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- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
about how things could be done better. That’s definitely outside of your purview as a portfolio manager.” Tiller saw a need to diversify away from oil, not in 50 or 100 years, but right now, for the sake of the environment and national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
average, transferring wealth from abroad to the United States. — Mihir A. Desai is a professor at HBS and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Reprinted with permission from The... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
had no idea what microfinance was.” Firestarter: “The Mexico of tomorrow will be built by the entrepreneurs of today. That’s why Michael and I started IGNIA. Today we’re the largest venture capital firm in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
John Doerr Photo courtesy of John Doerr The summer after his first year at HBS, armed with a master's in electrical engineering from Rice University, John Doerr moved to California for two reasons. "I wanted to apprentice with a venture... 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... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
economy. Yet while annual inflows to venture funds have expanded from virtually zero in the mid-1970s to more than $35 billion in 1999, numerous misconceptions persist about the nature and role of venture... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
the new hires in US venture capital firms in the first quarter of 2019 were women. The disparate impacts of the pandemic and the protests following the killing of George Floyd have focused View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
advisers, regulators, and various transaction facilitators. Higgins presented an overview of venture capital in Asia, noting that most deals involve investments in late-stage companies and that over half of... View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
partnership with the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and the Colorado Space Business Roundtable (CSBR), recently hosted a Breakfast Roundtable to explore the impact of deglobalization on the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
isn’t that different from a for-profit company, he adds, except “we don’t have rational capital markets in the nonprofit world. In the private sector, if you do well, people run to you with capital, hoping to get a piece of your increased... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
creativity, whether the organization in question is a fledgling venture or, in the case of Fujifilm, a company approaching its 75th anniversary. In “Fujifilm: A Second Foundation,” a case coauthored with HBS View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
chocolate and a pack of Camels,” the airman recalled gratefully. For his new mission in Slovakia, Green requisitioned more candy and cigarettes—and thousands and thousands of guns. Banská Bystrica had become the capital of the Slovak... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
a business plan to solicit venture capital and helped with strategic planning for a new Web-based product launch. To further expand his knowledge of India's thriving entrepreneurial landscape, Khare also did... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded startup and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sustainability at Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008), managing director of Inherent Group; Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), president of CBJ Energy; and Jackson Lehr (MBA 2007), director of distributed energy ventures at View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
credits venture capital firms 5am Ventures and New Enterprise Associates for critical early support. “There were a lot of things still in the... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
population is under 25, and youth unemployment stands at 28 percent. “The human capital is there,” she says. “And they are thinking outside of the box.” In many ways, BulkWhiz, which has now grown to more than 50 employees and could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
IXP 2009
Divided? The Economic Geography of Business (David Collis) China: Understanding a Business Environment (Regina Abrami) Israel: The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital “Miracle” (Dan Isenberg) Boston:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
exacerbated by accelerating expectations, mounting problems, and a finite supply of venture capital cash, is what Perlow and her colleagues diagnose as the “speed trap.” The trap is particularly insidious... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
“Business Solutions for Inclusive Prosperity.” The intersection of business and society is a topic Chu has been immersed in, as a practitioner and a researcher, for almost 30 years. He is a partner emeritus of the IGNIA Fund, a venture... View Details
Keywords: April White