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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
human-capital development that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are adding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active, but at this point View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Heart Foundation, Lewis is a founding member of Impact X, a venture capital firm supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs across Europe. “My parents taught me generosity,” he says. “We didn’t have a whole lot when I was growing up, but I... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
category. Both winning teams addressed health-care issues. The social enterprise team of Neil Houghton, Ashley Magargee, Naomi Weinberg (all MBA '01), and Marcel Acosta won for their venture Low Cost Eyeglasses, whose aim is to supply... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science Prizes for middle and high... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
chronicles the meteoric rise and equally fiery fall of Iridium, Motorola’s spin-off venture into global wireless communications. Although the technology was literally “rocket science,” involving the launch of a whole new satellite... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
insurance when they think they will need it. Should people who make bad personal health choices pay more for their health insurance? We are moving to a system where individuals will have to be engaged in their own health, or face the consequences. Health is a joint... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
lessons that influenced much of the thinking in my career. The first came the day a highly respected venture capitalist visited class and talked about his endeavors. A classmate asked him if he had ever failed. "Yes," the VC replied, "but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
venture capitalist at Charles River Ventures. “Building a successful career is not about the money,” he says. “It’s about whether you left something better off than you found it, whether you improved the nation’s competitiveness, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Aná huac in Mexico City, where he earned a degree in civil engineering in 1973. James G. ("Shay") Garvey (MBA '84) is a partner at Delta Partners, a venture capital firm in Dublin, Ireland. After earning his MBA, he first worked as a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
two hundred young HBS alumni face-to-face with experienced "angels" (backers willing to forgo much of the business involvement and control that traditional venture capitalists typically demand). The sold-out event, which drew participants... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Supporting Women in Leadership
women and leadership. "Harvard is a global platform—HBS cases are read by so many individuals around the world. We thought, how do we help the leading business school in the world focus on this?" says Kordestani, cofounder and COO of the new View Details
Keywords: W50
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
make a go of it. They raised $500,000 from family and friends in 2019; picked up another $75,000 by winning the alumni track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2020; and raised $4.5 million in seed funding three months later. Foodology... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
online streaming field with Otter Media, a joint venture with the Chernin Group. And industry observers agree that more acquisitions and partnerships in the years ahead will only accelerate the pace of change in a tech-heavy business that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
30,000 Indian businesses and created nearly 1,000 jobs. “It’s really structured in the exact same way as a small venture capital or private equity firm,” says Chorengel. “It’s a proven model—you get a group of talented fund managers... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
involved in establishing the modern mutual fund industry and continue in prominent leadership positions today. Much like management consulting and venture capital, it's an industry that really owes its development and success to HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
the influx of U.S. and European venture capital firms over the past decade, “many went through boom-and-bust cycles and didn’t survive, or decided to withdraw,” explains Khanna. “Those that remain have stopped doing View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1800s, where we saw the roots of the venture capital industry. Then, of course, we found ourselves in Silicon Valley, where so many of the brands that shape our daily life got their start in humble garages.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
of the wildly successful American technology stock market. Launched last year as a joint venture between the U.S. Nasdaq, Japan’s Softbank Corporation, and thirteen leading Japanese and foreign brokerages, Nasdaq Japan aims to break the... View Details