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- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
When start-up thredUP launched its peer-to-peer online exchange for used children's clothes two and a half years ago, its creators were the latest generation of entrepreneurs competing online as multi-sided platforms (MSPs), alongside... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
- Profile
Philipp Schäelli
you need to visit and live in countries yourself in order to understand them. Having interacted with Start-ups and VCs as president of the Entrepreneurship club I knew that I wanted to be investing at a slightly later stage of the... View Details
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Tiffany Pham
potential to create a lasting impact on women, worldwide. As the lead developer at MOGUL, I coded the first version myself, using Ruby on Rails. It has been an incredible journey, to achieve significant user traction upon launch and continue to scale our View Details
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Jeremy Andrus
now is managing growth and our increasing organizational complexity. Last year was very active: we opened an office in Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to... View Details
- Career Coach
Martha Tassinari
particular expertise in assisting those seeking leadership roles in tech based start-up and high growth companies, she has coached scores of professionals across industries, functions and geographies on... View Details
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Joseph Blair
businesses with high growth potential. This world of entrepreneurship is fast-paced, constantly changing, and always exciting. Whether I am starting my own business, joining a burgeoning start-up, or investing in entrepreneurs with... View Details
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Luc Sirois
and growth to build new organizations.” Equally life-changing were the guest lectures taught by the likes of Jeff Bezos, who, at the time, was merely the founder of an online used bookstore. “To have those encounters right there, in... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
CPD on the Road in Manila
is the largest English-speaking online market in East Asia. According to Kleiner Perkins’ 2014 recent Internet Trends Report, the Philippines is one of the world’s top 5 fastest growing internet markets, with 18% growth in 2012 and 27%... View Details
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
and know who! How Can A Resource-challenged Start-up Grow? How Can Start-Ups Grow? For new ventures a lack of resources makes growth difficult to come by—just ask those nine... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) is helping to make New Orleans one of the country's vibrant centers for entrepreneurship. The founder of New Orleans–based trepwise, Wilkins works with emerging entrepreneurial companies across all sectors and established organizations to... View Details
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Mira Mehta
in Nigeria! I think it's going to be a major driver for economic growth over the next decade, and I'm so excited to be a part of that process. How has HBS helped you make an impact? The HBS alumni network in Nigeria is extremely strong.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: KFC’s Explosive Growth in China In China, Yum! Brands is opening a KFC store every day. But this is not the KFC known in America. A recent case study written by Professor David Bell and Agribusiness Program director Mary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
Bush Photo courtesy athenahealth Main article: Where Innovation Rules What do you do if your start-up turns out to be a little too far ahead of its time? If you’re Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), you use what you’ve learned to jump-start a... View Details
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Ravi Belani
Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a leading venture capital firm that has backed some of the most successful start-ups in the Internet era. Discovering a fresh environment for growth “To be honest,” Ravi says, “the... View Details
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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
increased student interest in private equity, a module of the course focuses on contracts and understanding legal documentation relating to private equity transactions. The course will also explore legal issues involved in starting, joining or investing in View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
start-up with five employees to a global powerhouse with sixteen hundred employees in 23 countries. From day one, Fuller and his colleagues knew they wanted to build a firm with global reach — a cutting-edge notion at the time. In the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
start-up into a sustainable national organization. With plans to expand next year into North Carolina, Chicago, and Denver, the organization’s leaders see management of its rapid growth as a major challenge.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
(MBA ’82) (FT Press) Companies that cannot change in response to market disruptions die. Other companies that respond eventually survive but see their profits squeezed, their growth flattened. The long-term winners are companies that... View Details