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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Faculty Faculty Co-Directors Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Chaired Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School. She is a Research Associate at the View Details

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30 Jun 2020
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Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development. Capitalism at Risk is published by Harvard Business Review Press. Bower and Paine discussed key themes and business examples in our... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Judging | New Venture Competition

Partner, Unicorn Growth Capital Brian Hollins Founder & Managing Partner, Collide Capital Daniel Nowiszewski Partner, Highland Capital Partners Diego Rodriguez Board Member,... View Details

January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
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Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper

Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details

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24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

financing private ventures, it can also offer unique rewards. Harvard Business School associate professor Walter Kuemmerle highlighted some of the issues confronting entrepreneurs and investors in a case discussion on Gray Security... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA

entities include all for-profit and nonprofit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, search funds, and other investment vehicles. A faculty... View Details

Summer 2020
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Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn

By: Josh Lerner and Ramana Nanda

Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture model. At the same time, venture capital financing also has real limitations in its... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Financing; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Technological Innovation

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30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

of all, the studies show. The findings are detailed in the paper Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men, published in the March 2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

deductions or credits. "Banks are extremely chary about extending capital to them. Even if they do, banks charge cannabis firms hefty fees." These inefficiencies are compounded by a dearth of capital. Banks face a severe... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Tough Tech Ventures Course Number 1727 Associate Professor Joshua Lev Krieger Senior Lecturer Jim Matheson Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Paper Course Overview Tough tech View Details

22 Oct 2012
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Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

companies operate and how government invests in them. And yet, the business world has been slow to catch up to these changes, says Associate Professor Aldo Musacchio, a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Sep 2023
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HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

boards and in C-suites of corporate America are occupied by Latinos despite this community representing 19% of the US population. 2. Less than 5% of venture capital is directed toward Latino entrepreneurs.... View Details

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

investor, cases in the course frame many of the critical opportunities and challenges associated with activating exponential growth and managing through the extrapolation phase as a venture scales. Scaling... View Details

01 Oct 2024
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How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

executive suites, start-up firms, and even entire professions and industries. Within finance, in particular, decisionmakers’ political views influence investment returns, credit ratings, asset allocations, loan terms, and bond yields, says Elisabeth Kempf, the Jaime... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

March 2015 (Revised September 2016)
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Terrapin Laboratory

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Joseph B. Fuller

Describes the formation and rapid growth of a drug testing company. The company needs to decide whether to enter the painkiller testing market, in addition to growing its drug treatment center business. The associated teaching materials provide students the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Strategy; Market Entry; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Expansion; Financing and Loans; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Business Startups; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry

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12 Apr 2023
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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched

Serena Ventures, a fund backed by Williams with an emphasis on startups that make diverse leadership and inclusivity a priority. Rapaport manages a portfolio of close to 60 early-stage investments focused on companies in the health, lifestyle, and fintech sectors. To... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

March 2020 (Revised June 2022)
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GreenLight Fund

By: Brian Trelstad, Julia Kelley and Mel Martin

As Tara Noland, the Executive Director (ED) of GreenLight Cincinnati, reflected on her first few years on the job. Noland had delivered on what she had been hired to do in the city: work with leading philanthropists and nonprofit executives to use data and evidence to... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy; Venture Philanthropy; Replication; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Venture Capital; Social Issues; Decision Making; Analytics and Data Science; Cincinnati

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