Founder - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

wick away moisture and odor; it has since expanded into sleepwear, shapewear, plus-sizes, and men’s underwear, with an annual growth rate of more than 20 percent. “Stay focused and listen to customers—that’s who opens their pocketbooks,” says View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

Global Health Care (BIG), an Executive Education program that attracted, among others, the Nigerian and Liberian ministers of health, the founders of South Africa's second-largest health insurance firm, a highly successful Russian... View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

16 Sep 2013
News

Canada’s Native Son

poverty." As the founder of One Earth Farms, Canada's largest farm, he partnered with First Nations in western Canada. When he created the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), it was First Nations that benefitted with jobs at a... View Details

Keywords: First Nations; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Educational Services; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

01 Oct 2002
News

Andrew H. Tisch

its five subsidiaries — the Bulova Watch Company, insurer CNA Financial, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Loews Hotels, and the Lorillard Tobacco Company — and from other investments. Since 1997, when the founders passed the baton to the next... View Details

08 Nov 2011
News

Saluting Our HBS Veterans

Counselman (MBA 2005), a former Marine officer in Iraq, Bosnia, and the Horn of Africa, is the founder and CEO of Fidelis, an organization that assists service personnel with the military-to-civilian transition. Emphasizing education,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; veterans; National Security and International Affairs; Government

21 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

through user engagement, will develop approaches and services for employers, community leaders, and others to address user needs. “Malcolm brings BrightUp investing, economic mobility, policy, and fundraising experience,” said BrightUp View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

founders. 23 However, in the case of the agent-led focused firms, the entrepreneurs' ownership stakes had been diluted by issuing new equity to fund expansion. Owner-managed focused firms also financed their growth by issuing additional stock, but in many of these... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

20 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

raises topics of fund selection and investing in country-specific funds such as Mexico. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208097 Patel Food and Chemicals Private Limited (A) Harvard Business School Case 808-142 Alok... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Rick Grinnell

Rick Grinnell is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, focusing on investments in AI-enabled security and enterprise infrastructure. Rick has led investments and serves on the Board of Directors of Allure Security, Armored... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

25 Jun 2018
News

Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’

Tamin Pechet (MBA 2007) founded and manages a platform of firms that support and invest in innovative water and infrastructure resources. He is CEO of Upwell, chairman of Imagine H2O, and founder of Banyan Water. In this interview, he... View Details

21 Sep 2016
News

Ideas with Economic and Social Impact

emerging countries is very encouraging.” The former executive director of the HBS Global Initiative, Wilson is the founder of the consulting firm GV Partners, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her impressive list of clients includes global... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Launch Codes

the i-lab and advising early-stage companies in Boston and Toronto. “Being a sounding board, helping founders see the path ahead, helping them focus—I just get energized by it,” she says. THE FIVE MISTAKES YOUNG STARTUPS MAKE Common... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

for founders who pivot? I think pivoting is one of the most important things you can do as a founder. It forces you to contend with your ego, because the reality is every company has to pivot in big or small ways to find the true “tug”... View Details

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process. The View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2001
News

Helping Hands for HBS

mid-1990s, HBS officials discovered that office space was a scarce commodity. Bob Zider, founder of the Beta Group in Menlo Park, stepped forward, offering to share his company's small suite of offices at 3000 Sand Hill Road, the Valley's... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 6

founder of JetBlue, is forced to confront a crisis in customer confidence following operational difficulties on February 14, 2007. This becomes a vital test of his leadership. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2021
News

Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

Wes Hather. The would-be founders then went looking for “a big problem” and a tech-based solution. GroupTalent was born in 2011 to address the challenges of employee recruitment with an online marketplace. But two years later, the company... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

the founders predicted that NEA would grow in size and significance, but the challenges associated with achieving these goals were formidable. How could NEA scale and generate favorable returns from a large capital base for its Limited... View Details