Fund Of Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

“social” prong of their environmental, social, and governance aspirations. But Honest Jobs still struggles to attract funding from firms beyond the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions. “I was making it to the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

30 Apr 2018
Blog Post

HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success

of capitalism and see how it works from the center." After exploring the possibilities within private equity, Josh enrolled in the joint MPA/ID, MBA program at The Kennedy School and Harvard Business School to acquire both the... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) was in her early 30s when she grew curious about her chances of having children one day. “I didn’t want to wake up and learn that my opportunity had passed,” says Tariyal, then a genomics researcher with a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

your unique bridge and “network your tail off!” Both strategic parts of the process would be key to Mbanusi securing a summer internship at DBL Partners, one of the largest impact investing View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care

designed and implemented on value principles. Beyond good intentions, we need to deliver results.” For its part, through a combination of foreign aid and its own resources, Rwanda hopes by 2011 to have a fully View Details

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

and questions in economics. In 8th grade, I needed to learn more English and she pulled from her shelf an English book—it happened to be Greg Mankiw’s Principles of Economics. I read the book sentence by sentence for two months, looking... View Details

22 Mar 2017
Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

Foundation (DRK) – a venture philanthropy firm. The Initiative also partially funded my internship through its Summer Fellows Program, a sponsorship designed to help students explore career opportunities in social enterprise. In... View Details

03 Feb 2021
News

Power Play

Courtesy Rahul Advani Courtesy Sara Graziano Courtesy Chris Smith Courtesy Rahul Advani Courtesy Sara Graziano Courtesy Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1997, focused on the energy sector, he thought a future View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

By Ken Wilcox (MBA 1983) Wiley The former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Ken Wilcox shares the firsthand challenges encountered in his four years of trying to establish a joint venture between SVB and the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2004
News

Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

A Michigan native and graduate of the University of Southern California, Richard Stillman served full-time in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1965. His military career, during which he rose to the rank View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

10.” In Peru, Anglo American recently reached agreement with local communities and government to establish a development fund and water infrastructure as part of the company’s Quellaveco copper mine project.... View Details

Web

Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

equity firm, search fund model or a public company that through dual class stock is still family controlled. It is also useful for everyone going into general management and / or want to be responsible owner investors. 90% View Details

June 2020
Teaching Note

Generation Investment Management

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta

This teaching note provides guidance for teaching the case “Generation Investment Management” (820-033), which looks at the challenges facing a sustainable investment firm. View Details

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31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

The summer between RC and EC year represents a great opportunity for risk-free exploration. Encouraged by our outcome at the New Venture Competition and the funding I would receive as a Rock Summer Fellow, I forwent a business internship... View Details

Keywords: Technology

30 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

funds—avoiding the urge to make a Superbowl ad and paring down expenses—to lengthen the start-up "runway." However, without new infusions of funds or positive cash flow, literally thousands View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Dec 2021
News

Vision: Sound Science

biotech firm, an HBS Blavatnik Fellowship provided a year of funding and transitional time to spend in the lab and assemble a team of scientists, clinicians, and managers.... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

01 Mar 2003
News

A Casual Approach to Success

group champion for this unusual competition. Although he shies away from social events, Hellman and his wife of 47 years, Chris, are involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. He is chairman of the board... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Profile

John Rogers

financing for the post harvest handling and storage of staple crops in rural Rwanda. This project, coordinated and supported by HBS, proved critical in providing me with the experience and perspective necessary to secure a summer... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Manufacturing

17 Jul 2020
News

Support System

work with Mother’s Shea and Eu’Genia are paid a 20 percent premium for their nuts, and 15 percent of company profits are channeled back to the families of the shea-nut pickers to help cover educational... View Details