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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
director of PVR Cinemas. Latin America—On May 7, the center hosted the first of a series of online events. Nicolas Shea, the founder and board chair of Cumplo.com, a crowdfunding platform in Latin America, spoke to some 120 alumni and... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
people from higher social class countries (as indexed by GDP per capita) had lower levels of internationalism—that is, they made more friendships domestically than abroad. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49862 View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
environmental sustainability, health and wellness, natural and organic consumer products, and business services. He was also a member of the founding team of Upstart, which is pioneering crowdfunding for recent graduates. Wu credits HBS... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
differs from experts in judging which ideas to fund, and, indeed, whether the crowd is even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
of my industry, but we’d still offer prepay discounts, and a small portion of people will choose that model—even though it’s not our core value proposition. It also gave us cash up front. — Paul Sims (MBA 2002) Have you thought about trying to View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
participate. If the funding gets big enough, SFP plans to expand from its current focus of farms in Iowa to others across the Midwest. “There are people who want us to be an online platform,” he says, noting the popularity of crowdfunding... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
restaurant Sonic—FirstBuild spent $600 to do a Google survey to gauge interest and then put out a design challenge to the FirstBuild community, collecting 29 ideas. Eventually, they’ll take the winning model to a crowdfunding platform to... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-003 Jibo: A Social Robot for the Home In January 2015, Jibo Inc. had completed a raise of $25.3 million in Series A financing after a successful 2014 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
dirty, expensive fossil fuels. Oscilla is currently raising money on the equity crowdfunding platform StartEngine to deploy a megawatt version of Triton off the coast of Kerala in 2022. The decision to launch its commercial-scale system... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
we have this web of doers. The business model is very much like the network-based mobilization that we see in the tech world. This is not a top-down organization. Everyone owns it. One of our founding members, for example, is Gisel Kordestani (MBA 2003), who is CEO of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
useful when collecting information on a problem, Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein and his fellow researchers found, but it can be detrimental in solving the problem, leading people to a consensus before all the solutions are explored. With data from the View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
organization dedicated to improving educational access, quality, and outcomes for children from underprivileged backgrounds. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the foundation launched a crowdfunding campaign that has raised... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
crowdfunding campaign that has raised £1.5 million and awarded 97 scholarships. “We are a growing network,” says Lewis. “Our eldest scholars are already out working. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, and young professors. Educating people is... View Details