Young Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 2001
News

Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

putting too much faith in innovative companies with exciting ideas but untried management. "At Morgan Stanley, we're back to basics: We look for young companies that have the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

economic life. Chandler always stressed the importance of knowledge and learning inside organizations, which preceded more recent notions of the knowledge company or organizational learning. He was also a model intellectual, a scholar's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

very young mother also made a big difference. When I was working in banking, I asked several more senior women who had children later on about how they manage work life balance. I actually found their answers to be not very helpful given... View Details

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on the visitor’s fledgling online retailing company that had... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

business and sort of satisfy my dad. Hanna: Can you paint us a picture of what your first ten years on the job were like? What went well and what didn't go so well? Rosenberg: While in school I basically had a hunch that young businesses,... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

Profile

Ignacio Lartirigoyen

executives and the board. "It gave me a lot of exposure to senior management and helped me learn how to communicate agribusiness in financial terms," he says. In 2016, he shifted once again to an Argentine agribusiness jointly owned by his family. "My... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

experience thus far? One of the highlights of my HBS experience so far has been the Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Short Intensive Program (SIP). I love marketing and am interested in pursuing entrepreneurship post business school. This course allowed us to go... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a... View Details

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

invested in technology stocks, relative to their style benchmarks, than their older colleagues. Furthermore, young managers, but not old managers, exhibit trend-chasing behavior in their technology stock investments. As a result, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

leaders of listed companies in Germany.1 Is Big Change always the right action to revitalize a dispirited organization? Could “Small C” retooling work better in some instances than an exhaustive, complete turnaround? What we’ve learned in... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

21 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

young people towards seniors were often negative and that many seniors led very solitary lives. It was an unfamiliar concept to Laryea, a native of Ghana, who explains that seniors in many African countries are more integrated into family... View Details

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Auschwitz, and other members of his (and his wife's) extended family lost their lives in the Holocaust and because of the fighting in World War II. In 1944 and especially early in 1945, young Andy was a hunted child. Life under the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

22 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 22

Rebaudioside A (Reb A), a natural and calorie-free product that a young company named PureCircie manufactured from the Stevia plant, could be used in beverages, foods, and as a table top sweetener in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

in potential employees. "Our primary goal is to gauge the integrity and empathy of these young men and women," he says. If you think it's hard to get into Harvard Business School, consider what it takes to land a job as a consultant at... View Details

28 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 28

company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two 25-year-old founders) working from a one-bedroom Minneapolis apartment. By 2008, when the venture capital-backed View Details