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- 17 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)
and the investing world. However, having grown up in mainland China, studied in the US and Europe, and gained an undergraduate degree in Foreign Service, I firmly believe that there is a bigger world out there, and that I should venture... View Details
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
90 business and life science leaders and 49 alumni Blavatnik Fellows can provide tactical and strategic guidance. Past fellows have created companies including devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, consumer health, and health IT and raised more than $500 million through... View Details
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
in raising investment capital. Magic happens within 20 meters Startups within 20 meters of each other influence each other the most in the choice and implementation of web technologies. According to the study, working within that short... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 21 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
government intervention." This is also a fascinating entrepreneurial story. The beginnings of MME lie with case protagonist Ryland Utlaut (the group's president) and ten other farmers, who put together seed money of $25,000 in 2002... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
ability to spot promising investments that could help advance therapies, a personal passion that will drive the work, and a very useful penchant for perfectionism. It’s clear as day,” Payne told him. “It has to be you.” It was not what... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- Web
Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment
investment of $57 billion. [31] 2019 Global Agricultural Emissions Innovation Several types of innovations can reduce the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions and facilitate its adaptation to climate change. Production innovations such as... View Details
- 06 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan
so entails committing to paper a vision of the factors that will affect the success or failure of the enterprise. People take the exercise very seriously and get emotionally invested in what they produce. In that context, the article was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
CNET Networks, Bonnie was a managing director at Tiger Management, a New York-based investment firm. Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999), Symbol Capital Mr. Burgstone is Managing Director of Symbol Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, where he... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About
provides access to the resources, programming, and community necessary to help startups succeed. Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is contributing to a thriving start-up community in Allston by seeding the campus... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Planeteer Capital Planeteer Capital is a new Climate Tech venture capital firm that invests in Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups. Planeteer invests globally, across hardware and... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
sticker from the nonprofit. While the women discuss their respective micro-enterprises and how they might invest their pooled savings, Cruz’s adopted daughter plays with some children nearby. For Trickle Up president and CEO Nathalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
they were likely to stop investing altogether. Overall, Gross found that participants were most given to produce designs that were at least 70 percent original when they faced just one or two competitors—the “Goldilocks” zone where... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
pressures. It can be a brutal situation." Indeed, as the Wall Street Journal's front page proclaimed last fall in the wake of the downturn in Asia, overcapacity has become "a dire and obvious problem for countries around the world." Typically, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
aspect you have missed or overlooked or misjudged. The best way around that is to have a roomful of colleagues smarter than you, to help figure out the best solution. —Lawrence Honig (MBA 1975) Back to top “Hambrecht & Quist” The San Francisco View Details