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- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
reliably meet the demand generated by these evolving clean energy technologies. These are but a few of the many opportunities corporate leadership will need to bring into its deliberations on strategy and resource allocation. Also, in... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
four investment funds with approximately $750 million of capital for private equity investments. Most important thing learned at HBS: “About my own limitations. I'm not a very analytical person, so I got a... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
having a hard time getting funded. In fact, only 1 percent of venture capital money was invested in companies run by female CEOs in 2010, the most recent year available according to Dow Jones VentureOne. Not... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
courses, I’ve spent so much time teaching the tools that are based on theory. What is really interesting is that professionals in lots of industries, in particular the VC industry, totally disregard them. Using derived View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
by venture capital in the past decades, there were many failures. But collectively, the companies that did succeed represent a significant fraction of the private-sector jobs in the United States today. The... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
off 2,300 employees and costing the jobs of another 2,000 temporary, contract suppliers’ workers. That action cost the company 700 million euros in sales and 100 million euros... 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 View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
every time," Tecco notes. "It's a great example of using technology to reduce costs and save time." Musing on the risk-reward equation of launching a start-up in the digital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
our capital so that we can get a return on it. Potentially, we can even garner some strategic advantage from the relationships.” When evaluating offshore deals, cost saving isn’t the primary motivating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
efficiency of capital markets, the opaqueness of the groups’ operations, and the abuse of inside information. It is hard not to feel that history... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bloomfield Hills, MI A Taxing Question Regarding his My Two Cents column, “My Beautiful Capital Gain,” in the March issue, I’d ask this of Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970): The money you invested was already taxed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
little envious” when he compares the cost structure of his son’s operation with his own. “I’m a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club,” he stresses, “but I have to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
According to Forbes, the region’s annual loss in food supplies represents 6 percent of the global total. Diferente rescues organic food seen as "imperfect" by the traditional market and sells food baskets at a fraction View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
and CEO of Natalist, a direct-to-consumer fertility company. We talked with Tecco about how the pandemic has impacted the health care startup and venture capital ecosystem. What ideas and companies have seen... View Details