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Mike Maples Jr.
investing but when he looked around, he saw a gap in the market. There was a raft of startups that wanted to raise seed or early funding but were not ready for a five million dollar round, which seemed to be the minimum that Silicon... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
Henry McCance, founder (left), and Tim Armour, President & CEO, of Cure Alzheimer's Fund Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
unimaginable at the time they are made. Who would have predicted the changes in society that have come from classification of the elements into the periodic table, or from quantum mechanics, or the World Wide Web? Who would have guessed... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
talented professionals across the world to help evaluate and support these interventions. Over the past 10 years, ADP has funded more than 50 promising nonprofits to transform hundreds of thousands of lives... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
should keep the social dimension of your work in mind-that is, the opportunity to do something good for others.” CURRENT READING The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace, by Dennis Ross Sir Ronald Cohen helped lead Apax Partners to a... View Details
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Kresge Way | About
ideas with peers, scholars, and business practitioners from across the globe. Before Kresge, food service was located at Cowie Hall, a temporary structure built by the US Navy and sold to the School after World War II. Kresge was a... View Details
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Mark your calendars! HBS Executive Education reunions are back on campus!
friends, you'll stay informed about the latest business trends and best practices. This year's program includes the latest thought leadership from faculty and guest speakers on topics ranging from digital strategy and innovation to the impact of View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Cities and states are feeling the financial pain of this recession more quickly than in past downturns after pandemic-induced lockdowns swiftly decimated sales tax revenue that helps fund their operations. In fact, new research finds that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
recognized the river as a “Heritage River” in part because of its importance to the inland waterways that facilitated the fur trade for centuries. In 1989, Ontario established this waterway as the French River Provincial Park. Water is one of Canada’s most important... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
treatment centers in the country. Paul’s experience led him to make a gift during his 25th Reunion to endow a fund to benefit the School’s Health Care Initiative. Given the fund’s initial success, he recently made a significant additional... View Details
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
announced earlier this month intention to join megapartners Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase on some still mysterious project in the fastest-growing market of them all, health care. These stories from our archive suggest the great impact Amazon has exerted on the... View Details
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George Pierce Baker Courtyard | About
Baker was a graduate of Harvard College, where he taught economics from 1928 until 1936, when he joined the HBS faculty. He served in the army during World War II, and throughout his Harvard career, held a variety of influential... View Details
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Stamps Reading Room | About
gift from the charitable foundation of E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) and Penelope W. Stamps funded the meticulous restoration of Baker Library’s historic lobby and reading room during the building’s 2003–05 renovation. The gift also... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms. "But a higher priority was my girlfriend, Ann, who had just dumped me." While his initial advances into the VC world were thwarted, the move paid off romantically when... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials The Chase Sapphire Reserve card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016. But what would be JP Morgan's next act be? State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders Index funds are the major... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING TRIO: Bishop, Murphy, and Serafini stay in shape. Three HBS students are out to set a world record by scaling the seven tallest mountains on seven continents in seven months — all to raise $5 million to help fight... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
Seegull coauthored a policy paper, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and others, focused on engaging the federal government in impact investing to achieve social and environmental outcomes. "That opened my eyes to the View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives... View Details