startup - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
Case

Calera Corporation

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Thomas J. Steenburgh and Lauren Barley

Brent Constantz, founder, CEO, and president of Calera Corporation, felt a surge of optimism as he gazed at the recently commissioned prototype flue gas processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Product Design; Product Development; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Green Technology Industry

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February 2001
Case

ALWAYSi

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sergio Rattner

Anthony Soohoo, COO at ALWAYSi, an independent film distributor, is preparing projections for the company. Soohoo must decide which revenue streams the company should pursue. The firm is faced with a variety of attractive opportunities. View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Business Strategy; Revenue; Film Entertainment; Strategic Planning; Business Startups; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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01 Sep 2011
News

Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab

Gordon Jones (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Related Links: Follow i-lab news on Twitter Find the i-lab on Facebook Gordon Jones didn’t tailor his career path to become the ideal director for the Harvard innovation lab. It just worked out that way. An entrepreneur with two... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

06 Feb 2015
News

The Billion-Dollar E-commerce Company You Know Nothing About

Keywords: e-commerce; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

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Meet the Tech Club - Recruiting

year. WESTREK & NYTREK: These spring treks connect HBS students with recruiting opportunities at startups and major tech companies in the Bay Area and New York City. Students gain valuable exposure to a wide range of full-time and... View Details

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Careers Opportunities | Harvard Business School Online

Current Openings HBS Online is a fast-paced online learning initiative launched by Harvard Business School. To support our mission, we need people who want to dedicate their lives to the passionate pursuit of excellence in technology, teaching, and learning. While we... View Details

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

in two years, we have the summer off to pursue either our own startups or an internship. I spent my summer at Facebook as a Strategy Intern, helping Facebook scale its data center capacity effectively and efficiently. My summer internship... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

because it was completely different.” She is grateful for the unexpected opportunity to explore a new career path she might never have considered otherwise. “I developed ideas for startup companies that use artificial intelligence in... View Details

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Orit Gadiesh | Baker Library

technology startups and private equity firms. She has served on the boards of academic and financial institutions, including on the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum and the board of directors of WPP, the Atlantic Council, and... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

High Yields

100,000 jobs and $82 billion worth of value. Amazon famously entered the space in 2013, announcing plans to use drones for its 30-minute delivery service, but there’s plenty of startup activity, too. Hawk Aerial, launched last year by CEO... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

24 Apr 2014
News

Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena

fund for young US technology companies. He is now the founding cochairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a leading venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage social enterprises making a difference in the world. Draper is author of The View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Case Study: Inside Story

father signed on as Saga’s first and second testers. “It was mandatory for them to enroll because, more than anything, I wanted their memories saved,” she says. And while the whole startup experience can often be a lonely one for the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Mar 2019
News

Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture

for anyone who wants to understand money and finance. Courtesy Napkin Finance The company was an accidental outgrowth of another startup Hay founded—a payment platform targeting millennials that also included some Napkin Finance–style... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Career Coach

Sarah Guezmir

Sarah has devoted her career to payer/provider healthcare, with experience working for companies ranging from late-stage startups to large conglomerates in the space. She also spent multiple years consulting for healthcare businesses in... View Details

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Prita Kumar

Prita Kumar, the founder and CEO of Booya Fitness, built a pretty solid foundation for her eventual startup venture long before arriving at Harvard Business School. Growing up in Houston, Kumar and her sister were both into sports and... View Details

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A Eureka Moment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

while emphasizing that neither startup would have been possible without faculty support. “Bill Sahlman, Vicki Sato, and Gary Pisano are an amazing group of mentors who really believe in our team,” Bucala says of the advisors behind... View Details

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IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI - Course Catalog

auditing is not permitted) Course Overview Twenty-five years ago, the Internet changed the landscape of the tech sector. Nearly every category incumbent across B2B and B2C was disrupted by Internet-first startups that dominate today’s... View Details

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, this result masks the differences in entry size among startups that failed within three years of entry and those that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Heese Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Authentic Leader Development Organizational Behavior Robin Ely , Monique Burns Thompson Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure Entrepreneurial Management DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top B Area... View Details

Profile

Jason A. Kilar

Internet commercial marketplace. Rayport called the class “Managing in the Marketspace” and through one of his cases, he introduced a relatively unknown Seattle-based online bookseller named Amazon. Kilar recalled spending countless hours discussing View Details

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