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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
consultants in the managed care practice of Booz Allen Hamilton, acquired an obstetrics practice in San Diego with $1.6 million in seed capital. The concept of a clinic where midwives and nurses provided quality care for healthy women... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands
high-tech, non-GMO tomato varieties for the company’s seed business. Syngenta is a global agribusiness leader focused on crop protection and seeds, and it offers 180+ tomato varieties and has 20+ teams globally focused exclusively on... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
1970s, the seeds of change for ARD were in the air. The Small Business Investment Act of 1953 had promoted the creation of small business investment corporations (SBICs)... View Details
- 05 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Intensive Bootcamp Kicked my Entrepreneurship Goals Into Gear
and extremely invested in the idea. I was so thankful to have a team that backed my initial idea and ran with it. Additionally, my team was a great combination of skill sets and backgrounds. I made a point to recruit outside of my section... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
investment opportunity that traditional VCs are simply overlooking. In this special episode of Skydeck, recorded live at Fall Reunions, Dodi speaks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about the challenges that female founders still face—and... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 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... View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator A ccording to business journalist Udayan Gupta, "[ARD] was an attempt to design a tool that would finance business development, especially in the unchartered waters of high technology–without government involvement." 40 In 1957,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
brought its own challenges. Ginseng is a notoriously labor-intensive crop: Plants can take four to five years to mature, all of the seeds are picked by hand, and most of the harvesting is manual. All machinery is customized from other... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African continent, had controlled the... View Details
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree
at a venture capital firm called Clean Energy Ventures here in Boston, which focused on seed and series A investments in energy transition related technologies. These experiences were really helpful in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
struggling in their careers, working minimum-wage jobs, or unemployed. “It was shocking,” she recalls. “These were the most disciplined, coachable, resilient people I knew, but they had not gotten the education and support they needed to use sports as a lever to change... View Details
Keywords: April White