Capital Investments - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Nov 2014
News

The Power of Yes

money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

(Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Access to credit is critical to... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

Profile

Max Wibaux

other influences, Max has been "led organically toward early-stage venture capital and growth equity in the food and beverage space," a functional transition that would allow him to combine his previous experience with freshly... View Details

Keywords: CPG

01 Jun 2016
News

Rethinking Housing in the Motor City

partner of Rheal Capital Management, a New York-based investment management firm. Among its first investments was a codevelopment deal for a mixed-use project in Detroit’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

Samuel L. Hayes, III (MBA '61, DBA '66), the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Emeritus, is a widely recognized authority on capital markets, Wall Street, and the corporate interface with the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Oct 2016
News

Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS

McCance is also a pioneer in health care. He cofounded the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, a nonprofit that takes a venture capital approach to finding a cure for the disease, with which his wife, Allison, was diagnosed in her late 50s. McCance... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

influx of foreign capital helped finance investments in new technology, one might also conclude that U.S. employees and consumers benefited to a significant degree at the expense of foreign investors. This... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

higher risk projects and new ventures. This has a domino effect on the venture capital providers and subsequently on the angel investor community. Each group is concerned that there will not be an investor willing to fund or buy into a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

principal at Troy, a venture capital firm investing in what we believe are the most transformational technology companies. We do this across the spectrum––from our early-stage seed and Series A fund all the... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

assets. “Our leadership understands that you can bring innovation from the private sector and capital markets to solve the world’s most difficult challenges,” says Oteh. She describes visiting World Bank projects in India that mitigate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

significant investment in the area. At Kaiser Permanente, for instance, 25 percent of annual capital spending is invested in IT, and in the private sector, 102 telemedicine... View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

01 Dec 2015
News

Encouraging Women Leaders

Veronica Serra (MBA 1997) In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, the founder of Pacific Investments, a private equity firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, where she... View Details

01 May 2013
News

Thompson Dean, MBA 1984

how I look at problems, which has been really helpful to me in my investing career,” says Dean, who cofounded the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in 2005 after 20 years with DLJ Merchant Banking... View Details

Gil Addo

The Huffington Post named RubiconMD one of the “Five Companies Defining the Future of Healthcare” and, in 2020, AllianceBernstein ranked RubiconMD number 12 on its list of the top 25 private companies disrupting healthcare. The company raised over $40 million in View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

01 Feb 2021
News

Locally Grown

Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in the... View Details

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Learning Curve

Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to View Details

Profile

Mina Kazanlieva

reunited with her family, who won the lottery for U.S. green cards and also moved to Princeton, NJ. Mina's interest in investing led her to Goldman Sachs, where she worked in the health-care sector, and Centerbridge Partners, where she... View Details

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

The firm has also innovated in sourcing capital from a variety of limited partners. Blackstone's culture of centralized investment processes and risk management coupled with entrepreneurial leadership... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2013
News

Alumni Books

how it works); illuminates the challenges of bringing billions of dollars in private capital to bear on social problems; identifies smart public policies that promote social innovation; and recommends specific View Details

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

training, and college and career prep programs. Over the past two years, she also worked as an investment associate at ICA Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that uses View Details

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