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- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
the HBS New Venture Competition is designed to support both students and alumni on their entrepreneurial journey. Alumni pursuing new business and social-impact ventures participated in the alumni competition, which was hosted by 17 HBS... View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
of all, the studies show. The findings are detailed in the paper Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men, published in the March 2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Our paper provides... View Details
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Faculty Mentors | Research Associates
Professor Jung Koo Kang Assistant Professor of Business Administration Shirley Lu Assistant Professor of Business Administration Joseph Pacelli Gerald Schuster Associate Professor of Business Administration Yuan Zou Assistant Professor Hellman Faculty Fellow View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
cross-cultural communication strategies. Module 2 will examine strategies that founders can undertake to identify key technical and business talent to develop and grow their companies. The third module deals with sources of financing for... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
course moving the whole country forward," said Andrea Silbert, of the Center for Women & Enterprise. A study by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, she said, found that countries that were View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
hundred students, professionals, and alumni with business interests in Africa attended the event, which served as a forum for understanding the reasons behind Africa's continuing loss of intellectual capital. Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana's former View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
3 Insights from My First Year at HBS
ripe and unripened version that I will be testing in South Africa. A Rock Summer Fellowship from HBS provided me with funding so I could pursue this venture. I have already been applying what I have learned from marketing, finance and... View Details
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
government intervention." This is also a fascinating entrepreneurial story. The beginnings of MME lie with case protagonist Ryland Utlaut (the group's president) and ten other farmers, who put together seed money of $25,000 in 2002... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
1977) is chairman and CEO of Buenos Aires-based Velox Group, a privately held organization with a line of supermarkets, banks, and finance companies spanning five South American countries. He notes, "You need to be prescient, nimble, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
job within Allstate’s leadership development program in Chicago. She later pivoted to personal finance startup NerdWallet in San Francisco, where she realized that colleagues who had the internal strategy jobs she aspired to had MBA... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
An International Perspective
School “opened my eyes to a whole new spectrum of opportunities” in the field of financing and building entrepreneurial energy services companies. His most recent focus as managing director at Houston-based... View Details
- Profile
Jessica Kramer
into finance, but into her own values. “I got a front-row seat to the financial crisis of 2008,” Jessica says. But even with the crisis aside, she began to wonder if finance was the right fit for her. “I saw that my boss was doing exactly... View Details
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Rakhshan Zahid
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? I came to HBS to switch tracks from finance to starting my own business. We have a course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, and in every class, we... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
becoming an entrepreneur, and the one on which past entrepreneurial research has focused, going all the way back to Adam Smith, Joseph Schumpeter, Israel Kirzner, and other pillars of economics. In my own research, I also approached... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
provide our alumni with opportunities to learn about, explore, and pursue their interests in the areas of entrepreneurship and venture capital, to bring together our entrepreneurially minded and venture investing–oriented alumni, and to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
experiential learning, immersion experiences, and team-based entrepreneurial projects are all on the right track.” Dawson grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and was the first in his family to attend college. He majored in business and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
friend and CassVita cofounder, Nembu Emmanuel, saw that scenario as “a space for innovation” that could improve the lives of farmers by maximizing the amount of produce they can bring to market. Ajanoh and Emmanuel leveraged their engineering degrees and View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Danny Lipsitz
same is true in business. My experience at HBS has only underscored that.” After graduation, Danny remained in New York (“I can’t see myself living anywhere else – I have a lifelong love affair with the city”) where he worked for Citigroup and lived with three other... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
connect, and mobilize current and future business leaders to address climate change and other environmental challenges.” In her career spanning more than 20 years, Lynn has held a number of leading-edge climate-focused and entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
the conference attracted more than 800 women to the HBS campus. The panel on entrepreneurship at which Shukla spoke was moderated by HBS professor Lynda Applegate. It focused on the unique challenges women face in starting a company, particularly in getting View Details