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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and ending structural inequities in business and society. Two new ventures led by HBS alumni are leveraging the power of View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Mar 2014
- News
Impact Investing: Patience, Please
- 30 Jul 2014
- News
Five Bad Reasons to Start a For-Profit Social Enterprise
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
First he pioneered the British venture capitalist industry, cofounding Apax Partners in 1972. Then Sir Ronald M. Cohen (MBA 1969) led the way in social investment, prompting The Economist to call him “the compassionate capitalist.” Now he... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- News
Valley of good works
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
hopes he might find some early stage treatments that might prove helpful for his son. Rodakis had a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and had spent the early part of his career as a medical venture capitalist. His week would often... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Open Up Resources, two successful nonprofits focused on innovation in the K–12 education market in the United States, Wolf knew how to deliver scalable, outside-the-box educational services for American kids. He believes his latest View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
a decent profit decently. Venture philanthropy, which applies principles of venture investing to social enterprises, has become a hot topic lately. Is venture View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
fund for young US technology companies. He is now the founding cochairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a leading venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage social enterprises making a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
building companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, and Ross Stores. Bowes also played a key role at Amgen, serving as the first chairman and treasurer of what has become the world’s largest biotech company. Venture View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Kaplan Named Senior Associate Dean
Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm. He is the author of several case studies, articles, and the book What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective... View Details
- 14 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Investors Have an Impact
getting people to cross-connect and cross-pollinate our ideas. It enables philanthropic funders, whether they are philanthropists giving money or they are institutional investors who want to actually deploy their assets via venture View Details
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
cofounder of RubiconMD, an online venture that allows primary-care doctors to consult with specialists online. Michael Belkin (MBA 2012), CEO and cofounder of Distinc.tt, a social network for the LGBT community. Adam Besvinick (MBA 2013),... View Details
- 03 Apr 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke at our class event in New York about why HBS is important to him. It resonated deeply with our class members.” “I think... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Leveraging the power of yes
Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) is chief innovation officer at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from poverty. “One of the things I’ve learned is how expressive and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs
university,” he offers, “is not only to turn out specialists but also to educate men and women who can discover connections between different fields of knowledge, and build those synergies into businesses with a powerful positive impact.” In his View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
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Social Investing’s Time Has Come
founder and CEO of Social Finance, a Boston-based nonprofit established in January to introduce SIBs to the United States. A companion organization with the same name is based in London. With governments here and abroad strapped for cash and View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
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Cross-Class Connection
Leadership and Innovation. “AJ did a phenomenal job of helping us see the connection between support of the HBS Fund and the priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke... View Details