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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
will fail," Sahlman warns, "which causes people to withdraw funding from the sector. So, we can expect to see a downturn in available capital over the next five years." Hot - Or Not? It is just such cyclical realities that cause HBS...
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- 18 Nov 2014
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Helping foreign countries invest wisely
Dora Vardis (MBA 1994), managing director in the foreign exchange division of Citigroup, works with sovereign wealth funds and central banks to create successful investments...
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- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
assets—which Greece has had a wealth of in recent years. Indeed the last decade has been rough on the country, to vastly understate the impact of a sovereign debt crisis that nearly kneecapped the entire...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
injections to struggling American banks. The rise of the hedge funds was only a part of the story of the post-1998 reorientation of global finance. Even more important was the growth of sovereign View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2003
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Rating Better
associate professor Joshua Coval, and Lubos Pastor of the University of Chicago’s business school, conclude that a manager’s ability can best be detected by comparing his or her portfolio with those of other fund managers with stellar...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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America the Difficult
States. For sovereign wealth funds eager to deploy capital, the experience of the last two decades of investing in the United States is a cautionary tale. While firms and...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
(founded in 2013) and too small (valuation of $55 million) to pass muster for listing on any exchange. But for the 1,080 people who otherwise would have been shut out of owning a piece of the startup—lacking the wealth or credentials to...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans, insurance companies, View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1999
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African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
package, angel investment opportunities, the creation of wealth in the digital age, the building of successful urban enterprises, and transferring wealth to future generations. A provocative discussion on...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 14 Oct 2014
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Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
A freak accident at age 21 left Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) a quadriplegic. It was a moment that led him, ultimately, to cast off from a career in wealth management at Goldman Sachs to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The $4 Billion Question
students consider topics such as deal sourcing, due diligence, deal structuring, governance issues, and the all-important question of how private equity firms create value. And in a mini-module on fundraising, “ABRY Fund V” examines a...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
as climate change and decaying infrastructure. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill this gap. If these critical needs are to be met, the major pools of long-term, patient capital—including pensions, View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
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Case Study: Mind the Gap
for utilization,” Berendt says. “About 200,000 people are sitting idle. We want to take this wealth of talent and connect it to Fortune 5000 companies.” These “talent as a service” offerings will allow global companies to build a virtual...
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- 20 May 2008
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Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
increasing shareholder value. When the alumni invest in our faculty — by funding professorships or supporting the activities of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, for example — they are supporting present needs while also...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Up Your Time Affluence
wealth weakly predicts happiness. “It’s okay to be money-focused,” says Whillans. “But beyond a certain point, the amount of money you have has little bearing on happiness levels.” Finding quality time in an already hectic schedule can...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
knows quite a bit about the topic. "Capitalism has traditionally been about driving wealth and productivity through efficiencies in capital and labor," says Henderson, who teaches the MBA elective Reimagining Capitalism. "But in the 21st...
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- 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle
wealth to those at the bottom of the pyramid," she says. In 2002, Seegull left Novica to consult at various impact enterprises and several philanthropic family foundations. Four years later, she joined Funk Ventures as COO and managing...
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- 29 Jun 2019
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Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
100 jobs. Many of them, specifically in Senegal, have been able to raise funding both from the public sector and also from private investors, angel investors, and VC investors. “Now, when you look at the private sector on the continent,...
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