Angel - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
News

Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)

United States's third-largest trading partner, and Washington has loaned Mexico billions to rescue its economy. In terms of Mexican population, Los Angeles is second only to Mexico City. On these two fronts alone, the next crisis in... View Details

22 Sep 2015
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Getting New Ideas off the Ground

only have inexpensive creative for television, but also that you could target those ads to just a five- or 10-mile radius around where your store was located rather than having to buy the entire greater Los Angeles area or the New York... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Do Good: Eat Chocolate

She raised $300,000 from family and friends, making full use of the HBS network and tapping into angel investing groups, since raising about $1.5 million more. With annual sales well beyond the $1 million mark, Endline notes that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

including the Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys and Girls Clubs and Edible Schoolyard New York City, which focus on increasing the physical activity and healthy eating habits of children and their families in local communities.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

Profile

Paris Wallace

more quickly that don’t cost thousands of dollars.” Wallace, who has worked for Goldman Sachs and A.T.Kearney, has spent the bulk of his career as an entrepreneur. A graduate of Amherst College, Wallace has served as co-president of the HBS Alumni View Details

28 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

and Successful Enterprises, Negotiations, and an immersive class that allows me to travel to Los Angeles and work with a media company. I’m also working with one of my favorite professors on an independent project that allows me to test... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

05 Aug 2014
News

A Diversified Portfolio

of angel investors in early 2009 and noticed, "I was the only woman in the room." She also observed that the companies under review had all-male leadership teams. She knew that the level of gender discrepancy among investors likely meant... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

dreams—just not in the way that any of us expected. Ethan Kurzweil (MBA 2008) Bessemer Venture Partners Power of the Pivot In 2008, a few members of the New York Angels met with a founder of a company called Tote, which was developing an... View Details

18 Apr 2005
Lessons from the Classroom

NFL Players Touch Down at HBS

Philadelphia Eagles. One classroom comment by a faculty member caught the ear of Kansas City Chiefs running back Tony Richardson, who is thinking of going into angel investing. "He talked about being in the game versus being on the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

14 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

Florida on February 23 for "HBS in Palm Beach: Breakfast with Dean Datar." Then on March 14, the Dean will travel to New York City and on March 21 to Los Angeles for evening events with alumni in those regions. Additional international... View Details

20 Mar 2019
News

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

achieved by mid-century; the United States needs to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2030. These sobering facts did not discourage more than 80 alumni and guests who gathered on March 7 in Los Angeles for an HBS faculty-led discussion on... View Details

Keywords: Allison Webster; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

June 2020
Teaching Note

The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Kerry Herman and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching note serves as a supplement to “The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?” HBS 420-025. View Details

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21 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

1995, and continuing over the next few years, they launched a research project to simplify Internet search, a process that was then far from easy. Outsiders do well in the US when venture capitalists and angel investors don’t... View Details

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology

June 2017
Case

Waze Connected Citizens Program

By: Mitchell Weiss and Alissa Davies

Di-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze, founded the company’s Connected Citizens Program (CCP), a data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data. Since 2015, her program had enabled officials in Kentucky and elsewhere to... View Details

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11 Sep 2015
Blog Post

What is the JD/MBA Program at HBS?

answer some questions about their experiences. Tian hails from Texas, has worked in finance, and started at HBS - while Zach taught with Teach for America in his hometown of Los Angeles prior to beginning at HLS. Why did you want to... View Details

27 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Buy big, sell small

kirana-store experience. “I always wondered why so many kiranas fail, and I decided to dig deeper into that,” she explains. An angel investor in her travel venture introduced Shruti to Manish Kumar, an expert in consumer-goods retailing,... View Details

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

Photography by Tori Soper Rodney Quainton (MBA 1970) had always wanted to be a banker. At Yale (Class of 1962), courses on money management and banking attracted him. “At that time,” he recalls, “banking was considered an honorable profession.” Right out of college, he... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2016
News

Case Study: Paper Chase

Tank ($300,000 for 15 percent of the company) and an undisclosed amount of angel funding. The Question: Traditional card display stands won’t work for Lovepop’s creations, in part because the stands only show the front of a card. They... View Details

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

capital in Latin America. Chu still runs Pegasus but also joined HBS in 2003. His courses include "Effective Leadership of Social Enterprise" and "New Opportunities in Emerging Markets," the latter about managing investment opportunities, Chu said,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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