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Elsa Sze
stressed, worried about how I would help a CEO make another five-million dollars that day. That’s not why I want to get up in the morning.” Appreciating the power of business and government together Elsa's work at the International... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
outcomes. Public interest in the illness could also drive funding toward breast cancer research. Breast Cancer Foundation NZ launched a media campaign to spotlight the disease, and Smyth’s mother gave her daughter permission to talk about... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
Pictured at right: Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022) is cofounder of Umbulizer Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Since its launch in 2012, the Venture Program at Harvard Innovation Labs has helped... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
received a boost from Russia’s launching of a space satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. This was a shock because Russia’s scientific prowess was not taken seriously at the time. The United States committed to putting a man on the moon in the next decade. Government View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
during financial crises because they are more dependent on bank capital to fund their growth and operations. They feel the swings up and down more acutely due to their reliance on the free flow of bank credit, according to a 1994 study by... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
one of the three most important issues facing managers and directors in 2006. He commented that, "Activist shareholders, led by hedge funds which today have aggregate assets of more than one trillion View Details
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David A. Frankel
return and also do seed rounds of a million dollars for core investments. Fund One ended up with 150 investments, approximately twenty of which were of the core variety with bigger checks. “We were off the... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
every once in a while. He still receives royalty checks in the millions of dollars each year from a $40,000 investment he made in a pet business, which he thought had no chance of succeeding. HBS professor Thomas Eisenmann, who moderated,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
this. HBS provided an opportunity to meet willing co-founders, gave us tools for prototyping and hard dollars to fund our work, and connected us with a laundry list of students, alumni, and professors to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
therapeutics; and disseminating findings in real time. Currently, the Kraft team is tracking ongoing trials for pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, multiple myeloma, and immune therapies. Finding Funding Fixes The Kraft team is also focused... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 05 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
5 Pieces of Advice for Applying to HBS
savings and instead utilize a combination of financial aid, scholarships, and loans to get themselves through the program. HBS has an incredible need-based financial aid program; over $36 million dollars is awarded to students each year.... View Details
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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting
Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The firm operates with a mission to deploy... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
Press). What does this mean? That governments and DFIs will not be able to ride to the rescue and prevent further degradation in outcomes. Expecting these international actors to fund everything is not realistic. Yet according to Sifma... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
iPhoto With billions of dollars spent on the development of precision medicine and related cancer research over the last decade, a recent partnership seeks a new way to bring these treatments to patients more quickly: through a better... View Details
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Prita Kumar
her first prototype. She followed that with a Rock Summer Fellowship for another $6000 to fund a summer in New York City working on the Booya idea. She came back to school and applied for a Dorm Room Fund... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
dollars in tuition revenue for fiscal 2021. Second, the pandemic forced Executive Education to pivot from its entirely in-person learning model to an all-virtual portfolio. Designing and implementing such a portfolio from the ground up... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Washington Area Community Investment Fund and founder of socially conscious sustainable underwear brand Manakii. More than 50 HBS alumni tuned in to the 90-minute virtual discussion, during which the panelists touched upon a number of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars required by his portfolio companies, he wondered how he should position his firm at this stage of development. Should Khosla develop a new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the Bertarelli Foundation. Cassava is... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an integrated model that addresses the... View Details