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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
“Imagine if we can go from coast to coast with autonomous trucks in two days,” says Lu, noting that using a single human driver for that route would take more than five days. For TuSimple, successfully alleviating the strain on the labor market requires not just better... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
operations in several cities, leading to more than $950,000 in financing. “Rarely do financial institutions in the US invest in Black women at the $1 million level, especially when the underlying assets don’t hold much value,” says Dlodlo. CDFIs, which range from banks... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
Clubs News Clubs News HBSAB Virtual Case Event Explores Black New Venture Competition As second-year students at HBS, Kimberly Foster (MBA 2020) and Tyler Simpson (MBA 2020) created the inaugural Black New View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
majority recalled being encouraged in entrepreneurial ventures from a young age, the “proverbial lemonade stand,” Kraus says. For Kraus, these women and their stories are key in encouraging other women to enter the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
and everyone, literally everyone, was asking him to be their tech cofounder to start a business (that's a common thing at HBS too when you're technical) and 2) While at Bridgewater, he had used SharePoint to create something that... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
need. This is often the biggest weakness in entrepreneurship. Many people, especially tech people, lead with a solution in search of a problem. I also often see entrepreneurs leap from the see stage to the View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
discovering materials that will make carbon capture more efficient. His company, Carbon Vacuum, won the 2022 New Venture Competition’s Tough Tech Prize. The core of that work is called a techno-economic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
venture capital panelists tackled two questions posed by the moderator, HBS professor Bill Sahlman: What are the opportunities in clean, green energy? And what big issues stand in the way of those opportunities? There’s no shortage of... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) and Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985) (photo by Kathryn Elsesser) Don't let its name fool you: the Women's Venture Capital Fund is about profitability, and not social activism. Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) and Edith... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
venture capital firm Tech Square Ventures, sees a solution in the efficiency gains that widespread new technologies inevitably achieve and the tech sector’s embrace of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
Neil Rimer (MBA 1991) could have been a San Francisco venture capitalist. He worked there once; it would have been easy enough to open his own shop and join the horde converging on the town's buzziest tech... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Highly Energetic
The fourth annual Energy Symposium at HBS in October brought together industry executives, venture capitalists, and consultants to discuss the sector’s challenges and opportunities. Winds of change are turning hearts and minds as well as... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
lost some of their charm when set down on paper. She eventually left her tech job at Udacity to focus on building a way to capture them. “I wanted to find a way to make it easy for my parents to share these stories, and I wanted it to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Attention, HBS Entrepreneurs!
Venture capitalists Patrick Chung (MBA 2004) and Harry Weller (MBA 1998) are prime movers behind the Experiment Fund, launched to support innovators or current students who are leading Cambridge, Massachusetts View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
intending to stay with that idea or that team. But some of those teams do stay together afterwards, as is often the case with the MS/MBA version of bootcamp called Tech Venture Immersion. STUDENTS READY TO... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Jun 2017
- News
A 'Pillar' of Entrepreneurship
Photo courtesy of Russ Wilcox Photo courtesy of Russ Wilcox Serial entrepreneur Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995), whose ventures have included E-Ink, Transatomic Power and new life sciences startup, Piper Therapeutics, has joined Pillar, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Cyberposium 15
Last November’s Cyberposium, titled “Navigating the Digital Storm,” marked the fifteenth anniversary of what many call the premier on-campus tech gathering in the United States. Organized by the HBS student-run TechMedia Club, the event... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
law of what was done commonly by VCs at the time,” says Fenwick-Smith, who had private equity know-how but had never been involved in creating venture funds. That lack of direct experience gave him the freedom to create a fund... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Finish What You Start-up
college, coming out of business school––we have ourselves puffed up in a way that the reality of the world is going to crush in some way. “There was an advantage, in some ways, to being a startup in the Midwest. As I was getting out of HBS, it was 2000. It was the... View Details