Tagged: harvard

July 29, 2019 @ 3:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Student loan marketplace, College Ave Student Loans, announced on Monday it is offering a special graduate loan for Harvard Law School students through its new program, College Ave Harvard Law Program, which offers one low fixed rate (5.695% APR). “The College Ave Harvard Law Program loan… Read More

April 14, 2019 @ 9:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Harvard University, via their endowment fund, is backing Blockstack’s security token offering. Digging into the Reg A+ Offering Circular filed with the SEC last week, Blockstack highlighted the relationship with Harvard Management Company: “In connection with the sale to the QP Fund, we have formed… Read More

January 28, 2019 @ 11:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Harvard’s public health graduate school has teamed up with Levi Strauss & Co. for a new blockchain-based system designed to augment outside auditors of factory health and safety with self-reporting by workers, Reuters reports. It was revealed that Consensus will provide the project’s blockchain solution and… Read More

November 4, 2015 @ 2:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Karen Mills is currently perched as a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Business School and at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. She spends her time focusing on competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation – all extremely important areas of economic… Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 1:13 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Arthena is mixing crowdfunding and fine art to create a modern masterpiece. Founded by 27-year-old Harvard alumna Madelaine D’Angelo, Arthena offers casual investors to fund undervalued, modern artists who are creating art pieces that could quickly appreciate in value, as a recent story in Upstart Business Journal notes…. Read More

March 16, 2015 @ 6:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Patch of Land, a real estate crowdfunding platform that is debt-based, has been selected to participate in Harvard Business School’s Real Estate Venture Competition. The competition will take place during the annual Harvard Real Estate Weekend and is focused on early stage startups who will… Read More

January 29, 2015 @ 11:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Brandon Stanton, the face behind the popular photography blog Humans of New York, debuted its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $100,000 to send the students of Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brownsville, Brooklyn to prestigious university, Harvard.  Now after only one week, the project has not only… Read More

January 24, 2015 @ 11:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday (January 22nd), Brandon Stanton, the face behind the popular photography blog Humans of New York, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $100,000 to send the students of Mott Hall Brides Academy in Brownsville, Brooklyn to prestigious university, Harvard. The campaign reads,… Read More

October 17, 2014 @ 5:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to help the country of Nigeria grow its very own delicious tomatoes, two Harvard alums, Mira Mehta and Shane Kiernan, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter this week to raise $50,000 for their company, Tomato Jos. Although Nigerians love fresh tomatoes and tomato paste,… Read More

October 6, 2014 @ 4:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring his easy-to-use standing desk to the market, Harvard grad and resident dean, Luke Leafgren, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for the StandStand. StandStand has been noted to be the “only truly portable” standing desk. It can be used anywhere and… Read More

July 18, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Eone Timepieces has launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking $40,000 in funding for a tactile watch designed for (and with the help of) the blind. Just about a week into the campaign, funding for “The Bradley” timepiece has already crossed $250,000. Eone Timepieces was founded by Hyungsoo… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Clayton Christensen is a business thought leader who is standing on the shoulders of some of the great economists of our times.  Schumpeter, a Professor of  Economics at Harvard, focused on the importance of entrepreneurism to modern economics.  But it is Christensen who applied Schumpeters… Read More