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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
reinsurance is so expensive is because the cost of capital is unfairly high. When reinsurers sell securities to raise money, buyers expect high returns, just like from any other equity investment, Froot... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
comprised only a fifth of the entire student body (at 22 years old, she was also one of the youngest). “Because there were so few of us, it was easier to catch the attention of whichever professor, to have the chance to speak when we View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
economic reforms. Guided by Cohen, the firm has emerged over the past three decades as one of the world’s dominant private-equity investment groups, raising or advising funds totaling more than $20 billion. At the peak of his game, Cohen... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs
According to a recent study by the venture capital research firm VentureOne, even in average economic times, women CEOs typically receive just 6 percent of the $69 billion available in venture capital in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
spend more time thinking about what a venture could become if things go well as opposed to worrying too much about what could go wrong. Jeff Bussgang (MBA 1995) Flybridge Capital Partners HBS Senior Lecturer Missed Meal Ticket When I was... View Details
- Fast Answer
Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
organization raises charitable funds to invest equity and debt in enterprises serving low-income people Ashoka - international organization that promotes social entrepreneurship by affiliating individual social entrepreneurs... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the enterprise in which I had... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
crisis. The program featured speakers Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at HBS, and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who talked about their latest books, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, and IMPACT:... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
we are doing really counts.” With a mission “to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship,” CWE provides education, training, technical assistance, and access to capital to women who want... View Details
Gil Addo
The Huffington Post named RubiconMD one of the “Five Companies Defining the Future of Healthcare” and, in 2020, AllianceBernstein ranked RubiconMD number 12 on its list of the top 25 private companies disrupting healthcare. The company View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019
last two years: “(O)ver 35 new female general partners were added in 2018; 200 female venture capitalists and founders delivered more than 1,000 hours of mentorship; upwards of 1,000 founders pledged their commitment to diversity within their teams, boards and View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
to the School’s continuing success,” said Roe Stamps, who in 1984 cofounded Summit Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm that has raised over $5.5 billion in View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
Michelin private label tires for its replacement business in 1965, that should have been the time to exit. In 1969, when Goodrich realized it couldn't make money and had a chance to sell to Michelin, it should have but it didn't. And Firestone kept putting more View Details
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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds | Baker Library
Help Center Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds How can I create a list of start-up or venture capital backed companies in a particular industry? In Capital IQ : Mouse... View Details
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were "nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an ancient form has been adapted... View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
severe as they seemed.” Bernstein advises startups that are facing a dwindling talent pool to raise cash—and act quickly. Finding capital when it's least needed can provide a firm with more stability, as... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
my time at HBS to explore how impact investing funds can help scale innovative solutions to permanent supportive housing,” he said. Kwame Assoku (MBA 2026)Kwame was born in Ghana and raised in New Jersey and New York. Throughout his... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The cross-country analysis indicates that a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace