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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
2014) Angel investors could be a good fit if you can tap either friends and family or local institutional angels. Although most large banks might not be interested, there may be a small regional bank that likes the mission and wants to be... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
angel investor, and a senior advisor at Republic, an online investment platform, Aditya certainly had the necessary expertise to identify and foster promising founders. But she had to wonder, “Why me? Why now?” She recalls asking a... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
Rawdon relates by phone. “But we were united by our vision of what the company could be.” The two spent the following months pulling together a business plan and fund-raising pitch. “My one-year anniversary at Siebel was the same day we got a commitment from an View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
worked at a Roxbury-based housing development company. Willis has spent his career focused on urban development projects and continues to run his real estate consultancy firm in the Los Angeles area. From that first welcome party in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because of an abundance of existing venues,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
villages across ten countries and measure our results in each of those key intervention areas. We raised about $130 million from 64 angel investors in our first round of funding and have been on the ground for four years. Since then we’ve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
potential. “Each year we take only about five to twelve entrepreneurs per country,” says Ko. Once chosen, Endeavor provides “anything and everything” that they need to succeed. For example, if they need financing, Endeavor introduces them to its network of View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
up the punchline. “I said, ‘What are you doing for dinner?’” Katzenberg flew up from Los Angeles the next day. Over a three-hour dinner in Palo Alto, he pitched his idea to make Game of Thrones–quality programming for the mobile phone. To... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
scholarship support to more students from middle-income backgrounds. Following the Dean's visit to Palm Beach, he will travel to New York City on March 14 and Los Angeles on March 21 for evening events with alumni in those regions.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
and increased fuel costs, according to a 2011 Texas Transportation Institute study. And that's not just rush-hour mobs. A 2006 study of New York City and Los Angeles estimated that up to one-third of the traffic in those cities consisted... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
Florida on February 23 for "HBS in Palm Beach: Breakfast with Dean Datar." Then on March 14, the Dean will travel to New York City and on March 21 to Los Angeles for evening events with alumni in those regions. Additional international... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
like trust, authenticity, courage, and validation can go hand in hand with traditional business practices. She illustrates the origins of her values and the bases of her approach with stories from her career and her down-to-earth upbringing. Wisdom on Value Investing:... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
of angel investors in early 2009 and noticed, "I was the only woman in the room." She also observed that the companies under review had all-male leadership teams. She knew that the level of gender discrepancy among investors likely meant... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
mid-1990s, Larry Fondation, a community organizer in South Central Los Angeles and Tufano's Harvard College roommate, alerted Tufano to the plight of low-income wage earners who traditionally have been left out of the loop when it comes... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
2020, Hanazawa headed to her drafting table in her Los Angeles studio to study a medical gown given to her by a friend in the medical profession. She broke it down, rebuilt it, and put all the information—from material to construction—in... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs themselves. That’s the View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
range of new applications in food and medicine. (Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) Having cracked the problem of boosting oil production, engineering algae to make petrochemicals ranging from fertilizers to plastics ought to be relatively... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
father watches it, too.” On his DVR: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Modern Family, and all four Stanley Cup–winning games by the Los Angeles Kings that his daughters won’t delete (the result of Dick’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
event will include a presentation by an HBS faculty member. Watch for details. Atlanta* November 10, 2004 New York* November 30, 2004 Houston January (tbd), 2005 San Francisco* February 1, 2005 Los Angeles February 2, 2005 Chicago* March... View Details