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- 09 Apr 2016
- News
Introducing Panera 2.0
As Panera Bread opens its 2,000 location, founder and CEO Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is preparing to launch Panera 2.0, the company’s ambitious plan to use technology to speed up the ordering process and enhance delivery options. Shaich tells The Street about Panera’s...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect
As chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (AB 1981, MBA 1987) is enhancing the quality of life of more than six million people, approximately one-third of whom belong to the low-income sector in Manila, by making accessible a basic human...
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- 08 Nov 2013
- News
Women in Business: Sarah Bryar, CEO of Rivet & Sway
- 28 Jun 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
L.A. Philharmonic Shows the American Symphony Orchestra Isn’t Dead Yet
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
To the people of Ghana, shea butter is known as “women’s gold.” Used for everything from stretch marks to diaper rash, it’s a go-to product in high demand. And it offers employment opportunities for women willing to survey shea-nut trees across the wilds of sub-Saharan...
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- 04 Aug 2014
- News
Harvard’s New Social Enterprise Director
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Supporting social entrepreneurs with tools and services to grow
Rob Panoff (AB 1969, MBA 1973) talks about his work with the Social Enterprise Greenhouse to support social entrepreneurs with tools and services they need to grow. (Published April 2014)
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Meeting an essential health care need in India
When his mother became ill in 2008, Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) came face to face with India’s deep deficit of quality hospital beds. It inspired him to launch Sundaram Medical Devices, which develops high-tech, low-cost hospital beds that will help transform the quality...
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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
Founder and Chairman, FiBA Group Download Özyeğin profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1945 Born, Izmir, Turkey 1966 Elected student body president at Oregon State 1972 Returns to Turkey for military service 1987 Launches Finansbank 1990...
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- 20 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups
- September 2021
- Supplement
The Boston Beer Company (B): Growth and Uncertainty
By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
The first three years of CEO Dave Burwick’s tenure were tumultuous for the Boston Beer Company. The company’s hard seltzer products continued to grow unexpectedly quickly, eclipsing the company’s legacy Samuel Adams beer products. Meanwhile, a polarizing political...
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- March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
DigiPlex: Ante-Up or Cash Out
By: Josh Lerner and James Mason
In November 2020, the co-founders of DigiPlex study the future growth trajectory of their Nordic data center venture. A critical question was on the agenda: was now finally the right time to sell DigiPlex? Originally a $2.75 million investment in one small data center...
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Lerner, Josh, and James Mason. "DigiPlex: Ante-Up or Cash Out." Harvard Business School Case 821-080, March 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
- September 2018
- Case
ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund and provides oil field services in Argentina. In 2016, an industry-wide unforeseen oil and gas demand slump drove ProdEng’s average service rates down by more than 37%, with EBITDA margins falling from 50% to 24% in the...
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Cespedes, Frank V., Maria Fernanda Miguel, and Mariana Cal. "ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction." Harvard Business School Case 819-003, September 2018.
- June 2006 (Revised August 2006)
- Module Note
The Virtual Entrepreneurial Team Exercise (VETE); Note to Instructors
By: Daniel J. Isenberg
Describes the virtual entrepreneurial team exercise, a role-play simulation involving teams of five students from several international business schools around the world. Provides a detailed set of instructions to faculty from non-HBS business schools. The teams...
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- June 2003 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Highlands' Garden Village
By: Arthur I Segel, Eve Bould and Hank Midgley
It was March 2003 and Chuck Perry was awaiting the arrival of his New York-based business partner, Jonathan Rose. He and Rose had begun Highlands' Garden Village, their latest mixed-use, mixed-income development project. In 1996, they had optioned the unused Elitch...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Urban Development;
Housing;
Society;
Construction Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
Colorado
Segel, Arthur I., Eve Bould, and Hank Midgley. "Highlands' Garden Village." Harvard Business School Case 803-193, June 2003. (Revised June 2006.)
- May 2002
- Supplement
Jafco America Ventures: Reflections by Barry Schiffman, President
Presents Barry Schiffman, president and CIO of JAFCO America Ventures, as he reflects on the nature of the venture capital business, critical success factors, and some of the strategic decisions JAFCO faced.
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Kuemmerle, Walter. "Jafco America Ventures: Reflections by Barry Schiffman, President." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 802-805, May 2002.
- Article
The Rise of the Urban Entrepreneur
By: M. E. Porter
Porter, M. E. "The Rise of the Urban Entrepreneur." Special Issue on The State of Small Business. Inc. 17, no. 7 (May 16, 1995).
- 1989
- Chapter
The Entrepreneurial Process
- 2003
- Conference Paper
Founder Power and Pay for Outcomes: Cash Compensation and the Entrepreneur
By: Noam Wasserman