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  • 30 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

looking to do new deals. They’re just sitting on a ton of money.” During that period, global daily deaths had topped 9,000 for a second time as infection rates were soaring across the Americas. Almost all of the world’s 10 largest... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

wonderful world of Venture Capital (read this previous HBS blog post), I learnt a great deal outside it too. 500 cases, hundreds of case protagonists, viewpoints from classmates belonging to 40+ countries, and over 1000 hours of case... View Details
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By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

  • June 2013
  • Supplement

Studio Moderna - Sandi Cesko, CEO, Video Supplement

By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for Studio Moderna - A Venture in Eastern Europe (HBS Case #808110). View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Marketing; Entrepreneurial Organizations; International Entrepreneurship; International Expansion; Consumer Marketing; Consumer Goods; Innovation; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Advertising; Internet; Marketing; General Management; Growth; Organizational Development; Television; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Marketing Channels; Media; Consumer Products Industry; Distribution Industry; Retail Industry; Slovenia; Slovakia; Croatia; Macedonia; Bulgaria; Serbia and Montenegro; Poland; Hungary; Bosnia and Hercegovina; Czech Republic; Lithuania; Estonia; Albania; Romania; Central Asia
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    Robert F. White

    Bob White is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches courses in the MBA program (Required and Elective curricula) and the Executive Education program. Courses taught include Entrepreneurial... View Details

    • 22 Mar 2022
    • News

    Freedom within a Framework

    • March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
    • Case

    Redefining Mogul

    By: Ethan C. Rouen
    Tiffany Pham taught herself to code and created a technology platform, Mogul, with the goal of providing girls and women around the world with information and opportunities. After several years Mogul had reached more than 146 million women around the world and had... View Details
    Keywords: Women; Inclusion; Technology; Branding; Social Impact; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Information; Knowledge Dissemination; Gender; Diversity; Brands and Branding; Expansion; Strategy; Media; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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    • 31 Oct 2014
    • News

    Silicon valley: start-up founders under pressure

    • May 2022
    • Case

    Byte

    By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly Baden and Julia Kelley
    In January 2021, Byte co-founders Scott Cohen and Blake Johnson reflected on how far their Los Angeles-based direct-to-consumer (DTC) orthodontics company had come since launching its clear aligners just a little over two years earlier. Cohen and Johnson were both... View Details
    Keywords: Growth; Customer Experience; Customer Focused Organization; Innovation; DTC; Growth Management; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    • February 2017 (Revised November 2017)
    • Case

    1436: The First Pure Chinese Luxury Fashion Brand?

    By: Anat Keinan, Sandrine Crener and Hannah H. Chang
    The case traces the birth of 1436, a new luxury brand specializing in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure Chinese luxury brand. The... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Luxury; Global Strategy; Fashion Industry; China
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      Kristin W. Mugford

      Kristin Mugford is the Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School and the Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community. She previously served as Faculty Chair for field-based learning and... View Details

      • May 2020
      • Case

      M-Lab: Enabling Innovation at Mitsubishi Corporation

      By: Krishna Palepu and Allison M. Ciechanover
      M-Lab’s founding goals were to infuse an innovation mindset into Mitsubishi Corporation; to catalyze new business opportunities; and to enable a dialogue between Japanese business and Silicon Valley. M-Lab housed representatives from each of Mitsubishi Corporation’s... View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Disruption; Transformation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Japan; United States
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      • October 1995
      • Case

      Otis Elevator Company (B): China Strategy

      By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Thomas W. Malnight
      Examines the conflict Otis faces with its joint venture partner as it seeks to expand into Southern China. View Details
      Keywords: Management; Conflict and Resolution; Joint Ventures; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Globalization; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China
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      • November 2005 (Revised July 2009)
      • Case

      Trolltech (Norway) - Will Cenapio Steal Christmas?

      Describes the creation of an open source software venture in Norway, Australia, and the United States that lands a strategic OEM deal with a leading Japanese manufacturer of embedded devices (PDAs in this instance). Details the evolution of the two companies'... View Details
      Keywords: Applications and Software; Conflict and Resolution; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Open Source Distribution; Information Infrastructure; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Information Technology Industry; Australia; Japan; Norway; United States
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      • September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
      • Case

      Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)

      By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
      Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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      • 19 Apr 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      The History of Beauty

      Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry is the first serious attempt to trace the history of the $330 billion global beauty industry and its large collection of fascinating entrepreneurs... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
      • June 1993 (Revised April 1998)
      • Case

      COMCO Holding AG (B): COMCO Martech

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
      COMCO Martech was a new breed of joint venture for COMCO Holding, a mid-sized Swiss-German company that had grown over a five-year period through tie-ups with small, start-up companies. Whereas a typical COMCO venture provided services to a large German retailer, was... View Details
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Business Startups; Trade; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Switzerland; United States; Europe
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      • July 2013
      • Article

      Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity

      By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr
      This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the... View Details
      Keywords: Technology Transfer; Innovation; Ethnic Networks; Patents; Diasporas; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; United States
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      • 07 Dec 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

      industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

        Jim Matheson

        Jim joined the HBS Faculty in 2019 and teaches the EC courses Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a faculty affiliate of the Business & Environment Initiative.  He is an active investor, and Board director & advisor for... View Details