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- 15 May 2020
- News
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find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm's first fund is the New Protein Fund, dedicated to growing companies producing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Reunions Local Club Contacts Special-Interest Alumni Groups Alumni Career Services - a source of career information and job listings, as well as a source of candidates for positions in your company Executive... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
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Many Rivers to Cross
of international funding sources for the estimated $50 billion to $60 billion project and work to develop a feasibility study that is focused on the trunk line of the system, the Amazon-Putumayo-Pacific... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Constant Inspiration
being a student at HBS—the cases, the campus, my classmates,” recalls Guidera. “But my post-HBS experience has been equally meaningful. I’ve moved around a lot, and the HBS and Harvard networks have been such a great source of friendships... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
Business needs to care about the performance of students in the public education system, from preschool through college. It is the primary source of future employees for every business. It’s also where the vast majority of teachers of... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
Adrianna Ma (MBA 2000) Adrianna Ma (MBA 2000) has been member of the HBS Fund Investors Society, which recognizes leadership giving, for the past five years. “I had an unconventional background and I’m grateful that the School took a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
received a boost from Russia’s launching of a space satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. This was a shock because Russia’s scientific prowess was not taken seriously at the time. The United States committed to putting a man on the moon in the next decade. Government View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
provides an excellent source of pure, natural artesian water. “From the very inception of Ka-Viti Water, we've been committed to giving back to the people of Fiji. A few years ago when I was in Fiji, we were working with the local schools... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
initial venture fund of $60 million (at that point the largest private equity fund ever raised), the new firm began doing deals in a wide range of enterprises. But in the early 1980s, as the VC business... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion annually in projects and programs... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors.... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
relying on] traditional sources of capital. It’s family offices and it’s funding partners that are looking for a stable yield.” Greener pastures, in every sense of the word. View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
computing and open-source software allow bootstrapping entrepreneurs like Bahadir to do more with less. And funding sources are more diverse than ever. Unger, for example, has raised seed money from View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and received a $25,000 grant to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
and insightful, it needs to be rolled out through student organizations (clubs, the Greek system, etc.) and funded by nonprofits or grants. Another choice would be a freemium model, but that will be difficult to do without alienating the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
an especially promising area for studying the effects of top executives' social capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech, it can take eight to ten years to developa product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring it to market," says Higgins.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
playbook, but it has cultivated an additional source of revenue: the sale of conservation easements. Lyme Timber buys pieces of land targeted by conservation groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land, which pay... View Details