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Alex Civetta

Alex was named to the national Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch list. He has taught venture capital law at Boston University School of Law and is a regular speaker at client trainings on everything from raising... View Details

Keywords: Legal

30 Mar 2015
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Leveraging the power of yes

Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) is chief innovation officer at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from poverty. “One of the things I’ve learned is how expressive and personal philanthropy is, and... View Details

16 Oct 2017
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Take Time to Serve Others

Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details

18 Oct 2016
News

China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

investing in fellow HBS alumnus Scott Cook’s (MBA 1976) Intuit Inc. “I tried but I lost the deal and I still think about it 27 years later,” Breyer told a room full of young entrepreneurs and budding venture capitalists in Boston on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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Amelia Angella Archives | Social Enterprise

Amelia Angella 21 Mar 2019 On the evening of February 28, 2019, 30 HBS alumni gathered at the home of Sarah Perry (MBA 1995)... New Paradigms in Nonprofit Fundraising and Marketing Amelia Angella 27 Apr 2017 On April 12, Community Action... View Details

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

inspired New England's high-tech boom and the spread of companies that began to populate Route 128 surrounding Boston and Cambridge. A number of ARD employees also went on to start their own venture capital... View Details

16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice

Brooks operated at the intersection of business and community, overseeing $11 million in cash and in-kind services annually and managing the company’s employee-volunteer program and community giving. She also developed the MLK Summer... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

18 Oct 2016
News

Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs

and Lisa Falzone, cofounder and CEO of Revel Systems on a panel discussion entitled “Entrepreneurship: Gender, Adversity and Success” at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston on Monday. Hyman recalled that her foray into seeking venture... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Birchbox; Rent the Runway; Hello Alfred; Retail Trade; Finance

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

01 Jun 2020
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Vital Signs

and CEO of Natalist, a direct-to-consumer fertility company. We talked with Tecco about how the pandemic has impacted the health care startup and venture capital ecosystem. What ideas and companies have seen an increase in funding during... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

February 2024
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Chime Solutions

By: Shai Bernstein, William R. Kerr, Christopher Stanton, Raymond Kluender and Mel Martin

Just two years after launching its 10k by 2020 initiative to hire 10,000 employees by 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson to send nearly all of his staff at Chime Solutions (Chime) to work from home. Chime was a customer contact firm... View Details

Keywords: Working Capital; Service Operations; Recruitment; Performance; Change Management; Retention; Financial Institutions; Employee Relationship Management; Talent and Talent Management; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; United States

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07 Oct 2014
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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

07 Dec 2022
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Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up

Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) In early 2020, Aahan Bhojani (MBA 2019) was working for a travel fintech startup in Boston when the coronavirus pandemic resulted in lockdowns around the world. But Bhojani wasn't in View Details

01 Sep 2015
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An Unconventional Suggestion

that American citizens, companies, and communities will fail to capitalize on this historic opportunity because of misunderstanding and distrust.” Alumni may view a recording of Professor Michael Porter’s... View Details

Keywords: April White; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2004
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Salter New Head of External Relations

In his new role as senior associate dean for External Relations, Professor Malcolm S. (“Mal”) Salter is ready and eager to shift his focus from the classroom to the global community of 65,000 HBS alumni. “The alumni View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2012
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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

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the right note for the future? And is... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Communications; Communications; Communications; Communications

16 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning

“Our classroom is a 204-acre island in Boston Harbor with two salt marshes, a fresh-water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests,” says Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991), president and CEO of Boston’s Thompson Island Outward Bound... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

Mortgage & Realty and Michigan Heritage Bancorp. He has led several community organizations, such as the Lansing Symphony, Capital Area United Fund, and the Voluntary Action Center in Lansing. Born in New... View Details

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