Venturing - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2024
Teaching Note

Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age

By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta

Teaching note to accompany “Maven Clinic: Women’s Health in the Digital Age” (case no. 620-035) View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)

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June 30, 2023
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How to Save a Stumbling Startup

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Business Startups; Small Business; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Exit or Shutdown

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19 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

and MBA, it would have been difficult for me to pursue consulting and venture capital roles in early stage surgical innovation companies, where technical and business acumen are crucial. During my RC year, I consulted with Activ... View Details

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Transportation - Business & Environment

multitude of biking, transit, and micromobility options.” Chris Dempsey HBS MBA 2012 Director, Transportation for Massachusetts Juan Enriquez HBS MBA 1986 Managing Director, Excel Venture Management “I'm committed to slowing climate... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog

entire model is an exercise in frustration and futility. The purpose of this course is to demystify sales and help you understand how to sell products and services within entrepreneurial settings. The course material is applicable whether you become an entrepreneur,... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

entrepreneurial and family-held businesses. For his part, Liles became an expert on venture capital and the entrepreneur. In the 1970s and 1980s, as HBS intensified its research and curriculum development in the area of entrepreneurship,... View Details

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Developing Insightful Global Leaders

venture capital in Israel, and in August will add China to its portfolio of new function-driven Senior Executive Leadership Programs. The global centers and offices established by HBS around the world over the past 20 years are the nexus... View Details

24 Oct 2016
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Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS

McCance is also a pioneer in health care. He cofounded the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, a nonprofit that takes a venture capital approach to finding a cure for the disease, with which his wife, Allison, was diagnosed in her late 50s. McCance... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

September 1983 (Revised July 1998)
Case

Heather Evans

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts

Focuses on the efforts of Heather Evans, a second-year MBA student, and her attempts to start her own dress business. Examines the business plan and the process of acquiring control over the financial and human resources necessary to implement the plan. View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Investment; Human Resources; Strategic Planning; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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March 1988
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Goodyear Restructuring

Features a firm with a strong, successful, clearly-defined product market strategy. In 1982, this strategy was augmented by new management to include other, conflicting goals. This has an immediate negative impact on the stock market's evaluation of Goodyear's stock... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Finance; Rubber Industry

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August 2008
Background Note

Divisive Reorganizations

By: Henry B. Reiling and Kevin Wall

The note (1) describes "spin-offs" and "split-offs," (2) summarizes the requirements to qualify for tax postponement, and (3) identifies the public policy considerations justifying this favorable treatment. View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Restructuring; Policy; Taxation

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June 2007 (Revised July 2009)
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Bert Twaalfhoven: The Successes and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur

Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the attractive price, which would net Twaalfhoven and his family $70 million, he is reluctant to sell the company because his... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Management Succession; Manufacturing Industry

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01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor

His research focuses on venture capital organizations and their role in transforming scientific discoveries into commercial products. Much of this research is collected in The Venture Capital Cycle, a... View Details

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

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Palis Pisuttisarun | MBA

me to study the ways technology interfaces with other disciplines to create change. Professional goals: By engaging in the startup space, I would like to venture into more creative and unconventional applications of technology, such as... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Smartphones Get Smarter

When Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a new licensing deal for Microsoft software that makes Apple’s iPhone more attractive to businesspeople, venture capitalist John Doerr (MBA ’76) of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers was also on hand, the... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

24 Apr 2014
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An investment of time to advance education

Renowned as a venture capitalist and a social entrepreneur, James Breyer (MBA 1987) is now furthering his commitment to education—including, since 2013, helping to guide Harvard as a Fellow of the University's Corporation. “I have a very... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Driving economic growth and job creation

"Our focus was first on stabilizing the economy for small business, and then on creating an ecosystem that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to do what they do best—grow and create jobs," said Mills, a long-time venture... View Details