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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Calder-Wang found that adding a woman to a team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this... View Details
- 28 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
and scaling. In the short term, our objective is to create a foundation for raising a $25M Fund II, as a continuation of our proof-of-concept strategy; however, our long-term vision is to build a firm that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal Reserve potentially poised to... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
and their attendant costs.” This April, before the IRA was passed, Banyan raised an $8.2 million Series A round led by VoLo Earth Ventures with additional investment from Ulu Ventures, Vista Verde Capital, Nomadic Venture Partners and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
Press). What does this mean? That governments and DFIs will not be able to ride to the rescue and prevent further degradation in outcomes. Expecting these international actors to fund everything is not realistic. Yet according to Sifma... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
to business, the money and skills necessary to fund a decarbonized future, and different approaches to building a just and skilled workforce. Tufano’s session on financing highlighted the growing sense of urgency in finding sufficient... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
outcomes. Public interest in the illness could also drive funding toward breast cancer research. Breast Cancer Foundation NZ launched a media campaign to spotlight the disease, and Smyth’s mother gave her daughter permission to talk about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
what you have done?" Williams asked. "No," admitted Tracy. "I'm going to change that," he said. In its first few years, the fund concentrated on raising money to support research, even hiring a research... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
these international actors to fund everything is just not realistic. However, according to Sifma research, more than $120 trillion (with a T) in private money from insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, sovereign funds, and... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
participation from the private sector. This raised the question of how to persuade urban residents that price increases might be necessary to support the burgeoning population—and how to make them understand that public-private... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
legislators who decline to raise taxes and, instead, attempt to control these costs, face three choices: Cut Medicaid expenses through reductions in enrollment, benefits, and provider reimbursement; cut other state expenditures for the... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
in a way that would convince high school administrators and students to invest their time in a new program, and, of course, raising money for everything from test-graders to marketing. When funds were tight,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
without the involvement of any central authority. The blockchain technology had given rise to smart contracts (embedded computer codes that would automatically execute a particular set of actions), and initial coin offerings (an unregulated means by which View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS | MBA
The HBS Summer Fellows program allows students to explore career options during the summer between their first and second year. Funding is available for students joining existing organizations, as well as for those founding new ventures... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
public schools, which the Scheels’ four children have all attended. Scheel’s wife, Susan, was an early leader of Palo Alto Partners in Education (PiE), a foundation that provides supplemental funds to support worthwhile programs—such as... View Details
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were "nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an ancient form has been adapted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
host of Web-based social enterprises (WEBSEs): nonprofit information hubs, online giving directories, click-to-donate sites, workplace-giving centers, charity shopping malls and auctions, and volunteer clearinghouses. These start-ups are mobilizing philanthropic View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
producers. Operational efficiencies will allow Gold Rush Vinyl—which started with $750,000 raised from family, friends, and an SBA loan, to cover the expensive pressing equipment—to reduce wait time from an industry standard of twelve to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
2014, York Street Partners will launch its asset management platform, and with it private equity, real estate, and fixed income funds—none of which currently exist in the Sri Lankan market. Future plans include exploring a venture capital View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
industry players such as the major oil companies? Should he try raising money from the managers of the sovereign funds in countries such as Singapore, Kuwait, and China? How should the firm work with its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace