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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
regions, there are only a handful of leading groups. When two of these work together, the valuation at which the company will be financed may fall. But on the basis of extensive evidence, the benefits to society from widespread venture... View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the organization approaches View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship wasn’t exactly a household word... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
and only disposable baby diaper to have earned the cotton natural seal from Cotton Inc. for having 100 percent cotton touching the baby’s skin instead of plastic. And San Francisco-based HumanFirst raised $12 million in new financing led... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
Harris on the steps of Harlem's St. Charles Borromeo Church On a summer day in 1983, Carla Ann Harris (MBA ’87) stood before an audience of East Germans in a Leipzig church. Well before the Berlin Wall came down, Harris and other members of the Radcliffe Choral Society... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- News
Home Grown
Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee wellness (they want their people to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
brought back 60 or 70 percent of what I studied, but there was so much. In all honesty, I probably brought back only 40 percent, but it was enough, and it made me very rich." One final payoff from AMP for Parija: it put him in touch with his creative side. Now he is... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Startups Are Raking in VC Funds
New data shows that HBS alumni are leading the b-school pack in raising venture capital to fund their startups, according to an article on the website Business Because. According to data compiled by PitchBook, 1,069 HBS MBAs have founded 961 companies and raised $22.4... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career of Peter Brooke, who has been called “the Johnny Appleseed of venture capital”... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
have facilitated nearly $4 trillion in financing for fossil fuels and from it generated more than $17 billion in fees, according to Bloomberg. But many consumers, even of the environmentally conscious variety, are not in the habit of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
years, including health care and consumer goods," he says. "If we don't think of new ways to finance and save for school today, we're going to be in a world of hurt 15 years from now." —Julia Hanna View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
he founded in 1956. Last November, Brigham was among the first to be elected to the Hall of Fame of Financial Executives International, a professional organization for CFOs and senior finance executives where he has been a member for 45... View Details