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  • September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

Careem: Base Camp or Mountain Peak? Designing an OS for Scaling

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Gamze Yucaoglu and Alpana Thapar
This case focuses on designing a fast growing organization. It is part of a two-case set that is taught together to cover the scaling journey.
Careem, a Dubai-based ride-hailing service aimed to ‘simplify and improve the lives of people, and build an awesome... View Details
Keywords: Scale; Values; Rights; Operating Systems; Business Startup; Transportation; Organizational Design; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; Dubai; United Arab Emirates; Middle East
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  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

referring users to all manner of other sites, and in light of striking market concentration among search engines. Read the paper: http://www.nls.ac.in/ojs-2.2.3/index.php/IJLT/article/viewFile/92/72 Measuring the Prevalence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Megan Gardner

Megan (HBS ’06) is an executive coach, board member and tactical advisor for CEOs and senior executives. As a founder and CEO of a technology business, she knows first-hand the value of strong coaching in a rapidly growing business. In her last venture, she raised over... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets
  • Person Page

Media

Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 27 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

been legal to do so. In terms of building the economy, the coffee pioneers depended on their ties to global markets and cooperative and competitive lending that emerged within this group of entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • News

Stick with Plan A

company she launched in 1993 to build wireless infrastructure in emerging market countries], in which he was also an investor, board member, and advisor. "Howard is perhaps the smartest, most humble, most... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications
  • 25 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...

periods. Now, in my role at RRE, I’m trying to find scalable solutions to some of the same challenges across different teams and industries. Another impetus for me going back to business school was to find a way to be more consistently engaged in the social View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia
  • 2020
  • Chapter

Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective

By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
This chapter offers a survey of the evolution of Turkish capitalism from the 19th century Ottoman Empire until the present day. It shows that Turkish business over the last century and a half was shaped in an institutional context similar to those in many developing... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government and Politics; History; Religion; Business History; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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  • 14 May 2015
  • Blog Post

Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students

Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) program back in 2013 as a way to both give back to her alma mater and mentor the next generation of HBS entrepreneurs. We were lucky enough to chat with Rudina and learn more about her involvement with the program.   View Video How did... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

global corporate sales strategy. Throughout this experience, I worked on everything from “blue sky” brainstorming sessions and developing strategies, to attending conferences, implementing new software systems, and designing marketing... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 2017
  • Other Book

Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent
I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets
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  • February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
  • Case

From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel
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  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

Stevenson said the recent technology sector market crash should teach future entrepreneurs to build companies to last rather than to sell, and to think about more than simply selling a product. We're never going to go back to the slow and... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
  • 20 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

impact. Along the way, I’ve been able to develop my understanding through both coursework and extracurricular offerings at Harvard. My background in the tech industry Before HBS, I worked at Google, where I started in the rotational Associate Product View Details
  • December 2018 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

Husk Power: Scaling the Venture

By: Benjamin N. Roth, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Natalia Rigol
In January 2018, Manoj Sinha—founder and CEO of Husk Power—was contemplating raising $20 million to scale operations for a second time. From 2007 through 2013, Husk built 80 biomass waste plants that provided electricity to 250,000 villagers and shop owners spread... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry; India
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  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Reimagining China and India

pipeline of perhaps 200 to 300 more that are likely to emerge in the next five to ten years. Is entrepreneurship distinctively different in India and China? The fundamentals of View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management; Retail Trade
  • 08 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

their shared objectives of pursuing entrepreneurship at some point in the future. Three years after graduation, they felt that they had identified an opportunity worth pursuing. “After three years of being a general manager at McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Making History, Starting Over

At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

"There's No Substitute For Finding The Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

trying something new." No direct path, yet a destination emerges Over the next two years, James would fulfill roles at three different startups until he found a fourth, Getaround, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, which proved to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship