Funding Philanthropy Venture - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

matter where and at what price the money to fund an entrepreneurial venture comes from? The answer, it turns out, is that it does matter—a fact that policymakers may benefit from understanding as they look... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Investors' Tale Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Case 311-078 The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

the role of positive deviance in identifying workable solutions. Building and Scaling Social Enterprises : The steps to build social enterprises from identifying the right funding sources (venture View Details

January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
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Return Logic, Inc. (B)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz

Highlights how multiple rounds of financing work in practice and illustrates how terms agreed to in early-stage financing deals have an impact in later financing rounds. Also illustrates ethical issues that entrepreneurs confront as they build "dot-com" ventures. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Internet and the Web; Negotiation Deal; Entrepreneurship; Ethics

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Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

Care (Q1) . This course enables you to fund your seed round, obtain non-dilutive funding, and/or enter in formal beta site commitments with highly likely customers. In 2025, teams obtained $5 million in seed View Details

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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance Course Number 1624 Professor Sabrina Howell Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Course Overview Entrepreneurial Finance (EF) is designed for students who plan to be involved with a startup View Details

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Company databases: which database to choose? | Baker Library

CB Insights Availability: HBS intranet Strengths/Unique Features: Coverage of early stage companies/deals. Capital IQ Availability: HarvardKey Strengths/Unique Features: Auditable financials, sophisticated screening, PE and VC companies and View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2000
News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

going to the annual dinner." In addition, says Grossman, there's growing pressure from the government and other funders for "outcome-based" funding -- an approach based on nonprofits achieving certain goals. "It comes down to people... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Jun 2000
News

Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

will climb Mt. Fuji along with medical, research, and public-policy personnel in a venture sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund of San Francisco. The climb has been organized to raise awareness and View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

15 Apr 2025
News

Mothers of Invention

VC Backed Moms founders Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017), and Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) Illustration by John Ritter Early in her first pregnancy, having just launched the venture she cofounded, Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017) wondered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Feb 2022
Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

Debora Spar (formerly of Barnard College and currently senior associate dean for business and global society at HBS) and Larry Summers (Harvard); to leaders in the ed-tech and venture fields such as Ryan Craig of Achieve Partners and... View Details

06 Jan 2010
What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

should venture capitalists around the world get behind climate change agreements? Should governments with highly-favorable environments for entrepreneurship, such as the U.S. and China, push even more strongly for stringent rules or... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

three things that are very interesting. One is that it is enabling innovators, often user innovators, to get the funding they need, to do what they need and scale it. Before, you had to go to venture... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

November 2019 (Revised April 2021)
Case

United Technologies: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States

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14 Jan 2022
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

change. Before HBS, she spent two years at Teach for America, two years with an impact investment venture capital fund in India, and a year in Denmark as a Fulbright Research Fellow studying social return on... View Details

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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer View Details

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Deborah A. Farrington

hip-deep in paper. And of course, there were no women on the floor back then.” As co-founder and general partner of Manhattan-based StarVest Partners, Farrington is one of the few women to run her own venture capital firm. StarVest... View Details

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

traditional Afghani designs and using only locally grown cotton. Sherjan wants to grow Boumi so that it can be a substantial, if not major, funding source for Aid Afghanistan for Education. In order to grow Boumi, Sherjan must confront a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog

Family Office (FO) decisions. Students will be embedded in Family Offices to engage in live decision-making at the FO. The course will be highly career-centric, and it will apply to students going into careers in: Private Equity Hedge View Details

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