Fundraising

Venture funding is scarce, valuations are down, and exit options are dwindling. What should founders do?

Nominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact.

Instead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach.

Three lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives.

Lending to mid-market companies has fallen nearly 60% over the last year.

New research suggests that exclusive support from female investors may be a mixed blessing because it can make it harder to raise additional rounds of financing.

Researchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca.

You might be surprised at what your acquirer will agree to — if you just ask.

It’s in founders’ best interests to not only accept, but invite, oversight.

How to ask for donations when donors are hurting too.

Although the global cost of natural disasters has increased sharply, traditional sources of funding--governments, nonprofits, and NGOs--have not kept...

After the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks...

It's a better long-term strategy.

It's what we need to tackle the biggest problems.

An up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell...

An up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell...

An up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell...

Every year in the United States billions of philanthropic dollars go to more than 1.5 million nonprofits--some of which use the money inefficiently. But...

This case is set January 2019. Song Jianping is senior advisor to Chinese pharmaceutical firm Artepharm, which has been engaging in malaria elimination...

In January 2021, Kwek Hong Sin, a Singaporean, attended a crowdfunding roadshow. She had been captivated by Thailand's retail environment and founded...

The case opens in July 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the pros and...

LakeDiamond is a company founded in 2015 in Yverdon, close to Geneva, in Switzerland. Its goal was to leverage an industrialized method of producing high-purity...

Kickstarter was a virtual crowdfunding platform and community that allowed creators of all kinds to raise funding for creative projects. The executive...

In 2011, Alexis Horowitz Burdick founded Luxola, an e-commerce platform selling branded cosmetics online in Singapore. By 2015, Burdick was able to expand...

Mike Murchison, co-founder and CEO of Ada, has an enviable dilemma. Launched in 2016 by Murchison and his co-founder David Hariri, Ada is an AI-native...

The case follows the evolution of EnerGaia, a technology firm pioneering rooftop production of spirulina (blue-green algae) in developing markets. The...

Microfinance is a field that has received increasing attention over the years in the development community. It consists of the delivery of financial services...

The case describes how FAVAC emerged and consolidated. During the Foundation's first 15 years, the care of elderly people - many of them with physical...

This case describes a community-based healthcare clinic and the issues facing the management and board of directors. The issues raised are common problems...

The case describes a successful Singapore-based venture capital (VC) firm, Openspace Ventures, and its decision to incorporate elements of sustainable...

The case describes the setting up of an impact fund of funds (FOF) in 2019 by Arcano Partners, a leading Spanish independent asset management firm. Since...

This case details the story of two of Wild Earth's cofounders on their three year journey since starting the plant-based dog food company in Berkeley,...

At the end of 2011, Fernando Lelo de Larrea (MBA 2004) and Federico Antoni (MBA 2004) decided to resign from their CEO positions in their respective mid-sized...

In January 2015, Jennifer Carolan, who had served as the managing director of the NewSchools Venture Fund Seed Fund ("Seed Fund"), spun off from the nonprofit...

Dana Hall is a private all-girls school in New England facing a crisis in its mission. As social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's...

Since its founding in 2011, Art With Impact (AWI) had one precise goal-to enable young people in Canada and the United States to talk about mental health...

The case describes the setting up of an impact fund of funds (FOF) in 2019 by Arcano Partners, a leading Spanish independent asset management firm. Since...

Teaching Note for HKS199 and HKS164.

Teaching note for case SCG556.

This case is set January 2019. Song Jianping is senior advisor to Chinese pharmaceutical firm Artepharm, which has been engaging in malaria elimination...

In January 2021, Kwek Hong Sin, a Singaporean, attended a crowdfunding roadshow. She had been captivated by Thailand's retail environment and founded...

The case opens in July 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the pros and...

Teaching Note for Case SMU988

LakeDiamond is a company founded in 2015 in Yverdon, close to Geneva, in Switzerland. Its goal was to leverage an industrialized method of producing high-purity...

Kickstarter was a virtual crowdfunding platform and community that allowed creators of all kinds to raise funding for creative projects. The executive...

In 2011, Alexis Horowitz Burdick founded Luxola, an e-commerce platform selling branded cosmetics online in Singapore. By 2015, Burdick was able to expand...