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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Station, and even the White House. Like most family businesses, there are plenty of stories in the Kirlin Company’s history, including Brownell’s own. After graduating from HBS, she and her husband, HBS classmate Stephen Brownell, moved to Los View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
cohosted by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS, the HBS Alumni Angels of London, and the HBS Club of London. The conversation was led by Jeffrey Rayport, senior lecturer in the Entrepreneur Management Unit at HBS, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding talent.” Dan Morrell: In the wake of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, Willie Woods (MBA 1993) was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget by Marty Schultz (OPM 31, 2002) Self-published Marty Schultz is a bootstrapping expert: he's bootstrapped five highly successful companies in his career. He is a mentor to entrepreneurs, an View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
the most is my lead class that Nitin Nohria actually taught, because every day is about lead. How do I manage-- in the case of The Lego Movie, we actually have 1,000 people working on the movie in all different parts of the world from Los View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
loss of cohesiveness and shared purpose. “We were one big family to start with,” he recalls, “but when we opened a plant in Los Angeles we began to talk about how to sustain the sense of pride and the culture that we had begun to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the potential of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). But over time, BRT’s potential as a first-class, environmentally sound transit mode was forgotten. It was not until the late 1990s that BRT was “rediscovered” in Curitiba, Brazil, as part of the search by the City of Los View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
funds or via angel networks, have to recognize that this is a real opportunity to make money,” Dorsen says. The fund is making progress on that front. The Women’s Venture Capital Fund investors were once predominantly women. Now almost 50... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
centers. We've raised $500,000 through private angels and grants from the government of India and the NIH in the United States. What's been an important move that you've made? Building the core team has been critical because diabetes is... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of raising money. Morrell: Without an influx of VC... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
in the apparel industry. The afternoon featured a presentation by William A. Sahlman, Dimitri V. d'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, titled "Deals-Lessons I Have LearnedÉ Confessions of an Angel Investor,"... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their initial infusion of cash from various View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Detroit to Los Angeles in 1972, adds that the current stagnation can also be attributed to "a lack of hits" on the part of the major labels and increased competition for the consumer entertainment dollar. In 1996, efforts by big stars... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
constellations to ground station networks of satellite dishes, to new thrusters on satellites to asteroid mining,” he says. Joe Landon sees it, too. In addition to his work at Planetary Resources, Landon is chair of the Space Angels... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
“You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” Add it all up and you have an early-stage funding problem, with marine-energy projects proving too capital-intensive for venture capitalists and too risky for private equity. “There are increasing... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
with a $50 million government-backed fund that saw one of the country's first exits in 2011—an ISP called Link.net. That was one of an accumulation of tipping points, notes Ismail. "In 2012, 2013, we started getting the first attempts at incubators, accelerators, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
environment for CEOs, dedicated to improving the quality and profitability of their life and enterprise, through shared experiences and personal growth. Today, the CEO Clubs is a worldwide phenomenon with new chapters springing up from New York to Los View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
set in 1920s South Carolina, provide disturbing images of Jim Crow at work. And the stand-alone story, “Morocco,” will convince readers that travel can help heal the deepest of wounds. Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era: How Angel... View Details