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  • May 2022 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

Founder Collective

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
Founder Collective ("FC") launched in 2009 with a clear mission: to be the most aligned fund for founders at the seed stage. In keeping with its mission, FC maintained smaller fund sizes and was not a lifecycle investor. By November of 2021, the seed market had become... View Details
Keywords: Seed Investing; Business Startups; Mission and Purpose; Investment; Competitive Strategy; Venture Capital
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  • April 2025
  • Teaching Note

Tabby: Winning Customers' Digital Wallets

By: Eva Ascarza
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 524-056. Tabby, a Saudi-based fintech founded in 2019, rapidly became one of the MENA region’s first unicorns by offering buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services with a unique twist: instead of charging end consumers, it partnered with... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Business Startups; Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates
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  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

business history. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53413 Mutual Funds as Venture Capitalists? Evidence from Unicorns By: Chernenko, Sergey, Josh Lerner, and Yao Zeng Abstract—Using novel... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2022
  • Book

Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

By: Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity. In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Corruption; Gender; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Middle East; Africa; Latin America; Philippines
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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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  • 17 Jan 2023
  • In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business School’s Digital Initiative, the summit assembled some 400 engineers, scholars, entrepreneurs, and students to discuss the challenges and opportunities of a digital market. “I don’t know if winner-take-all is a real thing. It sounds like a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

Case 818-047 Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-022 Careem: Raising a Unicorn This case follows two ex-McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

2006, ZBJ had grown into a unicorn with 4,000 employees and a daily transaction volume of RMB15 million by 2017. During the company’s 11-year history, ZBJ had launched ten transformation campaigns to overcome various challenges by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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