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- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
require a shift in the traditional philanthropy mindset, Hamermesh says, from funding the construction of a new cancer pavilion to financing the development of specific therapies for cancer subtypes—a less... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
on hand at this year's event to offer some words of wisdom to those following in their footsteps. Jon Burgstone and Asif Satchu (both MBA '99) have raised $48 million in venture capital to fund their online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Sunny Side
When Miami-based venture capital firm ANIMO Ventures launched in 2018, cofounder Nico Berardi (MBA 2018) traveled weekly. “It was 80 percent San Francisco, maybe 20 percent New York,” he recalls. But the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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David A. Frankel
with seed capital for their nascent ventures. In all, he backed eight of his classmates in starting successful companies. For example, he gave Paley his first seed capital for Brontes, a maker of 3D imaging technology for dentists that Paley sold to 3M for $95 million.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
in 2011 “The best way to book bus tickets,” aggregating information on a half-million bus routes in 63 countries. Winner of the 2014 Alumni New Venture Competition’s Best Investment category, Busbud has debuted a product that allows third... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
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
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Two MBA Startups Cited as “Most Disruptive”
business born from the concept, recently made the list of Poets and Quants “Most Disruptive MBA Startups of 2020.” Now national, LeverEdge has 20,000 members and $2.5 million in investment. Classmate Tess Michaels (MBA 2020) also made the list with her own twist on... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
meetings with representatives of firms such as Kleiner Perkins, Summit Partners, and Pacific Venture Group. "At Pacific Venture," says Weil, "Managing Partner John S. Lewis (MBA '74) had just raised a new $100-million View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 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 View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
than 60,000 financings dating back to 1987, representing some 98 percent of the pool of deals in that period. Coats calls it “the most complete and accurate database of US-based venture capital financings in the world.” In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
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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
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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
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
company’s customer experience and devised a workshop introducing staff to brainstorming and ideation methods. Currently, she is a participant in the Venture Incubation Program at the Harvard Innovation Labs, where she is developing a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
— APA for short. The name later morphed to Apax — “unique” in Greek — an apt choice that reflects the firm’s investment style. The partners each launched small venture capital funds in their respective... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
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
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Harvard Business School
H. King (MBA '70), who was the assistant director of HBS admissions from 1970 to 1971, served as president and executive director of COGME from 1971 to 1984. King increased corporate contributions to the program, which provided significant scholarship View Details
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Sustainability in VCPE & Investing
This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings Private Equity and Venture Capital’s Role in Catalyzing Sustainable Investment A paper from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and $100 billion.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
job of finding more diverse talent and funding new types of ventures. Kupor is the author of the book “Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It.” Listen Now! Managing the Future of Work... View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically prefer established technologies... View Details