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- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes more complicated, demanding...
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by Julia Austin
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Estimates suggest a shortfall of about 4 million health care workers worldwide, but the World Health Organization predicts that figure will stretch to 10 million by 2030. Those industry trends are among the factors that drive Lorin Gresser (MBA 1998), View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
From an early age, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had a passion for inventing. In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, journalist Brad Stone wrote that even as a child, “Bezos had dreams of becoming an inventor like Thomas...
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- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
who are accustomed to team messaging. “It’s early in the game,” Yoffie says. “We’re in the second or third inning. There’s plenty of time to develop the competition and for new outcomes to emerge.” Microsoft plays catch up to Slack Canadian entrepreneur and Flickr...
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When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 14 Dec 2016
- HBS Seminar
Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
the answers ranged from life-changing professors to lifelong friends and from startup cofounders to soulmates. In this episode of Skydeck, we share a selection of those responses. READ MORE Lou Hughes (MBA 1973): Hi, I am Lou Hughes and I...
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
make choices about what to eat. Clover Food Lab was founded to convince meat-lovers that vegetables aren't just delicious but have the power to save the planet.” Megan Murday MBA 2021 | Founder & CEO, Metric “Metric is a digital ESG...
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- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
reason we structure these resources as on-demand and 1:1 is because most of the Climate Circle founders are far enough along in their startup journeys that the challenges they’re facing are unique and...
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- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)
and Founding Partner at Imaginary Ventures), and Angela F. Williams (President and CEO of United Way Worldwide) as well as 7 panels and a startup pitch competition. Panel speakers included women execs from big tech, AI startups, medical...
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- 02 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech
practical advice about operating a startup from the founders themselves. The Harvard Innovation Lab and the Rock Center of Entrepreneurship are two other massive resources one should not miss! Overall, I...
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
had realized. The founders debated doing more customer discovery, and whether it was the right time to expand their ambitions. Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation ; Business Plan ; Business Startups ;...
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- August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
PureTech Ventures in 2011
By: Andrei Hagiu, Cesar Castro and Sarah Murphy
In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing a term sheet she had just received from a venture capital (VC) firm for one of PureTech's portfolio companies. The...
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Hagiu, Andrei, Cesar Castro, and Sarah Murphy. "PureTech Ventures in 2011." Harvard Business School Case 712-419, August 2011. (Revised October 2011.)
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
addressing the eight billion hours spent braiding hair each year. Team: Yinka Ogunbiyi (MS/MBA 2023), Founder and CEO; David Afolabi (MBA 2023), Co-Founder; Christian Knight (MBA 2023), Co-Founder. Play Video duration: 1:45 The MV3...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
that provided the impetus for the startup to take off. “Having the space and enabling conditions to work on a business in a community of other founders was the catalyst,” Theuerkauf says. The cofounders also...
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April White
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Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
venture capital (VC) process Develop an awareness of the systemic biases and ethical considerations in the startup ecosystem Who Will Benefit Founder Startup Employee Investor...
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- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
following the steps a customer takes to select, buy, and consume a product or service. You call these situations “decoupling.” Could you give an example? Teixeira: A great example of decoupling is an insurance startup called Trov. It’s an...
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
startup experience. Colson spent the majority of her career managing natural gas combined-cycle plants at NextEra Energy. She also worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group, where she focused on managing...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
running throughout—you have to page back to an earlier chapter of Dixon’s life, in 2017. That’s when the bottom dropped out. That fall, she was raising money for a tech/beauty startup called EverythingDid, designed to help women and girls...
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