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Georges F. Doriot
Doriot founded the first and one of the most successful publicly traded venture capital corporations in the United States. While American R&D funded numerous business entities, Doriot’s big success came in 1957 when he provided the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
initiative, whether a simple project or a grand gamble. Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager by Lars Kroijer (MBA ’98) (FT Prentice Hall) Kroijer charts the founding, rise, and eventual... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
There’s little doubt that James Reed (MBA 1990) loves his job. After all, he’s the chairman and CEO of Reed, the United Kingdom’s first and largest jobs website, and he takes the company’s slogan—“Love Mondays”—to heart. Even so, he admits he has a side hustle. When... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- News
A Common Purpose
completely helpless,” Barnett says. “We wanted to do something positive and meaningful.” Section E rallied, and with 61 percent participation, a fund designated for HBS’s work in global business leadership was established in memory of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- News
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
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
money to or not have funded at all” Crowdfunding platforms represent a major shift in the way art projects seek support and find success. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has raised more than $1.5... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
Institute and The Jimmy Fund in Boston. “We’re trying to set a record, but the main purpose of what we are doing is to raise money for pediatric cancer research,” says Serafini. View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
2019. A single-minded focus on attracting venture funding can be deleterious for other reasons, as well. “The emphasis on growth changes what you focus on and the problems you solve as you go,” says Bahadir, who got Mesken off the ground... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
Education (PiE), a foundation that provides nearly three-quarters of the flexible funding available to the city’s cash-strapped schools. Scheel’s wife, Susan, was an early leader of PiE, which raises supplemental View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to beat the market in a big way.... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
opinion is that the Administration should be candid and recognize that social security is a TAX used to fund a basic retirement benefit—the pension equivalent of food stamps. Higher income retirees should not receive a social security... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
pan-European funds and global private equity organizations), panelists pointed to corporate carve-outs and restructuring as hope for future payoffs. When I arrived in 1989, people were saying that there was too much View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Apr 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
who has been involved in HBS fundraising since graduating, and together they forged a cross-class connection that has resulted in significant support for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. “AJ did a phenomenal job of helping us... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
To the Rescue
organized the event. The Robin Hood Foundation, whose board members fund all of the organization's overhead costs, annually provides $140 million in grants to some 200 New York City antipoverty efforts. Thanks to Bruce Springsteen and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
globalor local, an early- or late-stage investor, confines itself to certain industries, and what size fund best meets your needs. The proper homework can also tell you where a firm sits in its funding... View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
attracting 25 people from their network, who each bring in another 25 people from their networks, and so on. At that scale, they say, annual funding could be, ultimately, in the billions. “The Goodness Web will put that View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
HBS Fund supports: research, curriculum innovation, and other critical needs,” notes Crisses, who served with cochairs Scott Belsky, Jen Lee Koss, and Rohit Sahni. “Together, we developed a fundraising mantra—educate people about what’s... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school’s gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details