Publications

Awards

Newcomen Award in Business History

By: Paul A. Gompers

Awarded the 1994 Newcomen Business History Paper Prize for “The Rise and Fall of Venture Capital” (Business and Economic History, Winter 1994). View Details

31 Mar 2023
Video

Dorivac: Satchu-Burgstone Runner-Up Prize Winner, Student Business Track, 2023 New Venture Competition

September 2014
Supplement

HGRM (B): Launching Hoxell, a New IT Venture

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Gabriele Piccoli and Arnold Peinado

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Strategy; Growth Strategy And Execution; Business Models; Disruptive Technologies; Customer Relations; International Business; Entrepreneurship; Management Systems; Operations; Competitive Strategy

16 Apr 2020
Video

OnRamp is Runner-up in 2020 New Venture Competition Student Business Track

Video

2011 Business Plan Contest Social Venture Track Winner - Sana Care

04 Apr 2020
News

Own A Small Business During COVID-19? This Social Venture Can Help

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

Web

Summer Venture in Management

Harvard Business School Summer Venture in Management IMAGINE YOURSELF AS A HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENT... The Summer Venture in Management... View Details

29 Mar 2024
News

2024 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition: Uniting Cutting Edge Ideas, Innovative Ventures, and Talented Alumni and Students

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

29 Jul 2010
News

Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award

01 Apr 2022
News

HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

September 2011 (Revised September 2013)
Case

The K-Dow Petrochemicals Joint Venture

By: Guhan Subramanian, James K. Sebenius, Phillip Andrews, Rhea Ghosh and Charlotte Krontiris

In 2007, the Dow Chemical Company and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation announced plans to launch a multibillion-dollar joint venture. Later known as K-Dow Petrochemicals, it would be one of the largest manufacturers of chemicals and plastics in the world. Analysts... View Details

Keywords: Announcements; Joint Ventures; Chemical Industry; Kuwait; United States

30 Mar 2021
Video

Hue Beauty Crowd Favorite 2021 New Venture Competition Student Business Track

June 1993 (Revised December 1994)
Case

Milkpak Limited.: International Joint Venture

By: John A. Quelch

Considers a Pakistani company's decision to conduct a joint venture with a foreign multinational. In 1987, Milkpak Ltd. had successfully developed a market for sterilized milk and wanted to produce other value-added food products. The company was evaluating the best... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Multinational Firms and Management; Joint Ventures; Developing Countries and Economies; Food and Beverage Industry; Pakistan

22 Jun 2015
News

Picking Venture Capital's Biggest Brain

July 2021
Case

Bessemer Venture Partners: Century Fund

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo

In July of 2021, Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) contemplated the future of its growth investing practice, known as “Century.” While still relatively new as a focused initiative, BVP’s growth investing already had significant momentum. The fund’s investment pace had... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Institutions; Growth and Development Strategy; Investment Banking; Competitive Strategy; Public Sector; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Acquisition

December 1996 (Revised July 1997)
Case

Parker's Biscuits, Inc.: Venturing into China

Carol Wittenberg's first major task as president of the Asia/Pacific business for Parker's Biscuits is to set up a joint venture to manufacture biscuits in China. The team that Wittenberg has put together to find a joint venture partner has narrowed the choice down to... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China