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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
Massachusetts. During the bubble, the most valued skill was the presumed ability to predict what hot concept could go public fast. Now the pendulum has swung back to valuing entrepreneurial skills first and foremost. There’s also a... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
entrepreneurial businesses (www.nvca.org/) and fuels prosperity. Why fix what ain’t broke? Alas, Congress didn’t fix the AMT problem; lawmakers just patched it for one year. Expect the tax debate to resurface in the not-too-distant... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
individuals are losing more than a third of their retirement savings to fees each year, Puritz says. “We want to show people how to retire with more. That is our mission.” It made sense that the pair would find an entrepreneurial solution... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sahlman Heads External Relations
specialist in the investment and financing decisions made in new ventures, Sahlman developed the second-year elective Entrepreneurial Finance and has taught the course to over... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
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Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
In emerging markets, where traditional credit scores are rare, how can lenders decide who is creditworthy? Just ask, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the for-profit Entrepreneurial View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
decided that she didn’t have the right technology skills to make it viable. It was in her second year that she discovered how her finance background could help her show others how to align portfolios with principles. Building on the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
companies to be formed, and the capital markets have been more than willing to finance the competitive onslaught," Kester observed. "These changes in the economy are being led by our graduates and are also reflected in our students'... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
billion in equity financing in 2017, while their Silicon Alley cousins raised $1.5 billion, or 15 percent more. (CB Insights was in the first FIL graduating class.) The total number of equity financings was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
Invention is geared toward three key audiences. Entrepreneurs can use the book as a guide through the intricacies of seeking a capital investor and to understand that entrepreneurial success depends on many factors — money is just the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
the Valley's "Band of Angels," a group of entrepreneurs who are recycling their capital and energies into new ventures. This month the Center's first two intellectual products will make their debut in Sahlman's Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
service." The three men—who have experience with tech companies such as Instagram, MakerBot, Microsoft, and Vostu, which Kushner cofounded—are backed by $40 million in venture capital. Said Nazemi, who first flashed his entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
comprised only a fifth of the entire student body (at 22 years old, she was also one of the youngest). “Because there were so few of us, it was easier to catch the attention of whichever professor, to have the chance to speak when we raised our hand,” she says. In her... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that included management consulting,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
their careers. “For us, the answer was partly ‘let’s build something that’s different than what you see out there, and let’s build a firm that can succeed.’ So, that’s what we’ve done with Avance,” says Perez, the firm’s managing partner. View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
by 300 percent in one year by altering the company's profit structure and leveraging its balance sheet. Among other reengineering moves, Robinson reduced fixed costs significantly by centralizing the firm's financial operations. Eager to apply his numbers magic to a... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey