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- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
capitalists could not identify with the vision of Birchbox. “The men would ask their secretaries or ask us to wait while they called their wives.” Barna joined fellow HBS alumnae Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), cofounder and CEO of Hello... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
professor James Cash; and Ann Fudge (MBA '77), honorary 2001 conference chair. In addition, a preconference program, "Venture Capital and Private Equity Summit 2001: Building New Networks," will be held on October 5. For more information,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
labeled by some as woke capitalism is what we were calling stakeholder capitalism not too long ago. Woke capitalism is meant to be derogatory,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Fall Reunions
More than 1,800 alumni and guests made the trek to the HBS campus in late September for fall reunion weekend, a chance to renew old friendships and step back into the classroom —without fearing a cold call — for engaging faculty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Emeritus, and William Meckling. Capitalism has been reeling ever since. That’s the view of Roger Martin (MBA ’81) in his new book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
Library, which was dedicated on September 19, 2005 (see sidebar, page 27), will offer what Baker’s executive director Mary Lee Kennedy calls a “full-menu experience.” Visitors interested in new media are able to use the latest technology... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
more focused on maximizing shareholder value." Specifically, a class taught by Professor Josh Lerner on venture capital prompted her to write a paper on the nature of value. "I wrote a paper calling for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career of Peter Brooke, who has been View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
have elevated him to rarified status among today’s business thinkers. So people tend to sit up and take notice when he calls for a new approach to capitalism itself. Called... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental issues, a stance that had sparked protests at its annual meetings. This led the U.S. Congress to use its influence by demanding that the World Bank set environmental standards as a condition of the nation’s capital... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful, well-educated population and is now View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
about students' "road trip" stories Plan B: The Brick Bank Issue Focus: The Global Manager They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home HBS celebrated the opening of its newest classroom in early March—in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
encourage investment in the energy sector would also boost competitiveness. What are attractive investment opportunities in India? Sectors that require technical and labor-intensive input, such as software services, business process outsourcing facilities, and View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
because I loved the job,” he remembers. “But I knew if I was ever going to be more than an employee, I had to do something else.” Answering the call of opportunity, Johnson moved his wife and four young children to Palo Alto to launch a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
inequality. And rising inequality is directly imperiling democracy. Rather than a screed against capitalism, this book is a call for capitalism to return to its roots, reenergizing its synergies with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
hospitality. Offices and health care facilities could both offer the company access to huge sectors of the $80 billion lighting market. The Question: Hoskins describes the competitive landscape as “a land grab.” He’d love to do some pilot... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell