Tax reforms, regulatory uncertainty, and global market volatility are creating a more complex investment environment, but the outlook for private equity remains strong. This investment management course provides the frameworks you need to improve your firm’s effectiveness at every stage of a deal. By examining critical issues related to industry infrastructure, portfolio management, and negotiation strategies, you will be well equipped to overcome emerging investment challenges, find new paths to growth, and increase returns on capital.

Summary: Tax reforms, regulatory uncertainty, and global market volatility are creating a more complex investment environment, but the outlook for private equity remains strong. This investment management course provides the frameworks you need to improve your firm’s effectiveness at every stage of a deal. By examining critical issues related to industry infrastructure, portfolio management, and negotiation strategies, you will be well equipped to overcome emerging investment challenges, find new paths to growth, and increase returns on capital.

Key Benefits

Exploring the multifaceted issues that investors face over the course of numerous market cycles, Private Equity and Venture Capital raises your level of investment expertise. As you examine the full range of industry models—from venture capital to growth equity to buyouts—you will learn how to build more effective investment strategies for your firm and adapt your approach to rapidly changing conditions.

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Take advantage of the right opportunities at the right time Take advantage of the right opportunities at the right time

Evaluate the impact of market cycles so you can move on opportunities with the most potential
Apply best practices for making investments, both within your borders and in other countries
Assess opportunities in distressed and emerging industries

Structure and negotiate better deals Structure and negotiate better deals

Make better investment decisions by examining the influence of risk, earnings, and organizational change
Move quickly to select the best deals and negotiate with greater confidence

Optimize your firm's portfolio and activities Optimize your firm's portfolio and activities

Monitor the progress of portfolio companies and choose appropriate exit strategies
Scale your firm by managing deals and integrating operations across multiple locations

Expand your personal and professional network Expand your personal and professional network

Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

Key Benefits

Details

Take advantage of the right opportunities at the right time

Evaluate the impact of market cycles so you can move on opportunities with the most potential
Apply best practices for making investments, both within your borders and in other countries
Assess opportunities in distressed and emerging industries

Structure and negotiate better deals

Make better investment decisions by examining the influence of risk, earnings, and organizational change
Move quickly to select the best deals and negotiate with greater confidence

Optimize your firm's portfolio and activities

Monitor the progress of portfolio companies and choose appropriate exit strategies
Scale your firm by managing deals and integrating operations across multiple locations

Expand your personal and professional network

Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

Who Should Attend

This investment management course is designed for executives with considerable investment industry experience, including:

General partners and junior partners of private equity and venture capital firms
Principals from the limited partner community who invest in private equity and venture capital firms
Chief investment officers, investment principals, and investment managers or directors
Asset managers responsible for a firm's investment portfolio
Entrepreneurs in the process of receiving and/or structuring capital funds
May also be appropriate for: Professionals who provide banking, accounting, legal, or other advisory services to the investment industry

Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact. A participant team might include executives responsible for finance, marketing, business development, customer service, human resources, and product or service management.

Entrepreneurs, angel investors, families and institutions raising a first fund, and others new to the private equity and venture capital industry are encouraged to explore our new program, Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Participating Companies Have Included:

Airbus

Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited

Bose Corporation

Credit Suisse

JP Morgan

Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Qatar Foundation Endowment

Rand Merchant Bank

The Sherwin-Williams Company

State Bank of India

UBS Private Wealth Management

We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?

Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.

Experience the Case Method in the Classroom

Watch participants debate the issues and present their viewpoints.

Understanding the Case Method

Read the case, discuss with your peers, and decide how you would address the challenges.

Who Should Attend

This investment management course is designed for executives with considerable investment industry experience, including:

General partners and junior partners of private equity and venture capital firms
Principals from the limited partner community who invest in private equity and venture capital firms
Chief investment officers, investment principals, and investment managers or directors
Asset managers responsible for a firm's investment portfolio
Entrepreneurs in the process of receiving and/or structuring capital funds
May also be appropriate for: Professionals who provide banking, accounting, legal, or other advisory services to the investment industry

Participating Companies Have Included:

Airbus

Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited

Bose Corporation

Credit Suisse

JP Morgan

Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Qatar Foundation Endowment

Rand Merchant Bank

The Sherwin-Williams Company

State Bank of India

UBS Private Wealth Management

We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?

Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.

Experience the Case Method in the Classroom

Watch participants debate the issues and present their viewpoints.

Understanding the Case Method

Read the case, discuss with your peers, and decide how you would address the challenges.

Learning and Living at HBS

When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

Learning and Living at HBS: When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

Admissions Criteria and Process

We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.

Admissions Criteria and Process

Answering Your Questions

Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

Application Submission

We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

Application Review

To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

What You Will Learn

Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, case studies, small group discussions, and practical exercises, you will develop the essential problem-solving and decision-making skills needed to craft an effective investment strategy, raise the required capital, and facilitate productive dealmaking.

What You Will Learn: Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, case studies, small group discussions, and practical exercises, you will develop the essential problem-solving and decision-making skills needed to craft an effective investment strategy, raise the required capital, and facilitate productive dealmaking.

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Private equity globalization Private equity globalization

Understand how capital flows across both national and regional boundaries
Manage a multinational fund versus one run from a single office
Adjust investment strategies for the demand-and-supply dynamics of different countries and regions
Assess the impact of traditional management practices and the localization of investments
Anticipate exit difficulties and other risks

Emerging markets Emerging markets

Adapt your investment style for new high-growth markets
Identify new funding opportunities
Embrace earlier-stage investments
Understand the differences between fundraising and investing efforts
Make decisions that address the distinct financial and cultural aspects of a country or region

Implications of both firm and fund size Implications of both firm and fund size

Align your investment strategies with your firm and fund
Prepare for the distinct challenges that characterize different stages of growth
Recognize how the size of your firm and fund can affect the perceptions of investors and other industry players
Understand how firm and fund size can influence deal sourcing and selection, enterprise valuation, portfolio mix, and the management of portfolio companies

Key Topics

Private equity globalization

Understand how capital flows across both national and regional boundaries
Manage a multinational fund versus one run from a single office
Adjust investment strategies for the demand-and-supply dynamics of different countries and regions
Assess the impact of traditional management practices and the localization of investments
Anticipate exit difficulties and other risks

Emerging markets

Adapt your investment style for new high-growth markets
Identify new funding opportunities
Embrace earlier-stage investments
Understand the differences between fundraising and investing efforts
Make decisions that address the distinct financial and cultural aspects of a country or region

Implications of both firm and fund size

Align your investment strategies with your firm and fund
Prepare for the distinct challenges that characterize different stages of growth
Recognize how the size of your firm and fund can affect the perceptions of investors and other industry players
Understand how firm and fund size can influence deal sourcing and selection, enterprise valuation, portfolio mix, and the management of portfolio companies

Faculty

Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.

Faculty Chair

Josh Lerner

Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and member of the Finance Unit; faculty chair of "Private Equity and Venture Capital;" faculty cochair of "Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital."

As challenges mount in the buyout and venture capital industries, PEVC offers unique advantages.

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Faculty

Paul A. Gompers

Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units.

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Victoria Ivashina

Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration. Faculty chair of the Global Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region; faculty cochair of "Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital." Member of the Finance Unit.

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Lecturer

Nori Gerardo Lietz

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units.

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Robert F. White

Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.

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Faculty: Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.

Faculty Chair

Josh Lerner

Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and member of the Finance Unit; faculty chair of "Private Equity and Venture Capital;" faculty cochair of "Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital."

As challenges mount in the buyout and venture capital industries, PEVC offers unique advantages.

Read Full Bio Read His Story

Faculty

Paul A. Gompers

Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units.

Read Full Bio

Victoria Ivashina

Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration. Faculty chair of the Global Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region; faculty cochair of "Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital." Member of the Finance Unit.

Read Full Bio

Lecturer

Nori Gerardo Lietz

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units.

Read Full Bio

Robert F. White

Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.

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