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- March 1996 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Wildfire Communications, Inc. (A)
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Mary Connor
Founder and CEO Bill Warner is faced with critical decisions regarding the product lines, target markets, and technology platforms that his start-up, Wildfire Communications, Inc., will pursue. In addition to the question of strategic focus across these lines of...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Resource Allocation;
Organizational Culture;
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Communications Industry;
Technology Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Mary Connor. "Wildfire Communications, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 396-305, March 1996. (Revised August 2000.)
- January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
AsiaMail.com: What's in a Name?
By: Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus
Three founders of an international Internet company (e-mail-based marketing) struggle with naming the company. As they prepare to invest more than $10 million of first-round venture funding in advertising and marketing, they search for a name that will have power and...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Brands and Branding;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Advertising;
Marketing;
Information Technology Industry;
Service Industry;
Asia
Hart, Myra M., and Sharon Peyus. "AsiaMail.com: What's in a Name?" Harvard Business School Case 800-132, January 2000. (Revised April 2000.)
- December 1996 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
Midnight Networks, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Midnight Networks, Inc., is a small computer network validation company. This case describes how the five founders built their business from operations earnings and how they established "best practices" operational processes to run their firm successfully. Operational...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business or Company Management;
Operations;
Organizational Culture;
Applications and Software;
Business Startups;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Information Technology Industry;
Massachusetts
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Midnight Networks, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 697-019, December 1996. (Revised June 1998.)
- Web
Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA
you learn how to launch a new venture. MBA Voices Blog: Entrepreneurship Courses HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered Chris Hutchens 04 SEP 2017 | MBA Voices The aim of the 10-day program was to...
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- October 2008 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
Apple's Core
By: Noam T. Wasserman
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best friends who enjoy pulling pranks together and talking about electronics. After several small collaborations, Jobs pitches Wozniak on starting a company together to sell computers based on Wozniak's design for a personal computer....
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Equity;
Managerial Roles;
Partners and Partnerships;
Conflict Management
Wasserman, Noam T. "Apple's Core." Harvard Business School Case 809-063, October 2008. (Revised February 2011.)
- March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer
Describes a set of key strategic decisions facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk Management;
Brands and Branding;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Stuart, Toby, and David Kiron. "Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer." Harvard Business School Case 808-112, March 2008. (Revised June 2008.)
- January 2009
- Case
Wolf Elmore Brewer, Inc.
By: John A. Davis
This case describes how Alex Wolf, the founder of a small architecture and urban planning firm based in Portland, Oregon, decides to offer partnership to two trusted colleagues, and then how strains develop in their relationship. It asks what can be done to improve...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Interpersonal Communication;
Entrepreneurship;
Partners and Partnerships;
Conflict Management
Davis, John A. "Wolf Elmore Brewer, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 809-098, January 2009.
- August 1994 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
MicroFridge
By: Norman A. Berg and James Weber
MicroFridge, a five-year-old, $12 million company based in Sharon, Mass., develops and sells a unique, combination compact refrigerator and microwave oven. All of the manufacturing is done for it by Sanyo in various overseas locations. The founder and president...
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Keywords:
Production;
Competitive Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Supply Chain Management;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Consumer Products Industry;
Massachusetts
Berg, Norman A., and James Weber. "MicroFridge." Harvard Business School Case 395-027, August 1994. (Revised October 1996.)
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Beatriz Cardoso and Education in Brazil
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Daniella Suarez and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Beatriz Cardoso, founder of Laboratório de Educação (Education Laboratory) had a dream to propel Brazilian education. However, challenges in fundraising made it difficult to scale up her project, based on helping adults help children improve their literacy skills. To...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Education;
Business Startups;
Information Technology;
Leading Change;
Brazil
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Daniella Suarez, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Beatriz Cardoso and Education in Brazil." Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- October 2012
- Case
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer (Abridged)
By: Toby Stuart and James Weber
Describes a set of key strategic decisions facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk Management;
Brands and Branding;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Stuart, Toby, and James Weber. "Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 813-029, October 2012.
- January 2007 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
NatuRi Corporation
By: Robert F. Higgins and Virginia Fuller
NatuRi Corporation was a start up, founded in 2005, aiming to manufacture a cholesterol-lowering drug made from the byproducts of rice bran oil production. With operations split between Chennai, India and Boston, Massachusetts, NatuRi faced several challenges,...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Investment Funds;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Chennai;
Boston
Higgins, Robert F., and Virginia Fuller. "NatuRi Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 807-027, January 2007. (Revised August 2008.)
- February 1998 (Revised August 1998)
- Case
Teradyne, Inc.: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Alexander d'Arbeloff, Teradyne's founder and CEO, is launching his company into the software and network testing business. He has acquired three external start-ups and is beginning to integrate them with the rest of the company. While Teradyne's core...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Business Startups;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Leadership Style;
Success;
Horizontal Integration
Lassiter, Joseph B., III. "Teradyne, Inc.: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained." Harvard Business School Case 898-190, February 1998. (Revised August 1998.)
- April 2000
- Case
Financing of Project Achieve, The (A)
By: Mihir A. Desai
An entrepreneur is forced to analyze the tradeoffs between different equity providers through a detailed analysis of venture financing terms and cash flow forecasts. The founder of a Web-based IMS for schools must negotiate a term sheet, determine funding needs, value...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Venture Capital;
Cash Flow;
Equity;
Negotiation Deal;
Valuation
Desai, Mihir A. "Financing of Project Achieve, The (A)." Harvard Business School Case 200-042, April 2000.
- January 2017
- Supplement
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built...
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- February 2021 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Walt Disney: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case describes the rise of Walt Disney, founder of the worldwide entertainment company. The case describes how Disney, as a young artist, created memorable figures such as Mickey Mouse and went on to produce Academy-award-winning films and build the world’s most...
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Keywords:
Creativity Teams;
Entertainment Industry;
Family;
Entertainment;
Creativity;
Personal Characteristics;
Business Startups;
Work-Life Balance;
Personal Development and Career;
Success;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Simons, Robert, and Shirley Sun. "Walt Disney: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 121-056, February 2021. (Revised January 2024.)
- January 2002
- Article
Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups
By: Scott Shane and Toby E. Stuart
The question of how initial resource endowments—the stocks of resources that entrepreneurs contribute to their new ventures at the time of founding—affect organizational life chances is one of significant interest in organizational ecology, evolutionary...
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Keywords:
Resource Allocation;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Research;
Company History;
Initial Public Offering;
Venture Capital;
Financing and Loans
Shane, Scott, and Toby E. Stuart. "Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups." Management Science 48, no. 1 (January 2002): 154–170. (
Winner of Greiff Research Impact Award presented by Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
.)- November 2004 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
RightNow Technologies
By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath
The founder and CEO of a CRM software start-up must decide between an attractive acquisition offer and the opportunity to go public. Discusses the growth of the company--including a lengthy discussion of entrepreneurial bootstrapping--as well as an aborted IPO attempt...
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Keywords:
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Applications and Software;
Going Public;
Management Teams;
Finance;
Strategy;
Value Creation;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Acquisition;
Computer Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Dan Heath. "RightNow Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 805-032, November 2004. (Revised May 2010.)
- September 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
X-IT and Kidde (A)
By: Constance E. Bagley and David Lane
Involves a start-up, X-IT Products LLC, whose founders had designed an innovative, lightweight, and easy-to-use--yet strong--escape ladder. After X-IT had filed a patent application for the ladder in the United States, X-IT was approached by Kidde PLC, one of the...
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Keywords:
Patents;
Negotiation Process;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Ethics;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business Startups;
Consumer Products Industry
Bagley, Constance E., and David Lane. "X-IT and Kidde (A)." Harvard Business School Case 803-041, September 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- June 2014
- Case
Stock Options at Celia-Check
By: Brian Hall, Andrew Wasynczuk and Karen Huang
Describes issues facing three young founders of a high-tech start-up, including hiring an experienced CEO and negotiating with a potential VC investor. Focuses on the incentive and compensation aspects of negotiating with job candidates (e.g., what percentage of the...
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- May 2021
- Supplement
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise, Instructor Version
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built...
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