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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
RallyPoint a Winner
i-lab, RallyPoint won the $100,000 MassChallenge start-up competition last fall and was a runner-up in the 2012 HBS Business Plan Contest. In December, it announced that it had raised $1 million from angel investors. As Weiss explained to... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
said Fialkow. "They're smart, but not smart about what you're talking about." The best source of information and funds, he added, is angel investors with domain expertise. The conference was sponsored by the Entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Step By Step
I started running at HBS, in the month between the end of classes and Commencement. I was born with asthma, so sports in general were never my forte, but the overwhelming nature of prepping cases and recruiting meant my physical condition had worsened. Once I’d made it... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Blog Post
Words from an HBS Partner: Reflections on the Partner Experience
Upon making the move from Los Angeles to Boston, I reached out to the Career and Professional Development office and signed up for career coaching. I was connected with a career coach who has been an incredible resource. Through... View Details
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University of California Los Angeles Medical Center University of California San Francisco Medical Center UPMC University of Rochester Medical Center University of Utah Health Care System Vanderbilt University Medical Center Veterans... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
people,” Deshpandé says. The enterprising Bikram, born in 1946 in Calcutta and known worldwide by his first name, began studying yoga as a four-year-old. He arrived in the United States in 1971, opening his first studio in Los Angeles and... View Details
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Lynda Benglis Migrating Pedmarks 1998 | About
Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
angel investor, and a senior advisor at Republic, an online investment platform, Aditya certainly had the necessary expertise to identify and foster promising founders. But she had to wonder, “Why me? Why now?” She recalls asking a... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
Rawdon relates by phone. “But we were united by our vision of what the company could be.” The two spent the following months pulling together a business plan and fund-raising pitch. “My one-year anniversary at Siebel was the same day we got a commitment from an View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
stay calm when volatility strikes.” In 1984, Hatchett, then a student at the University of Virginia, went to the Olympic trials focused on securing a berth on the team as a 400-meter hurdler or high jumper, with a dream of winning a medal at the Los View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
People Watching
newsmagazine,” made it more upscale, and built it into “a powerhouse brand,” according to the Los Angeles Times (July 20, 2002). Moore's success at People has resulted in her elevation to chairwoman and CEO of Time Inc. The world's... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
where they manage vampire customers in order to earn cash, pay off debt, and “save for their eternal retirement;” and in Refund Rush, gamers help clients decide how best to allocate their income tax refund. I sampled Groove Nation, a completely engrossing game in which... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
Street because [they] have the education, the network, and the experience to make it work." J. Paul Brownridge, former Los Angeles city treasurer and candidate for Los Angeles city controller, noted... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
midst of starting Valiente College Prep, a Los Angeles charter school set to open in August 2015. “In America, we have millions of jobs that will need to be filled in engineering, science, and technology. We absolutely need to access and... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even generate sales) or pitch the idea for... View Details
- September 2009 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
United Way
By: Allen S. Grossman and Cathy Ross
After United Way CEO Brian Gallagher began shifting the organization's focus from old-school fundraising to community impact, Gallagher and local leaders like Elise Bulk, CEO of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, faced a series of challenges regarding how to best... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Alignment; Los Angeles
Grossman, Allen S., and Cathy Ross. "United Way." Harvard Business School Case 310-014, September 2009. (Revised September 2012.)
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
multimillion dollar investment to launch SUEDE, the first fashion-content-platform brand serving multicultural women. Success at HBS came in and out of the classroom. Mirror Digital got its startup funding from the HBS Angel Investors... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Leveraging Curiosity to Broaden the Impact
family and my community.” Giving back to the community has always been important to the Los Angeles native, who used to mentor high schoolers from minority families in South LA, helping them prepare for the college application process.... View Details
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Chrysler dealer delivers 47 cars in one day - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
achieved by Angeles Motors, Chrysler and Plymouth dealer of Los Angeles, California, on Christmas day, 1936. On that morning 47 new cars were placed in the hands of owners. They represented 47 distinct buyers, no two of whom were even in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
company, HOMErgent, see as ideal for disaster relief and globally sustainable affordable housing. “For less than $2,000, we can provide better housing than what most people in the world already have,” Zwern told the Los Angeles Times... View Details