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- 01 Feb 1999
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NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
two hundred young HBS alumni face-to-face with experienced "angels" (backers willing to forgo much of the business involvement and control that traditional venture capitalists typically demand). The sold-out event, which drew participants... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
After sixteen years at the editorial helm, Navasky became the magazine’s owner in 1994 thanks to a $1 million transaction largely funded by supporters including Paul Newman and E.L. Doctorow. As The Nation’s publisher, he then turned to a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
fellow Dan Katzir (MBA '91), director of The Broad Foundation, a Los Angeles–based venture philanthropy organization that funds innovative efforts to improve governance,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which was a private equity fund set up by the US government, to help... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
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A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
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Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
educating leaders who make a difference in the world. As I have said before, business is a powerful force for good in society. As one example: a recent Pitchbook survey found that between 2014 and 2024, nearly 1,900 HBS alumni founded companies View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Show Me The Money — Or Not
completely to be expected.” The $25,000 prize for the winner of the business venture track is funded through the generosity of Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice, in honor of Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Peter... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Advancing Racial Equity
of our community to be their best self,” notes Dean Srikant Datar. The School has earmarked $25 million over the next decade to advance racial equity and diversity at HBS and in the world. As always, the HBS Fund will play an important... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
going to the annual dinner." In addition, says Grossman, there's growing pressure from the government and other funders for "outcome-based" funding -- an approach based on nonprofits achieving certain goals. "It comes down to people... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2000
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Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
will climb Mt. Fuji along with medical, research, and public-policy personnel in a venture sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund of San Francisco. The climb has been organized to raise awareness and View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 15 Apr 2025
- News
Mothers of Invention
VC Backed Moms founders Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017), and Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) Illustration by John Ritter Early in her first pregnancy, having just launched the venture she cofounded, Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017) wondered... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over time?” A123 raised $378 million... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Kaplan Named Senior Associate Dean
Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm. He is the author of several case studies, articles, and the book What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Developing Insightful Global Leaders
venture capital in Israel, and in August will add China to its portfolio of new function-driven Senior Executive Leadership Programs. The global centers and offices established by HBS around the world over the past 20 years are the nexus... View Details
- 24 Oct 2016
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Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS
Allison McCance Family Senior Fellow of Business Administration at HBS. Funded by Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and family, the endowed position was established in 2016 to support a faculty member who is working at the intersection of business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
a lot of strife,” Kordestani says. “We decided to make the most of this crisis and change everything that needed to be changed, all in one go.” Susan Morris watches her son enjoy a lollipop from her shop in Gbarnga, Liberia, which she opened with View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio
Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) and Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985) (photo by Kathryn Elsesser) Don't let its name fool you: the Women's Venture Capital Fund is about profitability, and not social activism. Monica... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2003
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Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
(MBA ’84), chair, HBSA/NC; Toni Rembe Rock; Rock; Dean Clark; Ann Peckenpaugh (MBA ’80), HBSA/NC Executive Committee; Nelson; and HBS professor Howard Stevenson. Legendary venture capitalist Arthur Rock (MBA ’51) has made an unprecedented... View Details