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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
Concurrently, Lewis and I, plus several others, formed the first U.S.-style venture fund in Asia, in Hong Kong, with Lewis as the working M.D., to do startup/early stage investments — usually the transfer of proven success models from... View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
to legal, to tax, to portfolio management – which created a great preamble before Harlem Capital.” While working at ICV, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were also part of the Management Leadership for Tomorrow... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Technologies after hedge fund Blue Harbour Group's investment and when the fund’s Managing Director Robb LeMasters (MBA’05) joined its board of directors. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
away from anything but a majority position, Rodriguez said. Illiquid markets are also a turn-off for institutional investors. Only thirty-three companies in Latin America meet the minimum $5 million in daily trading volume most fund View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
$649B in stimulus funds to small businesses. We are targeting these funds to underserved communities and critical supply chains. Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021), Lucas Santos (MBA 2022) and Truc Nguyen (MBA... View Details
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
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
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Diane Esber
on," says Dianne. During the winter break, for example, Dianne participated in the Middle East immersion led by students from Dubai and Cairo. "It was a chance to do something I couldn't do alone," says Dianne. "We met with the leading developers... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
challenge for the existing theories on upstream capital flows and global imbalances. August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association The New Empirical Economics of Management By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
Operations Management Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi Abstract—We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for investment View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Extending Opportunity: Brock Family Fellowship
Tess Reeder and Jane Brock-Wilson Growing up in Indiana, Jane Brock-Wilson (MBA 1983) never considered going to Harvard. After studying industrial management at Purdue, she moved to the Boston area to take a job at Raytheon. When her boss... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
appointment as director general of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission. MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs Today, Oteh and her World Bank... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
don’t have enough capital to invest in the best deals. Why don’t we have the ability to get the same returns as infrastructure limited partnerships or banks or private equity firms?” Here’s the thesis: Nisha has found only two managed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
that eventually resulted in a historic windfall for the drug maker soon after it began marketing UK-92,480 under the brand name Viagra. Pfizer was able to develop and launch a wildly successful and profitable new drug because it effectively View Details
- Portrait Project
Randolph Rodrigues
I tread along in the footsteps of those who have accomplished so much with so little... My father was a shepherd for the first decade of his life until a teacher offered to enroll him in school. My mother grew up with her grandmother who just View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
booms, we have seen the impositions of tougher standards by venture capitalists when examining whether to fund or refinance companies, a decrease in the valuations assigned to these firms, and a slowing of the frenetic pace of investment.... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
preservation of the endowment's purchasing power. Each year the Harvard Corporation approves the final distribution amount. Funds within the HBS endowment, along with those of the other Harvard schools, are View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel