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- 01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon
startup that was developing a treatment for some rare condition, with the directive to “get smart” on it before a Friday meeting. He knew how and where to look for answers. As he started to read more of the research, he did indeed find... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
news you can use to bring yourself and your business up to speed in the year ahead. Fundraising Forecast: Continued Clouds, Some Sun It isn’t news that the fundraising climate has cooled considerably in the past year. But as a startup... View Details
- 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 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
demanding better-quality ESG data to evaluate ongoing investment management. During Startup Bootcamp, a short intensive program for first-year MBA students, Murday and a team of classmates explored the idea... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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,... 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 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
- 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... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money when I was in fourth grade, and I... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
joined venture capital firm 500 Global as partner in its newly opened offices in a renovated factory near Cairo University. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010, with $2.8 billion in assets under management, 500 Global had already invested... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
beginning was that the only way DTC physical goods make sense, as a venture-fundable, multiple-X return on your investment business, is if you can achieve the strong lifetime value (LTV) to customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) ratio that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
greatest risk from the disastrous effects of sea-level rise. Yet cities also have the ability to act without waiting for state and federal action, adds Raphael Carty (MBA 1983), former CEO of Callida Energy, a software startup focused on... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
brands and SKUs,” she says. Shruti, who graduated at the top of her class at the Indian Institute of Technology and had experience in consulting and impact investing, came to HBS to gain the skills to launch an India-based impact View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Like-Minded
Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
these redlined areas form the shape of a so-called Black butterfly, and they suffer the highest rates of poverty, crime, and chronic disease in the city. Studies show that investment is far lower in predominantly Black neighborhoods than... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
offers a test case that the National Trust will learn from and scale up in other communities across the country. Here, Hansen Shapiro talks with the Bulletin about making local news sustainable, the interplay between investment and impact... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
their pivotal roles in shaping perceptions, influencing policies, and fostering international relations. Additionally, the discussion on sports, especially considering Saudi Arabia’s significant investments in this arena, provided... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley