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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog
An LP’s goals and constraints Asset allocation underpinnings: mean-variance analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, the Efficient Frontier, and Monte Carlo simulations The “Yale Model” Key fund terms: fees, expenses, carried interest, hurdle rates, and View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- News
HBS Startup Is Developing Tech-Enabled Jewelry to Stop Rapists
at the Harvard i-lab. Working with survivors of sexual assault and with a team of MIT engineers, the cofounders of Flare Jewelry are developing wearable devices that include an alarm, text messaging to alert the wearer’s phone contacts of her View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Map Quest
use your GPS to locate the brand-new Map & Atlas Museum at 7825 Fay Avenue. Or better yet, unfold a crinkly old paper street map to find it. Mike Stone (MBA ’88) might find that latter method more appropriate. A couple of decades ago,...
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- 21 Feb 2017
- News
Wilson Claims Title of Fastest American Solo Sailor
Bulletin is considered “the Mt. Everest of the seas.” This year’s competition was his second successful solo ocean race. He soundly bested his time in the 2008-9 edition of the race of 121 days and 41 minutes. While battling storms, rough seas, and a gimpy View Details
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Vendee Globe
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
fund may require GPs to think differently about key strategic decisions such as, should you align employee incentives with impact? How do set fund measures of success? Does LP/GP alignment on impact matter? Load More Related Faculty Julie...
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- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
Directors, Anheuser-Busch InBev Co-Founders, Fundação Estudar Former Partners, Banco de Investimentos Garantia S.A. Former Partners, GP Investimentos Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Jorge Paulo Lemann (above, center), Carlos...
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- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
tech startup producing stylish bracelets with an inobtrusive control button that can send text messages and GPS tracking to friends, a pre-recorded call to a specific phone number, or a direct connection to the police. “Flare gives you...
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- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
created by Brandon Molina (MBA 2010), offers distance-to-green accuracy using wireless and GPS technology. Now in its third year, the Alumni New Venture Contest saw an increase in entries of more than 40 percent over 2011, for a total of...
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Unconventional Energy - U.S. Competitiveness
Win-Win Plan for the Economy, the Environment, and a Lower-Carbon, Cleaner-Energy Future” In the News 17 Jun 2015 Fareed Zakaria GPS Porter on U.S. energy production Re: Michael Porter 11 Jun 2015 NPR: Morning Edition America's Next...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Anheuser-Busch InBev Board Member, Fundação Estudar Chairman, Lemann Foundation Jorge Paulo Lemann (above, center) is the leading force behind Banco Garantia, Brazil’s most prestigious investment bank. At Garantia and later at GP...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
grappling with three questions. First, should GPS create its own mobile app for credit card customers or leverage the bank’s already successful mobile banking app? Second, if a separate app was developed, then who should manage it? View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
“That can cause people to set their internal GPS to something that doesn't necessarily align with their values—and I don't think that that tradeoff has to be there. I think that people can engage in more daring recruitment efforts and...
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- 11 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
reconnaissance of potentially hazardous spaces. The quadcopter functions in total darkness, in buildings it has never previously entered, and flies without prior knowledge or programming of the space—even in areas without GPS or...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of addiction psychiatry had been unable...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
only give us the necessary financial support but also its knowledge and experience." Carlos A. Sicupira (9th OPM) is a partner in São Paulo-based GP Investimentos, Ltda., an in-vestment firm with some $1.3 billion under management and...
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- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
says John. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.” In another experiment involving a car GPS system, the researchers showed some...
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- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
release data on public works requests for repairs such as potholes, graffiti, and broken streetlights. Using a cell phone application developed by the mayor's office, citizens can request service by snapping a photo of the problem and uploading it to the city...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
reason is last-mile delivery challenges in a region where people often lack formal street addresses, a problem solved by UAE-based startup Fetchr, which utilizes smartphone GPS coordinates for delivery. Vitoria Ivashina, Lovett-Learned...
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