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- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
began raising funds to support small businesses within the fashion and garment industries that pivoted their manufacturing to create personal protective equipment and partnered with The RealReal, an...
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- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
funds can replace taxes, they can be beneficial to a citizenry. There seemed to be little concern among respondents that states will use their sovereign funds to foster their political interests. Russell...
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by Jim Heskett
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
California legislature for more funding for public schools, which resulted in a $2 billion increase, and she helps raise money for the Manhattan Beach Education Foundation, a nonprofit educational...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Ticked Off
The HBS Club of Connecticut Community Partners recently partnered with Time for Lyme (TFL), a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the devastating effects of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Founded in 1998, TFL has raised...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social Finance US,” explains Palandjian....
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- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
they are doing and I do think they will be helpful to the companies they visit. I love the whimsical side of their project, too." To date, to fund the trip, the students have raised some $13,000 of their...
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Mariama Keita
four different schools to evaluate her MBA options. "I felt completely at home at HBS," she says. One of the things that impressed her was an article in the school paper, The Harbus, that reported on the efforts of HBS students to View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49614 October 2015 Journal of Finance The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments By: Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford Abstract—Traditional risk factor models indicate that hedge funds...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
records. The Class of 1960, for example, raised $3 million in honor of its 40th Reunion, while those celebrating their 30th Reunion, the Class of 1970, had raised close to $5.4 million. Professor F. Warren...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
convince others to join your company?” Attracting high-quality talent is an important challenge for any young firm, and it’s critical to establishing reputation and growth. Simply publicizing a well-known venture capital firm as a funding...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
Hunt was born in 1908 and raised on Staten Island, New York. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1930, completed the first year at Columbia Law School, and then studied economics for a term at King's...
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- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
Ford Motor Company, and AT&T to multicultural markets. “Even though there are so few people in the industry who look like me, I understand that I should belong, I do belong, and that I have an important contribution to make,” she says. View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
works a year from emerging Japanese artists and then displays them in galleries and the company’s offices before selling them at a charity auction, where the artists and buyers can meet. The money raised goes to scholarship View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this positive business impact is likely caused by...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Calder-Wang found that adding a woman to a team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this...
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Harvard Business School
program; raise more fellowship funds for Black students; add new courses relevant to Black students; and promote meaningful social interaction and career development. 17 In 1968, AASU founders traveled to...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
It’s easy to doubt that there is a place in tech and entrepreneurship for women until you see the varied and successful paths other women have taken: “Oh wow, this woman started her business at 22. This woman did it at 28. She was raising...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
learning — typically supplies and field trips. Donors review the proposals online and choose to fund the project they like. DonorsChoose is unique among philanthropies in that every dollar goes to the chosen project. In response to an...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
of the Republican Party. His Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise never to raise taxes, has been signed by President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) and most Republican members of Congress. But his influence extends beyond tax issues. Since...
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
organization raises charitable funds to invest equity and debt in enterprises serving low-income people Ashoka - international organization that promotes social entrepreneurship by affiliating...
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