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  • September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
  • Case

Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann Leamon
In fall 2008, a venture lender must decide whether to make a loan to Avid, a small but promising venture-backed life sciences firm. In reviewing her proposal, Cristy Barnes considers the company's characteristics and how they differ from a typical investment. At the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Health Industry; Health Industry
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  • 28 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life

real results. Equity Audits The first step is to understand where your organization needs to improve so that time and money can be put behind the right efforts. Elizabeth Zwart (MBA 2023) recommended companies “explore, and then address,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Profile

Henry McCance

Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the world’s top physicians specializing in its treatment. McCance was shocked by their advice. “They said, ‘Try three Advil a... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

tax policy. Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations Authors:Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Student Clubs | MBA

Club Government & Public Policy Club Greater China Club H HBS Show Health & Wellness Club Health Care Club Heard on the Street Hospitality & Travel Club I Impact Investing Club Infrastructure Club Investment... View Details
  • 2009
  • Case

Innovamedica: Innovation in an Emerging Market

By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama
Innovamedica was a medical start up with several state of the art devices such as a silicon substitute heart and other inventions. However, the founding scientist was struggling in attracting talent and fundraising and that had an impact on growth. View Details
Keywords: Biotech; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Start-up; Emergent Countries; Business Startups; Talent and Talent Management; Design; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Managerial Roles; Biotechnology Industry; Latin America; North and Central America
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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Expanding Horizons

his country, India, and more broadly, the world at large. “HBS changed my career direction and broadened my horizons,” he says. “I was going into the health care sector, but a summer in equity capital... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives such as household-level financing. INTO THE LIGHTNicole Poindexter (MBA 1997), cofounder and CEO of Energicity, is combating “energy poverty”--and improving View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

start at the HIL, are addressing critical issues at the intersection of business and society—from education to health care to climate change. The startups highlighted below are just a sampling of the quantity and quality of ideas... View Details
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

WE RISE

specifically on the sustainable consumer and consumer health sectors, areas in which, Rupp estimates, women make 80 to 85 percent of the purchasing decisions. Considering all those factors, she says, “it just makes business sense to have... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • Web

Demo Day | New Venture Competition

Freeman MediSimplify is building an AI assistant that advances health equity by enabling healthcare providers to efficiently create easy-to-understand patient communications. Omi View Details
  • 17 Oct 2022
  • Blog Post

6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

VP of Sustainability, and get involved with the annual Climate Symposium. Sustainability is more than Environmentalism HBS has been expanding its integration of social equity and environmental justice into the campus’ sustainability work,... View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Research | MBA

& Environment Initiative Business History Initiative Entrepreneurship (Rock Center) Health Care Initiative Institute for Business in Global Society Leadership Initiative Race, Gender & Equity Initiative... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2012
  • News

Fellowship Funder

communicate complex and at times dry subject matter clearly, simply, and with homespun charm,” recalls Mencoff, who went on to become a founding partner and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm with... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society

for entrepreneurship at HBS. Health Care Initiative With global health care spending greater than $8.5 trillion, there is no shortage of opportunities to make an impact in this demanding sector. Leadership... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Economics 1, no. 1 (December 2009) Abstract Much of empirical corporate finance focuses on sources of the demand for various forms of capital, not the supply. Recently, this has changed. Supply effects of equity and credit markets can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2021
  • News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, equity in health care, criminal and law enforcement, breaking down barriers... View Details
  • Web

Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog

strategy, corporate venture and innovation groups; (2) as strategy consults who will serve clients in these roles; (3) in private equity portfolio companies, as an operator. This class is also geared towards students who are interested in... View Details