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- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
to the global automobile industry. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms are emerging as international players. There are also opportunities in infrastructure investment, such as telecom, ports, roads, and airports. Please comment on... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
and flexible full-time positions is good business (the company has franchises nationwide and saw revenues of $16.2 million in 2012). O’Kelly has declined venture capital funding to maintain more control over... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
renowned venture capital firm he cofounded in 1972. In 2007, he cofounded and became a nonexecutive director of Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit social investment... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a principal at Troy, a View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
says Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA 1984, MPA 1985). Dorsen sees growing possibilities for women tech entrepreneurs—and for investors. With classmate Monica Dodi (MBA 1984), she founded the Women’s Venture Capital... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
prominent LBO firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice -- as well as $10,000 in cash and in-kind professional services worth $10,000. The judges for the final competition included a number of HBS graduates and represented an array of top View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
hardly any learning curve,” he says, still sounding surprised. “It was a good fit.” The investment business changed during his tenure at Lehman, and in 1976 he left and moved to Boston to launch Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Apr 2019
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Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019
Aileen Lee (photo by Carlos Chavarría) Lee is the founder of All Raise, a nonprofit that is “dedicated to diversity in founders and funders.” Her entry is written by Kirsten Green, founding partner of both the VC firm Forerunner View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Helping high achievers achieve even more
venture capital firm that has invested in, and provided strategic guidance to, more than 365 businesses across North America, Europe, and Asia. Stamps passed the torch to his... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
credits venture capital firms 5am Ventures and New Enterprise Associates for critical early support. “There were a lot of things still in the... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
companies' presentations and tours were outstanding, he says, those of Silicon Graphics, 3Com, and Adaptec were particularly well-received, as was a small gathering with Enterprise Director Doug Hawkins of the NASA Ames Technology Center. Students interested in View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
and venture capital funds. “The tradeoff in making the decision to go back to an emerging market is so great that you can’t come to it analytically,” says Managing Director Hiran Embuldeniya (MBA 2005), an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
early-stage venture capital firm Glasswing Ventures, Seseri is more focused on today’s “narrow” artificial intelligence: technology capable of mimicking human thought processes... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
of picking winners in the world of tech innovation, and in so doing it could also boost companies unlikely to otherwise get backing from the largely Bay Area–based venture capital View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
Does an invention that would guarantee motorists they'd never run out of gas sound like a good investment? Hundreds of venture capital firms didn't think so, but that didn't... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Surviving Success
surrounding the key moment at which a founder hands off his or her “baby” to a new CEO. “In my initial research on founders, I focused on the question of compensation and issues around building a board,” says Wasserman. “After... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Heart Foundation, Lewis is a founding member of Impact X, a venture capital firm supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs across Europe. “My parents taught me generosity,” he... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and commercial bank loans to View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
know, and that navigation unveiled itself at HBS.” As an alumna, Skeete Tatum has served as president of the HBS Alumni Board, and she and her husband recently joined the Board of Dean’s Advisors. After graduation, Skeete Tatum joined Cardinal Partners—an early-stage... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken