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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund
women to keep track of health data. Rewardly (Aleem Mawani, MBA ’11, and Jasen Kimis): A rewards program that works with customers’ existing credit cards wherever they make purchases. UpStart (Sarah Dillard, Jevan Soo, and Shiyan Koh, all... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
As a young analyst, early in her career, Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) had a nose for deals, according to the book Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime, by Julian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
marketing person. But sometimes, as in business, crew coaches find it’s preferable to pick someone whose greatest strength is contributing to the all-important ‘chemistry’ that helps teams win.” Chemistry seems to be the difference between Coach P’s more talented... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
non-business analogies to business. But one recent book, Judo Strategy, (HBSP,2001), by David Yoffie and Mary Kwak, provides interesting advice on how underpowered upstarts can compete against the sumo giants of their industries by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
(Sora/Corbis) Earlier this year, when former Lululemon CEO Christine Day (AMP 163, 2002) started her new role as CEO of Luvo, a frozen-food upstart with nearly $50 million in backing, she had to get acquainted with a few things. One of... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
devoted to identifying criteria by which disruptive technologies and their markets can be identified, and making sure that organizations and processes are fine-tuned to turn the tables on upstart competitors who might be doing the same.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
says Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio (MBA 1977), who was among the founders of the nongovernmental organization and is currently chair of its finance committee. With that straightforward pitch, the upstart Fundación raised money quickly. An... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Treasury taking a look at these upstart lenders. Funding Societies’ Teo says the attention can only help the sector: “Regulations would boost investor confidence about P2P and P2B [peer-to-business] lending and set the right operations... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
of advantage. The three principles of judo strategy, they say, are based on those of the martial art itself, which teaches smaller competitors to turn the weight and strength of larger and stronger opponents to their own advantage. Although the rise of Netscape... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
including financial services, steel production, automobile manufacturing, and retailing. "What we find," Christensen explains, "is upstart companies with extremely low overhead introducing new ways to meet the market's... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts, by Richard Leifer, Christopher M. McDermott, Gina Colarelli O'Connor, Lois S. Peters, Mark Rice, and Robert W. Veryzer, is a groundbreaking book that identifies the new managerial competencies firms will... View Details
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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog
allies or adversaries. The contemporary brandscape is crowded with new competitors vying to stake claims to rich, meaning-laden value propositions that reflect and leverage the zeitgeist. Iconic brands are toppled everyday by young View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
industry's rapid evolution, coupled with the availability of ample data, made it rich ground for research. Given the potentially overwhelming threat of disruptive technologies, why do so many managers appear to overlook them? The problem really is not one of awareness... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
spread the ideas of Final-Five Voting, scaling a few early innovators into a coast-to-coast campaign of universal adoption and action. Thanks to the upstart laboratories of democracy that have shown us the way (in victory and defeat), we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
but that makes firms vulnerable to innovative upstarts over the long haul. Would this trend also hold true for companies engaging in business processs innovation? McElheran wondered—a question not much studied by researchers. To find out,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
that are feeling threatened have learned how to bully younger upstarts by wielding licenses and patent law like a weapon. It certainly doesn't encourage the spirit of innovation, does it? However, it isn't just the inventors and fledgling... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
industry entirely. Instead, the Miami native went home after graduation to join an upstart agency that seemed interested in doing things a little differently. At the time, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) had a regional focus, with 55... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been... View Details