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  • 02 Nov 2023
  • News

Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 02 Jul 2019
  • News

‘VC: An American History’ Review: The Seed Spreaders

  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Wide Horizon

Journal with the headline “Autism Research Should Be Financed Like Venture Capital,” arguing that the concentration of capital in autism research was sti ing innovation. “Researchers should be rewarded for stretching beyond conventional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Venturing Forth

Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

sector. He is also in the process of setting up the Center for Shared Ownership, which he has seeded with a $10 million donation. The nonprofit will develop best practices, set standards, and study the outcomes of equity grant programs as... View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated with the firm’s international... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

After the Fall

of Finance and Banking When searching out the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, Professor Robin Greenwood says one needs to look to the root of nearly every crisis: human behavior. With his focus on behavioral finance, Greenwood wears... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
  • 08 Jun 2021
  • News

New Funding for Female Founders

cruelty-free; its operations are carbon and plastic neutral, according to Prima. Saigal is co-founder and CEO of Kudos, a startup that has reengineered the disposable diaper for greater sustainability. Kudos announced the close of a $2.4 million View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Open Market

And while the role offered Howard the opportunity to apply her company-building skills, the company’s mission, “democratizing finance for all” was the main draw. “Knowing from my prior career experience just how many people don’t feel... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Finance; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Making History, Starting Over

At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 31 Mar 2011
  • News

Building an Online Swap Shop

on paper: ‘Yeah, sure, we’re just going to create demand here and supply here, and it’s all going to work out.’ Even now, we’re still dealing with big challenges.” Soon after launching in April 2010, thredUP received seed View Details
Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

We Rise

empathize or understand the pain point. We were often asked by the investors to talk to their wives or their administrative assistants.” Eventually, Barna and co-founder Katia Beauchamp (MBA 2010) closed a $1.4 million seed round that... View Details
Keywords: April White; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

with a few of my friends," Doerr told an audience of nearly one thousand HBS students who had gathered for his presentation, offered as part of the Social Enterprise Speaker Series. Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, Doerr has played a major role in planting the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and mobilized a group of HBS faculty... View Details
Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African continent, had controlled the... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 26 Feb 2021
  • News

Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 17 Oct 2019
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Venturing Away from Venture Capital

requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
  • 01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

the United States.” —Victor Fung (Ph.D. ’71), Group Chairman, Li & Fung Group “Brands need to learn to market with two ears and one mouth.” —David Kenny (MBA ’86), Managing Partner, VivaKi “In the 1980s, we told our companies, ‘Don’t focus on international.’ Now the... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Vision: Sound Science

genes to the inner ear with unprecedented efficiency.” The five-year-old company will likely apply for clinical testing permission for its lead therapy in the first half of 2022—a key hurdle in the notoriously lengthy process of advancing novel medicines from View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model

fellowships and professorships — by their donors. Current-use gifts to the HBS Fund provide an annual influx of funds that can be spent immediately. “As HBS has made strategic investments in recent years, gifts to the HBS Fund have provided an important source of View Details
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