Private Equity Buyouts - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

concerns that environmental initiatives are too expensive, she offers the case on the private equity firm KKR. "Through its Green Portfolio Program, KKR achieved $160 million per year in cost savings," she... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2020
Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

entrepreneurial community at HBS, but co-founders as well. I spoke with alumni who were part of the Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE) club, and others who were Rock Center Partners. A colleague at... View Details

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

gross margin for retailers using historical data. We show that sales forecasts from this model are more accurate than consensus forecasts from equity analysts. Further, the residuals from this model for one fiscal year are used to predict... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

23 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

Case 810-073 Iris Running Crane, an MBA candidate, must choose among three different job offers in private equity. One is with a top-tier megafund buyout operation; the second with a geographically focused... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

teams of almost 300 biotechnology companies that went public between 1979 and 1996. Even more than firm age, size, product stage, and receptivity of the equity markets, Higgins and Gulati discovered, the top executives' connections... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

12 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

Kosaluchi (Luchi) Nwokeneche-Mmegwa (MBA '20) is from Lagos, Nigeria and graduated with a degree in Public Policy from Princeton University. Prior to HBS, Luchi worked in investment banking and private View Details

13 May 2014
News

Inside Africa

Africa for five years, teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and serving on the investment committee of a private equity fund. It was also during this time that she acquired the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2020
News

Check In

group, Depatie oversaw Kimpton’s $430 million sale to the InterContinental Hotels Group in 2015 before stepping down to co-lead KHP Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm focused on boutique and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hotels; COVID-19; real estate; Accommodation; Hospitality

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

privately held) or for shareholders (if it's public). The interests of the customers, the firm, and the owners become aligned by the customer actually paying for the product. In the nonprofit sector you rarely have this kind of alignment... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

October 2024
Case

Edizione

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Hugo Etchegoyhen

This case study examines the diversification and transformation of Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company originally established to reinvest dividends from the Benetton clothing brand. Edizione expanded significantly in the late 1990s and early 2000s,... View Details

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05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

convert it into actionable initiatives. From founding the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS), whose mission is to develop tools to teach women and girls how to harness the power of negotiation, to her... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

Rothschild’s private placement group), took an interest in her and became a mentor. After graduating, Brown worked at CSFB in New York for four years in real estate and private View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Leadership and Diversity at HBS

City. His determination and grit from the football field translated well to the workplace, and he later went on to work in private equity before applying to HBS. We checked in with Bruce to learn more about... View Details

16 May 2016
Blog Post

Career Resources for International Students

international students and the global job search outside of the U.S. While we are based in Boston, we continually build our global network of organizations that would like to hire HBS MBAs, from a mid-market private View Details

17 Nov 2022
News

Blockchain for Good

Sachs, and held C-suite roles with several large private equity firms, for help with an idea that would eventually become Millicent, their blockchain-based digital financial venture. Dyer says Millicent’s... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

with their yellow Lab, half a dozen chickens, and a few sheep. While Adams has kept his hand in the business world through Vineyard Ventures, a small, private equity fund that has invested in companies as... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

limit their equity exposures in politically risky countries by sharing ownership with local partners and by serving foreign markets with exports rather than local production. The residual political risk borne by parent companies leads... View Details