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- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
right in the face. From overflowing landfills to choked waterways, the consequences of mounting landfills are impossible to ignore. This is why visiting Dalmia Polypro’s Dry Waste Facility in Mumbai during our IFC course was a revelation.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
You don’t know what you don’t know—and almost by definition new entrepreneurial ventures need a helping hand from established partners if they hope to succeed. “Startups suffer from what researchers call ‘liability of newness,’” says... View Details
- 21 Oct 2021
- News
DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
Photo courtesy Drive By DraftKings A recent article in the Boston Globe reported that the venture capital firm Drive by DraftKings, led by Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), had raised its first venture fund. View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
Starting a successful business is often considered the hardest thing entrepreneurs do—but growing an existing venture may be even more difficult. Many companies get stuck on a plateau that inhibits their ability to grow: a scale stopper. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
capitalists could not identify with the vision of Birchbox. “The men would ask their secretaries or ask us to wait while they called their wives.” Barna joined fellow HBS alumnae Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), cofounder and CEO of Hello... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes believes, is an example of how GM... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
best understood at close range - Clark announced that the School is actively investigating the establishment of a small HBS research facility based in Hong Kong. "The global nature of business today has created a remarkable set of... View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
venture capital investor Jacqueline Morby called him soon thereafter. She and husband Jeffrey Morby (MBA 1961) were launching a nonprofit to fight Alzheimer’s and invited McCance to join them, along with... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights
percent in fiscal 2022. The value of the School’s endowment (after the net impact of distributions from the endowment and the addition of new gifts) was $5.1 billion, unchanged from fiscal 2022. Capital investments in campus View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
misses.” Those misses have been pushed into the shadows by the hits in Breyer’s portfolio, including a once-little startup called Facebook. Breyer met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in April 2005. Within 48 hours he knew he wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
dreaming up innovative solutions to unique problems. Analysts and programmers may also underestimate their own capacity to make mistakes. Testing, for its part, calls for a whole different set of skills. Testers must pay strict attention... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights
with 33.6 percent in fiscal 2021. The value of the School’s endowment (after the net impact of distributions from the endowment and the addition of new gifts) decreased to $5.1 billion, from $5.3 billion a year earlier. Capital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
usually required in a venture capital presentation. “A lot of companies that probably shouldn't get funding will get it” As enticing as crowdfunding is as a concept, it may ultimately have little power to shake up the investing world,... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
portions of its profits in the business—through research and development, market expansion, capital expenditures, and most importantly (and often forgotten) development of talented people and leaders. This virtuous circle creates value... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding... View Details