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Contemporary Corporate Archives | Baker Library

includes personal and institutional papers of leaders and firms, with a focus on the financial industry. Examples of these contemporary archives include records of firms and individuals recognized for advances in technology; financial institutions such as investment... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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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 are generally restricted to... View Details

Andrew W. Mellon

Mellon took over his family’s small private bank and turned it into one of the largest sources of venture capital in American history. Mellon played a substantial role in supplying capital for expanding industries, especially steel and... View Details

Keywords: Finance

13 Nov 2024

2+2 Program Information Session

Calling all college students! This virtual information session will outline the HBS MBA program, the admissions process, and financial aid. We will also be showcasing our 2+2 program – a deferred admissions pathway for college students. Come learn if this program is... View Details

Jesse H. Jones

Under Jones’ presidency, RFC became the nation’s largest bank and biggest single investor. It not only provided loans to established banks, but also encouraged new ventures and sought to enlarge bank capital by buying bank-preferred... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Venus Miller

consulting." Attracted to the University of Washington for its program in international business, Venus participated in four years of internships, each in a different functional area, at Boeing. In her junior year, Boeing sponsored her for the one-week Summer... View Details

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Sid Shenai

Faso. Their five-year plan reached the finals of the JPMorgan Good Venture Competition in New York City, helping Paper For All attract publicity and new donors. Forming strategic alliances Today, Sid is cooperating with six MBA candidates... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Their Social Enterprise Ventures Benjamin Schedl Rea Savla Sophy Wang Teresa Danso-Danquah 07 Sep 2023 The Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and se... Elevating Volunteer Service: SE... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Career Services Shifts into High Gear

CHOICES Financial Services: 45% Investment Banking: 9% Investment Management: 6% Hedge Funds: 4% Private Equity/LBO: 17% Sales & Trading: 1% Venture Capital: 4% Other: 4% Consulting: 20% Manufacturing: 17% Biomed/Pharma: 3% Consumer... View Details

21 Jul 2011
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Social Investing’s Time Has Come

among low-level criminals. If the program reduces reconviction by 7.5 percent, investors recoup their money plus a graduated return that is capped at 13 percent a year. Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), Chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details

20 Mar 2005
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Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

Successful businessmen told a roomful of students that ultimately, the world outside the classroom will be their best teacher in entrepreneurship. "If you are taking an entrepreneurship class, you want to be a venture... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers

simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

Jerry Yang

Yang and fellow Stanford University doctoral student, David Filo, created the precursor to Yahoo! to aid them in their use of the burgeoning world wide web. What began as a simple hobby eventually turned into one of the few success stories of the nineties Internet... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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Frequently Asked Questions | MBA

Frequently Asked Questions Summer Venture in Management Can I apply if I am not a college junior or senior? If I am employed, how will taking time off to attend SVMP be regarded by my employer? Do I need to have an internship to apply? I... View Details

12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

caught the entrepreneurial bug. She realized she was passionate about solving problems with new and innovative solutions. Three years later, the newly married Skeete Tatum applied to HBS to pivot to venture capital, and convinced her... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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College Students | MBA

future and the years ahead. Get your first glimpse into an MBA through the opportunities below. Peek into the MBA (virtual experience) Summer Venture in Management Program (in-person experience) Ready to Apply to HBS? At HBS, we encourage... View Details

Uncovering the roots of innovation

with key actors in the local ecosystem. I am deeply grateful to the scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, legal experts and policymakers who generously shared their extraordinary experiences in building the local life sciences... View Details

07 Aug 2018
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DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

becomes one of the only black women to have raised that much cash in private funding. According to Project Diane, just 34 black women have raised over $1 million in venture dollars. Last year, Woolley-Wilson spoke to the New York Times... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference

conference will feature management seminars and panel discussions on information technology, the nonprofit sector, prominent African-American women business leaders, venture capital, and the music industry, as well as a "town meeting," an... View Details

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