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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
invest and when to starve ideas—when to figure out that it’s time to double down and when it’s time to pull back on something,” she says. “But you also have to plant seeds along the way so you can grow them... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
brought its own challenges. Ginseng is a notoriously labor-intensive crop: Plants can take four to five years to mature, all of the seeds are picked by hand, and most of the harvesting is manual. All machinery is customized from other... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
to Lead" and sponsored by the student-run Entrepreneurship Club, offered a fresh look at today's changing entrepreneurial environment. Guy Kawasaki, founder and CEO of the venture-capital investment bank Garage.com, kicked off the October... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Building Capacity in the Social Sector
"It's nice to seed growth like this. All I've really done is to start the plant." — Ferdinand Thun (MBA 1960) Looking back over the two-decade history of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), former director Laura Moon says "alumni... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
protagonist Ryland Utlaut (the group’s president) and ten other farmers, who put together seed money of $25,000 in 2002 to launch the project. A feasibility study shows that an ethanol plant capable of producing 40 million gallons a year... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
partner in the business, not just an employee. I knew that if my father didn’t share my vision I would have to go out and maybe start something on my own.” Seeding the future: “I launched one of the first angel View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
Last year, Echoing Green, which invests in social entrepreneurs, chose SHE as one of the most innovative social change organizations worldwide, providing it with seed money and technical support. It has been... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
Talk to Tony O. Elumelu (AMP 166, 2004) for more than a few minutes and you are sure to hear about “Africapitalism.” The Nigerian businessman and philanthropist coined the term in 2010 to describe the investment strategy that has shaped... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African continent, had controlled the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... 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, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
traditional banks to one where non-bank financial intermediaries played a much more important role,” he says. These less regulated intermediaries, which included money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks, relied heavily on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
HBS alumni in New York to participate in a voluntary outreach program to help local nonprofit institutions. Bhargava and Misra, who had found early success as an investment executive and founder or three tech startups, quickly became good... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
conversion rate, Means says. The company also raised $1.5 million in seed funding—all without spending a single dollar on marketing. Calley Means and Leslie Voorhees (both MBA 2015). (photos courtesy of Anomalie) The Question: Anomalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
close to home. Today, 75 percent of diners use Bookalokal in their own city, while the remaining 25 percent use it abroad. From Brussels, Bookalokal has grown organically, now including thousands of users and 300-plus hosts in more than 20 countries. The company closed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
their early stages with the help of gifts of all sizes to the HBS Fund. “In business, venture capital or R&D budgets seed the most promising new ideas,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “In academia, where endowments are generally restricted to... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
are the same and no two people are the same,” Farrington says. “Adapting to that and finding the best way to make a company grow, make it prosper and make it be something sustainable, that’s the wonderful part of being a venture capitalist.” Among the firms many... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Results and Recognition
served as Reunion Participation Chair for his 20th Reunion, which set a record with 74 percent of the class making a gift. Donor Spotlights David Ott (MBA 1992) Investor David Ott understands the role that seed capital can play in taking... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik... View Details