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Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship
digitization in education. Company/Organizational and Fund Profiles GuideStar Pro - Information about the missions, programs, and finances of more than 1.7 million nonprofit organizations. Foundation Directory Online -... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
With the study of entrepreneurial management flourishing at HBS, the challenge to find and support new faculty and to fund curriculum development is more pressing than ever. Recently these needs were recognized by the Class of 1975... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
better. Be it mutual funds or hedge funds, these so-called owners have virtually no emotional investment in the companies (they own)." B. D. Majuqwana comments that "the biggest drawback for PE is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
(Abridged) Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
childhood. Thirty years later, however, the bird (a palm warbler) rejuvenated Thayer’s interest — and would eventually lead to a career shift. When that palm warbler flew into his life, Thayer was president of Gateway Investment Advisers.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
product could change the world, and the drive to make it happen, they merely needed the money to get a new company started. The "traitorous eight," as they became known, enlisted the help of a visionary investment banker from New York,... View Details
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Nicolle Richards
confused, burned-out, or otherwise unsure how to approach the summer. Work Experience: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (philanthropy), Lendable (Nairobi-based impact investing start-up), Dearfield Fund for... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Two HBS Alumni to Lead Carlyle Group
will become co-executive chairmen. “We are fully committed to and confident in the firm’s future and will continue to be substantial investors in Carlyle funds for years to come,” the founders of the 30-year-old private equity firm said... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Care
destination in the world, the company has raised in excess of $100 million in investment funds across more than 15 countries, and has 7 million members who avail themselves of caregiving services for... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
From some social enterprise’s own triple-bottom lin... HBS Celebrates 20th Anniversary of New Venture Competition 23 Feb 2017 In April, Harvard students and alumni will compete for $300,000 in cash prizes to fund their star... The Pitch:... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49614 October 2015 Journal of Finance The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments By: Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford Abstract—Traditional risk factor models indicate that hedge View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
initial venture fund of $60 million (at that point the largest private equity fund ever raised), the new firm began doing deals in a wide range of enterprises. But in the early 1980s, as the VC business... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 24 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco
network with other alumni interested in working in climate. The event started with a panel hosted by Senior Lecturer Jim Matheson (MBA Class of 2001) that discussed the current landscape of investments in the climate space. The panel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Reform, taught by HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who later served on Given's board. And Childress, now at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—which invested heavily in Hall's Growth Fund—has provided View Details
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CRSP: historical coverage | Baker Library
Partnership Interest, Depository Receipts, etc.) Closed-End Mutual Funds Foreigns on NYSE, NYSE MKT, NASDAQ, Arca and Bats Americus Trust Components (Primes and Scores) HOLDRs Trusts REITs (Real Estate View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- News
Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
came to understand the economic model of schools, and how annual giving enables them to invest in financial aid and innovation,” explains Lien. She began giving annually to the HBS Fund and recently extended... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
the largest impact investing funds in the country. He then joined Illumen Captial, an impact fund-of-funds that trains its fund managers to unlearn their racial and gender... View Details
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Anita Lynch
profitably provide investment education and less costly access to financial services. I believe it is possible to create a private equity fund dedicated to serving entrepreneurs from underprivileged... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
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find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm's first fund is the New Protein Fund, dedicated to growing companies producing... View Details