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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
with which it works. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A & B)" (with V. Kasturi Rangan). Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: It looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks... View Details
- 25 Mar 2011
- News
Family Firms Need Professional Management
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
The Conglomerate That Troubles China
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Transparency Can Reduce Bias — but Only If It’s Done Right
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
our story and gain feedback from an audience of potential investors,” Goble says. The victory also came with $75,000, a sizable sum for the young firm facing basic company-formation costs. The enterprise became part of the Harvard i-lab... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Jan 2024
- News
A Wide Net
Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
five-year investment period. Right now, some of those mega-funds raised in the boom times are feeling bloated, and limited partners have been stepping in and asking to cut the size of funds and release them from legal commitments. Because... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
and also adjusted for the size of the package, so per-unit (e.g., per-ounce) prices really didn’t increase much for a long time. What we’re finding instead is that firms were producing products at a lower... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
(DPI), a leading pan-African private equity firm based in London with over $3.1 B under management; and Victor Williams (MBA 1998), CEO of NBA Africa, which is transforming Africa’s profile in the world of global sports. He is the former... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
brother-in-law, who was a CPA; my dad was an 8th grade-educated entrepreneur. And my uncle began taking the money from the partnership that broke up in 1955 and started a competitive chain called Mr. Donut. My dad was so upset at the fact that my uncle had almost... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact
impact, build leadership, advance philanthropic effectiveness, and accelerate learning. "You need strategy. You need talent. You need funding. We have evolved to provide an integrated package of those kinds of services," says Bradach, who founded the Boston-based View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
their responsibility to their constituencies, emphasize knowing their customers, and invest heavily in training employees. Further, Mittelstand firms tend to occupy narrow niches, often tools or component parts, with a strategy to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
we need.” With almost three years of operational experience, the ten-person company has adapted and survived. A pending project for 42 multifamily affordable-housing units would cause the firm to triple in View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
the truth is that women-led enterprises grow more slowly and remain much smaller than those created by men. In 2000, for instance, American firms owned by women averaged $2.4 million in sales, compared with an average of $12.3 million for... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be put to the test. Much has been... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong