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Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)
- ▶ 10:53 Eric Brooks Came back to Harvard Business School, worked for Seth Klarman at the Baupost Group while I was there, which was a transformative experience. 2 times in the scene
Sloane Payne and Dave Joerger – Why Culture Matters (EP.500)
- ▶ 36:29 Sloan Payne I thought for the longest time, I'd read some Harvard Business School study or some fucking thing that said that interpersonal complexity goes up orders of magnitude when you go from a team of two to three to five, et cetera, that it's an… 2 times in the scene
Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
- ▶ 12:13 Ted Seides So what looks like a traditional background, New York upbringing, banking, private equity, Harvard Business School, how did you decide to do something different from what would have been going back on that traditional path?
- ▶ 15:41 Ted Seides So before we dive into what happened with the Burger King franchises, what did you get out of going to HBS? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:02 Matt Perelman Two is Royce Yudkoff, who we mentioned earlier, who's our HBS professor for me, and I'm sure Alex agrees, has been our most impactful
Rodney Comegys – The Mechanics of Indexing at Vanguard (EP.498)
- ▶ 8:13 Rodney Comegys From there, I went to business school at HBS and
Lane MacDonald – Teamwork, Alignment, and Investing at the Highest Levels at SCS (EP.483)
- ▶ 9:53 Lane MacDonald Oh gosh, I've been hit by the lucky stick many times, Ted, including playing with you for the business school Blades at HBS when I played in that one tournament with you.
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 3:44 Alex Sacerdote We've been friends for a long time, since 1997 at Harvard Business School, classmates, class of 99. 3 times in the scene
Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- ▶ 1:13:00 Tim Sullivan It was when Josh Lerner did his first Harvard Business School case study on our office, which was focused mostly on the private equity world.
Chris and Rob Michalik - Twin Tackle of Private Equity at Kinderhook (EP.416)
- ▶ 14:55 Chris and Rob Michalik Did not get an offer to return, and then spent my entire second year of business school interviewing, not exaggerating, probably had over a hundred phone interviews, 50 interviews, graduated from Harvard Business School without a job, and…
- ▶ 18:45 Chris and Rob Michalik The conduit in this was our Harvard Business School suite mate, Tom Tuttle, who's our third founding partner of Kinderhook and has been a great friend for 30 plus years now.
Brad Briner - Family Office to Public Service (EP.413)
- ▶ 41:57 Brad Briner A friend of mine reminded me that we wrote a case study in 2006 at Harvard Business School on it.
Charles Duhigg- Secrets of Communication (EP.394)
- ▶ 6:45 Ted Seides I would love to hear about your background and path to writing from the very traditional journalistic background of Yale and Harvard Business School. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:06 Charles Duhigg And I'm certain you went to HBS 2 times in the scene
WTT: The Investment Manager Playbook - What Allocators Don't See
- ▶ 3:45 Ted Seides Andre Perald, founder of High Vista Strategies and professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, and Charlie Ellis, founder of Greenwich Associates and renowned author,
Dan Tennebaum - The Case for India at India Capital (EP.387)
- ▶ 19:57 Dan Tannenbaum So much so that there's a Harvard Business School professor I worked with named Tarun Khanna, who'd done this seminal research where he said, conglomerates are the worst form of business unit and organization and suboptimal everywhere in…
Brett Barakett - Digging for the Puck at Tremblant Capital (EP.386)
- ▶ 9:13 Brett Barakett One thing led to another, and at some point, he was applying to the Harvard Business School, and he said, you should really consider applying to the Harvard Business School. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:03 Brett Barakett As you know, hedge funds were starting to become a thing, and I think in my year, 800 people graduated HBS.
- ▶ 1:06:20 Brett Barakett And I was fortunate to meet him cause I received this fellowship when I was at the Harvard business school.
Classic Deal - Burger King by 3G Capital (EP.384)
- ▶ 9:05 Alex Behring So I had joined the organization approximately a little less than eight years or nine years before out of the Harvard Business School.
- ▶ 42:35 Daniel Schwartz Our CFO was hired out of HBS.
Chad Summe and Mike Veith – Corridor of Commerce at eGateway Capital (EP.364)
- ▶ 38:02 Mike Vieth He went to Harvard Business School and then was at Bain, consulting in tech and private equity, and then launched a portfolio of direct-to-consumer pet brands.
Ted Seides – Unlocking Investment Wisdom (EP.352)
- ▶ 14:01 Ted Seides So I came here and went to business school at Harvard. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:27 Ted Seides And so a lot of what ends up happening that I see, I was talking to a couple of secondary HBS students yesterday, and they're asking me about, oh, what would you do if you were starting a money management career?
Adam Karr – Extreme Alignment at Orbis (EP.338)
- ▶ 8:28 Adam Karr I applied to business schools, and so I applied to HBS when I was 19 in college, and they accepted you at the time contingent on a couple years of work experience. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:43 Adam Karr So when I went to HBS, I knew that I wanted to invest, but that's a wide purview.
- ▶ 10:14 Adam Karr And he immigrated to the U.S. from South Africa in the early sixties to go to HBS.
Kimberly Sargent – Passion and Mission at the Packard Foundation (EP.333)
- ▶ 52:00 Kimberly Sargent We do the Yale HBS case study.
Ted Seides – The Art of the Interview (EP.330)
- ▶ 1:01:28 Ted Seides So I was 27 years old before I'd ever heard that what you could do is something tied to something that you're interested in.
Matt Breitfelder – Optimizing Investment Performance through Human Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.323)
- ▶ 4:41 Ted Seides Matt previously served as chief talent officer and member of the operating committee at BlackRock, and is the co-author of numerous Harvard Business School case studies on leadership.
- ▶ 12:05 Matt Breitfelder Certainly is the magic of HBS. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:37 Matt Breitfelder And there's this whole toolbox of tools that my mom and HBS have exposed me to that you could use to help people do that.
- ▶ 29:14 Matt Breitfelder Over the years since I graduated HBS, one of my bucket list ideas was to co-author a case.
- ▶ 33:49 Matt Breitfelder I think the fact that HBS and Wharton and Stanford and all the top business schools have also been late to it didn't help because most of the leaders of these firms were educated in the same era, so they just weren't exposed to it, and
- ▶ 54:46 Matt Breitfelder Having written a bunch of HBS cases, I guess I'd start by saying, so what do you learn from your employee survey?
Colin Campbell – The Case for Environmental Markets (Climate Solutions EP.3, Capital Allocators EP.302)
- ▶ 1:01:57 Colin Campbell And if I could share another, actually from my mom, my mom was one of the first women to get admitted to Harvard business school back in the. 3 times in the scene
Charley Ellis - Figuring Out Investing and Vanguard (Capital Allocators, EP.286)
- ▶ 43:28 Charlie Ellis And then another dimension that he brought to bear in his first job out of Harvard Business School, he worked for an organization that we all know as Johnson's Wax,
Frank Brosens – Culture and Partnership at Taconic Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.282)
- ▶ 7:36 Frank Brosens And I applied to business school, Harvard Business School.
Reade Griffith – Managing Assets and Partnerships at Tetragon (Capital Allocators, EP.276)
- ▶ 4:21 Reade Griffith Was cross-enrolling into both MIT and Harvard's Business School for financial classes that were going to be relevant to things I was interested in, and I convinced them during my second summer of law school to bring me in as a summer…
- ▶ 10:19 Reade Griffith They had donated the money to Harvard Business Schools, where the Baker Library, the Baker Scholarships, and all these things come from, and that money had met talent.
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 10:16 Ted Seides So my path was, I went from Yale to Harvard Business School, and then I went into direct investing, and actually mostly in the private market. 2 times in the scene
Carla Harris – Pearls of Career Wisdom (Capital Allocators, EP.267)
- ▶ 27:35 Carla Harris I started my career right out of Harvard Business School in mergers and acquisitions, and part of the reason was because, again, I'm negatively motivated.
Josh Friedman – Master Class in Credit Investing at Canyon (Capital Allocators, EP.263)
- ▶ 4:23 Ted Seides Josh founded Canyon in 1990 with Mitch Julis, his roommate from their time at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 7:43 Regan Bozman And then another fortunate event was through a friend in college, met two guys who had dropped out of Harvard Business School to start this on-demand home services platform.
Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- ▶ 45:24 Sahil Bloom And so if I learn a new framework, Christensen's model of disruptive innovation, famous Harvard business school professor, this whole idea that a large incumbent over serves and underserves a whole lot of their customers.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 13:14 David Rosenthal What business school did he go to Harvard business school?
Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24)
- ▶ 12:21 Henri-Pierre Jacques So we got really close there and continued our relationship as roommates at Harvard Business School. 2 times in the scene
Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Richard Tedlow, the class of 1949 professor of business administration emeritus at the Harvard Business School, where he spent three decades teaching business history. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:52 Ted Seides So in a broad brush over multiple decades, I guess, at Harvard Business School before going to Apple U, what did you choose to study, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:06 Richard Tedlow She came to the Harvard Business School, and let me tell you something.
- ▶ 29:28 Richard Tedlow My course was called the coming of managerial capitalism and my friends in finance at the Harvard Business School told me I should have called it the going of managerial capitalism because managers were being put on the back burner by…
- ▶ 46:17 Richard Tedlow This may turn into a small course at the Harvard Business School, and it may turn into a book. 2 times in the scene
Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 55:27 Barry Sternlicht My son, who's just entered Harvard Business School, and I was explaining to him that at these values, where our attachment points were for the loans we were getting, we couldn't really lose money unless the United States ceased to exist.
- ▶ 1:01:23 Barry Sternlicht And then there was another fellow that came to Harvard Business School that made a couple of speeches, and I, I remember them like they were yesterday.
Bruce Martin – Still Lake Capital [Manager Meetings, EP.7)
- ▶ 13:15 Bruce Martin Her husband was a Harvard Business School grad who had all these friends and very serious jobs at Goldman Sachs and Harvard Management.
Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap –Inside the Sausage Factory of the Caesar's Restructuring (Capital Allocators, EP.209)
- ▶ 12:14 Sujit Indap And to make a long story short, he was given a chance to be an executive straight out of never having an office job, just be a professor at Harvard Business School to implement these ideas around
Katy Milkman – How to Change (Capital Allocators, EP.199)
- ▶ 49:47 Katy Milkman So I did this experiment with Google, with a collaborator, John Beshears of Harvard Business School, and a few other folks who were involved as well.
- ▶ 57:06 Katy Milkman My dissertation advisor, Max Bazerman, he's a professor at Harvard Business School and a brilliant scholar of behavioral science and negotiations.
Charley Ellis – The Magic of David Swensen (Capital Allocators, EP.197)
- ▶ 51:17 Charlie Ellis Go to the Yale School of Management or Harvard Business School or Orton or
Innovation in Private Markets 2: Mark Johnson – New Leaders in Private Equity at Astra (Capital Allocators, EP.193)
- ▶ 6:59 Mark Johnson I'd like to go to Harvard Business School, probably.
Private Equity Masters: Paul Salem – Providence Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.175)
- ▶ 5:57 Paul Salem Well, actually, it goes back to Harvard Business School, where I graduated in 1991, and we're in the middle of a Gulf War, and it was three of us. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:15 Paul Salem And the reason why I knew about them is because my job before Harvard Business School was working for Prudential Insurance Company, and Prudential Insurance Company was the biggest institutional investor investing in the very first private… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:17 Paul Salem At the time, it was called Providence Ventures, became Providence Equity Partners, and there were two founding partners, and then this other guy who just graduated from Harvard Business School a couple years before me named Glenn Kramer,…
- ▶ 36:06 Paul Salem And when I get the good fortune of talking to, whether it's students at school, or Harvard Business School, or Stanford, and I always say, I think my best talent was like a headhunter.
- ▶ 1:00:15 Paul Salem It's groupthink that kills you, and when you're sitting at Harvard Business School, and you got your 90 best buddies telling you how to do something, and there's that one person who's off in the corner saying, well, did you think about…
André Perold – Pockets of Inefficiency at HighVista Strategies (Capital Allocators, EP.169)
- ▶ 4:22 Ted Seides Andre was the second guest on the show where we discussed his background as a renowned investment professor at Harvard Business School and the founding of High Vista.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 2: Kim Lew – The Opportunity and Challenge (Capital Allocators, EP.152)
Matthew Granade – Inside Data Science at Point72 (First Meeting, EP.22)
- ▶ 5:52 Matthew Granade And then work early on in my career with McKinsey and then went to Harvard business school.
Sustainable Investing 1: Wendy Cromwell – The $170 Trillion Opportunity (Capital Allocators, EP.139)
- ▶ 48:44 Wendy Cromwell Climate change conference at HBS.
Daylian Cain – Master Class in Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.138)
- ▶ 9:25 Daylian Cain My colleague Deepak Malhotra at HBS says it much more suavely.
Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)
- ▶ 16:08 Dan Rasmussen Wish we could, and if it were possible, there'd be a class at Harvard Business School, how to drive revenue growth, okay?
Jay Girotto – Farmland Opportunity (First Meeting, EP.10)
- ▶ 6:50 Jay Girotto Later went out to the East Coast and went to college, both at Harvard undergrad and Harvard Business School.
- ▶ 7:56 Ted Seides So that's just how naturally it's like Harvard business school farmland. 3 times in the scene
Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
- ▶ 6:48 Jonathan Tepper So, my father studied economics at Cambridge and then got his MBA at Harvard, and as it turned out, a lot of what he had been reading and learning ended up becoming useful.
Gary Klein with Paul Sonkin and Paul Johnson – Conducting Pre-Mortem Analysis (Capital Allocators, EP.109)
- ▶ 16:01 Paul Sonkin Think about how you could revolutionize the Harvard Business School case studies, and it has enormous implications for training security analysts, and Ted, you can see why, from what Gary's been talking about, that I think that, and that's…
Khe Hy – Radical Shift from Investing to Purpose (Capital Allocators, EP.101)
- ▶ 5:13 Ted Seides The lessons reminded me of my conversation with Harvard Business School professor Tom DeLonge, which I've replayed on the feed.
Ted Seides – Interviewing and Manager Meetings (Capital Allocators, EP.94)
- ▶ 44:24 Ted Seides I happen to go to Harvard Business School, which is taught with a case study method.
Chris Ailman – CalSTRS' Venerable CIO (Capital Allocators, EP.86)
- ▶ 1:08:54 Chris Ailman Harvard was nice enough to host us again at the business school.
Sarah Williamson – Focusing Capital on the Long-Term (Capital Allocators, EP.67)
- ▶ 7:27 Sarah Williamson and then I went to business school at Harvard and went to McKinsey, first in London and then in Dallas and then in Boston for five years, and then I went to Wellington.
- ▶ 21:55 Sarah Williamson So quarterly guidance is one of these things where by doing deep research and actually unpacking some of these myths, looking at the data in conjunction with some people from Harvard Business School and others, we've been able to show that.
- ▶ 25:12 Sarah Williamson The first is we've done some work with some, George Serafim at Harvard Business School, who you may know, who's done a lot of work in this area, who's terrific, and one of the things that's very clear is that executives that have…
Charley Ellis - Indexing and Its Alternatives (EP.62)
- ▶ 5:48 Charlie Ellis There were no courses at the Harvard Business School on investment management.
Peter Troob – Monkey Business in High Yield (Capital Allocators, EP.59)
- ▶ 5:37 Peter Troob I was lucky enough to go back to Harvard Business School, and on the way back out, because I just still didn't know what I wanted to do, I went back into banking at DLJ.
Kim Lew – The Carnegie Way (Capital Allocators, EP.52)
- ▶ 10:41 Kim Lew And then I went to HBS. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Kim Lew There was a big brother, big sister program at HBS.
- ▶ 37:36 Ted Seides Well, you graduated HBS in 92, so that was Hedge Fund Central.
- ▶ 57:00 Kim Lew Dent of their background or their experience, which is not exactly as Wharton HBS as the other, might see the world in a slightly different way, and they're looking at things in a slightly different way, so they're still grounded in what…
- ▶ 1:12:46 Kim Lew Worries too much, and for sure, like I said, when I was in HBS, one of my issues was I couldn't speak up in class.
Paul Black - Gratitude, Fun, and Growth Stocks (Capital Allocators, EP.51)
- ▶ 23:07 Paul Black One of the things we've done is we actually have worked with a guy named James Heskett, who was a Harvard business professor, wrote a book called The Culture Cycle.
Steven Galbraith – In the Boardroom (Capital Allocators, EP.48)
- ▶ 19:07 Steve Galbraith If you look at Harvard, for instance, the business school is a very high margin school.
It's Not About the Money (Capital Allocators, EP.45)
- ▶ 47:18 Ted Seides I'm a young guy coming out of Harvard Business School, but I was depressed, and I didn't know what to do.
Rick Selvala - Harvesting Volatility (Capital Allocators, EP.41)
- ▶ 7:02 Rick Selvala I was lucky enough, once I joined GM, they sent me to Harvard Business School, and I ended up at the New York Treasurer's office in New York.
Meredith Jenkins – A Path to Trinity (Capital Allocators, EP.31)
- ▶ 4:33 Ted Seides And as a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Harvard Business School.
- ▶ 12:14 Meredith Jenkins So I was interested in learning more about non-profit, and I had gotten into the program at HBS to start in January, so I wasn't going to have the summer, so I went to HBS and said, I really want to try and do an internship in the fall,… 4 times in the scene
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 4:20 Ted Seides He graduated from Tufts University, worked at Fidelity Investments and Bain Consulting, attended Harvard Business School, took a run at a technology startup, and then spent a decade working at hedge funds, culminating in launching his own… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:21 Chatri Sityodtong And I really feel that if we can conquer our fears, doubts, and insecurities, you know, whether it's what our families think about us, our friends think about us, what society thinks, what should be on our CV, what should be on our resume,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:57 Chatri Sityodtong And at the time, you know, my mom, you know, convinced me to apply to HBS and as a way out of poverty and that I was the oldest son. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:47 Chatri Sityodtong Yeah, so when I entered, the game plan was, you know, because we'd read about, you know, that if you graduate from HBS, you can, you're basically guaranteed a six-figure job, stable income. 3 times in the scene
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