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- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
photo by David Tejada Aravaipa Ventures was inspired by the smell of clean, crisp Colorado air. Founder Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) and his family had moved from France to Boulder in 2007 as he contemplated his next professional move...
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April White
- Web
Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
venture capital is inextricably linked to Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the industry. During his 40-year tenure at Harvard Business School, the charismatic professor taught business and leadership in his celebrated...
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- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
prosperity,” says Elumelu. “That is at the heart of Africapitalism.” The retired chief executive officer, now chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) and the founder of Heirs Holdings, Elumelu has put the tenet of this...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
photos courtesy of Walden Local Meat In 2014, Walden Local Meat founder and CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) crisscrossed New England in a company truck to personally deliver orders of chicken, pork, lamb, and beef—all pasture-raised on...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
assumptions about this demographic. Suddenly there is burgeoning interest in innovating for the oldest members of our society. Abby Miller Levy (MBA 2001), Meredith Oppenheim (MBA 2001), and Lissy Hu (MBA/MD 2014) are among the startup...
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Arthur Rock
responsible for that region’s entrepreneurial triumph as anybody. Indeed, without Rock’s visionary wisdom and soft-spoken, calm counsel, the Silicon Valley might never have become the technology-based gold mine of ideas and startups that...
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- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
tackles one of the most difficult questions in the startup world: How can you tell if a new business will succeed? The Year’s 10 Most Popular Articles from Our Archives What Is Management’s Role in Innovation? (31,511 visits in 2015) It's...
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- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches...
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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-075_dd85c737-feab-43d5-bb28-14db5eceb5ae.pdf The Founder's Resource‐Dependence Challenge By: Wasserman, Noam Abstract—Does the degree to which founders keep control of their View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
differences between putting for par and birdie and performance under pressure. Read the paper: http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol7/iss1/5/ Scanning the Commons? Evidence on the Benefits to Startups Participating in Open Standards Development...
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- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a Sam Adams. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
(MBA 2016) picked up the mantle in 2015; Sapone and Beck made end-of-day calls to the team. The program has since been handed down each year, an organic part of the growing HBS entrepreneurial ecosystem, which now also includes Startup...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
to our office,” she explains. As a student at HBS, Khan decided to figure out a way to help female entrepreneurs access venture capital. In the summer of 2015, with support from the Rock Summer Fellows program, she started an accelerator, Launch X, that offers female...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
Illustration by Edmon de Haro Illustration by Edmon de Haro The idea for the Portland, Oregon–based digital media startup News Bling was born out of the late-night hours of November 8, 2016, when Nupur Patel (MBA 2017) rubbed the fog of...
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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52652 Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem By: Chatterji, Aaron, Solene Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Management styles and...
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Carmen Nobel
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Marla Malcolm Beck
nature.” As the founder and CEO of Bluemercury, the highly successful luxury cosmetics retailer, Beck has lived an entrepreneur’s dream. She started the company in 1999, just as the dot.com boom was at its zenith, and while everyone...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
insurance for my kids? Are there other ways the social safety net can benefit startups? When we think about entrepreneurship, we tend to think about a founder or maybe a couple of partners. But they need a team, in many cases, if they...
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- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
founder to pledge the company’s commitment to implement these ESG elements.” MPower’s first three investments reflect the firm’s wide range: WOVN Technologies, a group that produces a website and associated app that allows organizations...
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