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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in new technologies to accelerate change
Girish Nadkami (MBA 1988), a venture capitalist in Switzerland, talks about the impact of investing in new technologies for communications, robotics, and environmental start-ups. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
from each other. We’re raising our voices and saying it’s not okay for us to be an afterthought, for only 2 percent of venture capital to go toward women. We have a responsibility to speak up and do more.”... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman
Immelt had overseen the growth of GE Healthcare to a $20 billion business. Immelt was also recently brought in as a venture partner at New England Associates, one of the country’s largest venture View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
go-to-market projects in sectors ranging from social impact venture capital to artificial intelligence. “Having the chance to deepen my learning in such a hotbed of technological innovation, all while... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
idea is nothing. No one understood this better than the HBS alumni who pioneered the venture capital industry. Decades ago, these individuals played a major role in creating fledgling companies that in turn... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Weathering the Storm
Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) In this special video edition of Skydeck, contributing host Chitra Nawbatt (GMP 6, 2009) speaks with 645 Ventures Cofounder and General Partner Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) about near-term and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
"Taiwan today is an exciting place to be in business," said Benjamin P.L. Feng (MBA 1975), managing director of All Asia Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei. At HBS this fall to attend... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
new—and increasingly popular—model for doing good and making money. As a venture capitalist nonprofit, Sustainable America is funding entrepreneurs who will make the food and fuel sectors more sustainable and anticipating returns that... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Heart Foundation, Lewis is a founding member of Impact X, a venture capital firm supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs across Europe. “My parents taught me generosity,” he says. “We didn’t have a whole... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Silicon Valley’s burgeoning venture capital industry. Founding U.S. Venture Partners in 1981 provided Bowes the opportunity to help create, rather than merely finance,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
renowned venture capital firm he cofounded in 1972. In 2007, he cofounded and became a nonexecutive director of Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit social investment advisory that is pioneering ways to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
dilemmas. The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper III (MBA '54) (Palgrave Macmillan) Draper looks at how the world of venture View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
entrepreneurship and a fascinating case study of a large media business both experiencing and driving change. In their groundbreaking book, The Venture Imperative: A New Model for Corporate Innovation, Heidi Mason and Tim Rohner — leading... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates
School. The day’s principal speaker was Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), a widely recognized father of the European venture capital industry who now devotes his time to social... View Details
Keywords: Graduation
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
International. Saturday's discussion panels examined four main themes: restructuring and economic reforms, humancapital development, industry adaptation in Asia, and multinational corporations and entrepreneurship. A plenary panel on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a much larger, more influential part of the global economy over the past two decades. The authors—Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
institutions. What was your biggest flop? I’ve had numerous flops. In the venture capital business, that’s a given. How do you relax? Walking, reading, travel. I used to surf and golf; now I work out at a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
on the tarmac at London’s Farnborough Airport. The seeds for their venture were sown at HBS, where they met and collaborated on a field study examining the efficiencies of business travel using very light jets (VLJs). Photograph Courtesy... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Improving the business of medicine
As founder and managing partner of KBL Ventures, Dr. Marlene Krauss (MBA 1967, MD 1979) combines her business and medical training to bring health care device and bio-tech ventures to market. (Published December 2014) View Details