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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
It’s easy to doubt that there is a place in tech and entrepreneurship for women until you see the varied and successful paths other women have taken: “Oh wow, this woman started her business at 22. This woman did it at 28. She was raising View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
ball forward every day." Culture "Too many founders get caught up in raising money or getting a product to market, while neglecting culture and cofounder relationships, which are integral to a startup's longevity." Foundation "It's worth... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
alumni group has already raised $45,000 for relief efforts. “All the money raised will go to the Turkey Mozaik Foundation’s Kahramanmaras Earthquake Emergency Relief Fund to support civil society... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
of VCs: We’re going to take a lot of bets early on, and most of those aren’t going to pan out, but the ones that do will be very successful. That was new. “Have VCs gotten too caught up in chasing the cheap experiment sectors? Who will View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
EHR system. The scan might as well be stuck in a manila folder. “The biggest problem with health care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system... 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
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
11,000 community members. Owusu-Kesse had already spent a year at Canada’s side, thanks to an externship sponsored by his employer, Morgan Stanley. Now Canada wanted him back. “I had no idea how much money I would make. I had no idea what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
therapeutics; and disseminating findings in real time. Currently, the Kraft team is tracking ongoing trials for pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, multiple myeloma, and immune therapies. Finding Funding Fixes The Kraft team is also focused... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
elements in life that drive you away from working on something you're passionate about. It can be peer pressure (e.g., 'you should do consulting or finance'); money (e.g., 'a hedge fund is the job with the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
noting that these leaders were acting on what they believed to be true, rather than taking irresponsible risks, not seeing they were in any real danger until it was too late. Public pension funds, on the other hand, were the victims of bad incentives. Those View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
selling them at a charity auction, where the artists and buyers can meet. The money raised goes to scholarship funds for people studying the arts. “It helps support the artists, while at the same time... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
Institute and The Jimmy Fund in Boston. “We’re trying to set a record, but the main purpose of what we are doing is to raise money for pediatric cancer research,” says Serafini. View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
product could change the world, and the drive to make it happen, they merely needed the money to get a new company started. The "traitorous eight," as they became known, enlisted the help of a visionary investment banker from New York,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
charter the CGC, while funding would come predominantly from public investors. To launch the college, the proposal seeks a congressional mandate to require companies receiving federal TARP bailout money to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
evening’s other honoree was Donna E. Shalala, president of the University of Miami and secretary of health and human services during the Clinton administration. The club presented her with its 2003 Leadership Award. Proceeds from the dinner are used to View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
philanthropic structures Foundations, DAFs, and other vehicles are most often, in my experience, “pass through” entities wherein the donor uses the benefits of tax planning and simplicity of donation to give the money and then, over the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Kilimanjaro, in 2004, Petzel's climbing party included Lisa Lee, MBA 2000.) The third goal was to use the Everest climb to raise money that would help fund the construction of a permanent shelter and medical... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
that is the difference between two very interesting and very important numbers: how much money the government spends and how much it collects in taxes. Those are both important numbers. The difference between the two of them is not... View Details
Keywords: Government