Tag: Venture Capital

  • Work & Economy

    More turbulence likely ahead after bank collapses

    Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers says regulators have significant tools at their disposal, need to be vigilant of specific vulnerabilities.

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  • Nation & World

    Catching the next wave

    PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel talks tech startup strategies and why HBS students should ignore what most of their classmates are doing.

  • Science & Tech

    Fueling the entrepreneurial spirit

    A growing number of Harvard faculty members, fellows, and even students are looking to take their innovative ideas a step further and bring them to the marketplace.

  • Science & Tech

    Funding success, and finding it

    Four years ago, Harvard’s Office of Technology Development launched its Accelerator Fund, a $10 million revolving account to be used as a bridge across the “valley” between creation and development. The fund is proving to be just such a bridge.

  • Nation & World

    Venturing forth

    Harvard Business School has long known that many of its graduates found companies. But in the wake of Wall Street’s recent meltdown — and at a time when starting a new venture has become far easier — campus culture is embracing entrepreneurship in a big way.

  • Campus & Community

    HBS professor nabs lifetime achievement award from NVCA

    Felda Hardymon, M.B.A. ’79, the M.B.A. Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association.