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  • November 2007 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

The Ice King

By: Tom Nicholas and Sandra Nicholas
Provides an opportunity to examine the risk-reward tradeoff and the travails of entrepreneurial venturing in the nascent U.S. economy. Traces the origins and development of Frederic Tudor's Ice Company, a business which developed during the 19th century to hack chunks... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Cost vs Benefits; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Business History; Operations; Risk and Uncertainty; United States
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    Christina M. Wallace

    A self-described “human Venn diagram” Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business... View Details

    Keywords: arts; venture capital industry; consumer products; service industry; internet
    • 17 Mar 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: March 17

    of NiSource's recent proposal to pursue a tax-advantaged spin-off its pipeline business. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-001 Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A) The... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Article

    The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation.

    By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Sarah Lebovitz and Lior Zalmanson
    Today, managers recognize that innovation requires a high level of work autonomy for their employees. This encourages curiosity, enables independent thinking, and provides an environment in which employees can experiment and test new problem-solving approaches with... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Hackathon; Autonomy; Control; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management
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    • September 2013 (Revised November 2013)
    • Case

    AngelList

    By: Ramana Nanda and Liz Kind

    In early 2010, Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi posted a list of angel investors on the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform for... View Details

    Keywords: Angel Investors; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 26 Mar 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: March 26

      Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek, and Sang-Hoon Kim... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'

    graphic designers, for instance, it is better to be female, and to have a high quality, professional-looking photo (with a small plus for glasses). Other hacks for programmers: Grow a beard and keep a computer visible, Troncoso finds.... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 24 Feb 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    David Brumley of Carnegie Mellon University

    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    , RubiconMD Professor Jeffrey J. Bussgang (MBA 1995), on behalf of Hack Diversity, Flybridge VC Sarah Fay , Glasswing Ventures, All Raise Leslie Feinzaig (MBA 2007) , Graham & Walker Venture Fund, Female Founders Alliance View Details
    • 13 Jul 2016
    • HBS Case

    How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

    a better job of making apartments appealing than the online classified site, but first they had to siphon away its customers. To do that, Chesky and Gebbia created software to hack Craigslist to extract the contact info of property... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
    • 17 Feb 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

    Ethnography. Observing prospects performing the job you hope to improve or replace can be extremely insightful. You may find hacks they would never tell you about in an interview or discover a whole new set of problems in their process.... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • Web

    Clubs - Business & Environment

    transition to a sustainable system. MIT Student Clubs MIT student clubs host some events that are open to HBS students, such as cross-school mixers and public events like the MIT Sustainability Summit , MIT Climate & Energy Prize , MIT Climate & Energy View Details
    • Web

    Skydeck - Alumni

    away from the daily grind can pay off for workers and employers. We’re All Going to Get Hacked Companies shouldn’t just react to the inevitable hack, says Red Seal CEO Ray Rothrock (MBA 1988) —they should prepare for it. The Promise of... View Details
    • Web

    HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

    that Work: Increasing Diversity in Startups, VCs and Tech Moderator: Colleen Ammerman, Director, Race, Gender & Equity Initiative at Harvard Business School Panelists: Gil Addo (MBA 2011), RubiconMD Jeffrey J. Bussgang (MBA 1995), Hack... View Details
    • 08 Feb 2010
    • HBS Case

    Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

    of action? A: The hacking incident was probably the last straw in a rather long line of issues. Sooner or later, Google had to stand up for its principles. They have always been at odds internally as to whether or not being in China,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
    • Web

    Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

    always start with a fantasy," Land asserted. "Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components." 58 To that end, the... View Details
    • 22 Jul 2019
    • Book

    How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

    property owners who wanted to rent out their properties. Where could they find this kind of information? A large number of owners had already posted their properties on a popular online classified website, Craigslist. Airbnb founders developed a piece of software that... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 06 Apr 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

    Summing Up--Is Product Security A Potential Distraction for Apple’s Leadership? The saga of Apple’s stand-off with the United States government over the Company’s refusal to assist the FBI in hacking its own iPhone product to aid in a... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

      Matt Higgins

      landed on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Higgins serves as an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School, co-teaching the SIP “Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer”. Matt can provide advice and support on: building and scaling startups e-commerce growth... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#60;#Services
      • Profile

      Luc Sirois

      vision is Hacking Heath, a Montreal-based social collaborative that hosts weekend brainstorming sessions, or “hackathons,” to spur innovation in the industry and, ultimately, save lives. “The end game is to transform health care with more... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government