The Startup Bootcamp is an immersion program for first-year HBS MBA candidates that uses a leaning-by-doing approach to build skills required as an early stage entrepreneur.
Allison H. Mnookin
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School. She currently teaches the first-year MBA TOM course and co-leads the HBS Startup Bootcamp. In addition, she has taught the elective course Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) and FIELD Global Immersion courses in the required MBA curriculum.
Ms. Mnookin brings two decades of experience as a technology executive for successful cloud and business software companies. She most recently was CEO of Quick Base Inc. and currently serves on the company’s Board of Directors. At Quick Base, Allison was responsible for setting the business strategy and overseeing a client base of more than 500,000 business subscribers, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 100.
Prior to Quick Base, Allison held several leadership positions at Intuit. Most notably, she served as vice president and general manager of a $500M portfolio of small business products, including QuickBooks, which served more than 3 million small businesses at the time. Allison was also instrumental in the early formation and growth of Quicken Loans.
Prior to joining Intuit in 1998, Ms. Mnookin held several sales and marketing positions with Oracle Corporation.
Allison currently serves on the Board of Directors of LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA), a firm that provides an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors, and Bill.com (NYSE: BILL), a leading provider of cloud-based software that simplifies, digitizes, and automates back-office financial processes for small and mid-sized businesses. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Fleetmatics, (NYSE: FLTX), a leading global provider of fleet management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, prior to the company’s profitable sale to Verizon for $2.4 billion.
Allison holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an AB with honors from Harvard College.
Technology and Operations Management
Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School. She currently teaches the TOM and FIELD Global Immersion courses in the required MBA curriculum. In addition, she co-leads the HBS Startup Bootcamp.
Ms. Mnookin brings two decades of experience as a technology executive for successful cloud and business software companies. She most recently was CEO of Quick Base Inc. and currently serves on the company’s Board of Directors. At Quick Base, Allison was responsible for setting the business strategy and overseeing a client base of more than 500,000 business subscribers, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 100.
Prior to Quick Base, Allison held several leadership positions at Intuit. Most notably, she served as vice president and general manager of a $500M portfolio of small business products, including QuickBooks, which served more than 3 million small businesses at the time. Allison was also instrumental in the early formation and growth of Quicken Loans.
Prior to joining Intuit in 1998, Ms. Mnookin held several sales and marketing positions with Oracle Corporation.
Allison currently serves on the Board of Directors of LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA), a firm that provides an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Fleetmatics, (NYSE: FLTX), a leading global provider of fleet management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, prior to the company’s profitable sale to Verizon for $2.4 billion.
Allison holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an AB with honors from Harvard College.
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Mills, Karen G., Allison H. Mnookin, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Shu Lin, Julianne Bliss, and Morgane Herculano. "Doing Business in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam." Harvard Business School Case 324-096, February 2024. View Details
- MacCormack, Alan, Caroline M. Elkins, Allison H. Mnookin, Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Joyce J. Kim. "A Note on Design Thinking." Harvard Business School Background Note 322-042, August 2021. (Revised October 2024.) View Details
- Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Allison H. Mnookin, and James Barnett. "KhataBook." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 821-007, March 2021. View Details
- Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Allison H. Mnookin, and James Barnett. "KhataBook." Harvard Business School Case 821-006, November 2020. (Revised September 2021.) View Details
- McDonald, Rory, Allison Mnookin, and Iuliana Mogosanu. "The Walt Disney Company: Theme Parks." Harvard Business School Case 620-039, August 2019. (Revised August 2024.) View Details
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The FIELD Global Immersion course sends student teams into global markets around the world, requiring them to develop a new customer experience, product or service concept for a global partner organization leveraging design thinking innovation techniques.This course is taught in the MBA required curriculum. It provides students with the foundations necessary to be effective operating managers. During the course students learn to analyze decisions that drive the design, planning, and execution of the activities that translate strategy into action. The course spans a variety of operational contexts, from manufacturing to service organizations, from networks to digital platforms. It covers topics such as product development, process analysis, technology and operations strategy.
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