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- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
brands and SKUs,” she says. Shruti, who graduated at the top of her class at the Indian Institute of Technology and had experience in consulting and impact investing, came to HBS to gain the skills to launch an India-based impact View Details
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
supportive community it gave us in which to learn and grow as entrepreneurs.” After earning prize money as runners-up in both the HBS New Venture Competition and the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, the founders secured funding from a variety of sources,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
co-leading the Collaborative in partnership with the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute—where Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO—as well as the Association for Energy Affordability, the US Passive House Institute, and the Vermont Energy View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
really? It's just a school. But they were right. HBS didn't change who I am as a person, but it opened doors and showed me things that I didn't even know existed." Farquharson explains that InCube Ventures follows the model of a typical venture capital fund, with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
as cochair. Stevens, managing director of S-Cubed Capital and a former managing partner at Sequoia Capital, has invested in Internet companies for nearly two decades, but it was his own encounter with distance learning 30 years ago that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
The final in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1994, New York native Thomas G. Mendell (MBA '74) has been a partner in the principal investments area at The Beacon Group, LLC, in New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
sleek black paint job and just 16 hand-stitched leather seats. Its routes run from private terminals, often at smaller metropolitan airports—such as Van Nuys in Los Angeles and Farnborough near London—to vacation destinations including... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
innovator, she is a nationally recognized expert on the electorate and is the founder, chairman, and former CEO of C Space. She serves on four corporate and four nonprofit boards and is CEO of Salient Ventures, an angel View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
She raised $300,000 from family and friends, making full use of the HBS network and tapping into angel investing groups, since raising about $1.5 million more. With annual sales well beyond the $1 million... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
medicine—and in Jarzabek’s passion for it, but, he recalls, “there were a couple of parts missing for me.” Jarzabek was mission-driven, had the analytical and strategy skills a startup needs, but he didn’t have the medical experience and fundraising know-how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
space for their two-person team. Now LS is getting queries from $100 million mega brands. “These are companies that invest a lot in design to make their sites beautiful but they’re not functional in a meaningful way, and they want to know... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, and other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
of New York, especially during the Gilded Age. —Karen Tumulty (MBA 1981) is deputy editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post. Before joining the Post in 2010, she wrote for Time and the Los Angeles Times. She is the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
with Matthew P. Burkley and Alexandre Scherer (both MBA 1998). “I think you can do a lot as a student. There’s less formal pressure because you haven’t taken in investment or signed on people. You are much more able to experiment. We... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
in entrepreneurship for a long time. So I see that just to get your feet wet is to maybe get involved with angel groups anyway. And go to conferences, because there’s also pooled opportunities where you can get together on a specific... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
school, something I didn’t know anything about. After leaving Grand Bank, I started Grand Angels to help local entrepreneurs. We’re here not only to write the checks but to mentor companies we invest in.... View Details
Keywords: Finance