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  • 25 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation

Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically prefer established technologies... View Details
  • October 1995 (Revised December 1996)
  • Case

Beechwood Spouts (B)

By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
Eight months has passed since Barker first invested in Beechwood Spouts, and the company's situation has deteriorated. The problems appear to be resolved. Barker must now decide whether to participate in a crucial bridge financing round, without which the company will... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Information
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    Michael Kaplan

    positions in the venture capital and financial space before his entrepreneurial spirit led him and his brother to launch Fashion to Figure as a single store they ran themselves for two years before expanding... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#20;#Ecommerce;#19;#Digital Health;#29;#Entertainment;#30;#Fashion, Beauty, Apparel, & Retail;#31;#Finance;#55;#Music
    • 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... View Details
    • 19 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

    billion in venture capital money, an all-time record and 35% more than the previous year. The opportunities to bring new technological breakthroughs to the sector are massive, whether it be in robotics,... View Details
    • December 1998 (Revised March 2000)
    • Case

    Knot, The

    By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Matthew C. Lieb
    An online wedding resource company is seeking an equity investment to grow the business. View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Venture Capital; Value Creation; Internet and the Web; Finance; Expansion; Strategic Planning; Service Industry; Consulting Industry
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    • 27 Mar 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: March 27

    Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 28 Sep 2017
    • News

    Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion

    capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three... View Details
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    Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds | Baker Library

    Help Center Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds How can I create a list of start-up or venture capital backed companies in a particular industry? In View Details
    • 06 May 2019
    • News

    Startup Talk in Chicago

    provide our alumni with opportunities to learn about, explore, and pursue their interests in the areas of entrepreneurship and venture capital, to bring together our entrepreneurially minded and venture... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation
    • 01 Dec 2007
    • News

    How Business Schools Lost Their Way

    through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that served the broader interests of... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 10 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

    activity," Nanda remarks. "Each approach has its own costs and benefits, whether it's a direct subsidy, a loan guarantee program, or a venture capital model where the government is a direct... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 01 Dec 1997
    • News

    Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)

    drawings," says Lawson, who worked on a prototype for the product and a business plan as part of a field study with Associate Professor David M. Upton. She then spent five months lining up venture capital... View Details
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    Alejandro Maldonado

    Alejandro (HBS '08) has spent most of his career in the areas of direct investing and strategy, with a recent focus on human capital leadership and development. He has had experience in investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston and... View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)
    • December 2013 (Revised August 2015)
    • Case

    Viva Macau (A)

    By: Dante Roscini and G. A. Donovan
    A fast-growing Macau-based airline backed by private US investors faces a dramatic expropriation in the wake of the first change of head of government since the former Portuguese colony became a Special Administrative Region of China. The case allows students to... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Air Transportation; Ownership; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Emerging Markets; Venture Capital; China; Macau
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    • 01 Mar 2003
    • News

    Books

    firms. And state ownership constrains growth and investment options for domestic firms more than it does for foreign enterprises. While FDI does bring benefits such as the stimulation of privatization activity, increased venture View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 17 Apr 2015
    • News

    A Driving Force for a Sustainable World

    Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based in France and committed to... View Details
    Keywords: Jill Radsken; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
    • 28 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 28, 2009

    CSC fits into IBM's broader corporate citizenship portfolio and IBM's globalization strategy. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409106 Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A) Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 25 Apr 2014
    • News

    Helping high achievers achieve even more

    venture capital firm that has invested in, and provided strategic guidance to, more than 365 businesses across North America, Europe, and Asia. Stamps passed the torch to his management team in 2001 so that... View Details
    • 11 Mar 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

    companies are very big companies now." And, according to Butler, the time of the manager has come. "It seems like the limelight has gone a lot to the idea people and the people who find the money for the idea people," he said. "But now, when I talk... View Details
    Keywords: by Carrie Levine