Harvard Business School Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Announces 2024-2025 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Venture Capital Advisors, and Lawyers-in-Residence
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BOSTON—The Harvard Business School (HBS) Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced its Entrepreneurs-In-Residence (EIR), Venture Capital Advisors (VCA), and Lawyers-In-Residence (LIR) for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Rock Center is the hub for entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (HBS). It’s where HBS students who are founders, joiners, or investors activate their ideas and build their ventures to drive global impact. At the Rock Center, HBS students join a dynamic community with access to leading Entrepreneurship faculty, curated programs, funding opportunities, and a network of knowledgeable and experienced experts. Many of our experts have been selected from the HBS global alumni network, of which more than 50 percent of graduates found new ventures. Across entrepreneurship programs, HBS is consistently the leader in graduate founder count, company count, capital raised, female founders, exits, and unicorns. This year the 17 EIRs, 15 of whom are HBS graduates, have founded, sold, or IPO’d successful ventures in the tech, consumer products, healthcare, biotech, media and entertainment industries, among others. Appointed by Srikant Datar, Dean of the Harvard Business School, for a four-year term, EIRs are available throughout the year to meet with MBA students one-on-one, facilitate Rock Center programs, and work with faculty on research and course development. This year’s Entrepreneurs-In-Residence are: This year’s VCAs are managing and general partners from some of the most successful venture capital firms in the world. They provide students with fundraising information and feedback on their ideas, business models, pitch presentations, and other core aspects of their venture. VCAs also play a critical role as judges in the annual Student New Venture Competition. This year’s Venture Capital Advisors and their current companies are:
The LIR program offers students the opportunity to meet on campus with skilled attorneys to discuss questions around incorporation strategies, founders’ agreements, intellectual property, starting a US-based company as a non-US citizen, and more. This year’s Lawyers-In-Residence are:
The Rock Center, founded in 2003 by legendary venture capitalist Arthur Rock, helps students and alumni create revolutionary and disruptive ventures in both the for-profit and social entrepreneurship sectors. Since 1947, the study of entrepreneurship has been a vital part of the HBS MBA Program, which includes a semester-long course in the first year Required Curriculum and numerous offerings in the second-year Elective Curriculum. HBS now offers 46 courses in entrepreneurship and has published over 2,500 cases on entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurial Management faculty unit is the largest at HBS with 46 faculty members and three visiting professors. |
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