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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
of Finance and Banking When searching out the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, Professor Robin Greenwood says one needs to look to the root of nearly every crisis: human behavior. With his focus on behavioral finance, Greenwood wears... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
cruelty-free; its operations are carbon and plastic neutral, according to Prima. Saigal is co-founder and CEO of Kudos, a startup that has reengineered the disposable diaper for greater sustainability. Kudos announced the close of a $2.4 million View Details
Georges F. Doriot
Doriot founded the first and one of the most successful publicly traded venture capital corporations in the United States. While American R&D funded numerous business entities, Doriot’s big success came in 1957 when he provided the $70,000 View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
And while the role offered Howard the opportunity to apply her company-building skills, the company’s mission, “democratizing finance for all” was the main draw. “Knowing from my prior career experience just how many people don’t feel... View Details
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Juan Leung Li
in the entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus to launch a startup while in school, co-found Rock Venture Partners and pursue his passion to help entrepreneurs as an early stage VC. Juan is a Partner at Tectonic Ventures, a B2B pre-seed and View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details
Brittany Davis
Brittany is a General Partner at Backstage, identifying and investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies for the fund and Accelerator. She has led investments in the fund, as well as the selection of 24 companies into Backstage... View Details
Brittany Davis
Technologies, while completing an MBA at Harvard Business School. She gained experience supporting entrepreneurs as an Associate at Techstars and as a Mentor at Startup Jamaica, built a solid foundation in finance working at Bank of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
empathize or understand the pain point. We were often asked by the investors to talk to their wives or their administrative assistants.” Eventually, Barna and co-founder Katia Beauchamp (MBA 2010) closed a $1.4 million seed round that... View Details
Alex Civetta
financing matters for innovators in the software, technology, professional services, and biotechnology industries. Since 2021 Alex has been named a Top Lawyer in Corporate Law by Boston Magazine; since 2022, Alex has been nationally... View Details
Keywords: Legal
Alexander Civetta
Alex advises innovators and high-growth companies on the intersection of law and business, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, technology transactions, and negotiation. He is a lifecycle lawyer who counsels companies from formation through exit, handling venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and mobilized a group of HBS faculty... View Details
Eric Boutin
at Redesign Health, a digital health venture studio, where he created and financed health tech startup companies. Before that, he was a Managing Director at dRx Capital, Novartis’ digital health venture capital fund, where he led... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with a few of my friends," Doerr told an audience of nearly one thousand HBS students who had gathered for his presentation, offered as part of the Social Enterprise Speaker Series. Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, Doerr has played a major role in planting the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
fellowships and professorships — by their donors. Current-use gifts to the HBS Fund provide an annual influx of funds that can be spent immediately. “As HBS has made strategic investments in recent years, gifts to the HBS Fund have provided an important source of View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
debated at a panel discussion called "Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends," moderated by Harvard Business School professor Lynda Applegate. The "strike zone" for his firm is network infrastructure, IP, and security storage, said... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
without interactive curricula, the well-meaning movement may backfire. “Our fear is that if the schools teach entrepreneurship just as another typical subject, the kids rote learn to get high marks in the examination and that will do very little good to the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
midwest and central us HBS Club of Chicago Mickey Freeman, MBA 1993 CEO Bradley Greenwald, MBA 1990 Chairman and founder Education Funding Partners public school funding new england HBS Association of Boston Stephen Kahn, MBA 1978 Sr. VP and CFO TrophoMax View Details