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- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
recession, when high unemployment rates lessened the demand for traveling nurses to answer the short-term staffing needs of hospitals around the country. “I call that part ‘hanging off the cliff,’” Moreno notes. With the implementation of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
First he pioneered the British venture capitalist industry, cofounding Apax Partners in 1972. Then Sir Ronald M. Cohen (MBA 1969) led the way in social investment, prompting The Economist to call him “the compassionate capitalist.” Now he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
prospectuses of all public biotech firms going back twenty years. Information from 295 companies and more than 3,000 executives formed the core of their study. The results showed that top managers' ties to notable pharmaceutical companies -- what the authors View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
construction: notably, how to get trillions of dollars of private capital off the sideline to make high-impact investments in water, sanitation, roads, power, and mass transit that will impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people,”... View Details
- 21 Oct 2021
- News
DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
Photo courtesy Drive By DraftKings A recent article in the Boston Globe reported that the venture capital firm Drive by DraftKings, led by Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), had raised its first venture fund. View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
best understood at close range - Clark announced that the School is actively investigating the establishment of a small HBS research facility based in Hong Kong. "The global nature of business today has created a remarkable set of... View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
venture capital investor Jacqueline Morby called him soon thereafter. She and husband Jeffrey Morby (MBA 1961) were launching a nonprofit to fight Alzheimer’s and invited McCance to join them, along with... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes believes, is an example of how GM... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
misses.” Those misses have been pushed into the shadows by the hits in Breyer’s portfolio, including a once-little startup called Facebook. Breyer met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in April 2005. Within 48 hours he knew he wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
principal and a rate of return with a portion of the savings. If the predefined social outcomes are not met, the government owes nothing. “What the social impact bond does is enable a social organization to raise capital for preventive... View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Reunion gift committee and chaired the Capital Campaign the School held from 2002 to 2005, an effort that raised some $600 million. From 1998 to 2004, he was a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and served as the Board’s president... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
entrepreneurs such as Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book “an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.” A past recipient of the HBS... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
ICCP Group has offered its property, the World Trade Center Manila, one of the largest event facilities in the Philippines, to be converted into the first temporary health care COVID-19 facility with a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
production facility that are different from typical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). And the vehicle’s design allows for an efficient production process at low volumes and with manual labor. Because of these innovations, Yong says... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 04 Mar 2019
- News
The Anti-Shark Tank
In 2018, female founders received only 2.2 percent of the $130 billion venture capital pie, according to PitchBook; despite that fact, Lisa Blau (MBA 2003) and Amanda Eilian (MBA 2006) are both veterans of the startup world, having... View Details