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- 01 Mar 2016
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Feedback
December 2015 Deconstructing Draper Re: Golden State of Mind I admire Tim Draper (MBA 1984) for his sustained interest in rebooting public education in California. Too few HBS alums are engaged with public education, no doubt because of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
took in $2.8 billion in new investments during the first six months of this year. The new, public nature of the commercial real estate market thrives on information, once a precious commodity, now an industry fixture View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
former investment banker, Apkon found the ideal focus for his passion for film by forming a nonprofit group in 1998 to purchase the defunct Rome Theater, a 1925 historic landmark located near his home in downtown Pleasantville, New York.... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
Protecting the country’s conservation land while also turning a profit guides the business model at The Lyme Timber Company. David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996), managing director at the timberland investment management firm, says... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
investing immediately, with the first check we received,” he says. The initial fundraising goal was $4 million; the fund has now raised $25 million. Aravaipa also had long-term vision. “This isn’t software,” Fenwick-Smith explains.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
pesticide exposure, diet, or perhaps complex interactions among all those factors and others. “With honey-bee health problems there are multiple possible causes,” says Crespin, who also works on sustainability issues as a senior fellow... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
success put them in a group even more exclusive than the approximately 7,000 companies worldwide that received a venture investment in 2010. Birchbox was among the just 823 companies—11.8 percent—that had at least one woman founder. The... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
water entrepreneurship ecosystem is lagging behind other sectors that are on focused climate and sustainability—led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company invests exclusively in entrepreneurs building technologies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
How to Grow When Markets Don't by Adrian Slywotzky (MBA '80) and Richard Wise (Warner Books) Slywotzky brings his expertise in global strategy consulting to his sixth book, which examines the difficulties of sustainable growth and offers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
benefit from his knowledge and connections was an amazing opportunity,” he notes. An investment management expert and senior lecturer in HBS’s Finance Unit, Cohen teaches Field X and Y, which are field courses for entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
vision for the organization of the future; reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic; and defines the new model of leadership for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
Looking to Rwanda’s Future
When Jonathan Goldstein (MBA 1990) first traveled to Rwanda in 2002 to talk about venture capital with President Paul Kagame’s cabinet, he was surprised to find the cabinet members “weren’t requesting immediate investments or handouts.”... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
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Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Decades in investment banking and a lifelong love of the outdoors set Pat Coady (MBA 1966) on the path toward conservation financing. What was a small sector in the early 1990s, when he led the US delegation for the creation and... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
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Power Play
Courtesy Rahul Advani, Sara Graziano, Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1996, focused on the energy sector, he thought a future of accessible and affordable clean energy was a ways off. But as he... View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- News
A Dialogue on Capitalism, Climate, and Social Change
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
anger, running on empty, and siblings speak to what it’s really like to be a caregiver. You’ll find ways to ground yourself, sustain yourself day after day, and learn how to deal with slow grief. You aren’t alone. Family Caregivers: An... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
are already working behind the scenes to build businesses; and her angel investing network offers capital to some, such as Krakakoa, a women-owned cocoa startup that has been helping smallholder farmers in Lampung through fair trade and... View Details