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- 23 Jan 2024
- News
A Wide Net
Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Like-Minded
connect with one another along the way. Murakami was with OECD Tokyo Center, leading discussions on economic policy issues with government and business leaders in Asia, having spent 20 years in finance with companies like Goldman Sachs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Research Brief: Staying in the Game
Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy,” HBS professor Shai Bernstein... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
were members of Golden Seeds, which invests in women-led companies; Hivers & Strivers, which provides early stage financing to ventures led by US military veterans; and Mark Cuban, who was among the judges during their appearance on Shark... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Shamrock factory on Lake Erie. I also worked with her on Bonnie Bell, which is a cosmetics company, and a marketing plan for this new startup called Leggs, which did pantyhose. Then I worked for International Harvester doing tractor sales... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
come from.” Venture adventure: “When I was at Comdisco in 1994, the stars aligned to found Lighthouse Capital. My partner and I invested in more than 500 startups over the next 18 years, including NVIDIA, Vertex, Insulet, and Sirocco... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
an Omnipresent Financial Services Firm” with center researcher Rachna Tahilyani to examine the challenges bricks-and-mortar firm Bajaj Finance—India’s largest consumer finance company—was facing as it considered entering the digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
a three-person startup based out of our home. The difference in size and scale is often challenging, but is training me to compartmentalize my head space, wear different hats, and stay grounded! “While the PCL group is expanding borders... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
managements, and form groups around common interests." "I like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital," says McGee. "This project got its start back in 2011. I had been involved in several View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
private investors. Many of these solutions don’t exist, and this is why we need the private sector’s innovation, drive, and scale focused on scaling solutions. I’m excited that Blackstone is helping to play a significant role in financing... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
Dlodlo’s university education, a loss that can still bring Dlodlo to tears. After earning a degree in finance at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Dlodlo remained in South Africa, working in international marketing and... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
cruelty-free; its operations are carbon and plastic neutral, according to Prima. Saigal is co-founder and CEO of Kudos, a startup that has reengineered the disposable diaper for greater sustainability. Kudos announced the close of a $2.4... View Details
- 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
strategy look like? The financing that we were able to assemble for this acquisition is interim financing, which gives us five years to figure that out. Part of the process we’re engaged in now with our partners is to say, What’s the... View Details