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- 01 Mar 2003
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California Research Center Marks Fifth Year
steering committee chairman Arthur Rock (MBA ’51), CRC executive director Christina L. Darwall (MBA ’75) and her staff wrote a mock case about Rock, a legendary founding father of the venture capital industry. Rock, who was presented with...
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- 20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
the public and private sectors. Before founding these firms, Gandhi was head of the institutional strategy area for Morgan Stanley and then vice chairman of investment banking and global head of the financial institutions business for...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2015
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Truth in Lending
score but instead to do the more sophisticated due diligence of a venture capital deal. “It’s asking a lot of the same questions that you would try to tease out in a conversation with someone. Are they reliable? Are they confident? Are...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2013
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A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
electronics thrown away globally every year into a sustainable source of metals for the technologies of tomorrow. BlueOak represents just the sort of fresh thinking that has marked Bradoo's relatively short but notable career path. At age...
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- 17 Jun 2016
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Minding God’s Money
a global humanitarian organization. As CFO of TDJ Enterprises, Thomas oversees the finances of Jakes’s separate for-profit business, a $400 million, faith- and family-oriented media and entertainment venture...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Alumni Books
we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
soon- to-be MBA — entrepreneur intends to make a difference with his business education. “In 20 to 30 years, I hope to have created a venture where people have meaningful work making a product that helps solve View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
Founds Care.com 2009 Named one of Fortune’s Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs 2011 Named Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum 2012 Launches WomenUp as Henry Crown Fellow 2014 Care.com IPO Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO, Care.com As a child in...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2013
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Brick by Brick
Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from humble beginnings, the mistakes that...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Vital Signs
impact from this global pandemic and have an opportunity to use their investment decisions to support companies that make positive change. What about long-term negative impacts to the health care venture...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an additional $2.5 million in View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
Soldiers Field with a common bond to the School and to each other. To mark their collective achievement, here’s a look at six who represent the diversity and the varied ambitions of the Class of 2006. Sacasha Brown Immigrants’ daughter, View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Education Revolution
COMPTON: Making the case on film that America’s education system is falling short globally. “I don’t even talk about education reform any more, I talk about education revolution,” documentary filmmaker and venture capitalist Bob Compton...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
James Ellman shows how to invest wisely as climate change impacts multiple sectors across the stock market. The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market performance over the next two decades. As...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Nov 2021
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Cold Calculations
the pole—can increase the amount of solar radiation the region deflects and slow global temperature rise. It’s an audacious idea,” says Steve Payne (MBA 1985), chair of the board of the 12-year-old nonprofit. Payne joined the project as a...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
ENRIQUEZ: People take too much for granted. PHOTO BY JEFF THIEBAUTH As CEO of Biotechonomy, a life-sciences research and venture capital firm, Juan Enriquez (MBA ’86) has examined the impact of life sciences on the View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
superpower: Innovation. In this episode of Skydeck, we’re kicking off a three-part series called “Out of the Valley.” It will focus on the work of Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010), a venture capitalist and author of the book, Out-Innovate: How...
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- 15 Nov 2020
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Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Sahlman discusses how Khan Academy, a global online education nonprofit, strives to balance founder Sal Khan’s (MBA 2003) vision with the need to focus and scale. Prediction: How AI Will Affect Business, Work, and Life Bill Kerr speaks...
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