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  • 05 May 2020
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Narayana Murthy

Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of the India-based software company Infosys, discusses how he attracted talent to his start-up by pioneering the concept of employee stock options, and providing excellent career... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2018
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Business & patriotism, mutually exclusive?

  • June 2000
  • Case

Hollydazzle.com

This case describes the unique underlying economics of a start-up Internet retailing company. It highlights the fact that costs in that setting have a component that varies with volume and thus seriously impacts profitability. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Retail Industry
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Sarkar, Ratna G. "Hollydazzle.com." Harvard Business School Case 100-066, June 2000.
  • 04 Dec 2008
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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 05 Dec 2017
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The Startup Rules of Three

Do you have a brilliant idea for a startup? Becoming a successful entrepreneur requires more than just an inspiring concept and a plan for development. There is a reason as many as 75 percent of venture capital-backed startups fail, and nearly 95 percent of all... View Details
  • 26 Apr 2011
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Harvard Business School Holds Second Alumni New Venture Contest

  • 18 Oct 2010
  • News

Venture Capital's Disconnect with Clean Tech

  • 2017
  • Working Paper

What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent 'Lottery'

By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Deepak Hegde and Alexander Ljungqvist
We provide evidence on the value of patents to start-ups by leveraging the random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents. Using unique data on all first-time applications filed at the U.S. Patent Office since 2001, we find... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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Farre-Mensa, Joan, Deepak Hegde, and Alexander Ljungqvist. "What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent 'Lottery'." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 23268, March 2017. (Previous version circulated under the title “The Bright Side of Patents”.)
  • January 1996
  • Background Note

Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Creativity, the production of new and useful ideas by individuals or teams, can appear in many forms and many functions within firms of all kinds--from entrepreneurial start-ups to well-established enterprises. This note describes the varieties of creativity in... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Creativity
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Amabile, Teresa M. "Creativity and Innovation in Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-239, January 1996.
  • 12 Nov 2020
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The ‘Problematic,’ VC-Threatening Study That Has Split Harvard Professors

  • July 1998 (Revised August 1998)
  • Case

Community Wealth Ventures, Inc.

By: James E. Austin and Meredith D. Pearson
Share Our Strength, a successful anti-hunger nonprofit organization, created a for-profit subsidiary--Community Wealth Ventures (CWV)--to provide advisory services to companies and nonprofits on collaboration. Management is reviewing CWV's start-up experience. View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; For-Profit Firms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Consulting Industry
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Austin, James E., and Meredith D. Pearson. "Community Wealth Ventures, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 399-023, July 1998. (Revised August 1998.)
  • October 2004 (Revised December 2005)
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Rakuten

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Andrew P. McAfee, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Masako Egawa
Rakuten, a native Japanese, e-commerce start-up and highly successful company, is expanding into new categories and new countries. It must figure out how to continue its trajectory of growth and profitability. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Japan
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Andrew P. McAfee, Thomas R. Eisenmann, and Masako Egawa. "Rakuten." Harvard Business School Case 305-050, October 2004. (Revised December 2005.)
  • April 2004 (Revised May 2006)
  • Background Note

Achieving Profitable Growth and Market Value

By: James L. Heskett and Richard G. Hamermesh
Provides an overview of how a new venture needs to change as it passes from the initial start-up to the growth phase. Explores how a venture's leadership, strategy, and execution need to evolve to deal with rapid growth. View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Change Management
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Heskett, James L., and Richard G. Hamermesh. "Achieving Profitable Growth and Market Value." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-157, April 2004. (Revised May 2006.)
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Michele Chambliss

hiring/interviewing/performance management process in the West Coast office of a global management consultancy. She attributes a mid-career stint in strategic software sales for significantly honing her listening skills. Her current work in preparing View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology
  • October 2001 (Revised June 2002)
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Centagenetix (A): Building a Business Model for Genetic Longevity

Describes a start-up company seeking to exploit population genetic data from long-lived, healthy people. The company must address legal, financial, ethical, and personal issues among its team to launch the company. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Genetics; Business Startups; Biotechnology Industry
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Chesbrough, Henry W., and Frank Angella. "Centagenetix (A): Building a Business Model for Genetic Longevity." Harvard Business School Case 602-087, October 2001. (Revised June 2002.)
  • July 2010 (Revised October 2012)
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Employment Vignettes

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. Carr
Six vignettes drawn from decided cases explore legal and business issues in hiring, firing, promoting, and demoting employees, with an emphasis on protected classes, pretext, and anti-discrimination laws in the setting of start-ups and privately held companies. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Employees; Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation
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Goldberg, Lena G., and Chad M. Carr. "Employment Vignettes." Harvard Business School Case 311-021, July 2010. (Revised October 2012.)
  • July 1990
  • Background Note

Note on Acquiring Bank Credit

By: Amar Bhide and Howard H. Stevenson
Outlines the issues and alternatives faced by start-up businesses in attracting bank credit. The topics covered are how to lay the groundwork for establishing a banking relationship, selecting a bank, preparing an application, and negotiating a loan. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Credit; Financing and Loans; Management; Negotiation; Relationships
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Bhide, Amar, and Howard H. Stevenson. "Note on Acquiring Bank Credit." Harvard Business School Background Note 391-010, July 1990.
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

are certain concentrated times that favor each one. Entrepreneurs are the dominant leadership archetype in the early start-up phase of an industry, especially as different players try to establish a viable business model. This was the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • December 1992 (Revised September 1996)
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ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation (Abridged)

By: Josh Lerner
ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corp., a development-stage biotechnology company, is considering making an initial offering of common stock. The rationales for and problems of high-technology start-ups are explored. The challenges posed by "windows" for public offerings are... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Initial Public Offering; Entrepreneurship; Going Public; Business Startups; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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Lerner, Josh. "ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 293-087, December 1992. (Revised September 1996.)
  • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 18 Apr 2018
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HBX Entrepreneurship Essentials

Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures, make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality, and speak the language of the start-up world. Entrepreneurship Essentials introduces you to the entrepreneurial journey, from finding an idea, to gaining... View Details
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