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- 01 Dec 2018
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Combating Climate Change
the $10.2 trillion the world will invest in new power generation through 2040.” —Rick Needham (MBA 2002), Partner, Energy Sector Lead, The Rise Fund Photo courtesy of Bridget Nyland Photo courtesy of Bridget...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Start Me Up
struggle or fail because they lacked legal basics like founder agreements or proper vesting and licensing arrangements." Funding "VC funding gets all the publicity, but it's not right for every startup....
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Garry Emmons
- 16 Dec 2021
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A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni Confront a World of Pandemic Problems Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, HBS alumni across the globe have been stepping up to respond to the crisis in numerous ways. Some led the way in the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
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Center Court
annually attended sporting event in the world — can only help Schwartz in his primary aim: getting more Americans to pick up a racket and become players. “I want 30 million by 2010,” Schwartz told the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (July 13,...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Wagr
company has raised $16 million in funding from notable tech and sports investors, including Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, Bitkraft Ventures, Greycroft, Pear Ventures, the Kraft Group, and Harris Blitzer Ventures. CEO Says: “We want to...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
should keep the social dimension of your work in mind-that is, the opportunity to do something good for others.” CURRENT READING The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace, by Dennis Ross Sir Ronald Cohen helped lead Apax Partners to a...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Global Outreach Program Planned for HBS Centennial
Over fifty HBS clubs have scheduled special Centennial events beginning this fall through the end of 2008 as part of the School’s Global Outreach Program. The program has two aspects: The first involves HBS faculty, who will travel around the View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
300 applicants and became the largest student-led business plan competition for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. But as the competition progressed, Foster and Simpson began to identify some biases and frictions in the evaluation and View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
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Results and Recognition
became section fund chair in 2009. As a result, he has achieved a 31 percent increase in Section C’s annual participation. Thayer and Joe O’Brien Thayer and Joe O’Brien (MBA 1992) When making philanthropic decisions, Thayer and Joe...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
growing pains. RITE is the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States, and reaching that milestone was an odyssey: Smith reckons that the technical challenges, funding crunches, and regulatory hurdles involved in...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
unimaginable at the time they are made. Who would have predicted the changes in society that have come from classification of the elements into the periodic table, or from quantum mechanics, or the World Wide Web? Who would have guessed...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
talented professionals across the world to help evaluate and support these interventions. Over the past 10 years, ADP has funded more than 50 promising nonprofits to transform hundreds of thousands of lives...
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- 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle
Seegull coauthored a policy paper, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and others, focused on engaging the federal government in impact investing to achieve social and environmental outcomes. "That opened my eyes to the View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976
the bottom line. “We’re running out of time to avert catastrophic, irreversible climate change,” he says. Doerr’s influence reaches far beyond the world of business. A tireless advocate for education, ten years ago he co-founded the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Supporting Collaborations Across Harvard
Zita Ezpeleta and Kew Lee (MBA 1990) are supporters of the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation “As the world becomes more interconnected, Harvard needs to work across school lines.” Kew Lee Zita Ezpeleta...
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- 28 May 2019
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Future Source
Seni Sulyman (MBA 2014) wants to rescript Africa’s role in the world. “For too long the continent has been seen as a place people give things to,” he says. “I want to connect Africa to the world on equal terms.” As vice president of...
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Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2021
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Building Hope
advocate for alternative mental health therapies, including the use of psychedelics. In recent years, that has included exploring the use of ketamine as a treatment for depression, through the creation of the Ketamine Fund with his...
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Daniel Morrell
- 13 Nov 2020
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Realizing a Dream
the case method pedagogy “so relevant to making you a better leader.” Ferrara was so inspired by the transformational experience the School provided that he has been a regular contributor to the HBS Fund since earning his MBA and is a...
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- 11 Apr 2018
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward
On any given day in his job as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012) might find himself analyzing funding sources with the nonprofit organization’s CFO, lunching with a student mentee,...
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