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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
$10 million, knew that the web represented an opportunity to build and expand a well-established brand. Founded in 1857 by a group of Bostonians with triple-decker names (James Russell Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson among them), the... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
workforce. While MPower Partners continues to offer investment from its first fund, Seki has been mulling a new fund focused solely on female-run enterprises. “I would like to launch the second fund in a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
more effective teachers. “There’s a big opportunity to really upscale and certify them,” Gupta says. At the same time, Rocket provides educational tools and content that teachers can share with parents to reinforce foundational skills at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
the question of where to apply it to a team of experts—tech gurus as well as specialists in asset management, regulation jurisdiction, and operations. The team eventually landed on private equity. O’Grady offers the example of a fund... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
Association of Northern California. "The trip raised employers' awareness of the quality of our students and their enthusiasm for opportunities in this industry." "The trip raised employers' awareness of the quality of our students and... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. As part of a first-year required course, MBA students are asked to imagine that it’s their 10th reunion and write an alumni profile—detailing their first decade... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
both their own companies and others in the area.” In addition to the program’s value for local companies and managers, the revenue generated supports gifts to area nonprofits and has funded scholarships for Harvard MBA students from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
outlook. Since its inception in 2001, 89 MBAs have taken part in the program, working at 43 organizations as diverse as the City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Teach For America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. Fellows receive a one-year salary of... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Kilimanjaro, in 2004, Petzel's climbing party included Lisa Lee, MBA 2000.) The third goal was to use the Everest climb to raise money that would help fund the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility for the porters who... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
is considering launching a COVID relief van program to help carry oxygen and basic medicines to those in need. MAY 20 Students Fight COVID was started by 250+ MBA/MS 2023 admits from across the world, including HBS, with the aim to fight COVID in India. The initiative... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
involved with the business, but there was no obvious path that I could see.” At DreamWorks, Iyer works with the COO and head of distribution on a variety of special projects, which gives her the opportunity to gain a broad view of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
returns over the last four years have caused this surge, which means, he says, that "people have lots of opportunities to finance projects, either through venture capitalists, angels, or corporations." But, as the saying goes, what goes... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
(TMT) investor at TPG, a global private equity firm. While I work across the TMT sector, I primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom line impact View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
distributor, to fund large-scale battery storage and solar power in New York City as it works to reduce fossil-fuel pollution, upgrade aging infrastructure and systems, and move its electric grid to between 70 percent and 80 percent... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
virtually no way to manage the process and the funding required to do it all yourself. Either you’ll end up giving the business away to an investor to help you pay to do everything now, or you’ll likely be so slow to respond that someone... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
help entrepreneurs assemble great teams. But VCs don't manage, inspire, or lead. We're off stage, behind the curtains, funding the production, and maybe adjusting some spotlights. Venture capital is a supporting role. HBSB: What do you... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
and those of developed countries. When capital is flowing freely throughout the world, there is tremendous growth and opportunity in emerging markets. But when the tap is turned off, you have major crashes and dislocations." Despite his... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
absence of investment opportunities or from indecision among corporate executives. Once such indecision becomes widespread, it can quickly become self-reinforcing. Recent record corporate profits will only exacerbate this situation. If... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
director, I was not involved in research day-to-day, but I was bringing in funding to support it." Partway up the ladder, however, Earls realized he was missing something. "I was in my first management-level position at NASA, and I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation