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Sneakers Club Social Impact Club South Asian Business Association Southeast Asia Club Squash Club Sustainability Club T Tech Club Tennis Club Texas Club V Venture Capital & Private Equity Club Volleyball... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
Tech has real social and ethical responsibilities, but we’ve seen that the current leadership of these platforms is not willing to make changes to promote a healthier ecosystem. When I was at Reddit, its culture needed a lot of work, and... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
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Stamps Reading Room | About
decade learning the ropes of venture capital in Chicago and Boston. By 1984 he was ready to launch his own endeavor and asked his colleague, Steve Woodsum, to join him in the founding of Summit Partners. Today, Summit is a leading,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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In Brief
Web Extras Experiment Fund President’s Challenge US–China trade relations exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center New Venture Winner an Undercover Success Angela Newnam (MBA 1996) did not set out to be an entrepreneur. But the... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
informed individuals is likely to lead to improvements in dealing with the problem of economic benchmarking. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2517496 Scale and Innovation During Two U.S. Breakthrough Eras By: Nicholas, Tom... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2013
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14 for '14
1.0. But food is one of the biggest industries on the planet, and the tech that supports it hasn't changed in 30 years. Stay tuned for big innovation." —Nick Taranto (MPA/MBA 2010), cofounder, Plated Karen Tumulty "History—with the recent... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
milestones: the birth of the silicon chip and the development of the venture capital industry. From humble beginnings, Valentine became a legendary salesman at Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor before founding Sequoia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
launched and scaled digital health products and founded the digital health team’s first diversity, equity, and inclusion program. This initiative was instrumental in lifting up underrepresented voices, creating systems for equitable... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift
diversity and inclusion at the highest levels of tech and venture capital. Diversity, she knew, was simply good business—for all of the social and cultural reasons, of course, but it also increased the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba
bleeding edge ideas and concepts for the business that had never been done before, such as deploying a residential storage virtual power plant to test the value of aggregated storage, laying out the ground work for a future Florida large View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS Selected from more than 90 worldwide entries, 12 winning regional teams will travel back to campus on April 25 to compete in the the 2nd annual Alumni New Venture Contest finals. The contest, hosted... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner
Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya A couple of years ago, Pialy Aditya (MBA 2005) got an unexpected inquiry from a venture capital firm: Would she be interested in being a partner? Though she wasn’t looking for a new... View Details
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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India
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scale drip irrigation systems to customers. Netafim’s digital farming platform, Netbeat, was designed to “empower farmers to monitor, analyze, and control their irrigation systems,” but the firm, which was acquired by global conglomerate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
Last February, in his first speech at HBS in six years, L. John Doerr (MBA '76), a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and one of the world's foremost venture capitalists, confessed that he stumbled into his line of work with no... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
Success requires appreciating the diversity at the base of the pyramid and the importance of scale in undertaking ventures there. Witness Manila Water's success in the Philippines and Hindustan Unilever's in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
usually required in a venture capital presentation. “A lot of companies that probably shouldn't get funding will get it” As enticing as crowdfunding is as a concept, it may ultimately have little power to shake up the investing world,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
and send it to the company via a prepaid shipping box in exchange for cash. After that, Gazelle resells the tech to individuals, wholesalers, and international buyers. So far, so good: To date, Boston-based Gazelle has handed out $150... View Details