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- 04 Mar 2019
- News
The Anti-Shark Tank
In 2018, female founders received only 2.2 percent of the $130 billion venture capital pie, according to PitchBook; despite that fact, Lisa Blau (MBA 2003) and Amanda Eilian (MBA 2006) are both veterans of the startup world, having... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria
explains Nwuneli. AACE’s product line includes spices, spreads, sauces, and other foods grown in Nigeria. The company is one of two ventures managed by the couple’s investment firm, Sahel Capital. The other is the $100 million View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Finding a cure so that others may benefit
In 1986, Joe O’Donnell (AB 1967, MBA 1971) and his wife, Kathy, founded the Joey Fund in memory of their son, who died as a result of cystic fibrosis. O’Donnell has raised millions to battle the disease, and when asked to help the Cystic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
Concurrently, Lewis and I, plus several others, formed the first U.S.-style venture fund in Asia, in Hong Kong, with Lewis as the working M.D., to do startup/early stage investments — usually the transfer of... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
The Life Lab will house approximately 20 ventures at a time with high-potential ventures founded and led by Harvard faculty, alumni, students and postdoctoral scholars. View Details
- 16 Sep 2024
- News
Life Preserver
funding for research into cryopreservation and connect scientists in the field. After leaving the Alliance, he founded two venture capital–backed, public benefit corporations—Ossium Health, a bone marrow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Salute Bill Sahlman
have launched the William A. Sahlman Fund for Entrepreneurship—an endowment that will support the teaching, study, and cultivation of entrepreneurship at HBS and Harvard. “Bill’s impact as a teacher, mentor, case writer, advisor, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
Armed Services can add to—and gain from—the HBS experience. To encourage more veterans to apply to HBS, he recently funded an MBA pilot program that waives the application fee for anyone who has served in the US military. “Our military... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
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 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
solve your water problem, but only if you have abundant energy. Nordan believes the current financing system for start-ups — angel to venture investors, followed by a public offering — doesn’t work well for green tech, which takes more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
morning known as “Super Saturday,” 63 student teams present these and other ideas in the Aldrich classrooms where other people’s ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges — a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
Pictured at right: Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022) is cofounder of Umbulizer Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Since its launch in 2012, the Venture Program at Harvard... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
Birchbox, a beauty product subscription box service that has grown to more than 1 million subscribers. “We started raising funds and suddenly we were in rooms where there were no people who looked like us,” said Barna, now the first... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
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 May 2013
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Bill Bowes has been a force in the US venture capital industry for more than 50 years. As a founder of the Silicon Valley–based U.S. Venture Partners, he helped... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Mark Shuttleworth, founder, Here Be Dragons Venture Capital and Thawte Consulting; Papa Madiaw Ndiaye, director, AIG-African Infrastructure Fund “For Africans, the word ‘international’ must begin to include... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
destroyed several square miles of the city feeds directly into the energy and vision required to start a new business, he said. (A hub for early-stage ventures located in the city’s Merchandise Mart is named 1871 for just that reason.)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
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 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
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