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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
enthusiastic support of her husband and HBS classmate, Michael D'Amato, she runs the fund from her home to keep expenses low. (“I'm Scottish, after all,” she quips.) Her organization has raised over $2... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and marketing vice president of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
value of its philanthropic giving. The foundation recently raised a $120 million Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot fund that is investing in only three social sector organizations, including Youth Villages.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
needed to quit my job and focus on the museum full-time. Suddenly I needed to understand climate-control systems and lighting. Then there was the business model and hiring our team. It was a completely mad period of bringing an entire organization to life and View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-011.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCutlass Capital, L.P. Harvard Business School Case 805-075 David Hetz and Jon Osgood are forming a new venture capital fund in 2001 to invest in health care... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
them would take the lead and commit,” he says. “I don’t know if I need their funding to be successful, but I understand the influence they have on startups and their ability to raise future financing.” Eight... View Details
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
First companies, then consumers Large American companies are unlikely to buckle under the weight of tariffs. In fact, a National Bureau of Economic Research study released in March suggested that companies unaffected by higher import taxes were View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
affected the entire industry, Aero’s premium fares allowed it to absorb the costs more readily than airlines that operated on a slim profit margin. Investors have seen promise in the Aero model. In August, the company closed its Series B View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
asphalt-paved path, with unpaved shoulders for runners) with neighboring winemakers, who donated initial funds to memorialize Tom Shelton, a fellow vintner and vine trail leader who had lost his life to cancer. “We recruited the Land... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
denominated in local currency with credit assurances taking the place of sovereign guarantees. Other entities took different approaches to raising capital for infrastructure in this market. Africa Plus Partners (Africa Plus), for example,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
the university’s undergraduate curriculum requires students to work in teams to create and operate an agribusiness venture during their first three years in the program. “Our students learn the science of raising pigs and growing papayas;... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
outcomes. Public interest in the illness could also drive funding toward breast cancer research. Breast Cancer Foundation NZ launched a media campaign to spotlight the disease, and Smyth’s mother gave her daughter permission to talk about... 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
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge a couple of summers ago, the money you helped raise to support ALS research may be at work today in a late-stage biopharmaceutical company headed by... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
producers. Operational efficiencies will allow Gold Rush Vinyl—which started with $750,000 raised from family, friends, and an SBA loan, to cover the expensive pressing equipment—to reduce wait time from an industry standard of twelve to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 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