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- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
particular entrepreneurial project can identify key phases of uncertainty, yield a list of potential outcomes of each phase, and provide an assessment of the likelihood of those various outcomes. This kind of thoughtful review constitutes... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
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
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
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 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Illustration by Jon Krause What percentage of managers do you think steal from their companies? Your answer to that question can tell a financial institution a lot about your creditworthiness, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
In emerging markets, where traditional credit scores are rare, how can lenders decide who is creditworthy? Just ask, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the for-profit Entrepreneurial View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
MBAxAmerica (mbaxamerica.com) by the students, it's more like a rolling summer job with an entrepreneurial focus and a dash of pro bono consulting, built around visits to seven high-potential companies in the American heartland. Making... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
Invention is geared toward three key audiences. Entrepreneurs can use the book as a guide through the intricacies of seeking a capital investor and to understand that entrepreneurial success depends on many factors — money is just the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
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Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent General Management, Business, Government & the International Economy Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Ted Berk Private Equity Finance View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and Italian investors who View Details
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Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Entrepreneurial Finance Entrepreneurial Management, Finance Sabrina Howell Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Advancing Opportunities for Others
senior Asians and Indians, that are in corporate America. Very proud of that conference. “The second thing is we started an in-house, multicultural innovation lab. It is truly an accelerator for entrepreneurial companies that are founded... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
entrepreneurial businesses (www.nvca.org/) and fuels prosperity. Why fix what ain’t broke? Alas, Congress didn’t fix the AMT problem; lawmakers just patched it for one year. Expect the tax debate to resurface in the not-too-distant... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
business start-up. Furthermore, most women have learned that they need help to create and build their businesses. They are assembling multi-talented entrepreneurial teams that bring a broad base of resources—including initial financial... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
individuals are losing more than a third of their retirement savings to fees each year, Puritz says. “We want to show people how to retire with more. That is our mission.” It made sense that the pair would find an entrepreneurial solution... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
service." The three men—who have experience with tech companies such as Instagram, MakerBot, Microsoft, and Vostu, which Kushner cofounded—are backed by $40 million in venture capital. Said Nazemi, who first flashed his entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and... View Details
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry (also listed under General Management) Michael S. Kaufman Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Tom Nicholas Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
billion in equity financing in 2017, while their Silicon Alley cousins raised $1.5 billion, or 15 percent more. (CB Insights was in the first FIL graduating class.) The total number of equity financings was... View Details