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- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
fund. Very difficult to do that, but we did. It was the largest first-time fund ever raised and the third biggest in the world when it was raised. One of the younger partners at the firm brought this Edgcomb...
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- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
waste, and have significantly lower rates of waste than the national average.” Kendall says the foundation’s multi-year, $485,000 grant to the university has helped it develop new relationships with local growers, processors, and distributors and View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
profit-making; unlike financial performance, there is no common currency of measurement and aggregation," Ebrahim explains. "The value created by social-sector organizations accrues to society rather than to a set of owners or shareholders, which View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
even if consumer finance was still unpopular. While it might have taken a crisis to convince some, we believed for a decade that this was an important sector that raised serious issues and deserved substantially greater attention in...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Grab now operates in six Southeast Asian countries and has raised more than $700 million to date, with another funding round underway. In Indonesia, Grab took an early lead on Uber in part because the...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
she herself is an organic farmer, Reade is not here to sell the blueberries, asparagus, beef, or lamb she raises at Neptune Farm. She’s here to support the other farmers, and they are here, in large part, because of her. Reade organized...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other sectors, such as education, where...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
preventive treatments," says Greenberg, who plans to open thirty more stores by the year 2000. "Our aim is to help people take control of their health care." —J.A.R. « Back African Adventure As a second-year student at HBS, Monique Maddy (MBA '93) View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
fund raising to create a similar campaign that's focused on preventing the use of opioids. Can you just talk a little bit about the meth campaign and how you're going to transition that to preventing the use...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
CEO, Orbital ATK When Thompson launched Orbital in 1982, it became the first corporate space contractor in nearly 30 years. (courtesy Orbital ATK) David Thompson (MBA 1981) was working at NASA in the late 1970s when the agency’s funding...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
weaving to dyeing, sewing, and retailing. By leveraging vertical integration, best practices, and technology such as automation and robotics, the company is constantly improving productivity and raising product quality. At the same time,...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Business School Publishing) This history doubles as a sophisticated account of the opportunities and challenges facing the modern investor. It follows the rise of funded retirement, the evolution of investment vehicles and techniques,...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and marketing vice president of...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
value of its philanthropic giving. The foundation recently raised a $120 million Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot fund that is investing in only three social sector organizations, including Youth Villages....
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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
charge of the team’s bottom line. “The skeptics in town predicted that even if we raised enough private funds to build the park, we’d still fall on our faces, because we’d have $20 million in debt that no...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
numbers all day?’” Anderson recalls. She switched her focus to social entrepreneurship, working as an associate and then a project manager at New Profit, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit, venture philanthropy fund. While there, she helped create the Pathways Fund, a $50...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
donations, it raises more funds per capita than any other nonprofit in the world — one out of two Singaporeans contributes to NKFS." In part because it is already so successful with its marketing and...
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