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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
effective channel strategy, and produced high and increasing EBITDA margins. After holding it for eight years we decided to sell to the private equity firm Madison Dearborn, after the firm’s cofounder, Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982), made the...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
James Ellman shows how to invest wisely as climate change impacts multiple sectors across the stock market. The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market performance over the next two decades. As...
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- 26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
says, but also means the soil can capture a significant amount of carbon dioxide, which is the major cause of global warming. That is the focus of Sustainable Farm Partners (SFP), a combination farming operation and private equity group,...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Of Value and Values
economic development, and corporate governance in a rigorous, bottom-up approach employing analysts who integrate sustainability research into fundamental equity analysis. But what happens when an appealing investment opportunity also...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
continuity. "A smooth transition will be accomplished," the veteran government official vowed. Hui noted that the long-term future looks bright as well: trade with the mainland, now Hong Kong's biggest View Details
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
actors. “The richest countries are the biggest promoters of lawlessness in international trade and finance,” Baker writes in his 2005 book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel. “In a process that parades as agreeable enterprise illegal money...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
he continues. "But I'll never make equity doing this. That's not the purpose. The purpose is to prove it's possible to create an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable operation. I truly believe the best way to make a big...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
invariably take a close look at each and every boat. Very large power yachts have become a particular source of fascination. What are they like inside? Who owns them? Where do they go? In 2007, Doug Von Allmen, a private equity investor I...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
and decision trees." "It's an exciting industry for anyone who has a technical, commercial, and financial background," says James T. Hackett (MBA '79), president, CEO, and chairman of Houston-based Ocean Energy, Inc., a company that employs 1,150 workers worldwide and...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Americanas, with some 500 stores. In 1993, with Lemann and Telles, Sicupira founded GP Investimentos, a private equity firm that he led for eight years. Sicupira is the founder and also a director of Endeavor Brasil, a nonprofit that...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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They Call Him Mr. China
being channeled to private companies, reminding Perkowski of Wall Street’s go-go years in the 1980s. “Today, there are over a thousand private equity firms in China. And the number of IPOs has tripled since 2009. Everywhere you look,...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
long-term goal of buying and managing his own company. Sharpe, who hired his wife, Debby Stein Sharpe (MBA ’81), as CFO, sold Extrusion Technology (an aluminum extrusion fabricator) to a private equity firm in December 2008. In 21 years,...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
close to bankruptcy, oh, you will get religion. But over the course of the ensuing 10 years, that tight focus caused the industry to forget that customers matter." In 2004, AMC was acquired by the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
league is a nonprofit trade association) underpins the NFL's unique architecture. Even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell concedes the model is "a form of socialism [that's] worked quite well for us. So we try to combine socialism and...
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- 16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice
Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of schools. In Massachusetts, the...
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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
companies. We're talking Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mary Barra of General Motors and Larry Fink of BlackRock and Brian Moynihan from Bank of America and Tim Cook from Apple and Robert Smith from Vista Equity Partners. And the list goes on and...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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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 equity before enrolling at HBS. Last summer, she worked in...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which was a private equity fund set up by the US government, to help...
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