Educational Webinars
Upcoming Educational Webinar
FIRESIDE CHAT WITH HBS ALUMS
CHARLEY ELLIS & MITCH TUCHMAN
Date: Thursday June 25, 2026
9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET, 6:00pm CET
About this Event:
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Discussing book release: Great American Investments (being published on 6/23/26) and the current state of the economy, investing, markets, and more.
Join HBS Angels on Thursday, June 25 for a conversation with two distinguished leaders in investing and entrepreneurship: Mitch Tuchman, co-founder and Managing Director of Rebalance, and Charles D. Ellis, former Chairman of the Yale University endowment, founder of Greenwich Associates, and founding Investment Committee member at Rebalance.
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Drawing on decades of experience building companies, advising investors, and shaping modern wealth management, Mitch and Charley will share insights from their entrepreneurial journeys and investing careers. The discussion will also feature Charley’s forthcoming book, Great American Investments, arriving just in time for the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary and exploring the investments, institutions, and ideas that helped shape the nation’s prosperity.
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This webinar will be hosted by Sameera Bazaaz, HBS Angels Board Member and DC Chapter Chair
PRESENTER
CHARLEY ELLIS, MBA '63
Dr. Charles D. Ellis is the founder and former managing partner of Greenwich Associates, an international consultancy where he advised large institutional investors, foundations, and government organizations in more than 130 financial markets across the globe. He taught investment management courses at the Yale School of Management and at Harvard Business School. He sat on the Board of Directors of America’s largest fund company, The Vanguard Group, which manages over $1.7 trillion in assets. In addition, Charley was a successor trustee of Yale University, where he chaired the university’s famed investment committee with David Swensen. He was awarded the Graham & Dodd Award of Excellence from the Financial Analysts Journal and is one of only twelve people recognized by the CFA Institute for lifetime contributions to the investment profession. He has served on the governing boards of both Harvard and Yale business schools, as well as New York University’s Stern School of Business and Phillips Exeter Academy.
PRESENTER
MITCH TUCHMAN, MBA '82
Mitch’s experience pioneering America’s first online investment advisory service helped him define and codify the investment needs of working Americans. He began his career at Atari and spent the first half of his career as a Silicon Valley software entrepreneur. He then entered investment management with Apex Capital, LLC, where he oversaw a $200 million technology portfolio, co-managed its venture capital fund, and served as director of four NASDAQ companies as an activist investor.
Mitch graduated from Boston University with a B.S. and earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, PBS/Wealthtrack with Consuelo Mack, and CNN, and is regularly featured in major financial publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Previous Educational Webinar
OLD ENTREPRENEURS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST PIVOT
Robert MacArthur (MBA'51)
Date: Thursday March 26, 2026
9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET, 6:00pm CET
About this Event:
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Old Entrepreneurs Never Die - They Just Pivot
What I’ve Learned in 75 years of Battling, Building & Betting on Startups
Robert “Mac” MacArthur, MBA ’51 has been in the startup arena since before “venture capital” was even a term.
He began his career in the 1950s at Polaroid, working under the legendary Dr. Edwin Land. Soon after, he took over a struggling optical instrumentation company, scaled it rapidly, and took it public while still in his early 30s. He later served as a U.S. Bankruptcy Court–appointed Trustee and Receiver in complex Chapter 11 reorganizations — experience he calls his real-world “PhD in business.”
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Mac was deeply influenced by General Georges Doriot, the HBS professor widely regarded as the father of modern venture capital and founder of American Research and Development Corporation — one of the world’s first VC firms. Doriot believed investors must relentlessly seek truth beneath entrepreneurial optimism. That principle shaped Mac’s career — and his approach to evaluating opportunity.
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Alongside his operating and investing work, Mac spent more than 30 years on the faculty at Boston University teaching “Management of New Enterprises” — long before entrepreneurship became mainstream — and built one of the country’s earliest university business incubators.
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After seven decades inside startups — as founder, CEO, investor, professor, and turnaround specialist — Mac brings rare, hard-earned perspective to today’s founders and angel investors.
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Join moderator Steve Kirschner, MBA ’86, for a candid, wide-ranging conversation — and live audience Q&A — with someone who has seen the entire arc of modern entrepreneurship.
EDUCATIONAL WEBINAR VIDEO LINKS
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Webinar History
Past webinars have included:​
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Robert MacArthur: Old Entrepreneurs Never Die - They Just Pivot
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David Bailin, Outlook 2026: Unprecedented Times, Exceptional Portfolios
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HBS Senior Lecturer Julia Austin discusses book, "After the Idea"
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RE-HUMANIZE: How to Build Human-Centric Orgs in the Age of Algorithms
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HERE COME THE AI AGENTS: Can you save or should you sell your Software/SaaS company?
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BEST PRACTICES OF MEDTECH INVESTING: a perspective from HBS Alumni Angels Expert Group
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MASTERING AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future with Jeremy Kahn and Simon Greenman
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The Venture Mindset: a transformative playbook for delivering extraordinary results in modern organizations
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The New CEO: Lessons from CEOs on How to Start Well and Perform Quickly
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Economic Climate and Outlook - Implications for Early-Stage Investors
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SPACE: The Final Frontier For Angel Investors?
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Linking Strategy and Sales in an Entrepreneurial Venture
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Intro to Cap Tables: What Every Angel Investor (and Founder!) Should Know
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The Generative AI Gold Rush: Who Will Profit and How?
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SVB Collapse: Faculty Perspectives
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The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale with John A. List, Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago
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The Genesis Machine: Programming the Living World with Andrew Hessel, Microbiologist and Geneticist
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The Synergy Solution: A Conversation with Deloitte's Mark Sirower on How Companies Can Master Mergers & Acquisitions
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Converted: A Conversation with Google's Neil Hoyne on Using Data to Grow Your Business
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Sales Management That Works: a Webinar and Discussion with Professor Frank Cespedes, HBS Senior Lecturer
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How to Build a Sustainable, Scalable, and Sellable Business with Michelle Seiler Tucker, Author of Exit Rich
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Rita McGrath, Author, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen
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Morgan Stanley's Multi-Cultural Lab Panel with Carla Harris & Alice Vilma
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How to Plan Platform Strategy in a Global Digital Landscape
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Wattpad - The World’s Most Innovative Social Network
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FOMO Sapiens: Overcoming Analysis Paralysis to Live and Work Decisively
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Launching Tech Products In Tough Economic Times: 3 Crucial Questions to Ask Before Launch-Not Afterwards!
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Getting Deals Done: It's What the Best Deal Leads Do
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Passion and the Pitcher: Building Strong Founder/Angel Relationships From the Start
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Investing with Impact: The Continuing Rise of ESG in a Post COVID-19 World
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Entrepreneurial Leadership: New Ventures, Inspiring Others and Running Stuff
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Pandemic Investing: Likely Impact on VC and Angel Investing
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Angel Investing and COVID-19
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Investing in Blockchain: The Big Opportunity
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Finding your Angels: Raising Capitol for your Start-Up
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Toss the Financial Model Spreadsheets
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Healthcare Start-ups: How to Distinguish Real Companies from Overhyped Ones?
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Who's Really Going to Make Money in AI and Machine Learning?
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How Safe are Safe's?
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"Best Practices" in Angel Investing
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The Shiny Penny: How to Maximize the M&A Value of Your Company
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Structuring Success: Building Term Sheets that Build Businesses
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Syndicated Investments
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Technology Disruption in Money Management
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Emerging Technologies in Financial Services
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The Science of Sales GrowthImpact Investing in Sustainable Food
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Building Term Sheets that Build Business
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Revenue-Based Investing
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Cyber Security Investing
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Angel and Venture Investing with Brad Feld
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The Ultimate Marketing Framework
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A Data-Driven Perspective on Early Stage Saas Investing
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Investing In Blockchain
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Internet of Things Primer
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Moonshots and Soft Landing
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Seed Investing in Consumer Products and Services