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- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
exacerbate the tension between short-term performance and long-term success of the corporation…. While different in form, this hedge fund pressure raises management and board issues similar to those... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
dialysis device, a femtech device using genomics to enable women’s care, a biosensing wearable to prevent dehydration, and an oxygen sensor for personalized oncology care. They have collectively raised more than $485M in View Details
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
crisis is the most urgent problem facing our planet. It is critical that we accelerate the flow of investment into green technology.” As one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists, John Doerr thinks big. Working side by side with entrepreneurs, he has... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
environmental standards that require coordinated complementary investments by various types of private adopter. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2142085 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-089 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Athena Ko
When I was younger I was told I could do anything and have everything if I put my mind to it. So in the first thirty-odd years I went to Oxford, Harvard, had a good investment banking career, successfully exited a start up in 2006, and partnered in a hedge View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
bring them, and how to do you build this out in a rational manner that investors will believe; building a business plan; developing budgets and milestones; intellectual property considerations and licensing/creation. When, and How, to View Details
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
their careers. The Competition is designed for contemplated and embryonic businesses. The Business Track of the NVC welcomes all ideas across all sectors. However, plans to create hedge funds, investments, private equities or venture capital View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
protagonists have participated in over half the class discussions. The first two modules of the course address key issues faced by entrepreneurs: how much money should be raised at each stage; when should it be raised; what is a... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
C. Bruce Johnstone, MBA 1966
Many generous donors support the School. Some go further, assuming responsibility for fundraising at HBS. As HBS Fund Chair from 1998 to 2003, Bruce Johnstone led almost 1,000 volunteers each year and helped set a succession of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Growth Fund, run by CEO Kevin Hall (MBA 1996), to raise a $30 million fund dedicated to starting and growing new charter organizations in Tennessee. One of the Growth Fund's grantees is Melissa... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
school , they would have up to 10 years to use the scholarship money to fund additional education. Some might choose apprenticeships, others trade schools, and still others two- or four-year colleges. Even more than money, Wilfong wanted... View Details
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Eryn Schultz
big impact. Watching some of my classmates develop an idea, recruit a team, and raise funding for a business idea made me realize that I have the tools to build something: either inside an existent company... View Details
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Michael Maples
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... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
technology that wicks away moisture, absorbs odor, and protects clothing—all in one layer of thin, breathable cotton. In 2011, its first year, over 20,000 units were sold through retailers across the US and Canada. midwest and central us EFP View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
people every year, is not a high priority for either the public or pharmaceutical companies. To stimulate novel treatment ideas and to raise the venture funding needed to get those ideas to market, he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
than 60,000 financings dating back to 1987, representing some 98 percent of the pool of deals in that period. Coats calls it “the most complete and accurate database of US-based venture capital financings in the world.” In 2010, Correlation completed a first closing of... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
capabilities. Together, they wrote a business plan to do four independent features and set up a venture capital fund — Front Street Films — to raise the money to finance those productions. “It was the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
eyeglasses that can be calibrated by the user to circumvent the need for an optometrist. The second, VisionSpring, follows a different approach, working to build a network of entrepreneurs who sell eyeglasses in their communities. Rather than View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social Finance US,” explains Palandjian.... View Details