EVENT DETAILS

• 12-13 APR 2016
• HBS Campus

Harvard Business School invites you to join us for Venture Capital 2016, a dynamic gathering of HBS faculty and alumni industry leaders. Designed to address timely topics in venture capital and entrepreneurial finance, this series of rigorous and interactive discussions will explore issues and challenges in the changing landscape of venture capital, and implications for investors.

We hope you will join the conversation.

Register online now.

For more information, please contact Aimée LeBrun at alebrun@hbs.edu or 617.496.0225.

Conference Chairs

Paul A. Gompers, Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration
Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Associate Professor of Business Administration
William A. Sahlman, Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration

Agenda

Tuesday April 12, 2016

Pre-Conference 12:00-12:30 p.m. 12:30-2:30 p.m. 2:30-3:00 p.m.	Rock Accelerator Pitch Day Registration Rock Accelerator Pitch Day Event Student & VC networking

3:00-4:00 p.m.	Registration
4:00-4:15 p.m.	Welcome William A. Sahlman (MBA 1975), Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration
4:15-5:30 p.m.	Case Discussions: Blackstone at Age 30 & Rubicon Global Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking William A. Sahlman (MBA 1975), Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration
5:45-8:15 p.m. 8:30 p.m.	Reception & Dinner Keynote: "The Second Machine Age" Andrew McAfee (DBA 1999), Principal Research Scientist and Co-Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy Transportation to the Charles Hotel
Wednesday April 13, 2016
7:15 a.m. 7:00-7:45 a.m. 7:00-8:00 a.m.	Transporation from Charles Hotel Women's Breakfast Karen G. Mills (MBA 1977) Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:10 a.m. 8:10-9:05 a.m.	Welcome "From Harvard to edX to Yale to K12, this is CS50, CS50x, and CS50 AP: An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming" David Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University
9:10-10:10 a.m.	"We Miss Our Bubble" Jennifer Fonstand (MBA 1997), Founder, Aspect Ventures Ray Rothrock (MBA 1988), CEO, RedSeal Networks Peter Wendell (MBA 1976), Managing Director, Sierra Ventures Moderator: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Associate Professor of Business Administration
10:10-10:40 a.m.	Break
10:40-11:40 a.m. 11:40 a.m.-12:40 p.m. 1:00-2:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:30-3:15 p.m.	Interview with Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School William A. Sahlman (MBA 1975), Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration "Ideas, money, people, customer and partners from anywhere in the world at any time; building an entrepreneurial ecosystem" Klaus Hommels, CEO, Lakestar Dan Senor (MBA 2001), Managing Director, Elliott Management Allen Taylor, Vice President, Global Network, Endeavor Moderator: Paul Gompers, Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration Lunch & Keynote:The Winding Road to the White House 2016 Robert White (MBA 1982), MBA Class of 1954 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Transportation to Logan Airport i-lab and Launch Lab Tour (optional)

ATTENDEE LIST

Cases

Blackstone at Age 30

Blackstone Discussion Questions


Rubicon Global

Rubicon Discussion Questions

Hotel Information

Charles Hotel
One Bennett Street
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA 02138
800.882.1818 or 617.864.1200
The hotel block has closed. Additional rooms may be available at the regular rate.