Managing Start-ups - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2004
News

Life Lessons

Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

26 Feb 2021
News

Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior finance View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

04 Jun 2018
Blog Post

How to Create a Presence Without Being Present

many organizations, maintaining a real presence on campus may not be a realistic possibility. Some organizations may be too physically remote to visit; others simply cannot spread themselves thin across multiple campus locations. And emerging View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Transition”, Francis O’Sullivan , Managing Director of S2G Ventures , and Ely Sandler , HKS Research Fellow, explored how we can finance the climate transition using innovative tools, while simultaneously addressing the associated risks.... View Details

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

The track record is well known and sobering for any entrepreneur: 90 percent of all new ventures fail. It's not hard to see why. Start-ups often lack vital resources, must compete against established companies, and have little or no track... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

young firms, given the uncertainties that were a natural part of the entrepreneurial process," Lerner explained. "General Doriot's idea was to create a new kind of organization that established a selection process, supplied funded companies with View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

scholarships, supported by committed donors and foundation grants. EARTH is a private, nonprofit school that offers a four-year undergraduate degree in agricultural sciences and natural resources management and a master’s degree in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

29 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

three C’s: Content, Community, and Care. For Content, Plenna is a modern source of information for women’s health; you can find tips on birth control, managing vaginal infections, and general gynecology. We’re also building a strong... View Details

05 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

recent tax credits, loans, and grants passed in Washington will drive innovation, accelerate the transition, and demonstrate the U.S. commitment to a managed transition to a low/no carbon economy. Following the morning keynotes, attendees... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

The House that Howard Built

elective, The Management of New Enterprises. This in turn spawned other such course offerings throughout the 1960s and ’70s in the MBA and Executive Education programs. Many students indeed were going on to become entrepreneurs as alumni.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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

01 Mar 2010
News

Money Matters

to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government does that, the capital and entrepreneurs will follow ...... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

make your choice. There is no perfect answer." Hunt's blunt advice, which was reported in the Boston Globe, may well resonate with the significant number of HBS alumnae who have struggled with the difficulties posed by following a traditional View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

for compensation committees at public companies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109036 Hearts on Fire—Brand Development Manager Harvard Business School Case 709-436... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

project was the capstone project, and I worked with Birchbox (an HBS founded company!) on analyzing their customer churn. Jay Kim (MBA 2020) : I was paired with a beverage start-up based in Miami and helped the company make the pivot from... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Letters

he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the... View Details

16 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

paired with a beverage start-up based in Miami and helped the company make the pivot from B2B sales to DTC sales in the face of COVID disruptions by analyzing its marketing and the sales data. NOTE: Full list of client partners included... View Details