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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
venture-capital firms. “Having the Endeavor seal of approval carries a lot of weight with investor groups,” Ko explains. In addition, Endeavor has created partnerships with companies like The Boston Consulting Group, Citibank, Ernst &... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
estimated $6 trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Ron DeShay (OPM 53, 2019), CEO and founder of World of Dreams Entertainment (WODE) Group, launched “A Better World Project.” The recent incidents “heightened tensions around racism, police brutality, and the injustices Black people continue to View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
MICHAEL KAPLAN (left, with brother and partner Nicholas) reflects on lessons learned and looks ahead to future growth. Michael Kaplan (MBA ’02) had a great idea for a start-up: a fashionable apparel company catering to plus-size women. But when an View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Brigham Young, thinking that I should give back. Years later, I came out of my experience at Harvard empowered and determined to give back.” That thinking reshaped Frey’s career path, and, after a brief return to California, he left Cisco... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
But it wasn't long before one firm violated that understanding, and to avoid being put at a competitive disadvantage, everybody else began ignoring the recommendations too. From that experience and others, I know that intra-industry trust... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
proud of the turbulence of our own making and the actions we took out of despair. This book sets out to change that. Belsky draws on his experiences building Behance, selling it, and then working as an View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Not-for-profits like Water Aid and the Bill Gates Foundation, others in the country. The idea of starting the India Sanitation Coalition emerged from that. Because what was needed was a platform where everyone could share their experiences, and those View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Like many emerging-market countries, Brazil can seem about as appealing to potential investors as a midnight swim up the Amazon. But in 1983, André Jakurski and three partners decided to take the plunge anyway. With $500,000 in equity... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
launching a paid virtual internship experience and debuting “office hours” with investors for Black women founders. “I asked the founders in the Alliance, ‘What do you need now?’ ” Feinzaig says. “It was the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A “company” with no telephone,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
connectivity) at a “Little India” just outside town limits. At the end of a six-month trial, the experiment was declared a success. “We’re very proud to have been at the forefront of offshoring,” says Raju, who sees his company’s growth... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
was very different when you started your first business in 2000. And I wonder if you can talk about your career evolution—how your professional experience sort of offered you a perspective on the ideas that you elaborate on in the book?... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone attempted to make a living by getting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en masse into PR and View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
business. “I knew it was a great fit for me,” he says. During the fifteen years he has worked at Merrill, O’Neal has proved himself again and again, moving from various positions in different divisions of the firm — financial services, global capital markets, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
leadership, told us, “The few people on the Lehman board who actually had relevant experience were kind of like an all-star team from the 1980s back for an old-timers game in which they weren’t even up on the new rules and equipment. Fuld... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
Aravaipa Ventures, a fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in Colorado. Fenwick-Smith had private equity know-how but had never been involved in creating venture funds. It was that lack of direct experience... View Details
Keywords: April White