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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011 it raised $30 million in venture capital for the network of 50 websites that featured an entertaining array of user-generated content. Beginning with a site based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
firm. In 1994, a crisis in its mutual fund unit nearly destroyed the firm. Provides information about the protagonist's youth, career, family life, aspirations, and motivations. Raises questions about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
students, and achieve top-quality research. Publisher Link: http://www.amazon.com/Building-World-Class-Universities-Asia/dp/1453707778 The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed Authors:Robert Pozen and Theresa Hamacher Publication:John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
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
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
“Billions of dollars in research funding is pouring into the space. We have tools that are unprecedented in their power, their ease of use, their accessibility, and their cost. The number of neuroscience articles published in academic... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 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
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
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
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
the restructuring of Chrysler in the midst of the financial crisis of 2008-2009. It describes how debtors can use section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to sell assets quickly. It allows for discussion of who benefits and who loses in such restructurings, and it also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Company magazine as one of the top socially entrepreneurial organizations in America, Year Up was started with private funding and is supported by corporate partnerships. Its business model is based in part on market demand for... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo’s e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
manage funds of half a billion dollars or more now face the challenge of creating processes that are appropriate for a large team rather than individual venture capitalists, as in family-style firms of the past. "On that question,... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial organization of the U.S. money... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
agree that it’s unfair for a secretary to pay taxes at a higher rate than an investor. So let’s bring everyone’s rate down to a flat 15 percent. There’s no reason to raise the rates of million-dollar earners. They don’t use any more... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
applicant. Gene Amdahl, who had been the chief designer of IBM's 704 and System 360 and 370 that dominated world markets, left IBM, hoping to start his own company. Unable to raise $40 million to fund his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Profile
Phillip Michael Strazzulla
kinds of jobs with people in those jobs and productize a mentor/advisor experience that will help guide Millennials into the right career choices. He started the venture with a $20,000 grant from First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
even if consumer finance was still unpopular. While it might have taken a crisis to convince some, we believed for a decade that this was an important sector that raised serious issues and deserved substantially greater attention in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the Lewis and Clark Trail combined with two subsequent annual rides — helped raise almost $500,000 for Children’s Hospital in Seattle. Next summer he plans to complete the U.S.A. Four Corners Tour, a two-month, 14,000-mile odyssey that... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- Student-Profile
Yueran Ma
growing up also had a major influence on my interests in finance. I travelled with my family in China, and everywhere I saw firms and entrepreneurs struggling to raise funding as the financial system was... View Details