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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because of an abundance of existing venues,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
villages across ten countries and measure our results in each of those key intervention areas. We raised about $130 million from 64 angel investors in our first round of funding and have been on the ground for four years. Since then we’ve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
potential. “Each year we take only about five to twelve entrepreneurs per country,” says Ko. Once chosen, Endeavor provides “anything and everything” that they need to succeed. For example, if they need financing, Endeavor introduces them to its network of View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
despite the fact that her lungs, scarred from her treatments, were functioning at only 50 percent of capacity. Said Berté, who trained for four months to prepare for the Tour, “I never in a million years thought I would be on a bike again” (Los View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who told him about his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
Ultimately, says HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, the Yankees—who signed Tanaka to a seven-year, $155 million deal—were looking for what every team seeks in a free agent: a player who can help them win more games. But ever since pitcher Hideo Nomo signed with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
Born in East Lansing, Michigan, Charles Stoddard grew up with banking in his blood. As a teenager, he worked as a teller in the bank his father founded. After earning degrees from Michigan State University and HBS, he held banking and finance positions in New York City... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
York, where in September 2009 he enrolled in a fashion-marketing program at the Parsons School of Fashion. Since completing the program in December 2010, Heffernan has divided his time between angel investing and consulting with small... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
restaurants in the Los Angeles area. But after 25 years, the business went bust, and she relocated the family to her native Mexico when the Salas brothers were 12 years old. It’s a fitting origin story for Camino Financial, an online... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
mid-1990s, Larry Fondation, a community organizer in South Central Los Angeles and Tufano's Harvard College roommate, alerted Tufano to the plight of low-income wage earners who traditionally have been left out of the loop when it comes... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
recently announced it would invest $2 billion to add up to 4,000 jobs at 17 American plants. The Los Angeles Times reports that chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will open a $4.6 billion semiconductor factory north of Albany, New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
world (Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2004). Wolfensohn noted that, in his ten years at the Bank’s helm, he has met with poor people in more than 100 countries and found that “they want security, but they define it differently than we do.... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
Angeles Philharmonic and two short films by Emmy-winning Los Angeles filmmaker Ty Kim (MBA 2000). The program took place at the Colburn School, a performing arts school in downtown Los Angeles. “We opened... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Seeing the Light
Living in Los Angeles and working as a marketer for a global biotechnology firm, Jana Kirlin Brownell (MBA '83) saw her career path take an unexpected turn. More than once, her father had asked her to come home and take over the Kirlin... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
feature prominent business and financial leaders; the Community Partners program, which provides pro bono management consulting to New York-area nonprofits; and financial aid for students entering HBS. An example of one of the club's many initiatives is the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
entrepreneurial graduates, and to create a mechanism to connect alumni with HBS faculty and the global HBS network of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors. More than seventy teams entered the March regional competitions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
Minnesota winter returns.” Eduardo Russian (MBA 2018) Hometown: San Diego, California Destination: Camino Financial, Los Angeles (Social Enterprise Initiative Summer Fellow) “A friend who saw similarities between my story and that of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
improve the sightlines from the sides of the auditorium. I hope our marketing department does a good job of filling those extra seats. Do you have a background in show biz? I loved the movies when I was growing up in Virginia, and was naive enough to think that I could... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
you want to go to the next level of regulation and oversight. And so if you’re trying to raise a $500 million fund, that means the price tag is $5 million, let’s say, as an investor. So that’s why I see a lot more women involved in angel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
European angel investing firm Go Beyond Ltd., advised aspiring women entrepreneurs to have a clear vision not only of the business plan but also of how they would run the enterprise. “Make sure you know who you are and what you believe... View Details