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  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Studio vs. Accelerator New approach to accelerating the development of innovation through corporate venturing by creating partnerships between startup venture and established corporations through the launch of the Global Sports Venture Studios created by R/GA Ventures... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

become increasingly complicated. More than ever before, organizational leaders must outsource less-critical tasks, and tasks that are not in the leaders’ best areas of expertise. For example, the Los Angeles Rams’ Sean McVay, who became... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

Transition to IFRS David F. Hawkins and Angel R. SolisHarvard Business School Case 112-009 Barrick Gold must change from Canadian GAAP to IFRS. Case covers the transition. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

prepared to accompany the CommonAngels case (No. 807-149), enables students to decide whether to invite an entrepreneur to present to potential angel investors. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709024 Yieldex (A) Harvard Business School Case 809-090 Yieldex Founder, Doug Cosman, is faced with the decision to sell his young software start-up for $4 million or to hire a CEO (Tom Shields) and pursue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2017
  • Case

Waze Connected Citizens Program

By: Mitchell Weiss and Alissa Davies
Di-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze, founded the company’s Connected Citizens Program (CCP), a data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data. Since 2015, her program had enabled officials in Kentucky and elsewhere to... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Waze; Public-Private Partnerships; Scaling Technology Ventures; Di-Ann Eisnor; Paige Fitzgerald; Noam Bardin; Ehud Shabtai; Cities; Traffic; Crowdsourcing; API; Scaling Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Information Technology; Transportation; Growth Management; Transportation Industry; Israel; Indonesia; United States; Brazil; Los Angeles; Kentucky
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  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

developers, and brands. Founder/CEO Ranjith Kumaran must make strategic decisions about how to fund PunchTab's early operations and growth given the many options available: individual angel investors, super View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

Aunt Sally for money." Here, students study the differences between angel investors and venture capitalists. More importantly, they consider the often soul-wrenching reality that accepting outside funding means ceding some control,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

organizations like Braver Angels and the Constructive Dialogue Institute. Encourage leaders to model humility and openness to different viewpoints, setting a tone that discourages stereotyping and contempt. Vincent Pons is the Byron Wein... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 29 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

equity for themselves) versus giving potential co-founders a large share of the equity to come on board. The choices were: taking money from angel investors, who would let the entrepreneur continue controlling the board; taking money from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

case:http://hbr.org/search/913701-PDF-ENG Convertible Notes in Angel Financing Ramana Nanda and William R. KerrHarvard Business School Note 813-017 This note introduces convertible notes in angel financing.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

"November Agreement." Since then, Michael has found an angel investor and has worked non-stop on the business, while one co-founder was off enjoying the winter break with his family and the other worked on lucrative consulting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

banking and financial sector. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809111 KenCall—Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya? Harvard Business School Case 809-114 Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly inexperienced entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

817-016 Mark43 The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals (RFP) from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). On the one hand,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

regional, and city governments and public authorities. In those seven years, Burns had raised capital from many sources: friends and family, angel investors, strategic partners, banks, and the investment arm of a major family fund. He and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

Dot Public Schools: To Collaborate or Compete? Harvard Business School Case 307-086 In order to execute a strategy to transform the entire 768-school Los Angeles public school district, Green Dot Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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