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- January 2023
- Teaching Note
MicroStrategy’s Investment in Bitcoin
By: C. Fritz Foley, Celine Chammas and Donal O'Cofaigh
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 222-048. View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
FemHealth Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on women’s health. For the nonprofit/government sector, the winner is Emma McCarthy (MBA 2018), Lieutenant Commander and one of the first women to serve as... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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 View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 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
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
to manage a British government effort to promote the venture capital industry considers the progress made to date, as well as how the program can be adjusted. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights
of entrepreneurship! Here is an example of a venture capital event where the VCPE Club, Tech Club, and Women in Investing hosted together. I was joined by Zeya Yang (MBA 2019 and now a Partner at Andreessen... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
Duggan (MBA 2006). The venture capital investor, who serves as a non-executive director for Barclays UK, participated in a roundtable organized by the Europe Research Center. EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION... View Details
Keywords: April White
- September 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Supplement
SUN Brewing (A) (CW)
The Khemka family of India--founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing--faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the ruble's massive devaluation in August 1998, the stock price of SUN brewing, which is publicly listed on the Luxemburg... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
According to venture capitalist Jeffrey Harris (MBA 1981), there are entrepreneurs, and then there are transformative entrepreneurs. The former group includes Richard Branson, who has created many great products and services but not one... View Details
- 19 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines
and MBA, it would have been difficult for me to pursue consulting and venture capital roles in early stage surgical innovation companies, where technical and business acumen are crucial. During my RC year,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Start Me Up
In April, HBS students and alumni looking for capital ran their good ideas through the gauntlet. As part of the New Venture Competition, the School's annual entrepreneurship challenge, 25 finalists— 8... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
says Sheyner. And Sheyner estimates that the industry counts only about 20,000 strong nationwide and hires just a couple thousand annually from a pool of tens of thousands, meaning that firms don't need to do much recruiting outside of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Fast Answer
Making Markets
Use these resources to analyze broken markets and validate your proposed solutions. Understand the Current Marketplace: Gain a sense of the current landscape, major players, and future trends within an industry or sector in order to... View Details
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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Education Leaders Together: Accelerating Opportunities for America's Students. 2012 Two new MBA FIELD courses introduced: Social Impact Investing and Social Innovation Lab. 2011 HBS-led Forum on Social Impact Investing builds upon its prior research on View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
technology, Tebbe is a chief organizer of the third annual Chicago Venture Summit this September. “We have capital returning from both coasts,” he said. Efforts are in place to ensure job growth and economic... View Details
- October 2014
- Teaching Note
MuMaté
By: Thomas Eisenmann
This teaching note is designed for use with "MuMaté: Funding Growth," "MuMaté (B-1): Confidential for Maxwell," "MuMaté (B-2): Confidential for Cantor," HBS Nos. 814-063, 813-149, 813-150, to help faculty deepen student comprehension of business issues and energize... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry complaints that new global View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
The Global Classroom: From Boston to Jakarta
interested in opportunities in the early stage Venture Capital space focusing on consumer investments for her post HBS career. In Stephanie’s first year at HBS (RC Year), she had the opportunity to visit... View Details
- April 1984 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Waltham Motors Division
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Loss of a major contract has reduced production volume below the level expected when budget and standard costs were determined. Apparently favorable results for monthly operations result from reduced volume rather than operating efficiency. Rewritten version of a case... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Activity Based Costing and Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Accounting Industry; Accounting Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr. "Waltham Motors Division." Harvard Business School Case 184-169, April 1984. (Revised May 2004.)
Frank L. Gillespie
Having worked in a large, successful white insurance firm, Gillespie saw the need to bring better insurance services to Chicago’s black community and founded Liberty Life in 1919. Unlike other insurance firms, Liberty Life was the first to offer whole life insurance,... View Details
Keywords: Finance