Fund Raising - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2024
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Basket Chase

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details

12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments

Lake Como, people had something to hang these ideas on. The name helped create momentum.” Results helped, too. One of the impact investing movement’s earliest highlights was when Mexican microfinance bank Compartamos Banco completed its IPO in April 2007, View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

commercial scale. Verdant, for example, is currently raising funds to develop turbines twice as large for deployment off the coast of Wales, where Smith anticipates generating megawatts of electricity by... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

early detection of gynecological diseases. The Oakland-based company completed its second clinical trial and is now raising Series A funding. Its initial indications focus on identifying conditions that contribute to infertility, such as... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Oct 1998
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A Marketable Skill

50 to 60 percent are regulars. The rest change weekly. "It's like running a hotel with quirky guests who have a variety of weird demands," she notes with a wry smile. Raised in Milwaukee, where her father worked at the Miller brewery,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections

Ties on Investment Bank Affiliation and IPO Success." In research conducted with Ranjay Gulati of Northwestern's Kellogg School, Higgins found that "what matters most when executives are trying to raise money is their professional ties... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Feb 2002
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The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause

members and raise funds for worthy causes. In addition to the Menzies Scholarship, the clubs have recently initiated Nonprofit Fellowships that send CEOs, executive directors, and other top managers to HBS... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2004
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Finding a Balance

deals with ethics, governance, and legal issues. “At that point the case changed to focus on tensions between pricing as a reward for investment in R&D versus making a product available to poor people who will die without it,” says Deshpandé. “It View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Nov 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

constituent organizations included: A focus on fundraising. The Lincoln Center Corporate Fund raises money for the whole Lincoln campus. Corporate donations go directly to Lincoln Center constituents, and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor of Business Administration, to explore the post-pandemic... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman

of the large funds did raise money last year, so I wouldn’t be surprised if their success represented an unnatural spike in the fundraising cycle. Was it more difficult to View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Mar 2016
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Off Script

(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

challenge was amplified—cofounding Index Ventures in 1996. "If we were going to compete with the best portfolios that were built in Silicon Valley," says Rimer, "we'd have to hunt far and wide across Europe." It's become a popular bet: VC View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

01 Sep 2009
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Remembering “Mr. Harvard”

of Harvard College and of HBS and for many decades was a notable friend and supporter of both the University and the School. Born in Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1901 and raised in Brookline, Gordon, a 1923 Harvard College graduate, took a... View Details

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

fund founded by two HBS MBA's that raised $500,000 to finance a search for a company that they could purchase and then run for the next five to ten years. The case examines the search View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2024
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Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique

The company has raised about $500,000 in funding so far and is readying a Series A round. The Question: Unger and her team at Nix built the biosenser as an analog system, differentiated from the growing... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Oct 2002
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John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

needy families, children, and community groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Eight years later, Batcha established the nonprofit Seed Programs, Inc. (SPI), to continue this vital work after foundation funding had lapsed. “The seed... View Details

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

policies and practices as an unconscious “social defense” to help employees fend off anxieties raised by a 24/7 work culture. Due to the social defense, two beliefs remain unchallenged—the necessity of long work hours and the... View Details