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01 Jun 2012
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Giving Together

a fellowship fund to support HBS students with a military service background—and so did 11 of his classmates. Haley, a former US Navy SEAL and currently a managing director at Ziff Brothers Investments, led... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Social Enterprise Visionary

to prepare leaders for the nonprofit sector. Approaching then-Dean John McArthur, he offered to fund an initiative focused on research, teaching, and programs related to nonprofit management. “John Whitehead’s vision for what would become... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

21 Nov 2024
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Mother Nurture

will expand to another 5 to 10 in the next year. We have really big plans ahead of us.” The company’s expansion plans got a huge boost in July when its oversubscribed Series-A investment round raised $10.9 million, bringing the startup’s total View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Nov 2014
News

Helping foreign countries invest wisely

Dora Vardis (MBA 1994), managing director in the foreign exchange division of Citigroup, works with sovereign wealth funds and central banks to create successful investments for their countries. (Published... View Details

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

programming open to both alumni and the general public. Funds also support scholarships to attend the MBA and Executive Education programs at HBS, as well as summer fellowships, and benefit the club’s newly-established task forces to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

November 2019 (Revised April 2021)
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United Technologies: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States

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09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

differences appear to be associated with different models of development—open, distributed organizations developing systems with smaller cores. We find that core components are often dispersed throughout a system, making their detection and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

zone. It's how financial managers cover the possibility of unlikely but high impact events. Why would asset owners—never mind groups of citizens—not want to use a probability-based approach to resilience of physical portfolios in the face... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

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Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Public Entrepreneurship Course Number 1623 Professor of Management Practice Mitchell Weiss Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam For an audio description of this course, click here . Career Focus This course is... View Details

12 Dec 2017
News

Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

membership records. He couldn’t find one specializing in record keeping, so he and fellow research assistant, Tom Jones (MBA 1968), offered to serve as consultants and complete the project. That’s how Epsilon Data Management was born in... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

(MBA 1976)—to raise an additional $6 million. APRIL 21 Martin Dober (MBA 1998), managing director of Invest Detroit Ventures, recently teamed up with investors and donors to launch the Tech Startup Stabilization Fund, a $3 million View Details

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50562 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2017
News

Finish What You Start-up

venture funds later in the business, it was the best of both worlds, because we had funding from venture firms on the coast, but we were able to stay heads down here. So they could get us introduced at the... View Details

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Michael Maples

an early investor in Twitter, Weebly, Bazaarvoice, Twitch, Chegg, Demandforce and a raft of others, Maples has been on a long and profitable roll. Part of his success came from his personal experience as an entrepreneur. Having co-founded Motive, an Austin-based... View Details

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

funds can replace taxes, they can be beneficial to a citizenry. There seemed to be little concern among respondents that states will use their sovereign funds to foster their political interests. Russell... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture

companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to... View Details

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Elizabeth Washburn Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

21 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board

at approximately $300 billion (CDN), CPPIB is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan to help ensure its long-term sustainability. CPPIB... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Growth Fund, run by CEO Kevin Hall (MBA 1996), to raise a $30 million fund dedicated to starting and growing new charter organizations in Tennessee. One of the Growth Fund's grantees is Melissa Megliola-Zaikos (MBA 2000), founder and CEO... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
News

Case Study: Farming It Out

virtually no way to manage the process and the funding required to do it all yourself. Either you’ll end up giving the business away to an investor to help you pay to do everything now, or you’ll likely be... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

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