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- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and risk propensity in women, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
runs his own venture capital firm, Bear Ventures LLC. “With his multiple investments in various early- and mid-stage companies, his point of view is invaluable to me,” she notes. But even more importantly,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
England home-cooking standards exciting again. Armed with his MBA, Duda saw the energy of this burgeoning food scene as an opportunity for new types of food-related businesses, ventures like the Food Network, where, as a consultant, he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
and consulting for thousands of the world's top executives, investors, and venture capitalists, the authors explain the next phase of the Digital Revolution to a wider audience: how to position firms to profit in this new era of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
important than his business ability, and that's something I got from my parents. Where the new economy is going In any cyclical business — oil, gold, pork bellies, IPOs, View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
have one last morning of kissing his three kids goodbye and going to work and thinking everything was OK. One final bit of normal, she thought. The initial post-diagnosis plan was for Benjy to continue his busy schedule as a radiologist,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
She has taught at the Wharton School and at the United Nations Economic Development Mission in the Republic of Belarus. A former assistant director of Admissions at HBS, she is the past president of TriCom Ventures and was general manager... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
online streaming field with Otter Media, a joint venture with the Chernin Group. And industry observers agree that more acquisitions and partnerships in the years ahead will only accelerate the pace of change in a tech-heavy View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
goal of touching a million kids’ lives by 2015” by providing them with e-readers. Risher developed the idea for the venture during a world tour with his family that combined sightseeing with hands-on community improvement activities such... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
‘How did you get there?’ ” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Jahn Karsybaev (GMP 26, 2019), CTO at ProSource IT and host of The Ivy Podcast MUST READ Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein “Pearlstein challenges what has become conventional wisdom about... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
venture capitalist for Greylock. In 1998, he left to run a portfolio company, iXL, which went public and grew to almost $500 million in revenue. After iXL, he joined Silverpop as its CEO, seeing it grow to nearly $100 million, becoming a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
programs, there is no way that is going to solve the problem. So I think bringing business principles to address issues is a very interesting and exciting thing to do.” Toward that end, Gandhi has founded two companies. One is Asha... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Alumni Books Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams by Evan Baehr (MBA 2011) and Evan Loomis (Harvard Business Review Press) Now that you have your... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
(photo by Jon Enoch) In truth, his business background is central to his work as head of state. Before coming to politics in 2003, Mitsotakis worked in finance at Chase and McKinsey in London. When the couple returned to Greece, where... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
share what we learn with a larger, supportive community of fellow entrepreneurs, professors, venture capitalists, and anyone else committed to entrepreneurship. We'd like this trip to be a growth engine for entrepreneurial practice... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy organization that assists... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan Selling China by Yasheng Huang What Customers Think by Gerald Zaltman Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan (Harvard Business School Press) A recent study... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
that kind of one-sided knowledge. The Farmers Business Network (FBN), cofounded by Baron, agriculture investor and entrepreneur Amol Deshpande, and several farmers, has emerged in a period of particular crisis for the American farmer.... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg