Publications

20 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Ching Ching Chen On Her Passion For the Music Industry

incredible learning experience. From projects in the technology / venture capital space, to looking into growth opportunities in emerging markets and film & TV, to working on UMG’s 5-year strategy plan,... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

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Collection Highlights | Baker Library

partner of Venrock Associates, a venture capital company founded by members of the Rockefeller family. Advertising Ephemera More than 8,000 trade cards representing the full range of products and businesses... View Details

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

“Globalization, the Internet, and instant communications combine to subject every corporate action to scrutiny whether the company communicates or not.” There are two main reasons to use One Report, according to its originators, Robert G.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Career Coach

Peter Platzer

Peter (HBS '02) is a former hedge fund manager who currently runs a space exploration company he founded in 2012. A coach for HBS since 2002, he enjoys helping individuals find their unique career vision, matching their passion, skills and work/life goals with the... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital

28 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

the start-up movement about how best to organize and execute new ventures as “business experiments.” These lessons from the “start-up garage” enable established corporations to make progress on new View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Sandra Charipper

Sandra spent her career prior to HBS working in a variety of Recruiting and HR roles before pivoting into Strategy & Operations. During her time at a HealthTech venture capital studio, she worked with a... View Details

February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
Case

Mara Group

By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess

Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Pulp and Paper Industry; Real Estate Industry; Shipping Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Africa

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Nathan Zhao | MBA

of Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners (HUCP), working with partner VCs to source Harvard student companies and conduct diligence to assist in deal flow. This exposed me to the ebbs and flows of the View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

A Primer on Patents

HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

Associate Professor Joshua Lerner spoke about opportunities and challenges in the venture capital and community development fields; Professor James L. Heskett discussed strategy and community revitalization;... View Details

01 May 2013
News

Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970

Capital Partners, a venture capital firm based in Boston that he cofounded. Now also a senior lecturer at HBS, Higgins passes that knowledge on to students in the MBA elective... View Details

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Print View - Course Catalog

(LTV), and Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE) . Financial Management of Smaller Firms focuses on small, but typically mature firms, whereas in EF, we will focus on small, but high-growth firms. PE... View Details

30 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

pieces on a chessboard. It assumes that the most deserving dot.coms will get financed or bought. The question is, are the venture capital or strategic investment markets as perfect as the stock market? In... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

September 2020
Case

Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Rich or King

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani

The case examines issues such as cascading problems within the organization, changing founder roles, founder success criteria, as well as company exit consideration. In 2017, Dr. Torben Antretter, a former competitive tennis player and academic researcher, founded... View Details

Keywords: Exit; Startup; Financing; Founders; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Success; Financing and Loans; Business Growth and Maturation; Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Germany

January 2002
Case

Metromove.com Business Plan

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Sheila Marcelo

Enables analysis of a business plan in a volatile market. Also enables analysis of the decisions entrepreneurs must make as they start a new business, develop the concept, choose partners, and find funding. View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business or Company Management; Partners and Partnerships

2003
Class Lecture

Renewing Markets for Better Governance

By: Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Capital Markets; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

01 Oct 2000
News

Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship

Starting New Ventures, and Venture Capital and Private Equity. The Class of 1975's major gift cochairs, Leo J. Corbett, Hamilton E.("Tony") James, and Kendrick R. Wilson, reported that their classmates have... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

February 2001
Case

Bang Networks, Inc.

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sergio Rattner

Bob Rosin, president and CEO of Bang Networks, must decide how much debt financing to take on. The company is a raw start-up and is considering taking on $10 million in debt. The firm has six offers and needs to identify the best one. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Restructuring; Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Venture Capital