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- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
there, but only one to two percent of startups end up getting funded by venture capital. There was a 2012 study done by a Harvard professor who pointed out that 75 percent of venture backed startups fail or fail to return capital to their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
investment success. “The initial funding was $7.5 million; one of our first investments was $250,000 in Intel.” Apple corps: “We invested early in Apple, purchasing 10 percent of the company in 1979 for $300,000. Serving on the board for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
five-year investment period. Right now, some of those mega-funds raised in the boom times are feeling bloated, and limited partners have been stepping in and asking to cut the size of funds and release them from legal commitments. Because... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
change behavior? And usually it is a collaborative process. So for example, in myeloma, we had to start by attracting scientists to the field at the MMRF. If we had to do grant funding and get them in, but then we didn't understand the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
at the Paris train station to save enough money to move to Brazil. "My father was an engineer, and my mother was an entrepreneur," says Jakurski, who, like his parents, has achieved remarkable success seizing business opportunities in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
was a bit of an adjustment," he laughs, "but the best thing about this experience is that it's given me a chance to assemble a great group of people and work with them to create what I hope will be an extraordinary fund and firm." Waters... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money when I was in fourth grade, and I... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
mainframe computer, and made the requested transactions. Playing a small role in the front lines of money management was the perfect introduction for her career leading one of the nation’s top investment firms. “It is important to figure... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
and make time for family life, believe in hard work, and support their communities. The family recently established a fund to create the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professorship of Business Administration at HBS. In announcing the chair,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
value of education, changing the world through entrepreneurship, and finding meaning by helping others. Dahod’s first taste of entrepreneurship came as a teenager, when he helped his physician father produce and distribute medication that he had formulated. “I saw that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
the money that oil companies spend flows through these businesses." Riding out the sometimes stomach-churning ups-and-downs of the oil business, for fifteen years L.E. and Matt Simmons have been an influential force in the oil fields. A... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
the number of employees had grown to 140. Sityodtong then moved to New York City, where he bought his mother an apartment and launched a career on Wall Street as a hedge fund manager. Having enough money to... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
these folks all together and you're funded as you mentioned a moment ago as a startup. So they have faith in your growth and in your profitability. Where do you get paid in this milieu of players? Sanchali Pal: A great question. Yes, we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
state resources,” he says. “I saw an unbelievable group of people trying to provide kids with a quality education.” A longtime supporter of education, Pechter had given time and money to scholarship funds in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
this platform so that other papers can come in? Maybe that means bringing in local investors and building a cap pooled fund at the state level so we can make other acquisitions. Maybe that means transitioning to a nonprofit, or spinning... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
than feel limited by what seems possible. They are also clear that this is a moment for their business to be used as a tool for activism, not activism as a tool for business. Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) Chairman and cofounder, High Meadows Foundation and High Meadows... View Details