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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
capital providers and nonprofit loan funds, seek to expand economic opportunity in low-income communities by providing access to financial products and services. As Michael Pokorny, a senior director at the Reinvestment Fund, explains,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
HBS and a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “Back then, when you started a business in your garage on Boston’s Route 128, your competition was down the road or in Silicon Valley. Today your competition is just as likely to be in Shanghai or Bangalore. Venture View Details
- 30 May 2021
- News
How Venture Capitalist David Motley is Trying to Bring Back Pittsburgh’s Black Residents
“affordable and market-rate housing development.” Motley told the Journal that his efforts to build a strong middle class required long-term investment. “How do you make this new economy available for more people?” he asked the paper.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
span more languages, geographies, and cultures than ever, requiring workers to communicate effectively to deliver results. I wanted to understand how a radical language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
United States could junk the dual-book system and require corporations to pay taxes, at a considerably lower rate, on profits reported to capital markets. Such a change would save the considerable resources... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
pressing business challenges, such as managing creative employees, navigating the IPO process, and protecting intellectual property. Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur by Dermot Berkery (MBA ’91) (McGraw-Hill) This... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
1975 Professorship of Entrepreneurial Management. The inspiration for the gift came in part from the popularity of The Entrepreneurial Manager, the recently retooled required course, as well as from perennially oversubscribed electives... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
This "new plant, new team, new concept" approach has generally worked well elsewhere for GM, Hughes says, in part because "when substantial capital and resources are thus committed, you go out of your way to understand the View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
familiar to HBS alumni. But the author makes them fresh by applying his nearly 30 years of VC experience at Warburg Pincus to digest the crucial ingredients required to build a long-running, society-shaping enterprise. His underlying... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
(often off-key). In a getting-to-know-you session for Startup U, he even gives twerking a try. “I want to put the students in weird, embarrassing situations,” he says, “so I lead by example.” Entrepreneurship requires the confidence to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Dress Code
music, but not fashion, which is an extremely nuanced category requiring constant training and retraining of the model,” says Koen. Stats: Founded in 2018 and launched in May 2020, The Yes currently employs 40 and is the subject of a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
a circular carbon economy using humankind's CO2 emissions or the CO2 that's already in the air. DM: The aspirations and energy are important. But getting these big plans into action requires not just new ideas or the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Hopkins course catalog. I didn’t realize there was a German requirement to study physics, which had all been done in Germany before the war. After three days of German, I switched to engineering.” Unceremonious end: “I loved Salomon... View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. According to Bloomberg, the acquisition is the largest... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
as well as land-use and climate-resilient infrastructure, which will require massive injections of capital in order to remain sustainable. Alumni were urged to be the change agents and ask the tough... View Details