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- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
reimagine the regional ecosystems in which they participate. They should search for systemic, multisector opportunities; mobilize complementary partners; and obtain seed and scale-up financing from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817081-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-051 Unigrains Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 teaches entrepreneurial finance,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
plant’s seeds contains its entire genetic code. The plant develops according to that code, with leaves of a certain shape and flowers of specific colors. To his rapt audience, Enriquez declares, “You’re lucky to be in Cambridge. You’ve... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World, edited by Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic, 151-160. New York: Public Affairs Books, 2010 Abstract Particularly since the 1960s, the federal government has played a significant role in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
the traction can sometimes create a blind spot and put your company at serious risk. Back in 2018, when we raised our first round of seed funding, we learned this the hard way. We had great traction and a lot of venture capital firms... View Details
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
activity. Janice admits that raising VC funding has been harder than she’d thought, given how much money there is in Wall Street’s current clean energy and infrastructure boom. She did close her seed round in March, led by Earthshot... View Details
- Profile
Michael Maples
investing but when he looked around, he saw a gap in the market. There was a raft of startups that wanted to raise seed or early funding but were not ready for a five million dollar round, which seemed to be the minimum that Silicon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
poor old people. We’ve scrimped on retirement funding because it’s a way of hiding the fact that we have stagnant and falling real wages. We maintain current incomes by gutting long-term savings. It’s the phenomenon of a society that eats its View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
internships, and trainings. Making Inroads into Finance Working with INROADS, Ramirez connected with Wellington Management and an internship in finance. “It was a very rewarding experience,” Ramirez shared. “I had a community of people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
have a long break-in period: I got out of the Navy on a Thursday before Memorial Day. A week from that Monday we had moved to Boston, and I had two sections of Finance for the summer session.” A native of West Virginia, Charlie Williams... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
McLeod. “The type of people you are seeing on Hinge are really people who you actually want to date,” he says of the app, which matches young professionals with other young professionals and was originally seeded with McLeod’s single... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiate in the right order. Sorting Out The Possibilities When Steve Perlman was preparing to launch WebTV in 1996, he faced a critical sequencing dilemma. He had obtained seed funding, developed the technology to bring the Internet to... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
offerings via acquisitions. McKinsey alone bought over 30 smaller firms to seed new skills and open new client opportunities, which produced challenges in integration and cultural alignment. All of this created heterogeneous professional... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
millions of African farmers and their families achieve food security and lift themselves out of poverty. By 2008, AGRA had assembled a strong leadership team and had funded numerous small projects ranging from seed development to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Biosciences: Seeds of Change (Abridged) Arthur A. Daemmrich, Forest Reinhardt, and Mary ShelmanHarvard Business School Case 711-050 Arcadia Biosciences is seeking to introduce genetically modified rice to China that will lower farmers'... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
scuttled by. The factory, its walls covered with union stickers and pro-worker graffiti, contained the seeds for change. Any practical businessman, however, could see that despite the story’s romance, reviving Jeannette was an equation... View Details