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- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
fund raising to create a similar campaign that's focused on preventing the use of opioids. Can you just talk a little bit about the meth campaign and how you're going to transition that to preventing the use... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
CEO, Orbital ATK When Thompson launched Orbital in 1982, it became the first corporate space contractor in nearly 30 years. (courtesy Orbital ATK) David Thompson (MBA 1981) was working at NASA in the late 1970s when the agency’s funding... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
again with respect to some of the issues raised by China.” Innovation and continuous improvement are the keys to moving to a stronger competitive position, he says. “We changed more than the Japanese did. The Chinese are more... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
concludes by examining how private equity investors raise funds and how they successfully manage their private equity firms. This text is an excellent resource for investment bankers and consultants as well... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
month, reviewing the numbers. I learned a lot about medicine that way. Wasn't your husband also in the health-care industry at the time? Yes. Under a push for funding from President Nixon, there had started to be more research and... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
numbers all day?’” Anderson recalls. She switched her focus to social entrepreneurship, working as an associate and then a project manager at New Profit, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit, venture philanthropy fund. While there, she helped create the Pathways Fund, a $50... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
poverty," she says, "I realize how incredibly rich I am." She and her husband also support the care of their son Bobby's siblings in Nepal, and Shuster-Haynes is helping raise funds to build a pediatric wing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
reactions to the tragedy and to share emotional support. Food and clothing drives were organized on campus, and the School set up a matching fund for contributions made by students, faculty, and staff to the American Red Cross Liberty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
circle: “The sacrifices my parents made for my education were truly unbelievable, which is why I feel an obligation to pay it forward through different scholarships, including my fellowship fund at HBS.” Back to top Robert B. Wilson (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
which raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital only to get wiped out in the dotcom bust. But entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were making expensive bets well before Silicon Valley existed, says Alex Lazarow. Alex... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
LSP core team. Explains Pisano, “The purpose of this initiative is to create some mechanisms for collaboration and integration across disciplines and among faculty, as well as to connect with outside constituencies.” In this way, the LSP, which is View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
embarked on a career as a successful venture capitalist. Then, in 1980, the role of entrepreneurship at HBS changed dramatically with the appointment of Dean John H. McArthur. In one of his first acts as Dean, McArthur elevated the status of entrepreneurship as a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
raising an initial round of financing from its own members to fund future expansion. BYO Bags Lead to Indulgences What’s in Assistant Professor Uma Karmarkar’s grocery bags? It may depend on if she’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
convertible preferred stock? Why do they stage the commitment of capital? Why do they intervene and try to be helpful—or in some cases, screw things up? “So our thinking got sharper. Yes, from whom you raise money can be as important as... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Boveri (now ABB) and Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) in Switzerland; Degussa-Hüls in Germany; Bombardier in Canada; and Bendix, Bond International Gold, Carter Hawley Hale, Ecolab, General Cinema, Growth Fund of America, Harcourt General, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to invest all that money? Typically we’ll invest a new fund over a three-year period, and then go out and raise our next fund. Accel IX, which we started investing in January 2005, is very much focused on... View Details