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- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Software 806-121 Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or open source protocols into an opportunity to help firms use technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
a token hire. Knowing the extended team around the business is diverse, can allay these concerns. Ask your investors to help sell the business to prospective candidates. This can be especially critical if you’re trying to hire a senior team member or a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
professor Mary Tripsas introduces conceptual models to help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. "Whenever a firm... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
HerzlingerHarvard Business School Case 310-071 Vitality is part of a $2 billion start-up South African and U.K. health insurance firm. It has achieved excellent results in rewarding people for promoting their health. It is now... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
to best finance his company's growth. Over the previous five years as founder and CEO of D2Hawkeye, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based healthcare analytics company, Kryder had grown the firm from a six-person start-up into a leading developer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
helpful to the total novice. In our entrepreneurship study, we observed extensive chains of knowledge transfer in which a coach's protégé quickly became a coach to someone less knowledgeable than himself, who then coached a budding entrepreneur even more callow. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product development pipelines and reshape their relationships with customers. Drawing on academic research and interviews with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
Unit at Harvard Business School. "For example, procurement policies could serve a demonstration role that would stimulate private demand by making people more aware of green buildings. They might also cover the start-up costs of... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
"Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire," Olds says. "It didn't make them want to walk on the net." In the next stage of his research, Olds is researching how the social safety net influences the potential labor pool... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA '01) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug research. "A number of the scientists decided that being part of a View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
data sets, which has narrowed much research to a study of high-technology start-ups in a few locations. Business historians have a real opportunity now to address the key issues of why societies differ in entrepreneurial cognition and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
with their basic knowledge of the operating characteristics of these various industries to match each firm to the correct industry. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216014-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-023 Dinr: My First View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50718 March 2016 Harvard Business Review Start-Ups That Last: How to Scale Your Business By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Alicia DeSantola Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
a business in which there are increasing returns. To put the point another way, it is far easier to found a start-up if there are 10 other entrepreneurs nearby. In many respects, founders and venture capitalists benefit from their peers.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
more slowly have benefited from enlightened managers who take the view that a BOP venture's steep start-up costs are a long-term investment. Q: The case is made that companies in BOP markets can't just operate to make profits, they also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
invested $3.5 million and received 80 percent of the equity in the company. Becoming independent also gave the start-up organization the freedom to compete head-on with the internal Xerox development units in Rochester. To their surprise,... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public offering and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
It's sad to say, but many companies developing the next generation of customer interface technologies spend more time interacting with computers than with customers. As a result, the systems are often incompatible with consumers' shopping habits. For example, an... View Details