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17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

founders whose startup concept is selected as a team project will accelerate their concept’s development. Students committed to joining a startup upon graduation will gain... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop treatments that teach patients' immune systems to recognize and fight cancer. Social Enterprise Track, 2023 The MV3... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

running throughout—you have to page back to an earlier chapter of Dixon’s life, in 2017. That’s when the bottom dropped out. That fall, she was raising money for a tech/beauty startup called EverythingDid, designed to help women and girls... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

24 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Transitioning to Product Management at HBS

‘Cambridge Trek’ for students to meet the founders of the hottest startups around Boston. How did I learn more about InsightSquared once it piqued my interest? My section-mate Cole Shelton just happened to... View Details

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

Classmates: The idea for my startup Getaway formed just before arriving on HBS’ campus. The ninety people in my section and the nine hundred in my class have left their own lasting mark on the company. Section-mates generously paid to be... View Details

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

(CHRO, L’Oreal USA), and Victoria A. Budson (Partner & Global Head of DEI at Bain Capital), as well as six panels and our second annual startup pitch competition. Panel speakers included women execs and female View Details

August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
Case

PureTech Ventures in 2011

By: Andrei Hagiu, Cesar Castro and Sarah Murphy

In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing a term sheet she had just received from a venture capital (VC) firm for one of PureTech's portfolio companies. The... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Boston

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18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

following the steps a customer takes to select, buy, and consume a product or service. You call these situations “decoupling.” Could you give an example? Teixeira: A great example of decoupling is an insurance startup called Trov. It’s an... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Markus MittermaierHarvard Business School Case 812-002 Using the financing history and exit choices of a German clean-tech startup as a lens, this case explores the reasons why venture-backed entrepreneurship is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

software engineers and UX designers. AI can be magical, but sales still win. Fred Wilson, venture capitalist and popular blogger, holds the view that “marketing is for companies who have sucky products.” Similarly, many AI founders... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

12 Feb 2020
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Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

skills required to succeed as an early-stage entrepreneur. The Bootcamp is designed for three types of students: Aspiring founders whose startup concept is selected as a team project will accelerate their... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

economic rewards. These well-established, enduringly profitable businesses offer fewer risks than startups and greater professional independence than working in someone else’s company. Thousands of these small firms come up for sale each... View Details

Profile

Enrico Ferrari

the growth of a portfolio of more than a hundred companies all over the globe. Yet Enrico's desire for entrepreneurship did not dissipate. "Someday, I want to launch another company." In the meantime, Enrico applies his expertise to mentor other View Details

Keywords: Tech

February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang

Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, started in January 2006, is a rapidly growing law firm in China's burgeoning legal services market. In addition to the usual challenges facing all professional service firms (picking and retaining talent and building a desired client... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Legal Services Industry; China

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01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

interviews provide insights on family business, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and social impact, as well as the relationship between government and business. In conversations with Professor Geoffrey Jones, Melek El Nimer discussed issues related to her work as... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Brandon Lovell

completion of his undergraduate degree at New York University to the formation of his business, Movers with a Smile, to a management role at a fintech startup and ultimately landing his dream job as a management consultant at one of the... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

we need.” The Harvard Business School case study Mobile Banking for the Unbanked explores two very different examples of mobile financial service models: WIZZIT, a third-party startup that teamed with a major bank to provide standard... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

19 Apr 2024
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Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

the next generation.” Targeted efforts like Lotus and broader government initiatives to support the private sector are doing their part to accelerate startup activity for founders across the board. Many also... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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Economics (SPACE) Matthew Weinzierl Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding View Details

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