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- 18 Oct 2021
- News
Alumnae-founded Fintech Startup Secures $29M in New Financing
Photo via Harvard Innovation Labs Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA 1998), cofounder of Now, recently spoke to Yahoo Finance Live to discuss its recent $29 million funding round. Hodgson cofounded Now in 2010 with former Georgia gubernatorial... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria
explains Nwuneli. AACE’s product line includes spices, spreads, sauces, and other foods grown in Nigeria. The company is one of two ventures managed by the couple’s investment firm, Sahel Capital. The other is the $100 million Fund for... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist
nostalgic: to find and fund the best water entrepreneurs in the world. “The water industry spends $3.6 trillion per year in infrastructure, waste water, irrigation and food production, plumbing and industrial needs as well as chip... View Details
Brittany Davis
Brittany is a General Partner at Backstage, identifying and investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies for the fund and Accelerator. She has led investments in the fund, as well as the selection of 24 companies into Backstage... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
International Perspective Series: Financing the MBA
Join a member of the HBS MBA Financial Aid team to learn about funding opportunities for international students at HBS as well as information on the visa process. View Details
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
successful health care entrepreneurs University of Miami Professor of Orthopedics and Bioengineering, Lee Kaplan , MD Visiting Lecturer Ben Creo , M.Div. Executive Fellow Brian Walker, MPH , Ph.D. in women’s health Overview The View Details
- 03 Aug 2021
- News
Leading Maryland’s Only Black-Owned and -Managed Commercial Bank to Be a Pandemic Resource
bank “not only accepted PPP applications, but his employees went out of their way to help qualified business owners, regardless of whether they were Harbor Bank customers.” The Sun notes that the bank funded 694 loans worth a total of $66... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New York Club Honors Armstrong, Graham
pivotal moments and challenges in their careers. Armstrong spoke of some technology turning points that have created conditions of both crisis and opportunity for business today. In a more personal vein, Graham recalled her initial... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details
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Didier Dumerjean
those feeling confused, burned-out, or otherwise unsure how to approach the summer. Work Experience: Google (Big Tech & Social Impact), Rockefeller Foundation (Equity & Economic Opportunity - Philanthropy), BlackRock (MBA... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
Although plenty has changed for venture capitalists with the slowing of the economy and market upheavals, there are still plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs and those who fund them, said panelists at... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Embracing Digital Transformation
Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan Leaders today, in every sector and around the world, are grappling with the opportunities and challenges of digital innovation—from artificial intelligence to machine learning to data analytics and... View Details
- Profile
Jan Petzel
After scaling Mount Everest in 2013, Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) transformed his personal triumph into an opportunity to raise funds for the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility in the Gokyu... View Details
Keywords: Other Financial Services
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Financial Aid | MBA
scholarships $ 52 M total funds awarded in FY24 $ 93 k average need-based scholarship awarded over two years $ 30–70 k range of majority of scholarships Career Exploration & Support Summer Fellowships Financial support for summer... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
models in distinctive ways, the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF) and the Anti Racism Fund (ARF) are empowering changemakers within communities of color and forging... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
platform. We’ve created a really good marketplace, and match funding is the key that unlocks a lot of the potential.” The Big Give now works by asking big donors—referred to as champions—to put money in a match View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Paul Scharfman
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details
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Accelerating Innovation | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
As social entrepreneurship has taken on increasing prominence over the past two decades, HBS alumni have been at the forefront of change from starting new organizations and embedding an entrepreneurial spirit within established ones to View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
of VCs: We’re going to take a lot of bets early on, and most of those aren’t going to pan out, but the ones that do will be very successful. That was new. “Have VCs gotten too caught up in chasing the cheap experiment sectors? Who will View Details
Keywords: April White