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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
the candidate who probably feels like getting board/investor visibility is a strong positive in their career development." —Rob Go, partner, NextView Ventures Marketing, sales & partnerships Table stakes: Introductions to potential... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
and the HBS Club of New York, the event offered faculty and alumni perspectives on the role of the investment community in addressing climate change. Professor Joseph Lassiter served as moderator of the four-person panel, which included... View Details
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Kraft Accelerator
Investing Harvard Business Publishing Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Venture Philanthropy Funding for Biotech Harvard Business Publishing Learn how, and why, we got our start HEAR... View Details
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Terrance McGuire
meet the legendary venture capitalist and learn firsthand about ARD’s investment in Digital Equipment Corporation. At the time, Digital was the computer industry’s hottest company and ARD was proud to... View Details
- 21 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence across Countries
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Government & the International Economy, Entrepreneurial Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Archie L. Jones Field Course: Investing for Impact Entrepreneurial Management, General Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In... View Details
- February 1996 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
Brown Group, Inc.--The Dividend Decision
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. "Brown Group, Inc.--The Dividend Decision." Harvard Business School Case 396-265, February 1996. (Revised November 1998.)
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
rights, and public policy. It was established in 1944 and is based in New York City. Kapor Capital - a venture capital arm of Kapor Center for Social Impact specializing in investments in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976
crisis is the most urgent problem facing our planet. It is critical that we accelerate the flow of investment into green technology.” As one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists, John... View Details
William C. Norris
An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC factories in depressed neighborhoods... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
ecosystems will gain valuable insights into how to adapt strategies. These actionable insights will improve decision-making by providing a framework for adapting to local market context. Second, those who intend to pursue startups or View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Corporation (DEC) was a daring one, not simply because it was contrarian, but because he saw the investment as a tool for massive economic and technological change." Udayan Gupta, The First Venture... View Details
- August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
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The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton
The Dow Board made a bid for Rohm and Haas Company in order to transition its portfolio away from commodity chemicals towards specialty chemicals. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment Portfolio; Governing and Advisory Boards; Chemical Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., and Melissa Barton. "The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 411-002, August 2010. (Revised March 2012.)
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Arthur Rock
invested in the people more than the product and he spent an inordinate amount of time with the founders of prospective investments in order to gage whether or not they had the right stuff to succeed. A Rock... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Founding Partner, Asset Management Company Download Johnson profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1928 Born, Quincy, Illinois 1950 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 1962 Launches Draper and Johnson View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance Course Number 1624 Visiting Scholar Sabrina Howell Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get involved with a new View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
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Daphne Dufresne (MBA 1999) delivered the opening keynote address at the fifth annual Women in Investing Summit in Klarman Hall. The student-led Women in Investing Club seeks to strengthen the network of HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
of the wildly successful American technology stock market. Launched last year as a joint venture between the U.S. Nasdaq, Japan’s Softbank Corporation, and thirteen leading Japanese and foreign brokerages, Nasdaq Japan aims to break the... View Details
- October 2011 (Revised October 2013)
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Gracious Eloise: What Do Angels Want? (B)
By: Lena G. Goldberg, Janet Kraus and Mary Beth Findlay
Having received an extensive critique of her business plan but only a small amount of financing from an angel group she pitched in 2010, Eloise Bune responds to the angels' concerns, refines her presentation, and pitches her company again. View Details
Goldberg, Lena G., Janet Kraus, and Mary Beth Findlay. "Gracious Eloise: What Do Angels Want? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 312-055, October 2011. (Revised October 2013.)