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Are You Suited for a Start-up?

By: Jeffrey Bussgang
Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit for you? The author advises that you first assess... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Personal Characteristics; Job Search
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Bussgang, Jeffrey. "Are You Suited for a Start-up?" Harvard Business Review 95, no. 6 (November–December 2017): 150–153.
  • October 2003 (Revised December 2020)
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Globalizing Consumer Durables: Singer Sewing Machine before 1914

By: Geoffrey Jones and David Kiron
Examines the global strategy of Singer, one of the world's first multinationals, before 1914. Singer, a U.S. pioneer of the modern sewing machine, established its first foreign factory in Scotland in 1867. Investments followed in manufacturing and marketing in other... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Globalization
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Jones, Geoffrey, and David Kiron. "Globalizing Consumer Durables: Singer Sewing Machine before 1914." Harvard Business School Case 804-001, October 2003. (Revised December 2020.)
  • December 2000 (Revised April 2006)
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Promise (A): Building a Consumer Finance Company in Japan

Describes Promise, the third-largest consumer finance company in Japan. Promise was created in 1963 by an entrepreneur and has grown rapidly, especially in the 1990s when commercial banks struggled. Promise's core business consists of providing unsecured loans of up to... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "Promise (A): Building a Consumer Finance Company in Japan." Harvard Business School Case 801-188, December 2000. (Revised April 2006.)

    Mitchell B. Weiss

    Mitch Weiss is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the... View Details

    • 13 Apr 2012
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    An Innovative Education

    • November 1994 (Revised December 1995)
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    The Domik Project

    By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
    Cameron Sawyer, CEO of Sawyer and Co., seeks financing for an office building he is developing in Moscow. The case describes the opportunities and challenges of development in Russia. Also highlights entrepreneurial opportunities in a changing world. View Details
    Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Opportunities; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Moscow
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    Poorvu, William J., and John H. Vogel Jr. "The Domik Project." Harvard Business School Case 395-104, November 1994. (Revised December 1995.)

      Malcolm S. Salter

      Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

      In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
      • July 1990 (Revised August 1995)
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      Symantec--1982-90

      By: Nitin Nohria
      As Symantec grew from a small, upstart software development company to a major player in the software development industry, the channels of information flow and the internal communication needs of the company became more complex. The geographically-dispersed structure... View Details
      Keywords: Applications and Software; Communication Technology; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employee Relationship Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Information Technology Industry; United States
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      Nohria, Nitin. "Symantec--1982-90." Harvard Business School Case 491-010, July 1990. (Revised August 1995.)
      • 24 Aug 2018
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      Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020

      tight-knit cohort to resonate ideas among while simultaneously being integrated into the diverse HBS and SEAS ecosystems. The program perfectly mirrors my own interest in redefining the relationship between business management and... View Details
      • 23 Oct 2020
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      Entrepreneurship Opportunities in a Post-COVID World: The Future of Work

        Sara McKinley Torti

        Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products... View Details

          Monique Burns Thompson

          Monique Burns Thompson is an accomplished social entrepreneur who returns to HBS (class of 1993) and brings her twenty years of successful start-up and organizational leadership experience to her research and teaching at HBS.  She has led as a co-founder, President,... View Details

          • December 1995
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          City Year: National Expansion Strategy (A)

          City Year, a successful nonprofit organization, is studying how, when, and where to expand to new sites. This case provides the opportunity to understand the strategy and structure of a successful delivery system for human services. That analysis raises the question of... View Details
          Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Growth Management
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          Bradach, Jeffrey L., and Nicole Sackley. "City Year: National Expansion Strategy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 496-001, December 1995.
          • June 1990 (Revised February 1991)
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          In the Shadow of the City

          Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Focuses on a serious set of disagreements which develops several months into the project between the two... View Details
          Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ethiopia
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          Donnellon, Anne, and James Reed. "In the Shadow of the City." Harvard Business School Case 490-093, June 1990. (Revised February 1991.)
          • June 2011 (Revised June 2025)
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          Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group

          By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
          The case describes the creation of Turkey's largest business group by Vehbi Koç. The foundation of this group in the interwar years, and its subsequent diversification into many industries, including automobiles, household goods, and services, is analysed. The case... View Details
          Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Manufacturing Industry; Turkey
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          Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group." Harvard Business School Case 811-081, June 2011. (Revised June 2025.)

            George A. Riedel

            George A. Riedel is the Henry B. Arthur Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit, where he currently teaches TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) and acts as a Section Chair in the Required Curriculum (RC). He has also taught TOM (Technology and... View Details

            • September 1993
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            Rhone-Poulenc (A)

            Rhone-Poulenc, France's largest chemical firm, with revenues of more than $7 billion in 1985, seeks to dramatically expand its presence in the United States. From 1986 to 1990, Rhone-Poulenc undertakes 18 separate acquisitions, ranging from small entrepreneurial firms... View Details
            Keywords: Integration; Globalized Firms and Management; Acquisition; Chemical Industry; France
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            Rosenzweig, Philip M. "Rhone-Poulenc (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-040, September 1993.
            • February 1998 (Revised February 1999)
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            FreeMarkets OnLine

            By: V. Kasturi Rangan
            Describes the marketing strategy of an entrepreneurial start-up engaged in electronic purchasing for large manufacturers. By creating an electronic bidding platform, the company has been able to cut down procurement costs by about 15%. The case question concerns how... View Details
            Keywords: Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Bids and Bidding; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Production; Electronics Industry
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            Rangan, V. Kasturi. "FreeMarkets OnLine." Harvard Business School Case 598-109, February 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
            • 27 Mar 2012
            • First Look

            First Look: March 27

            investors, and experienced entrepreneurs. The challenges fall into five broad areas: the need to formalize organizational structure, executive transitions, the need for management systems/processes, evolution of the board of director's... View Details
            Keywords: Carmen Nobel
            • 20 Mar 2007
            • First Look

            First Look: March 20, 2007

            sales, inventory, and gross margin. We show that our model can be used to benchmark retailers' performance in sales, inventory, and gross margin simultaneously. Finally, we show that our model can be used to generate sales forecasts even when sales were View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace
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