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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Attention, HBS Entrepreneurs!
Venture capitalists Patrick Chung (MBA 2004) and Harry Weller (MBA 1998) are prime movers behind the Experiment Fund, launched to support innovators or current students who are leading Cambridge, Massachusetts tech start-ups in health... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are adding credibility and momentum... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit
changed in the Valley during his 50-year career, the passion of those starting new ventures remains the same. Said Bowes, “It's the entrepreneurs who keep this business new and fresh, every day.” (Published... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs
podium at HBS on November 9 during the Springboard: New England 2001 venture capital forum to pitch their businesses to some 200 investors in the audience. Organized by the Washington, D.C.- based nonprofit... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
on one model of success. Technology and financing landscapes change constantly, and you have to adapt.” Biotech ventures have what Simons refers to as “many potential failure modes,” and raising capital can be tough. Akouos netted $224... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
student, a third-year law student, and a Kennedy School student with experience working in the United Nations. "It was the perfect blend of backgrounds," says Schrader. In 2012, the fledging company won both the HBS Business Plan... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
you recommend as preparation for a career in venture capital? Doerr: The best preparation is operating experience in a well-managed, high-growth, high-tech company. Without that it's hard to support great entrepreneurs and teams. HBSB:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
DODI: Backing ventures with products important to women and families. Photo courtesy Monica Dodi A cofounder of MTV Europe, a former executive at Walt Disney/Europe, and former CEO of AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
people every year, is not a high priority for either the public or pharmaceutical companies. To stimulate novel treatment ideas and to raise the venture funding needed to get those ideas to market, he launched two organizations. One is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Spring Training for Startups
Angie Hicks (MBA 2000); discussions of a few of HBS's top entrepreneurship cases; and—naturally—plenty of networking opportunities. Summit attendees were also invited to check out the finale of another startup event on campus that day: the student New View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
research in Hong Kong and Singapore,” she elaborates. “First of all, we found that there aren’t as many Internet executives who have been in their businesses long enough to be able to cash out. Also, mentoring is done through the more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
artifacts from longtime professor Georges Doriot (MBA 1922), considered the father of venture capitalism: the original 1957 business plan for Digital Equipment Corporation. Baker Bloomberg’s iconic cupola... View Details
Keywords: Georges F. Doriot
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
In Israel, getting into business is not so much a matter of what university you went to but rather what military unit you served in. And that may be the single thing you need to understand about what makes Israel a leading center of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
after leaving HBS and have continued their entrepreneurial journey in the marketplace. Will this year’s new ventures follow in their footsteps? You be the judge. Here’s a quick look at the traditional and social enterprise View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
to dub him “an intellectual venture capitalist.” (courtesy Office of John McArthur) I met Dean McArthur only once, but he made an indelible memory. I had recently graduated from the MBA Program and, in addition to my day job, began... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II. In this turbulent era, he developed a distinctive focus and pedagogy that helped define business as a profession and grew a pioneering Harvard View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Salute Bill Sahlman
alumni and friends.” Sahlman arrived at Soldiers Field in 1973, earned his MBA in 1975, and received his PhD in business economics in 1982. He then joined the faculty full-time. Sahlman’s impact includes developing the School’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
Photo courtesy of BollyX Photo courtesy of BollyX (click to open in new tab) BollyX cofounder Minal Mehta (MBA 2011) led members of the HBS community in a high-intensity, Bollywood-inspired cardio workout. The dance-fitness program, which won last year’s New View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
venture capital investor Jacqueline Morby called him soon thereafter. She and husband Jeffrey Morby (MBA 1961) were launching a nonprofit to fight Alzheimer’s and invited McCance to join them, along with Boston philanthropists Jerome and... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush