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- 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 View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
was shocked by their advice. “They said, ‘Try three Advil a day. It might help. There are a few FDA-approved drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, and they won’t help,’” he recalls. McCance, a venture- capital pioneer with Greylock Partners, had spent 40 years as eyewitness... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
superpower: Innovation. In this episode of Skydeck, we’re kicking off a three-part series called “Out of the Valley.” It will focus on the work of Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010), a venture capitalist and author of the book, Out-Innovate: How... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Orange County. UK Founders Find a Way Forward in Uncertain Times More than 120 HBS alumni from across the UK gathered in London on January 10 for a candid conversation on “Building and Scaling Tech Ventures... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
study that directly compares actual downloads of music files with store sales of CDs, covering the last half of 2002. “While downloads occurred on a vast scale during this period — 3 million simultaneous users shared 500 million files on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
grew rapidly during the ’90s and managed to weather the dot-com bust. Eager for new challenges, Meakem sold the company last year for nearly $500 million and has embarked on a career in venture capital and politics. Committed to helping... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
at Harvard designed to foster student startups. In 2021, the company was a finalist in the HBS New Venture Competition’s social enterprise track and participated in the Harvard i-lab’s Venture Program, where... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS Selected from more than 90 worldwide entries, 12 winning regional teams will travel back to campus on April 25 to compete in the the 2nd annual Alumni New Venture Contest finals. The contest, hosted... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
lending her expertise to an initiative aimed at making the city a hub of technological innovation. From left: Alex Meyer (MBA 2005) with Penny Pritzker Pritzker was the latest guest speaker of the HBSCC Entrepreneurship Council, which... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
Intel, Netscape, Oracle, Apple, and Hewlett-Packard, among other technology firms. Some 35 high tech, venture capital, and investment management companies opened their doors to the eighty students on the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
chronicles the meteoric rise and equally fiery fall of Iridium, Motorola’s spin-off venture into global wireless communications. Although the technology was literally “rocket science,” involving the launch... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Innovation Lab opens on Western Avenue. (Announced last October, the i-lab will serve as a hub for innovation and collaboration across Harvard and beyond.) In the classroom, Eisenmann’s new course, Launching Technology View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
Name: Kevin Przybocki (MBA ’91), VP, Sales & Marketing Company: Anué Systems (founded 2002) Location: Austin, Texas Web: www.anuesystems.com Przybocki Elevator pitch: Anué Systems is a technology leader in next-generation data... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
prominent LBO firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice -- as well as $10,000 in cash and in-kind professional services worth $10,000. The judges for the final competition included a number of HBS graduates and represented an array of top venture... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Wingspanbank was created completely outside the Bank One structure. From a consumer's point of view, there is no visible relationship between the two banks. While there is some pooling of technology and personnel, economies of View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres In classic engineer fashion, Ernesto Humpierres (MBA 2011) has always enjoyed building systems, whether it’s a Lego set with his twins or an e-commerce side hustle with their mother, Sarah Scott... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
competitor acquired the company’s technology and Novak-ovich was back at HBS, this time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). “My primary charter was to help students who were interested in starting businesses upon graduation,” says... View Details