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- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
The summer between RC and EC year represents a great opportunity for risk-free exploration. Encouraged by our outcome at the New Venture Competition and the funding I would receive as a Rock Summer Fellow, I forwent a business internship... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Fall Reunions Stimulate and Revitalize
"Wherever the action is, you find our alumni," said HBS Dean Kim B. Clark during a rousing opening address to this fall's reunion classes on September 26 in Burden Auditorium. Speaking to the MBA Classes of 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, and... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
funds—avoiding the urge to make a Superbowl ad and paring down expenses—to lengthen the start-up "runway." However, without new infusions of funds or positive cash flow, literally thousands View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
biotech firm, an HBS Blavatnik Fellowship provided a year of funding and transitional time to spend in the lab and assemble a team of scientists, clinicians, and managers.... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
get to see it firsthand. Kim thinks of Jervon Lemon, a scholarship administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, Children of Fallen Patriots stepped in to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
group champion for this unusual competition. Although he shies away from social events, Hellman and his wife of 47 years, Chris, are involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. He is chairman of the board... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
John Rogers
financing for the post harvest handling and storage of staple crops in rural Rwanda. This project, coordinated and supported by HBS, proved critical in providing me with the experience and perspective necessary to secure a summer... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
work with Mother’s Shea and Eu’Genia are paid a 20 percent premium for their nuts, and 15 percent of company profits are channeled back to the families of the shea-nut pickers to help cover educational... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
Foundation (DRK) – a venture philanthropy firm. The Initiative also partially funded my internship through its Summer Fellows Program, a sponsorship designed to help students explore career opportunities in social enterprise. In... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Web
Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Venture Competition 23 Feb 2017 In April, Harvard students and alumni will compete for $300,000 in cash prizes to fund their star... The Pitch: Roadblocks in Making the Case for Impact Investing Caitlin Reimers Brumme 16 Feb 2017 Just... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
funded initiatives by Land O' Lakes in some twenty-three poor countries. In Albania, for example, Land O' Lakes has organized 8,000 women into cooperatives for the production of dairy products, providing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
money risk handicapping their venture if money dwindles or dries up completely. On the other hand, founders who accept funding risk losing control of their venture since there’s almost always an amount View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
in the fields of Pennsylvania. We also paid tribute to canine search-and-rescue organizations (dogs and their handlers) last December at the AKC/Eukanuba American Dog Classic show in Orlando, Florida. In addition, we have set up a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
Zimbalist in a Post-Dispatch opinion piece. Some of the funding was contributed in land and a long-term loan from St. Louis County; the State of Missouri threw in $48 million... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
"Investing in Latin America, or in emerging markets, has simply not paid off," he said. Investors are also jittery over a lack of monitoring and transparency of public companies and the fact that... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
source of capital. Crossbridge Energy purchased the Shell refinery with a two-part investment thesis that would optimize the current “dirty” refinery to maximize profits in order to use those funds to... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
time in understanding how all this works. Here's a look at stories on some of those research areas and what they mean for becoming a better decision maker. Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Ann Chao
was one in which a school of massage therapy offered free training for blind students who went on to work in massage clinics, which funded the school. “I was intrigued by the private-sector approach – a way... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Minding Families' Business
A twelfth-generation scion of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA '54) acquired a family business the old-fashioned way-he built it. Today he dedicates himself to... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice