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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
investments from other Boston companies, including an institutional seed round led by [venture firm] Accomplice. With all the capital, we want to perfect the online gifting experience. Our goal is to redefine expectations for what can fit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
the United States.” —Victor Fung (Ph.D. ’71), Group Chairman, Li & Fung Group “Brands need to learn to market with two ears and one mouth.” —David Kenny (MBA ’86), Managing Partner, VivaKi “In the 1980s, we told our companies, ‘Don’t focus on international.’ Now the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
overview of the bond ratings industry, including its history, its major players, who uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the potential crack in the dominance of Moody's, Fitch, and S&P.... View Details
- Profile
Marie Kyle
investing. But I had gaps to fill in my education, in understanding finance and entrepreneurship. With my MBA, I want to take a chance to learn more about investment I could get behind." With innovation in mind, Marie came to... View Details
- Web
DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime Innovation ARD DEC View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the private sector. When there are adequate... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
part of investors. In 2015, the accelerator had 80 applicants; in 2020, it had 600 across three global programs. “The influx of talent is real,” Ferguson notes. But he saw those companies struggle to find early-stage funding. “It was increasingly frustrating that there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
on the tarmac at London’s Farnborough Airport. The seeds for their venture were sown at HBS, where they met and collaborated on a field study examining the efficiencies of business travel using very light jets (VLJs). Photograph Courtesy... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
discussions about what it takes to discover, develop, scale, and achieve meaningful progress on climate solutions. In his welcome address, Dean Srikant Datar harkened back to the 2010 founding of the School's Business and Environment Initiative (BEI). “You will see,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
increased the odds of a crisis to 40 percent." “Previous authors had shown that there was some ability to predict financial crises,” says Hanson, a professor of business administration in the HBS Finance Unit. “But we were surprised by... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
genes to the inner ear with unprecedented efficiency.” The five-year-old company will likely apply for clinical testing permission for its lead therapy in the first half of 2022—a key hurdle in the notoriously lengthy process of advancing novel medicines from View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
ventures as MBA students and start their fellowship year with the largest seed financing raised as a new cohort. I am excited to work with them and carry on the program’s mission to inspire young life... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
plant’s seeds contains its entire genetic code. The plant develops according to that code, with leaves of a certain shape and flowers of specific colors. To his rapt audience, Enriquez declares, “You’re lucky to be in Cambridge. You’ve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
she could help. In an open message on LinkedIn, she offered her own contacts and experiences to any Black college student or recent graduate interested in the finance or tech sectors. “The next morning, my entire calendar was booked up,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
experience planted a seed for Pomeranz's future research: how to promote financial savings among "microentrepreneurs" such as food cart owners, street vendors, and cosmetics saleswomen, whose income is low and often fluctuates.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
to recent research. Enter the era of “spray and pray,” where venture firms over the last decade have seeded more firms than previously, but with less upfront investment of time and money. As someone who teaches entrepreneurial finance,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
the traction can sometimes create a blind spot and put your company at serious risk. Back in 2018, when we raised our first round of seed funding, we learned this the hard way. We had great traction and a lot of venture capital firms... View Details
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
activity. Janice admits that raising VC funding has been harder than she’d thought, given how much money there is in Wall Street’s current clean energy and infrastructure boom. She did close her seed round in March, led by Earthshot... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
Publications June 2015 Science Financing Experiments By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49313 July-August 2015 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs who also were starting from scratch—those for whom social ventures were still in the very early phases. They identified an ideal data pool through a partnership with Echoing Green, a socially focused investment organization offering two-year fellowships,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel