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- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
International, a pioneer in microfinance investing. “I was completely taken with everything he said,” says Rodríguez of the origins of their friendship, which has evolved from mentor, to collaborator, to business partner. In 2007, the pair launched IGNIA, a venture...
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Susan Young
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
common struggle for firms to get innovation investments right, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. On one hand, firms large enough to house their...
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Melody Koh
initiative. Melody began her career as a tech/media M&A investment banking analyst at Evercore Partners. Melody holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Commerce with Distinction from the McIntire School...
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- 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), principal in Deep Fork View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
co-creator of the concept. Born in Egypt and now living in England, Cohen became interested in social capital and philanthropy in 2000 when he led the UK Treasury’s Social Investment Task Force. He...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
industry that is well known but not well understood. Bussgang should know the material: He is general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston and currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at HBS. The book explains the different ways...
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Robert Leke
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? An MBA at HBS was important in providing the opportunity for me to step back, assess my current capabilities, and develop the additional skills I lacked to become a successful manager in the future. The diversity of...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
retain those currently in it.”—Madeline Keulen (MBA 2019), vice president, Victress Capital Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, general trends on gender diversity were moving, slowly, in the right direction: In 2018, venture View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
the last three years, Exxon continues to invest heavily in capital expenditures around the world to discover and produce more oil and natural gas, yet it is continuously cutting its internal costs to be more...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S. outbound FDI — the developed markets of Europe and Japan and the emerging markets of China and India — are filled with View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
usually required in a venture capital presentation. “A lot of companies that probably shouldn't get funding will get it” As enticing as crowdfunding is as a concept, it may ultimately have little power to shake up the View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
to recent research. Enter the era of “spray and pray,” where venture firms over the last decade have seeded more firms than previously, but with less upfront investment of time and money. As someone who teaches entrepreneurial finance,...
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- March 2003 (Revised June 2003)
- Case
International Securities Exchange, The: New Ground in Options Markets
This case examines the equity options market and studies the major parties involved and the options trading process. It takes an in-depth look at the path taken by the International Securities Exchange as it entered a mature exchange industry and transformed itself...
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Chacko, George C., and Eli Strick. "International Securities Exchange, The: New Ground in Options Markets." Harvard Business School Case 203-063, March 2003. (Revised June 2003.)
- March 1995 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
Claflin-Ukraine Fund 1995
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Thomas M. Claflin II
Stevenson, Howard H., and Thomas M. Claflin II. "Claflin-Ukraine Fund 1995." Harvard Business School Case 395-158, March 1995. (Revised April 1995.)
- 09 Jan 2015
- News
Alumni Notch 12 Spots on Forbes’ ‘30 Under 30’ Lists
We’re pleased to report that a number of recent HBS graduates have made it into Forbes’ “30 Under 30” lists for 2015. Congratulations! Learn more about them below: Venture Capital http://www.forbes.com/30under30/#/venture-capital Neil...
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- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
venture capital, we've seen that there is a definite correlation between investing in more women later stage if there are more female partners involved. Flint: What about raising capital as a female-focused...
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- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources...
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- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers...
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- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
Courtesy Pialy Aditya A couple of years ago, Pialy Aditya (MBA 2005) got an unexpected inquiry from a venture capital firm: Would she be interested in being a partner? Though she wasn’t looking for a new job, she was intrigued by the...
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