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- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
it all was refreshing.” How did it feel to get the investment from Sir Charles and Lori Greiner? Smith: “Dream. Come. True. We found out the night before that Charles Barkley was the guest Shark, and we said, if he and Lori went in on a... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
in a way that would convince high school administrators and students to invest their time in a new program, and, of course, raising money for everything from test-graders to marketing. When funds were tight, the board made personal... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with start-ups such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, Netscape, Excite, and Sun Microsystems. Through the years, Doerr and his partners have invested more than $1.3 billion in 250 technology ventures in the United States, creating companies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
times give solid companies and strong managers the chance to seize market share. Fox explains how the savvy few who rise to the top stay focused and alert, get new market share, hire good and recently fired talent, increase investments in... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
began with a review of the case, which was focused on two decisions facing asset management firm BlackRock, Inc.: Should the company license its Aladdin operating system? And should it acquire Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM)?... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
the formation of funds to the investment of the funds in operating companies to the liquidation of those investments. A wide range of topics is considered, including the structure of venture partnerships, how venture capitalists oversee... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Get Involved
Alice Vilma (MBA 2007) is executive director of Investment Banking and Securities Dealing at Morgan Stanley. In this interview she share her perspectives on how each person can make a difference. “How I am trying to make a difference in... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
model and other market-based models ultimately attract billions of dollars of incremental investment capital to conservation," Adams says. "The remaining pristine places in the world need and deserve all the help they can get." (Published... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
He Loves New York
wretch at heart? It turns out that Wasserstein, CEO of Lazard, had at one time pondered a career in journalism, been an editor at his college paper, and worked one summer at Forbes magazine while attending HBS, according to the Times. Even when he moved on and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
that required a massive amount of investment before it could take off,” says Yoffie, who served on E Ink’s board from 1999 to 2004. “The truism is that getting to that point takes longer and costs more money than the most pessimistic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. To cover expenses and support her parents she worked first as a Mary Kay sales rep-resentative, then as an investment analyst, running to the office after classes and staying well into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
$900. Yaqub left an investment banking job in New York City in 2003 to attend HBS, where she unexpectedly changed her mind about returning to finance. “My favorite experience at HBS was the field study that four of us did for Neiman... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
invest in the women who make the industry run. Each brightly colored bag of Kahawa 1893 features a prominent QR code that allows purchasers to give to the women behind the beans. “People have been very receptive to the idea,” says... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
require expanding beyond Atlanta. NeuroLaunch opened additional locations in Boston and San Francisco last summer, and the entrepreneurs for its next batch of investments will meet in all three places. NeuroLaunch is also raising... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
participants. For his part, Jonathan West emphasizes that “real companies are putting billions of dollars into real projects whose impact is going to be staggering.” In envisioning how these investments will contribute to the global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
day she applies what she learned at HBS and interacts with someone from the School’s worldwide community. “It’s not here and there or now and then; it’s everywhere and all the time.” Serra arrived at HBS with a law degree and experience working in communications,... View Details
- 30 Jul 2025
- News
Play with Purpose
beachfront real estate. So we bought the Commanders, I had to convince 23 people to invest hundreds of millions of dollars each to become my partner and they had no control or governance, and very important people that are very... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the production of white blood cells lost during chemotherapy. Led by these two products, Amgen's annual revenues now approach $2 billion. Noting recently that Amgen currently employs some 4,600 people (up from 200 in 1985), investment... View Details