Funding Philanthropy Venture - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS Selected from more than 90 worldwide entries, 12 winning regional teams will travel back to campus on April 25 to compete in the the 2nd annual Alumni New Venture Contest finals. The contest, hosted... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

07 Aug 2018
News

DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

popular adaptive learning companies, specializing in math .Across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, DreamBox serves nearly 3 million students and 120,000 teachers. Today, the company is announcing $130 million in growth equity funding from... 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... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

startups, rising interest rates, high inflation, and currency devaluation. The retrenchment in the global venture capital investing landscape hit emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems especially hard. Companies that could have easily raised... View Details

April 2009
Teaching Note

TravelCenters of America (TN)

By: Robin Greenwood and Daniel Jacob Goldberg

Teaching Note for [209030]. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Valuation; Opportunities; Business Organization; Real Estate Industry; New York (state, US)

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01 Sep 2010
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Becoming a VC Insider

Kids may grow up wanting to be entrepreneurs, but “no kid dreams of growing up to be a venture capitalist,” says Jeffrey Bussgang (MBA ’95). Thankfully, Bussgang has managed to do both and write about it, too. His recent book, Mastering... View Details

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

Career Coach

Alejandro Maldonado

also spent five years as a vice-president at H.I.G. Capital, a leading US private equity firm investing in diverse industries in the middle market space. In 2012, he founded Appian Education Ventures, a fund dedicated to consolidate... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)

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Complex Assets - Alumni

limited partnership interests Private equity, venture and hedge fund investments Pre-IPO shares If you are interested in donating complex assets to HBS, please contact the Office of Planned Giving. Working... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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A Growing Drumbeat

The Business Plan Contest’s popularity is just one indicator of a surge in entrepreneurial activity at HBS, which this year saw the launch of a $50,000 MVP Fund to support students using the “Lean Startup” approach to develop and test a... View Details

Keywords: Contests

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

while producing robust returns. Emily's role prior to HBS was a Commercialization Manager at RXBAR. Mike Kelly (MBA 2022, Section I), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Climate Tech Fund at Fifth Wall Fifth Wall is the largest View Details

13 Mar 2020
News

Expanding Cancer Care

the labs at Dana-Farber and that science getting to patients is time and money. So what my office does, and what I do, is spend as much time as I can to accelerate that time by creating new funds to Dana-Farber. And so a lot of what I... View Details

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Launch Lab/Capstone 2 - Course Catalog

ideas, though a series of defined Go/No Go milestones. Hence some students work on multiple ideas during the capstone sequence, whereas others bring one idea to fruition. Historically, several capstone ventures from each cohort receive... View Details

27 Nov 2012
News

The Beauty of the Network

have come from HBS.” Those friends have also been essential in the funding of Restorsea (www.restorsea.com), a line of luxury skincare products with an initial launch of day and eye creams. (Additional products, with expanded... View Details

Keywords: cosmetics; salmon; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

challenge was amplified—cofounding Index Ventures in 1996. "If we were going to compete with the best portfolios that were built in Silicon Valley," says Rimer, "we'd have to hunt far and wide across Europe." It's become a popular bet: VC... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

24 Apr 2014
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In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs

As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable... View Details

November 2006 (Revised October 2007)
Case

Artisan Entertainment Inc.

Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As part of their separation, they have been granted 90-day options to purchase Bain Capital's stake in a number of portfolio companies at Fair Market Value. As they conside whether to exercise... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds

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Find at Harvard

01 Jun 2012
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Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

money risk handicapping their venture if money dwindles or dries up completely. On the other hand, founders who accept funding risk losing control of their venture since... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

returns, with the goal of making a difference in important societal issues. That’s an extended form of philanthropy in my view, and I think you’ll see a bigger pool of capital engaged in that way. We also expect to see the growth of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

Dawn Dobras

has been founding team on a consumer tech start-up that was exited and active angel investor. Currently, she is founder/ GP of Capital F, an early stage venture fund focused on technology that shapes women's... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products and Services (B2C)

01 Mar 2014
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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

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