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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
a startup Understand the process of raising capital and how to speak to investors Who Will Benefit Aspiring Entrepreneurs Early-Stage Entrepreneurs Students Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur with the start of an idea or are... View Details
- September 2023 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey Barkas
Founded by a formerly incarcerated job seeker, Honest Jobs' mission is to be the hub where people with criminal records come to build careers and employers come to find great talent. Honest Jobs faced early challenges as a two-sided platform for justice-involved job... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Recruitment; Entrepreneurial Finance; Selection and Staffing; Digital Platforms; Job Search; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Employment Industry; United States; Colorado; Ohio; Texas
Gompers, Paul A., and Jeffrey Barkas. "Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption." Harvard Business School Case 224-010, September 2023. (Revised July 2024.)
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Bridging Business and Engineering
the world’s most dynamic ecosystems for technology, especially for startups and venture capital. During five years in the military fulfilling his required service, he gained firsthand technical experience as a member of the IDF’s Elite... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Economics (SPACE) Matthew Weinzierl Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding View Details
- May–June 2021
- Article
Why Start-ups Fail
If you’re launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School set out to discover why. Based on interviews and surveys with hundreds... View Details
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Why Start-ups Fail." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 3 (May–June 2021): 76–85.
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
themselves are not highly correlated. Alpha, net of fees, remains an open question. OpenInvest (218064) by Shawn Cole , Boris Vallee and Nicole Tempest Keller FEBRUARY 2018 (REVISED AUGUST 2018) OpenInvest is a San Francisco-based startup... View Details
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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details
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Dimitra Taslim
from a view that products made domestically were inferior, to now, where there is belief that they can build world-beating technology at will. I’d like the same for the 700 million people of Southeast Asia, my beloved homeland. It won’t take much, I think. Just a... View Details
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Philippe Rival
help and mentor on projects, cases or even startup brainstorming! This is clearly a network for life, one that is here for you. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I have always been interested in building things and... View Details
- July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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Pattern Brands
By: Sunil Gupta, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
In March 2020, direct-to-consumer (DTC) company Pattern Brands needed to decide how to allocate resources across its different brands. Pattern Co-Founders Nick Ling and Emmett Shine hoped to avoid the pitfalls faced by some DTC companies—such as inability to scale and... View Details
Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Business Strategy; Diversification; Competitive Advantage; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
Gupta, Sunil, Elie Ofek, and Julia Kelley. "Pattern Brands." Harvard Business School Case 521-009, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
incentivized entrepreneurs through Start-Up Chile, which provides qualified entrepreneurs with a year-long visa and $40,000 in equity-free grants. In return, entrepreneurs must participate in Chile’s economy. So far, the program has attracted over 2,000 View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 12 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)
different segments of financial markets: from lending to payments, from investments to real estate. HBS Startup Bootcamp Faculty: Julia Austin, Allison Mnookin & Martin Sinozich The HBS Startup... View Details
- September 2022
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Proactive for Her
By: Rembrand Koning and Kairavi Dey
Proactive for Her began amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in August 2020 as a digital platform to provide accessible, evidence-based, primary, preventive non-judgmental healthcare services for Indian women, who were often dissuaded from seeking help as premarital sex and... View Details
Keywords: Women's Health; Healthcare; India; Start-up; Telehealth; Digital Platforms; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Startups; Health Industry; Asia; South Asia; India
Koning, Rembrand, and Kairavi Dey. "Proactive for Her." Harvard Business School Case 723-351, September 2022.
- 11 May 2022
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MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the RC (first-year) and EC... View Details
- November 2018
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David Hysong and SHEPHERD Therapeutics
By: Ananth Raman, John Masko and Aldo Sesia
In 2016, David Hysong, at age 27, found out he had a rare, incurable cancer. Rather than wait around to die, Hysong, a recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School, decided to launch a biotechnology company called Shepherd Therapeutics to development treatments for his... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
events will lure tourists to Singapore’s restaurants, hotels, and casinos. A primary barrier to ONE FC’s growth, according to Cui, is the difficulty of attracting and recruiting employees with the necessary levels of commitment and expertise. Going to work for a sports... View Details
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Brandon Lovell
completion of his undergraduate degree at New York University to the formation of his business, Movers with a Smile, to a management role at a fintech startup and ultimately landing his dream job as a management consultant at one of the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
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Creating the Experimentation Organization
more variations that are randomly applied to customers. As important, he says, it must also agree to abide by the results. In his book, Thomke includes Booking as a case study, showing how running these kinds of experiments by the tens of thousands helped to transform... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion
In early May, I embarked on a journey to Seoul, South Korea, accompanied by 70 fellow Harvard Business School classmates. Our purpose? To culminate our first-year studies through the FIELD Global Immersion program. Throughout this transformative experience, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Mind Your Manners
Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) As a newcomer to the Global A-list, some observers say China has a few things to learn about proper comportment in Western social settings. Etiquette is one of them, declares Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012), a quintilingual Hong Kong native who has... View Details