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- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
uninformed about the opportunities. For the HBSWANY panel, Greub was joined by classmates Rachel Brannan (MBA 1987), a former investment banker, and Corinne Nevinny (MBA 1987), a General Partner with Avestria. “Many in our audience were surprised to learn how very few...
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Margie Kelley
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
best way to catalyze lasting change is to support people who are entrenched in local communities and will be there for the long term,” says Wasim, a managing director at the private equity firm of Hellman...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating...
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James E. Aisner
- Fast Answer
Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry
private companies; information on investment firms and capital transactions; For a multimedia learning module on Capital IQ check out our View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
entrepreneurship over the next two years and beyond. The Early Days of Harlem Capital The Harlem Capital story begins well before that first day on campus. In 2015, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle first joined forces at ICV Partners, a middle-market minority owned View Details
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INSEAD The French Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York...
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- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Matthew, and Michael Ewens Abstract—This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing...
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- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
short-term debt against the refinancing risk implied by the need to roll over its debt more often. We then extend the model to allow private financial intermediaries to compete with the government in the provision of short-term,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership...
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Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Family Offices and Family Trusts
How do I identify the investment firms that are family offices or family trusts servicing wealthy families? Preqin Click the "Search for" tab at the top of the page Hover over "Investors" Click...
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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
achieved through both the private and public sectors,” says Kyarisiima. “Enabling African businesses to access global markets and think strategically is where I want to play a role.” The path she took to pursue this goal has been...
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- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This effect is more pronounced when, post-announcement, management insiders...
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- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- November 2018
- Case
Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee
By: Mark Roberge, Gamze Yucaoglu and Samer Al-Rachedy
As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa Alwaalan had been trying to produce the perfect cup of Arabic coffee for over a decade. In 2007, she began testing various coffee blends, which she later branded Yatooq, the Arabic word for “craving” or...
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For-Profit Firms;
Business Strategy;
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Roberge, Mark, Gamze Yucaoglu, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee." Harvard Business School Case 819-075, November 2018.
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
All Aboard for Board Members
Since Alumni Career Services launched its board of directors résumé database a year ago, it has grown to more than 1,000 names of HBS graduates interested in serving on public or private boards. Initially, only executive search View Details
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Educational Services
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Does it work? And for firms in countries that pursue that route: How do they make it work? "My research questions include: Were Latin American countries right to avoid share privatizations? What accounts for the apparent success of...
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by Martha Lagace