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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital 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
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
re-nominating one male director and the second by expanding the board by one in anticipation of further retirements—that would solve the supply problem by creating 1,000 new board seats. The 19.9 percent quickly becomes 40 percent if women are considered first for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
venture capital and private equity. Last year, he stepped down from his management responsibilities to devote all his efforts to social investing in the United Kingdom and the Middle East. "Those who have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
future general managers in science- and technology-intensive businesses who seek firsthand exposure to companies constructing global R&D strategies. Financial Management of Smaller Firms focuses on the financial management of View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Two MBA Startups Cited as “Most Disruptive”
date, Michaels has received $3.75 million in venture capital funding. “I vetted and launched Stride during the HBS Startup Bootcamp,” she told Poets and Quants, adding that she took advantage of the School’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Aná huac in Mexico City, where he earned a degree in civil engineering in 1973. James G. ("Shay") Garvey (MBA '84) is a partner at Delta Partners, a venture capital firm in... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976
working as a securities analyst for Merrill Lynch in Asia, running a private equity firm, and serving as managing director of a Hong Kong merchant bank. In 1998, she founded StarVest Partners, a New York City–based venture View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
websites. FLYR CEO Jean Tripier (MBA 1992) Founded in 2013 “The data science company that ends the guessing game of booking airfares.” When JetBlue created a venture capital arm earlier this year, its first... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, VC: An American History shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. Author Tom Nicholas... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
entrepreneurial and family-held businesses. For his part, Liles became an expert on venture capital and the entrepreneur. In the 1970s and 1980s, as HBS intensified its research and curriculum development in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
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
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based in France and committed to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
submitted were quite a bit different from what they first showed me.” A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow is currently a domain expert in marketing at Highland Capital Partners, a Boston-based View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
had no idea what microfinance was.” Firestarter: “The Mexico of tomorrow will be built by the entrepreneurs of today. That’s why Michael and I started IGNIA. Today we’re the largest venture capital View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, and then to private equity, asset allocation, and now, to leading operations. Ma recently was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Index Ventures, a 25-year-old international venture View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens. "In order for people to get along, they have to respect each other's differences," says Slifka, a successful Wall Street investor who has applied his business talent to various philanthropic ventures... 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
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years after college, the View Details