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- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
for everything from market research to packaging. What do you hope the book will do for would-be entrepreneurs? I’d like it to give them confidence to start their ventures with a playbook so that the path is not as lonely or ambiguous.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs
university,” he offers, “is not only to turn out specialists but also to educate men and women who can discover connections between different fields of knowledge, and build those synergies into businesses with a powerful positive impact.” In his View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
founder and CEO of Social Finance, a Boston-based nonprofit established in January to introduce SIBs to the United States. A companion organization with the same name is based in London. With governments here and abroad strapped for cash and View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
Leadership and Innovation. “AJ did a phenomenal job of helping us see the connection between support of the HBS Fund and the priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
philanthropies New Profit and NewSchools Venture Fund. Harvard Business Review also served as a springboard for new ideas. In the March–April 1997 issue, MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
Fran Seegull by Jill Radsken Fran Seegull is a woman on a mission, and it started with a paper she wrote at Harvard Business School. A lifelong passion for philanthropy brought Seegull (MBA 1998) to HBS, to see if she could mobilize the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
findings from the 1,020 responses: philanthropy is “extremely” or “very” important to more than 63 percent of respondents; a sense of responsibility is the primary motivation (84 percent); and almost half of the survey’s participants... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
needed funding will be used to improve facilities. On the national level, I cofounded TechNet, a policy network to improve public education, and the New Schools Venture Fund, a venture View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Partner U.S. Venture Partners Bowes Jr. After founding U.S. Venture Partners in San Francisco in 1981, Bill Bowes helped shape companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, Applied Biosystems, and Ross... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
pathway to prosperity. STACEY CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit venture philanthropy that supports educators and innovators who are reimagining... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
infancy. That, in turn, led to an experience working with a wealthy family in medical philanthropy searching for a cure for a rare dementia, and the idea for Aging2.0. "This combined my interest in trends with a desire to do something... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
entrepreneurs. There is also an opportunity—as Kerry Rupp discovered when establishing True Wealth Ventures—to foster diversity among limited partners by bringing in investors who are new to the venture ecosystem, especially women who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
little bit deeper, you understand that some of those students are paying for their sibling to go to college or helping their parents pay the rent.” Fellowships: A Tradition of Philanthropy To get a better view of students’ situations, in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
uses a venture philanthropy model that makes early- and growth-stage investments in NGOs focused on high-quality, affordable schools; human capital development; technology in education; and school... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
setup, Hall explains, is much like a venture capital fund. "We basically seek the highest-performing charter school organizations, and give them philanthropic funds to help them build a long-term sustainable model," he says. CSGF has seen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
similarly affected by the disease — Jeff Morby (MBA ’61) from Pittsburgh and Phyllis Rappaport from Boston. McCance, who has been at Greylock for nearly forty years, says the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund is applying a venture-capital approach to nonprofit View Details