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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
multiplex. Why bother, when you can watch a movie in your “home theater,” complete with high-definition screen and surround sound? Last year was dubbed “year of the missing moviegoer” by the Los Angeles Times, with box office receipts... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608083 A.J. Washington: Retaining an NFL Star Harvard Business School Case 909-033 General Manager Luke Kolville, of the Los Angeles Spartans, struggles with the best approach to negotiate a long-term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
funds or via angel networks, have to recognize that this is a real opportunity to make money,” Dorsen says. The fund is making progress on that front. The Women’s Venture Capital Fund investors were once predominantly women. Now almost 50... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
plan for Polished captured the interest of angel investors, not the big-ticket venture capitalists that some of her classmates enticed, reports, “Most of my contacts in some way, shape, or form were initiated at HBS, especially in terms... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
in the apparel industry. The afternoon featured a presentation by William A. Sahlman, Dimitri V. d'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, titled "Deals-Lessons I Have LearnedÉ Confessions of an Angel Investor,"... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their initial infusion of cash from various View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Photography by Tori Soper Rodney Quainton (MBA 1970) had always wanted to be a banker. At Yale (Class of 1962), courses on money management and banking attracted him. “At that time,” he recalls, “banking was considered an honorable profession.” Right out of college, he... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
Tank ($300,000 for 15 percent of the company) and an undisclosed amount of angel funding. The Question: Traditional card display stands won’t work for Lovepop’s creations, in part because the stands only show the front of a card. They... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
banking and financial sector. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809111 KenCall—Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya? Harvard Business School Case 809-114 Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of raising money. Morrell: Without an influx of VC... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an angel group and the other from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
“You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” Add it all up and you have an early-stage funding problem, with marine-energy projects proving too capital-intensive for venture capitalists and too risky for private equity. “There are increasing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
worked at a Roxbury-based housing development company. Willis has spent his career focused on urban development projects and continues to run his real estate consultancy firm in the Los Angeles area. From that first welcome party in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because of an abundance of existing venues,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
villages across ten countries and measure our results in each of those key intervention areas. We raised about $130 million from 64 angel investors in our first round of funding and have been on the ground for four years. Since then we’ve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
potential. “Each year we take only about five to twelve entrepreneurs per country,” says Ko. Once chosen, Endeavor provides “anything and everything” that they need to succeed. For example, if they need financing, Endeavor introduces them to its network of View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Detroit to Los Angeles in 1972, adds that the current stagnation can also be attributed to "a lack of hits" on the part of the major labels and increased competition for the consumer entertainment dollar. In 1996, efforts by big stars... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
constellations to ground station networks of satellite dishes, to new thrusters on satellites to asteroid mining,” he says. Joe Landon sees it, too. In addition to his work at Planetary Resources, Landon is chair of the Space Angels... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
did. The assault went on for hours. Bradley took the list with him the next day on a flight to Los Angeles and found a way to frame what had just happened in a concept recalled from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey... View Details