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Minal Mehta
small milestone motivates us to run at this venture even harder." What advice do you have for current HBS students who hope to launch their own companies? "Make the time to connect with your HBS classmates and use them as a... View Details
- 22 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Avant Ski Makes Turns in Ski Media Objectivity
nearly a decade on Wall Street, she knew that there was something missing. “My underlying desire to do something on my own never went away,” said Widman. “I was trying to balance having two small kids, so time was the most finite... View Details
- 10 Nov 2022
- News
Peloton Founder Starts His Next Trek
A funding. "You might buy your first rug from Home Depot or Walmart, and then maybe later you're able to afford something from a place like Pottery Barn," Foley told Axios. "And then, just a fairly small number of people get to work with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
When the phenomenon of cord-cutting— dropping a cable subscription in favor of one or more online streaming services—started attracting media attention a couple of years ago, the TV industry didn’t respond quickly. Cord-cutters were a very View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
can’t get on their own. And they have ag-specific business acumen.” It’s rare to find those qualities in one person, which is where Lambert and the Ag Innovation Center come in, fostering connections between producers and innovators while... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
massive stack of the hotel’s records. “The amount of paper, it’s incredible,” he says. Benedetti’s revelation of the water delivery is a slight surprise to Megumi Gordon (MBA 2014), cofounder and managing partner of HabanaLive, an offshoot of an educational travel... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
own or manage a small business, provide consulting or financial services to these businesses, or invest in smaller businesses. These smaller businesses are privately owned, are typically led by a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
tomato paste—a staple in Nigerian cuisine that is currently imported—and into additional income for the country’s small farmers. Getty Images Getty Images But Mehta didn’t know much about tomatoes. “Once I really committed to the idea,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
families, and small businesses and their employees made sense. But some of the larger corporate bailouts really should have taken a backseat to further investments in public health. People use the phrase... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
could mean for them, but he hopes their product will help them connect the expected weather to business outcomes. As for how ClimaCell’s technology has changed its employees’ experience with weather, Gonczarowski jokes, “There’s no more... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- Fast Answer
Company demographics by size and state
Where can I find statistics on US businesses by size and state? The Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy View Details
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
social media. They might serve a small number people during a pop-up experience, but if those people send that message out on social media, the effect is an exponential multiplier. Glossier’s expectation is that you will move your... View Details
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Keyne Monson
like to create things – build businesses – either within a larger organization or by nurturing a small venture. I receive a tremendous amount of fulfillment by creating things where they didn't exist before.... View Details
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Market Perspectives - Course Catalog
instead of discussing general environmental challenges, we focus on how a small island community deals with the impact of sea level rise and related concerns, highlighting costs and benefits, property rights and the complexity of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
lawmakers, suppliers, regulators, customers, landowners, and utility executives. “This is a patience-testing, long-term project, but it requires an entrepreneurial mindset,” observes Skelly, who first began to consider what it takes to build View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
coincided with independent retailers closing down or hiring fewer workers.Photo: iStockPhoto "This started to be scary," Sadun says. "People were concerned that these superstores would keep the small stores out of View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Another basic insight from the research—that giving even small amounts of money to other people can make you happy—can also be applied by organizations. On the employee side, you could give someone a $25 bonus for a job well done, or you... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
research, cases, and a variety of courses, beginning with The Entrepreneurial Manager, taught to all first-year students. The unit’s work hasn’t gone unnoticed. The U.S. Association for Small Business and... View Details
- August 2019 (Revised October 2019)
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Amandla Capital: Real Estate in Côte d‘Ivoire
By: John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Dilyana Botha
This case describes Amandla Capital, a fledgling company in Cote d’Ivoire, facing three opportunities in the real estate and hospitality industries in Africa. It introduces students to several concepts: decision-making and cost-benefit analysis in real estate,... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost vs Benefits; Finance; Assets; Asset Management; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Project Finance; Relationships
Macomber, John D., Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Dilyana Botha. "Amandla Capital: Real Estate in Côte d‘Ivoire." Harvard Business School Case 220-029, August 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
and current vice chairman of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Home to some 5,000 characters including Spider-Man, the Fantastic 4, the X-Men, and the Incredible Hulk, Marvel employs about 200 people worldwide, not including the small army of... View Details