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- 17 Mar 2022
- News
Venture Capital & Angel Investing - What We Know and Still Need to Learn
Keywords: Angel investing
- July 1990
- Background Note
Note on Acquiring Bank Credit
By: Amar Bhide and Howard H. Stevenson
Outlines the issues and alternatives faced by start-up businesses in attracting bank credit. The topics covered are how to lay the groundwork for establishing a banking relationship, selecting a bank, preparing an application, and negotiating a loan. View Details
Bhide, Amar, and Howard H. Stevenson. "Note on Acquiring Bank Credit." Harvard Business School Background Note 391-010, July 1990.
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups... View Details
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
urban Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid... View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business
I told her that I was pursuing my MBA at HBS, she told me I could start the following week. I was the company’s first full-time employee, and I went from an office assistant to the V.P. of Sales in only a few months. The startup... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
Immelt has been busy disassembling significant elements of the conglomerate that he began leading four days before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Immelt’s goal was to make GE more streamlined, stripping away finance and consumer... View Details
- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy
process was the financing of projects. I wanted to learn more about that aspect, so I decided to apply to business school because I thought there would be no better place to learn about it. I decided to come to HBS and there have been so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
that’s what I wanted to pursue for the summer,” said Kaelyn, who accepted an internship in strategic finance at Nature’s Fynd, a startup that created a new alternative protein. Adding value as a career... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS
The work both renewed my excitement to come back to HBS and to aggressively pursue healthcare coursework in EC year. I focused almost entirely on healthcare and entrepreneurship coursework during the fall term, including working for a healthcare View Details
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Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) - Recruiting
perspective. When she asked me what I liked most about my finance job, my answer—running ads, planning events, and creating promotional items—had nothing to do with finance. She told me that what I was describing was marketing. That... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
financing and build a network of 25,000 vacation properties.” VacationSpot's success appealed to Murch's former colleagues at Expedia, who bought it in March 2000 for $82 million in stock options and brought Murch back on board as vice... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
creation of new products for the welfare of American soldiers. For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation, an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, he fostered the development of startup companies... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
because it was completely different.” She is grateful for the unexpected opportunity to explore a new career path she might never have considered otherwise. “I developed ideas for startup companies that use artificial intelligence in... View Details
- Profile
David A. Frankel
important realization. “Three years into it, it became clear to me that I wasn’t made to be a corporate guy and work for a boss,” he said. With his sudden wealth, Frankel had begun investing in South African startups as an angel investor.... View Details
- Profile
Matthew Mariner
evaluated entrepreneurs, Matthew now wants to be an entrepreneur evaluating opportunities. "My summer internship will be either with a startup — or I'll start something myself." With entrepreneurship in mind, Matthew had learned... View Details
- October 1998 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Cityspace
Cityspace, a kiosk-based tourism services company, is facing a number of challenges to its development. The most pressing is the need to raise capital. View Details
Kuemmerle, Walter, and Chad S Ellis. "Cityspace." Harvard Business School Case 899-073, October 1998. (Revised March 2004.)
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
genocide. As his goals for starting and running educational ventures expanded, he set his sights on HBS to deepen his finance and leadership skills and to acquire a more strategic worldview. “Coming from a nonprofit background, I figured... View Details