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Parker Treacy

Parker is the founder of Cobli, the most advanced vehicle telematics and mobility platform in Latin America. Launched in 2017, the company has already raised more than $20mm from investors such as Fifth Wall Ventures and Valor Capital... View Details

Keywords: Insurance;#64;#Software/App;#68;#Transportation & Logistics

January 2022
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Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity

By: Josh Lerner, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar and Nan R. Zhang

This paper uses previously unexplored custodial data to examine the use of alternative investment vehicles in private equity (PE) over four decades. We document a steep increase in the capital directed to alternative vehicles, with these vehicles approaching a 40%... View Details

Keywords: Alternative Investment Vehicles; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Performance

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Kelsey Holland

If you’re looking to launch or join a startup, Kelsey can help! Kelsey’s worked in a variety of roles ranging from product manager to corporate venture investor to co-founder during her 8.5 years working prior to HBS. She has extensive... View Details

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

ever-growing number intend to fund their social ventures through commercially generated revenue rather than charitable donations—a model known as a "hybrid" organization. "Hybrid organizations have a social... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Apr 2017
Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

Foundation (DRK) – a venture philanthropy firm. The Initiative also partially funded my internship through its Summer Fellows Program, a sponsorship designed to help students... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

18 Aug 2014
News

Closing the Education Gap

who is founder and managing partner at Aragon Global Management (AGM), a Chicago-based hedge fund that focuses on global equities. “There is a much higher return on investment in early childhood. It’s more expensive to intervene later and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

11 Mar 2008
News

Soak the Rich?

Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

02 Dec 2018
News

Fostering Great Leadership

consistent donors to the HBS Fund for many years and first gave out of gratitude for the benefits Ken received, and later to help preserve the School’s excellence. “I wanted to do what I could to help HBS remain a premier business... View Details

August 2008
Teaching Note

Pawson Foundation: August 2006 (TN)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for [806042]. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Budgets and Budgeting; Investment Funds

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Purchase

the Business School and is an HBS inaugural group member of Rock Venture Capital Partners. She is also a Member of the Business Leadership Council of Wellesley College and an Advisor for GSK Consumer. Previously, Rudina has served as... View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

13 Nov 2020
News

Realizing a Dream

the case method pedagogy “so relevant to making you a better leader.” Ferrara was so inspired by the transformational experience the School provided that he has been a regular contributor to the HBS Fund since earning his MBA and is a... View Details

12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

easily funded by venture capitalists on the one hand or philanthropic foundations on the other. “It's much harder to get started and be successful if you don't fit into a well-defined form that people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

Clubs News Clubs News HBSAB Virtual Case Event Explores Black New Venture Competition As second-year students at HBS, Kimberly Foster (MBA 2020) and Tyler Simpson (MBA 2020) created the inaugural Black New View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2000
News

Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship

(FAS) will fund both the Lumry Family Professorship at HBS and the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center in FAS's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Lumry's gift reflects his professional interests and expertise in technology... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Dec 1997
News

Arthur Rock (MBA '51)

both to help fund the Center and to chair its steering committee. At 71, the legendary venture capitalist now works out of a quiet San Francisco office. He spends much of his time serving on corporate and... View Details

18 Jul 2018
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Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

organizations in her community. Currently director of strategic philanthropy for Congregation Rodef Sholom, she has also served on the boards of the Marin Horizon School and the Greater Bay Area Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research... 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 View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Oct 2000
News

Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship

With the study of entrepreneurial management flourishing at HBS, the challenge to find and support new faculty and to fund curriculum development is more pressing than ever. Recently these needs were recognized by the Class of 1975... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

crisis is the most urgent problem facing our planet. It is critical that we accelerate the flow of investment into green technology.” As one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists, John Doerr thinks big. Working side by... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

the relative costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures,... View Details

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