A bunch of Australian-based Harvard Alumni will fund two new scholarships to ship an entrepreneur and an investor to attend the Harvard Enterprise College Government Training Course in February 2025.
The scholarships are the brainchild of three graduates of Harvard School and senior know-how trade executives: Antler Australia founding accomplice, Bede Moore; Unseen cofounder and CEO Joanna Marsh; and Lauren Williams, a director of world progress and know-how corporations. The trio got here collectively to lift the scholarships as a manner to assist different leaders within the know-how trade construct relationships exterior of the native ecosystem.
Harvard alumni and Antler Australia founding accomplice Bede Moore
“Building impactful companies in Australia is tough,” Moore stated.
“Lots of our most profitable companies deal with a worldwide footprint, however this requires a community and relationships that reach past Australia’s borders.
“We wanted to create a scholarship that helps reduce the geographic and capital constraints that come with building companies in Australia, and specifically we wanted to support entrepreneurs and investors who are working on companies that will have a positive impact on our society.”
The dual scholarships will likely be awarded to 1 entrepreneur to attend the Harvard Enterprise College Government Training Program’s Launching New Ventures course (February 23 – March 1, 2025), and one investor to attend the Non-public Fairness and Enterprise Capital course (March 5 – 8, 2025).
“The aim of sending two students is to assist our recipients construct a neighborhood of supporters. They are going to be supported by Harvard alumni right here in Australia, benefit from touring to Harvard with one other scholarship recipient, and get the advantage of networking over within the US,” Williams stated.
“We wish this to be an expertise that extends effectively past their time on campus and helps them create higher corporations to the advantage of all Australians.”
The scholarships are being launched along with the Harvard Membership of Australia (HCA), which has an extended historical past of supporting Australian students to attend programs on the college. The scholarship will likely be funded by Harvard alumni, a bunch of ex-Presidents of the HCA, and the Snow Basis.
Entries for the scholarships shut on Wednesday, December 11. Apply right here.
