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- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
there, but only one to two percent of startups end up getting funded by venture capital. There was a 2012 study done by a Harvard professor who pointed out that 75 percent of venture backed startups fail or fail to return capital to their... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s rights, View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
fraudulent fund, even though many suspected something was strange, since the low-risk fund had defied reality by dramatically outperforming the stock market several years in a row. “We were all aware of this hedge View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
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Eligibility & Rules - Alumni
financial returns. Ventures must have less than $2 million USD in revenue. Outside funding must be less than $2.5M total debt/invested equity capital. This amount includes money received through grants,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
investment success. “The initial funding was $7.5 million; one of our first investments was $250,000 in Intel.” Apple corps: “We invested early in Apple, purchasing 10 percent of the company in 1979 for $300,000. Serving on the board for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
experimentation. Financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure will endogenously choose to fund less radical innovations, while the most experimental projects (for whom the price of failure tolerance is too high) can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder share allocations. In addition we perform some counterfactual calculations that estimate the amount of money "left on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
change behavior? And usually it is a collaborative process. So for example, in myeloma, we had to start by attracting scientists to the field at the MMRF. If we had to do grant funding and get them in, but then we didn't understand the... View Details
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Chase Hall | About
Executive Education programs and, at times, provides overflow housing for some Executive Education participants. About the Name Chase Hall is one of seven buildings named for secretaries of the US Treasury at the suggestion of George F. Baker, the prominent banker who... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
at the Paris train station to save enough money to move to Brazil. "My father was an engineer, and my mother was an entrepreneur," says Jakurski, who, like his parents, has achieved remarkable success seizing business opportunities in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
(board member), the ELCA Fund for Leaders in Mission (leadership council), the Dartmouth College President's Leadership Council, and the Wake Forest Parents' Council, and is a guest lecturer at various business schools. He and his wife... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Capital Girish Nadkarni (MBA 1988) , Senior Advisor, OCGI Climate Investments Jayant Sinha (MBA 1992) , Member of the Indian Parliament and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance Dan Stephens Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company What View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
than $1,500,000 USD Alumni applicant: may not have raised more than $2,500,000 USD These amounts include money received through grants, awards, and other funding sources. Invested capital is defined as View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
Wrap-Up Private Equity: Secondaries Featured Exercises Classify attributes of investment opportunities Rank deals by their characteristics 6-7 hrs Module 3 Hedge Funds Learn key elements of hedge funds, including fee structure and sources... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
2021, the firm had 36 employees and $18 billion in assets. That year, its flagship small-company fund outperformed 99 percent of competitors. “An important question for organizations is how to avoid group thinking in teams. ” As Brown... View Details
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
definition of capitalism. Strategy for Philanthropic Organizations Foundations have traditionally focused on doing good by providing funding to worthy social enterprises. Instead, foundations should set the higher goal of creating social... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
Rise Fund CEO Bill McGlashan and Partner, Maya Chorengel have partnered with The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consultancy, to develop an evidence-based methodology for quantifying the impact of prospective Rise investments. Bridgespan’s... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
created its own closed-end investment company, the Lehman Corporation, which traded its own stocks and bonds on the New York Stock Exchange. “The management of someone elses [sic] money is a great responsibility under any conditions,”... View Details