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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their initial infusion of cash from various View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
Angel Investor with an Agenda Authors:Regina E. Herzlinger and Beatriz Muñoz-Seca Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
consulting for a few years back in Los Angeles and then worked at Netflix for about three years before coming to HBS. And my time at Netflix has been pretty transformational for how we run LeverEdge because a lot of what we focused on...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
Acquisition (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-020 GovDelivery Is government the biggest, worst customer in the world? And is that a reason for venture View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
banking and financial sector. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809111 KenCall—Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya? Harvard Business School Case 809-114 Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact...
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Martha Lagace
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
tanks advocate for their own mode of transportation, issue by issue. Air and rail don't talk to each other—just as they fail to connect at most airports (although freight rail and trucking companies work well together). The major View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
constellations to ground station networks of satellite dishes, to new thrusters on satellites to asteroid mining,” he says. Joe Landon sees it, too. In addition to his work at Planetary Resources, Landon is chair of the Space Angels...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
live and work. "Cross-sector partnering between business, government, and nonprofit sectors will be the collaboration paradigm of the 21st century," he asserts. Teaching Millions One customer with a $500 savings account is not very interesting, but twenty thousand...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
villages across ten countries and measure our results in each of those key intervention areas. We raised about $130 million from 64 angel investors in our first round of funding and have been on the ground...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
potential. “Each year we take only about five to twelve entrepreneurs per country,” says Ko. Once chosen, Endeavor provides “anything and everything” that they need to succeed. For example, if they need financing, Endeavor introduces them to its network of View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
the Aldrich classrooms on the Harvard Business School campus where other people's ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges—a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and industry executives—score the plans on criteria...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
morning known as “Super Saturday,” 63 student teams present these and other ideas in the Aldrich classrooms where other people’s ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges — a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709024 Yieldex (A) Harvard Business School Case 809-090 Yieldex Founder, Doug Cosman, is faced with the decision to sell his young software start-up for $4 million or to hire a CEO (Tom Shields) and pursue...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
“You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” Add it all up and you have an early-stage funding problem, with marine-energy projects proving too capital-intensive for venture capitalists and too risky for private equity. “There are increasing...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
bought and how they spent their money. From the New York Times “How We Spend Our Time” (April 24, 1937) LOS ANGELES SKYLINE, 2008: The post–World War II boom years were followed by “deceptively subtle” upheavals in the American business...
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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Spring, and years of weak oil prices. Leveraging deep local knowledge, strong relations in the region, and a “PE investment approach in public equity markets,” Ajeej had outperformed its benchmark regional stock indices and attracted investing capital from large...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
proud of the turbulence of our own making and the actions we took out of despair. This book sets out to change that. Belsky draws on his experiences building Behance, selling it, and then working as an investor and advisor to distill...
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Print View - Course Catalog
in the future Have experienced a startup failure--of their own or of a company they were a part of--and want to build a narrative toolkit for talking to future employers and investors about the experience Want to join a startup and are...
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