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Judges - Alumni

start-ups, and consumer brands and technology. She has worked closely with many founders over the past decade and has collaborated with numerous leading VC and PE firms. Tina enjoys working with start-ups across a range of areas including: · Fundraising and View Details

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

diverse global network. 1 year, 5-9 hrs/week Apply by September 10th, Enroll by September 13 $15,000 (four installments of $3,750) Credential Entrepreneurship Essentials Professor William Sahlman Master a proven framework for building and View Details

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

transparency,” says Cullen, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. Meanwhile, the legal landscape has shifted in recent years toward transparency. Laws and policies that protect workers’ ability to discuss... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

12 Feb 2020
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Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

that as a philanthropist, impact investor, board member, employee or corporate partner. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate Faculty: Marco Di Maggio The advent of new technologies and big data promise to revolutionize the View Details

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

different countries. He also served briefly as Austria's finance minister and worked for 3 years as an investment banker, where he made a fortune that he promptly lost in a stock market crash. So he wasn't a typical academic, even though... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

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Harvard Business School

MBA 1985 Steven Rogers joined the faculty of HBS in 2012. He teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course that he created called “ Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship”. Prior to HBS, he taught... View Details

16 Aug 2022
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Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

Developing skill as an effective acquirer is an important muscle for scaling companies and now is a great time to test out that skill. 6. Consider financing There is a ton of money out there looking for great companies to invest in. Funds... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

background, and they have a good idea of what they want to do with that experience when they get here." The flexibility and freedom of academia has an entrepreneurial appeal that is extremely rewarding for those who want to set their own... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Feb 2016
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Meet the HBS Tech Club

popular tech courses at HBS include the Online Economy, Launching Tech Ventures, Digital Innovation and Transformation, Product Management 101 and 102, Entrepreneurial Finance (not purely tech), Founders’... View Details

24 Jun 2021
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Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

HKS he brought with him an undergraduate degree in chemistry, nonprofit leadership experience, and an entrepreneurial spirit. His interests and skills took him in several different directions during and after graduate school including... View Details

27 Sep 2021
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Working to Change the Food System

mentors, investors in the Boston area (including my current Entrepreneurial Finance professor, Jim Matheson!), and fellow entrepreneurs passionate about addressing climate challenges. I’m also really... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

emerging examples of innovative technologies, financing structures, policies, and geo-politics that are reshaping our global economy as it struggles and strives to transition to a lower carbon footprint and unlock the trillions in... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street

out on an entrepreneurial path but was thwarted by the country’s lack of a finance and lending infrastructure. A similar shortcoming in the mortgage and lending industry also delayed his family’s ability to... View Details

Keywords: Wall Street; Finance; Finance

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe

But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment banking group at Blyth Eastman PaineWebber, he became a partner in corporate View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance

Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

both partners write personal finance columns for Reuters’ India Web site and for the Wall Street Journal’s Indian partner, livemint.com. They appear on two TV shows every weekend: Bloomberg UTV’s Smart Money and ET Now’s Investor’s Guide.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Sep 2005
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Making History, Starting Over

At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details