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- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
visionary, while Anderson, as chief operating officer, would bring the administrative and fundraising muscle to make it work. “I have known since I was 18 or 19 exactly what I was good at and exactly what I would do for rest of life,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
resourceful leaders." The Path to HBS O'Neill saw in Outward Bound the foundation for the kind of educational experience that could reach kids who weren't making headway in traditional schools. He became a fundraiser for the program and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
all the people in our [the team’s] lives as well as for the growing number of people supporting us. At the very least, we succeeded in that! Personally, that is an invaluable reward in itself. “Challenges have included fundraising for a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
including twenty years in Silicon Valley. At HBS, he became a close friend of classmate George W. Bush and later would serve as an important California fundraiser for Bush’s 2000 campaign. Riley (official presidential nickname: “T-Bone”)... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The Realities Facing Female Founders,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
Bridgitt Bertram Evans (both MBA 1986), The Heckscher Foundation, and Andrew Paul (MBA 1983) — and others is allowing members of the Harvard community and beyond to take their ideas as far as they can go. The HBS One Harvard Fund, a View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
in the twisted web of Washington fundraising and lobbying that can definitively prove dollar x bought result y. Perhaps that's why there has been such little empirical research among economists on the issue. "The whole perspective of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
fundraising there were traditionally far more modest, with the bulk of it in Great Britain; buyouts and later-stage investment opportunities were the prevailing mindset; and the requirements of the established stock exchanges made going... View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-011.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCutlass Capital, L.P. Harvard Business School Case 805-075 David Hetz and Jon Osgood are forming a new venture capital fund in 2001 to invest in health care start-ups. Describes their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
for people convicted of felonies. Honest Jobs experienced hiring and fundraising challenges early on. Blakeman struck out with a business partner he ultimately bought out, plus he hired and then laid off senior people in business... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
other influential politicians. Bono and Bobby Shriver helped form the political advocacy organizations DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) and ONE, and the fundraising group (RED) to fight disease, poverty, and hunger in Africa. He also used... View Details
- 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
Entrepreneurship, Pierre-Jacques sought and received funding from the Rock Fellowship Program to scale Harlem Capital. After convincing Tingle to forego a summer internship, the two worked together to fundraise over the summer and then... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
were hosting programs and networking events for their members, and fundraisers were traveling to meet with donors as the end of the fiscal year approached. Then everything stopped. Just like our colleagues on the MBA and Executive... View Details
- Profile
Prita Kumar
added another $25,000. With a total of $55,000 in grants acting as seed funding, Kumar leaped forward with Booya Fitness. One of the harsh realities has been that post business school fundraising has been a significant challenge.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
criticized as manipulative or exploitative, March of Dimes posters featuring cute children that were also clearly afflicted with polio (the original poster children) were effective. A strategy of "porch light" fundraising campaigns... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
variety of private, nonprofit, and governmental sources. Foundations are fickle, so always keep more than a few irons in the fundraising fire. Africa Business Conference. Building the African Dream: Defining a New Approach to Success... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
depth of knowledge and insight that will prove invaluable for trustees, donors, and others related to and responsible for the success of social enterprise. Social enterprise organizations have played a vibrant and important role in the USA for the past century. And... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- Blog Post
HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans
I also want to meet my goal of securing the $500,000 in fundraising prior to June 2018 that is required to successfully execute the deployment. “In the long-term, I want to see The Mission Continues continue to improve its programs so... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
to do this work,” says Heckel. “We depend on our HBS alumni volunteers, so we’re thanking them by inviting them to join us at the award dinner.” The award will be given at the Thumbelina Fund’s annual fundraising dinner on October 4. View Details