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- April 2015 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Instacart and the New Wave of Grocery Startups
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Instacart is testing an Uber-style solution to the challenge of building a home-delivered grocery business. It is backed by $220 million of venture funding. Will this model succeed where businessses like Webvan failed? What are the questions that this exploratory... View Details
Keywords: Food Retailing; Outsourced Grocery Delivery; Online Ordering; Dynamic Pricing; Data Analytics; Marketing Strategy; Food; Distribution Channels; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry; California
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Instacart and the New Wave of Grocery Startups." Harvard Business School Case 515-089, April 2015. (Revised March 2017.)
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Founders, Apply the Scientific Method to Your Startup
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
Connection Fortunately, Belsito knew exactly the right person to consider for the role. Weeks earlier, Kevin Sani (MBA 2022) reached out to Belsito while researching mission-based startups making an impact on climate change. “After... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
- March 2012 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Todd Krasnow: From Startup to Corporate and Back
By: Janet Kraus and Myra Hart
Kraus, Janet, and Myra Hart. "Todd Krasnow: From Startup to Corporate and Back." Harvard Business School Case 812-121, March 2012. (Revised May 2012.)
- 20 Feb 2015
- News
Revive the Balanced Scorecard for Your 21st-Century Startup
- 22 Feb 2023
- News
Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge
- 16 Jan 2023
- News
Four Keys to a Digital Banking Startup Success
- 19 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem
- 09 Apr 2021
- News
Why Most Startups Fail, and How to Avoid a Similar Fate
- March 2022
- Case
Exchanging Salary for Stock Options at a Startup
By: Erik Stafford
Stafford, Erik. "Exchanging Salary for Stock Options at a Startup." Harvard Business School Case 222-077, March 2022.
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
How an Entrepreneur's Passion Can Destroy a Startup
- 16 Jun 2025
- News
Does Your Startup Set Employees Up to Fail?
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Startup for Transgender Health Care Wins Venture Award
- 29 Sep 2023
- News
Research: In Recessions, Employees Avoid Jobs with Startups
- 2024
- Working Paper
Catalysts for Climate Solutions: Corporate Responses to Venture Capital Financing of Climate-tech Startups
By: Shirley Lu, George Serafeim and Simon Xu
We study whether incumbent firms increase their product focus on climate solutions in response to venture capital (VC) financing of climate-tech startups. Using large language models to measure a firm's focus on climate solutions, we find that incumbents in similar... View Details
Keywords: Climate Finance; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Environmental Sustainability; Business Startups
Lu, Shirley, George Serafeim, and Simon Xu. "Catalysts for Climate Solutions: Corporate Responses to Venture Capital Financing of Climate-tech Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-025, November 2024.
- August 2019 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
Rand Fishkin at Moz (A)
In 2016, senior management at Moz, a venture capital–backed startup providing software tools for digital marketing professionals, must decide how to address a looming cash flow crisis precipitated by failed efforts to broaden its product line. Seattle-based Moz had... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Failure; Business Startups; Diversification; Growth Management; Technology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Rand Fishkin at Moz (A)." Harvard Business School Case 820-002, August 2019. (Revised March 2023.)