing;#20;#Ecommerce;#24;#Electronics & Hardware

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

the importance of risk management and oversight. Robert C. Merton, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, similarly expressed concern about the unintended consequences of change on Wall Street, closing with the assertion that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

to source for and screen investments Managing growth Evaluating a portfolio Pro-rata investing’s pros and cons Creating a new firm and fundraising for a first-time fund Compensation and control within a firm... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

All Hands on Deck

start dates delayed, and those interested in hard-hit industries like hospitality and entertainment had to broaden their searches,” explains Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), managing director of Career and Professional Development (CPD).... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

Washington Area Community Investment Fund and founder of socially conscious sustainable underwear brand Manakii. More than 50 HBS alumni tuned in to the 90-minute virtual discussion, during which the panelists touched upon a number of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2012
News

A Decade of Change

experience high-impact management positions at 44 nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary, the funding of which is shared between HBS and the participating... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Recognizing Volunteers and Donors

those who regularly support the Dean's Fund is Oliver Evans, who has made a gift every year since he graduated. Evans, a managing partner with the fund View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Faculty Research Online

protecting and monetizing their intellectual property. In a Q&A, Professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in IP, including the rise of patent pools. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5925.html. Rethinking Retirement Planning Many of us are relying on defined... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 May 2013
News

Giving Together

SEAL and currently a managing director at Ziff Brothers Investments, led an effort that raised $335,000 toward the fund that carries the name he believes says it all, the MBA Class of 2001 National Defense... View Details

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