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  • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Bulb 2015: Foundation

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In late August 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb, Ltd (Bulb), were ready to offer affordable renewable energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million households. They hoped to capitalize on the hundreds of thousands of customers switching their energy... View Details
Keywords: Green Energy; Start-up; Launch; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Management; Start-ups; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Business Plan; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth and Development Strategy; United Kingdom
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  • 2014
  • Case

Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant Group

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Weiku Wu and Jia Guo
Since the establishment of the first Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant in Beijing in 1996, Wang Gang and his wife Liang Di have opened more than 100 chain restaurants in China and foreign countries, and set up the group headquarters, logistics center, R&D center and central... View Details
Keywords: Internationalization; Management; Standardization; Strategy; Restaurants; China; China
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  • September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
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drugstore.com

By: Richard L. Nolan
On a clear day in August 1999 in the new headquarters of drugstore.com, against a backdrop of the Blue Angels flying in formation over Lake Washington practicing for their hydroplane Seafare Cup performance, Peter Neupert was pleased with his company's IPO performance.... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Retail Industry
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  • Program

Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

responsible for small funds Entrepreneurs who are seeking private financing Families and institutions in the process of raising their first fund or considering private equity investing Angel investors who are looking to formalize their... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance
  • October 2022
  • Article

It’s Not Just the Prices: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing for Initiation of Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation at Three International Sites—A Case Review

By: Michael Nurok, Vin Pellegrino, Marc Pineton de Chambrun, Jonathan Warsh, Meredith Young, Erik Dong, Neil Parrish, Syed Shehab, Alain Combes and Robert S. Kaplan
The United States spends more for intensive care units (ICUs) than do other high-income countries. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to analyze ICU costs for initiation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for respiratory failure to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Cost; Time-Driven ABC; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Industry
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

1985–2001 James E. Casey United Parcel Service, 1907–1962 Louis S. Cates Phelps-Dodge Company, 1930–1947 John T. Chambers Cisco Systems, 1994–Present Harry Chandler Los Angeles Times, 1917–1940 Roy D. Chapin Hudson Motor Company,... View Details
  • March 2020 (Revised June 2023)
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EyeControl: Inspiring Communication

By: Paul A. Gompers and Danielle Golan
Eye-controlled communication device startup EyeControl was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2016 by cofounders with a shared personal connection to locked-in syndrome—a neurological disorder that left sufferers cognitively sound, yet paralyzed, with the exception of eye... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Communication Technology; Business Startups; Expansion; Finance; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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Lifelong Learning - Alumni

SPACE: The Final Frontier For Angel Investors? Presenter: Professor Matthew Weinzierl, HBS Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl (Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

Carissa Bryce Christensen Founder / CEO BryceTech Dawn Dobras Founder/ General Partner Capital F San Francisco, CA Ralph Folz Board Director / Angel Investor WordStream, Molecular Watertown, MA Sarah Leary Venture Partner Unusual... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

data from the real estate platform Redfin for 75,178 houses sold in the greater Los Angeles area from March 2019 to March 2021. The time period gives a snapshot of how the effect might linger beyond lockdowns. They combed listings for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

to the broadest range of talented students. Berro is a portfolio counselor for and a partner of Capital World Investors, a division of Capital Research and Management Company. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of California at Los View Details
  • September 2020
  • Case

Minerva 2004: Discovery

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry
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  • September 2015
  • Case

GovDelivery

By: Mitchell Weiss
Is government the biggest, worst customer in the world? And is that a reason for venture investors to back companies that sell to government or to stay away? It had been seven years since Scott Burns joined his friend Zach Stabenow to get a company called GovDocs off... View Details
Keywords: GovDelivery; Public Entrepreneurship; B2G; Business-to-Government; Scott Burns; Entrepreneurship; Government Administration; Venture Capital; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Web Services Industry; Minnesota; United States
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Recent Alumni Regional Events - Alumni

2010, JD 2016, MBA 2016), Connor Mackenzie (MBA 2020), Angel Saez (MBA 2020), Selena Singleton (MBA 2015), Dan Vallone (MBA 2015), Paul Yun (MBA 2015) HBS in CHI: MBA Classes 2009-2024 Thursday, October 17, 2024 | Chicago, IL Hosted by:... View Details
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

companies including devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, consumer health, and health IT and raised more than $500 million through angel investors, seed and funding rounds, seed, grants, and venture funding. An additional $244M was raised... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

know now is what Maya Angelou told me about legacy. When I came back from opening the school, I said, Maya, the school is going to be my greatest legacy. These girls are amazing. And I can't even tell you. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 17 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

difference between a modest angel round and a strongly led seed- or A-round. I’ve recently written an in-depth look at this topic, Product Discovery 101, which I encourage you to read. Here are some highlights. Interest vs. problem... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

funding although there are a few hybrid flavors as well. Sources of funding. These include venture capital firms, angel investors, crowd-funding, and accelerators/incubators. What investors look for. Each source has a different funding... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Nayely Martinez

“Paso a paso,” my Mom happily said as we stared at my first Kindergarten report card, the first step towards our theory that education would be the way up and out of poverty. “Paso a paso,” my Dad quietly reminded us, as we stepped into a Los View Details
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Employment Data Trends

6% Texas 5% 4% 4% 5% 4% Other Southwest <1% 1% <1% 2% 2% West (US) 25% 22% 24% 16% 17% California - Bay Area 15% 13% 15% 9% 11% California - Los Angeles Area 6% 5% 5% 4% 3% Pacific Northwest 3% 4% 4% 2% 2% Other West <1% <1% 0% <1% 2%... View Details