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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
sleek black paint job and just 16 hand-stitched leather seats. Its routes run from private terminals, often at smaller metropolitan airports—such as Van Nuys in Los Angeles and Farnborough near London—to vacation destinations including... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
school, something I didn’t know anything about. After leaving Grand Bank, I started Grand Angels to help local entrepreneurs. We’re here not only to write the checks but to mentor companies we invest in.... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
relationships Ability to combine work and personal life Opportunities for career growth However, among tech founders, women are somewhat less satisfied with these aspects of life than are men. How are founders faring with funding? Most tech founders (81%) View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
innovator, she is a nationally recognized expert on the electorate and is the founder, chairman, and former CEO of C Space. She serves on four corporate and four nonprofit boards and is CEO of Salient Ventures, an angel View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
bring much-needed accountability into the system? —Jim Mills (MBA 1986) Tim Draper’s investment in the school voucher campaign was not for naught. It caused the legislature to panic and pass a surprisingly progressive charter school law... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
European angel investing firm Go Beyond Ltd., advised aspiring women entrepreneurs to have a clear vision not only of the business plan but also of how they would run the enterprise. “Make sure you know who... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship
Sherry Coutu (MBA 1993) recalls that one of the things she liked most about attending HBS was that it empowered its graduates to continually strive to have increased impact in their endeavors. This has guided her work as an entrepreneur and View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
York, where in September 2009 he enrolled in a fashion-marketing program at the Parsons School of Fashion. Since completing the program in December 2010, Heffernan has divided his time between angel View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
passionate advocate for businesses to engage in water innovation and governance. Since her graduation from HBS in 2008, Nicole has been at the forefront of the interrelated water and power industries. For nearly five years, Nicole served on the Board of Commissioners... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Seeing the Light
Living in Los Angeles and working as a marketer for a global biotechnology firm, Jana Kirlin Brownell (MBA '83) saw her career path take an unexpected turn. More than once, her father had asked her to come home and take over the Kirlin... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Inspiring conversations around the world
need for us to reach out to one another as nations, as humans,” says Bussel, an Israeli-born artist who divides her time between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. “One cannot separate art from the human experience, from the world we live in, the... View Details
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Matt Spielman
IAG (VP of Account Management), Return Path (Chief Marketing Officer), Moxie/Publicis (SVP Strategy Director), We Are the Mighty (Chief Revenue Officer), Inflection Point Partners (Founder/Managing Partner), Morgan Stanley (Associate), Genesis View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
She raised $300,000 from family and friends, making full use of the HBS network and tapping into angel investing groups, since raising about $1.5 million more. With annual sales well beyond the $1 million... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 29 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives
for a Mexican health care startup called Moons, leading market entry, in-house production, and operations for Colombia, and interned at SAGANA, an impact investing fund, where she had the opportunity to lead an View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
multimillion dollar investment to launch SUEDE, the first fashion-content-platform brand serving multicultural women. Success at HBS came in and out of the classroom. Mirror Digital got its startup funding from the HBS View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who was unsuccessfully... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- Profile
David A. Frankel
important realization. “Three years into it, it became clear to me that I wasn’t made to be a corporate guy and work for a boss,” he said. With his sudden wealth, Frankel had begun investing in South African startups as an View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence Across Countries By: Lerner, Josh, Antoinette Schoar, Stanislav Sokolinski, and Karen Wilson Abstract—This paper examines investments made by 13 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog
Associates How and why investors structure deals How PE firms add value How investors screen and choose investments Getting a deal through the Investment Committee Role of debt providers and where incentives... View Details