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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
fellowships and professorships — by their donors. Current-use gifts to the HBS Fund provide an annual influx of funds that can be spent immediately. “As HBS has made strategic investments in recent years, gifts to the HBS Fund have provided an important source of View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
without interactive curricula, the well-meaning movement may backfire. “Our fear is that if the schools teach entrepreneurship just as another typical subject, the kids rote learn to get high marks in the examination and that will do very little good to the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
rather the weather. Even today, Gandhi shivers a little when he talks about “crossing that darn bridge in the middle of winter.” Just as bracing to him, however, was the HBS attitude of being able to do anything you set your mind to. Although Gandhi drew on his View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
the traction can sometimes create a blind spot and put your company at serious risk. Back in 2018, when we raised our first round of seed funding, we learned this the hard way. We had great traction and a lot of venture capital firms... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Your Fullest Self
to hide. She began wearing wigs and extensions for the convenience and versatility they offered, not as a necessity. That experience was the seed for what inspired her to leave a secure position at Shell and launch Upgrade, an online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Sunny Side
Awesome, there’s a tribe for you. Want to drive a pink Lamborghini? Cool, knock yourself out.” Berardi believes Miami’s infectious energy gives ANIMO a competitive advantage in sourcing deals in which it can make big bets very early, investing at the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and mobilized a group of HBS faculty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
McLeod. “The type of people you are seeing on Hinge are really people who you actually want to date,” he says of the app, which matches young professionals with other young professionals and was originally seeded with McLeod’s single... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
believe are the most transformational technology companies. We do this across the spectrum––from our early-stage seed and Series A fund all the way through our two later-stage vehicles. We are only three years old and so my role is not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
1992) Adams Street Partners Paralysis by Analysis The opportunity I most remember passing on was a seed round in Ola, the leading taxi/ride-sharing company in India. The mistake I made was that I sized the market statically and failed to... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
midwest and central us HBS Club of Chicago Mickey Freeman, MBA 1993 CEO Bradley Greenwald, MBA 1990 Chairman and founder Education Funding Partners public school funding new england HBS Association of Boston Stephen Kahn, MBA 1978 Sr. VP and CFO TrophoMax View Details
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
Alumna-Led Reproductive Health Startup Raises $4.7 Million
Victoria Thain Gioia (MBA 2015) Photo courtesy Perelel A recent article in Forbes reports that reproductive health startup Perelel, cofounded by Victoria Thain Gioia (MBA 2015), has raised a $4.7 million seed round led by Unilever... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
financing now, this is the second fund. You closed the first one in 2013, launched the second in 2017, and you started with seed funding. And that seems to reflect this kind of movement up the ladder that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
while helping data analysis providers understand how to create output that end users will value. Culture.com: How the Best Startups Make It Happen by Robert Stringer (MBA 1966) Crimson Seed Capital Publishing When entrepreneurs seek... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
billion in equity financing in 2017, while their Silicon Alley cousins raised $1.5 billion, or 15 percent more. (CB Insights was in the first FIL graduating class.) The total number of equity financings was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
have a long break-in period: I got out of the Navy on a Thursday before Memorial Day. A week from that Monday we had moved to Boston, and I had two sections of Finance for the summer session.” A native of West Virginia, Charlie Williams... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
investments from other Boston companies, including an institutional seed round led by [venture firm] Accomplice. With all the capital, we want to perfect the online gifting experience. Our goal is to redefine expectations for what can fit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
scuttled by. The factory, its walls covered with union stickers and pro-worker graffiti, contained the seeds for change. Any practical businessman, however, could see that despite the story’s romance, reviving Jeannette was an equation... View Details