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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Hewlett and David Packard, made their first product, an audio oscillator. And it was here that Scott D. Cook (MBA '76) [click here to see a profile on Scott Cook from the February 1997 HBS Bulletin] created the world's most popular personal View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
startup financing. To be sure, venture capital offers many benefits, including the networks and insights that experienced investors bring to the table. But all of that comes at a price. Most obviously, a founder who takes venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 07 Jan 2015
- News
Taking on risk
Having worked as an engineer at SpaceX and as an analyst at Oaktree Capital, Zach Lupei (MBA 2015) is now building a startup in the personal-finance space. (Published January 2015) View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: Can a 'Main Street' Crowdfunding Platform Take Off?
- 08 Jan 2019
- News
Raising Prospects for Female Funders
have a lot of fun. We are launching Rising Tide Europe 3. Our purpose is to invest in the best projects; sometimes they are women-led, other times they are not. “What we are achieving is that more women are discovering the fascinating adventure of investing in View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
doubt that it could radically transform sectors ranging from energy to finance and cybersecurity to transportation, but the potential is still mostly theoretical as scientists can’t quite grok all the implications yet. And a number of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in part by British government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
book, The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (Princeton University Press), draws on data gleaned from nearly 4,000 high-potential start-ups and 10,000 founders, while incorporating case... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
because it was completely different.” She is grateful for the unexpected opportunity to explore a new career path she might never have considered otherwise. “I developed ideas for startup companies that use artificial intelligence in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
spring, Moskowitz and five classmates launched a startup they call Boxxify to provide a solution. E-commerce customers have their packages delivered to Boxxify, which, for a $7 fee (regardless of number of items), drops them off with... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
startup pymetrics, solving the bias problem meant first acknowledging that humans are the most biased decision-makers of all. As a neuroscientist who spent 10 years studying the bias systems wired into our brains, Polli knew that... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
job within Allstate’s leadership development program in Chicago. She later pivoted to personal finance startup NerdWallet in San Francisco, where she realized that colleagues who had the internal strategy... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
cyber-insurance market: As claims pour in for losses due to everything from business disruptions to extortion, major carriers are raising premiums and reducing coverage. Not everyone is retrenching, however. In 2021, cyber-insurance View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
Greg Jarzabek (PLD 21, 2016) was living in London and working in finance when his mother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in her native Poland. Jarzabek wanted to reach out to doctors around the world to review and discuss... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
benefit from his knowledge and connections was an amazing opportunity,” he notes. An investment management expert and senior lecturer in HBS’s Finance Unit, Cohen teaches Field X and Y, which are field courses for entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
Fund. It focuses on innovative tech startups founded by women of color and inclusive teams. For Aditya, such startups are both a smart financial opportunity and an essential investment in the future.... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- News
Venture Capital & Angel Investing - What We Know and Still Need to Learn
Keywords: Angel investing
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
banking system, the government should follow the lead of other countries and create “payment banks” that take little-to-no risk, are highly regulated, and have access to the payment network. Silicon Valley Bank’s Focus on Startups Was a... View Details