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- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
Quinoa-Häagen-Dazs connection? Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men Studies by Alison Wood Brooks and colleagues reveal that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female... View Details
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
More broadly, why does the startup ecosystem contain so many market failures that lead to biases and inequities – particularly in terms of access to capital for female entrepreneurs and View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
which is why the decision to pivot Lotus to a support network for women entrepreneurs was easy to make. In partnership with local sponsors, Lotus hosts monthly breakfasts for investors and female founders—a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
to change. The discussion also featured guest panelists: Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, General Partner of Visible Hands VC, and Glynn Lloyd, Executive Director at The Foundation for Business Equity. Through their respective organizations, these View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
(HBS MBA '81) had been getting together every year since graduation for a long weekend with ten of her female classmates. She observed that most of her friends dropped out of the workforce at some point in their post-HBS lives. Welsh... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
several unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter as they develop new businesses. The authors focus on factors that influence female entrepreneurs’ choices of business and industry — personal... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
were reinforced by Denise Condon Welsh (MBA '81), an HBS classmate of Hart's who wrote to Clark about the issues of women's reentry into the professional ranks. Welsh noted that each year since graduation she had joined ten female... View Details
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Deborah A. Farrington
earned her the title of “Queen Midas” as the highest ranking female VC on the Forbes Midas List. Farrington’s experience at HBS has had a big influence on her career and she remains closely connected to the school. In 1999, as... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
Initiative Advisory Board, and in 2001 she received the HBS Women's Student Association award as the outstanding female graduate in finance and consulting. Named to Forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful women for the past... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
consumers had to pay for merchandise with cash. This, the entrepreneur believed, precluded a consumer from making a spontaneous purchase. In the late 1940s, banks did not usually provide loans for consumer purchases other than housing.... View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsFemale Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Harvard Business School Note 807-018 Examines the extent of and challenges facing female View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major corporations, and leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership by Elizabeth Muir (HRPBA 1958) University of Toronto Press Muir uncovers the rich and often tumultuous relationship between women and Christianity, as she traces... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
ventures. Specifically, we argue and show that although cultural beliefs that disassociate women from commercial activity may result in female social venture founders being less likely to use commercial activity than their male... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
community and examined paths to success in the new economy. Held during the last weekend in February, the three-day event, titled “The Digital Dilemma: Challenges to Excelling in the New Economy,” gave participants an opportunity to exchange ideas with successful View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
lived by his word, helping Ipswich soldiers and their families during the Civil War and donating to the Ipswich Female Seminary. While in China, reading became a favorite pastime of Western merchants, and many became known for their... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
all-female founding teams received less than 2% of venture capital dollars, and Black founders received less than 1%) and shares her advice for entrepreneurs seeking funding. “We can’t ignore that the precious resource of high-growth... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
before 1938. Rubinstein is widely considered the single most important female entrepreneur in the United States in the 20th century. She was born in Poland but immigrated to Australia where she started a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth; exploring the relationship between business and democracy; and the role entrepreneurs and firms, not governments or markets, have played in driving globalization. "Important subjects... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
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Women's History Month | Baker Library
Protagonists Women's Healthcare Entrepreneurs By: Regina Herzlinger Contemporary Collections Contemporary Collections aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection... View Details