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  • July 1997
  • Article

The Presidio Trust legislation: Preservation or Privatization?

By: Brian Trelstad
This analysis of the Presidio Trust legislation places the recent developments on the Presidio in the context of a century and a half of environmental planning. By first exploring the Presidio's history, and then tracing the more recent legislative background to the... View Details
Keywords: Presidio; Presidio Trust; National Parks; Urban Parks; Public-private Management; Natural Environment; Urban Scope; Planning
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  • January 1996 (Revised November 1997)
  • Case

Weston Presidio Offshore Capital: Confronting the Fundraising Challenge

By: Josh Lerner
Weston Presidio Capital encounters substantial difficulties while raising its first fund. The incentives and roles of investment advisors ("gatekeepers") pension funds and consultants are explored. The relationship with lead investors is considered. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Markets; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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  • May 1998
  • Teaching Note

Weston Presidio Offshore Capital: Confronting the Fundraising Challenge TN

By: Josh Lerner
Teaching Note for (9-296-055). View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

and Kit - 12. Daphne Dufresne (MBA 1999), RLJ Equity Partners Daphne Dufresne is a Principal at Weston Presidio Capital, a diversified venture capital firm with over $2.3 billion in assets under management. With offices in San Francisco,... View Details

    Christina Melas-Kyriazi

    active angel investor and an advisor to early-stage companies. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Stanford University. Christina grew up in Los Angeles, CA and now lives in San Francisco with her husband John and son Theo. She loves... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital
    • 26 Mar 2025
    • Blog Post

    How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

    compensation and who also understood his millennial needs. But that person didn’t exist. So Josh launched Presidio Advisors, a financial planning firm dedicated to helping millennials gain clarity and confidence around their equity... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2003
    • News

    Fellowships Celebrated

    Michael F. Cronin (MBA ’77) poses with recipients of three of his fellowship funds: Jennifer Fung (MBA ’03), who holds the Harvard Student Agencies Fellowship; Daniel Cook (HBS ’04), who holds the Pub and Galley Fund; and Scott Cullerton (HBS ’04), who holds the Weston... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • Profile

    Kayode Ogunro

    particularly Africa. Getting an insider's point of view After college, Kayode explored investment strategies from multiple angles, first with two years at Weston Presidio Capital, then with Deutsche Bank's private equity arm, RREEF. This... View Details
    • 01 Aug 2002
    • News

    HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

    inexpensive and easy-to-purchase eyeglasses available to the one billion people in the world in need. In his remarks to the students and attendees, judge Michael Cronin (MBA '77), cofounder and managing partner of Weston Presidio Capital,... View Details
    • 18 Jul 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

    successors. The divide among partners has played out in the media in recent years. For example, Weston Presidio reportedly suspended its fund-raising in 2014 after a group of partners left the company to start a new investment firm.... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

    Weston Presidio Capital, a later-stage venture-capital firm, recalls, "There was a good mix of cases, both domestic and international, addressing the different investment philosophies of venture-capital firms according to their... View Details