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- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and connection to living wage work opportunities, pointed him...
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- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
(MBA 1991). Skelly, president and founder of Clean Line Energy Partners, was asked by the Partnership to serve on its board, but declined because he had just been appointed to the Houston Parks Board. He suggested Gilbane, whose company...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
challenge was amplified—cofounding Index Ventures in 1996. "If we were going to compete with the best portfolios that were built in Silicon Valley," says Rimer, "we'd have to hunt far and wide across Europe." It's become a popular bet: VC...
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Jason Feifer
- 04 Mar 2019
- News
The Anti-Shark Tank
Videolicious (a platform for making high-end video) respectively. Despite their success, the pair couldn’t help wondering what it was like to be a female entrepreneur without HBS connections. In 2016 they formed Able Partners to invest in early-stage View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
intending to stay with that idea or that team. But some of those teams do stay together afterwards, as is often the case with the MS/MBA version of bootcamp called Tech Venture Immersion. STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES...
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Jennifer Gillespie
Nimi Katragadda
Nimi Katragadda is a Partner at BoxGroup, a seed stage venture fund where she focuses on investments in financial tech, healthcare, and marketplaces. BoxGroup's portfolio includes companies such as Plaid,...
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Venture Capital
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Investment management: industry resources
& Poor’s NetAdvantage- Capital Markets Industry Survey IBISWorld- Portfolio Management, Securities Brokering Company Overviews Create lists of competitors, potential employers, and people...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
is important,” Friedlander continues, “but telling the right story about it moves a company forward.” Realizing that he lacked the business knowledge to craft such a story with credibility and impact, Friedlander resolved to bridge the...
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- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of...
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by Julie Battilana
- 01 May 2013
- News
George H. Strong, MBA 1951
In the 60 years since he earned his MBA, George Strong says that the impact that HBS has had on his life has only become more clear. “I think it is hard to gain a perspective on the HBS experience while and immediately after you are...
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
a board of directors as you create and grow your company. Others will join private equity or venture capital firms where you will serve on the boards of the firm’s portfolio companies. Still others will be consultants or advisors to...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
A Roundabout Path
Friedlander continues, “but telling the right story about it moves a company forward.” Realizing that he lacked the business knowledge to craft such a story with credibility and impact, Friedlander resolved to bridge the gap. He also knew...
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- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Meet the Black Investment Club
companies, a sale of a health care portfolio company, and several debt refinancings to facilitate portfolio company growth. This summer, Akapelwa expanded on his financial...
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- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
brand and our supporters if we are able to execute and make money there are endless ways for us to go which is exciting.” Ultimately, for both Pierre-Jacques and Tingle, it is about much more than making money; it’s about impacting a...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
firm that invests in and supports the growth of early-stage climate tech startups. Gigascale’s portfolio companies are replacing fossil fuels, cleaning up the atmosphere, and modernizing massive sectors such...
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- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
Researchers have long shown that there are differences in how socially responsible companies depend on the culture of their country of origin. Companies located in countries including Germany, Japan, and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Conversely, I’ve heard investors say they wish the leaders of their portfolio companies would be more transparent about challenges they are facing and ask for help. As one investor said to me, “They already...
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by Julia Austin
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
explores how the nature of risk itself has changed over time. It highlights key aspects that have shaped the evolving industry, including shifts in risk engineering and risk management, the development of actuarial science, and the impact...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Merton, Robert C. "Generalized Mean-Variance Tradeoffs for Best Perturbation Corrections to Approximate Portfolio Decisions." Journal of Finance 29 (March 1974). Merton, Robert C. "The Impact on Option...
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