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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
feature prominent business and financial leaders; the Community Partners program, which provides pro bono management consulting to New York-area nonprofits; and financial aid for students entering HBS. An example of one of the club's many initiatives is the View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
angel investor, and a senior advisor at Republic, an online investment platform, Aditya certainly had the necessary expertise to identify and foster promising founders. But she had to wonder, “Why me? Why now?” She recalls asking a...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Case Study: Sneak Peak
that mixing one full serving of vegetables with chocolate milk could disguise the vegetable taste, creating a creamy chocolate milk shake that could offer parents a sneaky way to deliver vegetable nutrition to their kids. Sneakz Organic was born. The Sneakz team turned...
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- 07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time
Rawdon relates by phone. “But we were united by our vision of what the company could be.” The two spent the following months pulling together a business plan and fund-raising pitch. “My one-year anniversary at Siebel was the same day we got a commitment from an View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
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Freedom to Explore
Although Sherry L. Coutu (MBA 1993) now works as an angel investor in Cambridge, England, some 3,000 miles from Boston, Harvard Business School remains close to her heart. “The words of my professors and my...
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- 14 Apr 2014
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The Puzzle of Life
decisions. VentureHealth, on the other hand, is "something new under the sun," in that it allows accredited investors access to what Farquharson describes as "venture capital-quality deals." (In the United States, an accredited View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Image by Greg Betza Alison Rapaport (MBA 2018) has always been passionate about sports, both as a spectator and a participant. “I love being part of a team and I’m super competitive, so I like to win,” she laughs. Rapaport grew up in Los View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
proceeds into the new deal, the only investors asked to do so. After considering the time we already had been in it, and that it would be a cross-fund investment (touting to one fund what a great exit it was while telling another that it...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
The Answers: It depends on the company’s goals. We’ve seen many examples of DTCs that had to scale and go to retail faster than they were ready, due to investor pressure. If Saigal is happy with the current scale and performance, she...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution
biotech company cofounded by genomics pioneer Craig Venter and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, together with writer and life sciences investor Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986). And it may soon come to fruition: Last March, in the wake of a...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business
solve your water problem, but only if you have abundant energy. Nordan believes the current financing system for start-ups — angel to venture investors, followed by a public offering — doesn’t work well for green tech, which takes more...
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- 05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio
of angel investors in early 2009 and noticed, "I was the only woman in the room." She also observed that the companies under review had all-male leadership teams. She knew that the level of gender...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
2014) Angel investors could be a good fit if you can tap either friends and family or local institutional angels. Although most large banks might not be interested, there may be a small regional bank that...
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- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
medicine—and in Jarzabek’s passion for it, but, he recalls, “there were a couple of parts missing for me.” Jarzabek was mission-driven, had the analytical and strategy skills a startup needs, but he didn’t have the medical experience and fundraising know-how...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2011
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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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- 17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Clubs News Clubs News Alumni Angels Conference Tackles Post-Pandemic Investing and Entrepreneurship The global pandemic has reshaped the world, and investors and founders are full of questions about the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2014
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The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy
determining the winners of the "most innovative" and "greatest impact" prizes. (A panel of VCs and angel investors will then vote on the third category, "best investment.") Winners for all three categories...
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New Venture Competition
- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
leadership practices and organizational culture in the business world.” Beyond his near-weekly speaking engagements, Frey continues to help Utah’s economy as an angel investor who is focused on...
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Jill Radsken
- 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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- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The Realities Facing Female Founders,”...
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Margie Kelley