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- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
have become so great that governments can’t cope with them anymore.” We are at a turning point, Cohen notes, the likes of which we have seen before. In 1972, when Cohen cofounded Apax Partners, one of Europe’s first VC firms, the business... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
he's thinking about starting a VC fund. He actually said this to me, he said, "This program absolutely changed my life and open my eyes to what's really possible." And so, I think every day we're just seeing people who ... They're... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
number of HBS alumnae founders runs around 25 percent, which is somewhere between VC industry norms and the current HBS class composition of about 46 percent women. There’s more we can do, but we have fantastic role models who have had a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
VC community, but it's starting. The more they see the vibrancy of people who are 50, 60, and older and starting new things and contributing their wisdom and talent and being more successful in some ways than the 20, 30-year-old that will... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
or the newest startup in Silicon Valley, VC is not just a model of finance that has proven difficult to replicate in other countries. It is a state of mind exemplified by an appetite for risk-taking, a bold spirit of adventure, and an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
thinking,” Kang said to laughter. “It’s another online dating site.” But VC firms have shown a great deal of interest—almost $150 million worth since early 2010—in the revitalized online dating sector, which market research company... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the few View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
“We’re not interested in ‘fraternities’ or ‘sororities.’ ” Some three years after its founding, the Women’s Venture Capital Fund is still one of only a few VC firms with the mission of funding businesses with women leaders. “Investors... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
lessons that influenced much of the thinking in my career. The first came the day a highly respected venture capitalist visited class and talked about his endeavors. A classmate asked him if he had ever failed. "Yes," the VC replied, "but... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
But certainly, I think, in thinking about the VC profile, I think even if you have a cool technology and you think it's going to change the world, I think you have to make a business case for it. But I think sometimes potentially... View Details