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- 24 Apr 2014
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Crowdfunding capital for small business
involved in several startups and knew how difficult it was for small businesses to get funding. McGee passed away in November 2015. A number of crowdfunding platforms had appeared, but none was really set up to serve small businesses,” he... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
2014, York Street Partners will launch its asset management platform, and with it private equity, real estate, and fixed income funds—none of which currently exist in the Sri Lankan market. Future plans include exploring a venture capital fund and a crowd funding View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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HBX: Expanding Our Reach
intended to enhance rather than compete with or substitute for current offerings. Finally, the platform will be built on a robust and self-sustaining economic model. “We are committed to leveraging View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
sessions via video calls, as well as peer support. We’ve also provided health care professionals with widely unavailable vitamins and minerals, including vitamins C and D, to bolster their immunity. And through platforms like Zoom, we... View Details
- 12 Dec 2015
- News
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy
guests with African-American names are about 16 percent less likely to have their reservations accepted. As Luca told the Washington Post: “Nobody at Airbnb was thinking to themselves, ‘let’s build a platform where we could discriminate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Research Brief: Pocket Change
are big differences,” says Pons, who mined what is believed to be one of the most comprehensive data sets of political contributions made through online fundraising platforms such as ActBlue (Democrat) and WinRed (Republican) and reported... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Student turns family health crisis into online solution
CareSolver, is an online health care service platform that offers families customized care guides as well as educational material and resources. The goal is to help caregivers get better care for their aging loved ones at a lower cost.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
representatives in support of the successful campaign for marriage equality in New York State. Our social media campaigns have reached 14 million people, and we've won awards for the innovative advocacy technology we've created and built.... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
ever seen. By offering 10 years of policy certainty, the IRA encourages technology innovators to form companies and it reassures larger corporates to be their buyers. So as early-stage investors in clean energy, electrified... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years
speak with the professor and with each other. In 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX—an innovative platform that aimed to replicate the unique pedagogy and intensity of an HBS on-campus classroom. Five years and one name change... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
date—maybe 2002? Before its first funding round, in any case. I told Reed Hastings that everyone would be streaming video in a year or two, so why set up this huge infrastructure around DVDs? He said, “They’re not ready for streaming yet. We will be ready when the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
platform he launched in 2007. Alison’s first six courses were among the first MOOCs—massive open online courses—to take advantage of the reach of the internet, debuting even before the term was coined. Now, 14 years later, Alison offers... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
cofounder and CEO of OCOchem, a Washington-based company developing and scaling technology to convert carbon dioxide into formic acid, a widely used chemical. We’ve built a device that converts carbon dioxide and water, using electricity... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
play out, the current wave of technologies will be subsumed by the next—just as Blockbuster was eaten by at-home DVDs, which were in turn devoured by on-demand video, Soares says. Platforms that license... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
technology is one. In the last five years, we've made amazing progress, and technology is like air on campus — it's everywhere, from prematriculation modules to the course View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
at HBS, Ng is exploring media investing or starting a media company, furthering an interest that began with documentary filmmaking in college. “I’d love to start a company that utilizes media and technology to change the way people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Chirchirillo was able to establish a foothold in China. That import model, however, was only intended to be an interim strategy to build a global capability, and in 2008, Chirchirillo purchased a precision metal-stamping company in McHenry, Illinois. “I view that... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
Baker Foundation Professor, Emeritus William A. Sahlman presented the Entrepreneurship Award to Michael Martin (MBA 2015), founder and CEO of RapidSOS, an advanced emergency technology company that powers safety, security, health, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
One and Revolution Money, Gregg shifted to B2B with a move to FleetCor, a provider of fuel cards and business-payment products, before becoming CEO in 2017 of RoadSync, a digital payment platform targeting drivers, warehouses, freight... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
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Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
beginning to be recognized as a leader in the delivery of electronic information to the desktops of students and faculty. Do you agree with those who predict the decline of libraries as technology proliferates? No, not at all. Rather, the... View Details