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- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
hands-on way to practice customer discovery and rapid iteration. The Entrepreneurial Manager class applies founder concepts like lifetime value, customer acquisition, and staged financing. And every course included early-stage company... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
In a New York Times piece that asks “How to Become a C.E.O.?”, Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998) is highlighted as an example of the entrepreneurial path one can take to the chief executive position. Malcolm Beck, the founder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
line of upcycled drinking glasses. To acquire the raw materials, the founders identified a partner in the Houston area that had relationships with local bars and restaurants. Now, instead of tossing empties in the municipal recycling... View Details
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
Payal Agrawal Divakaran
enterprise-focused startups in healthcare, data + AI, and cybersecurity. Every member of the firm has deep operating or investing experience in these segments. .406’s world-class founders and digital health... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital;#43;#Healthcare
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Jonathan Assayag
work with Red Beacon, winner of TechCrunch50 in 2009, has helped position its founders for their first round of financing. After graduation, Jonathan wants "to move to Silicon Valley and join a startup, probably something in consumer... View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition
Brian Nickerson Founder & CEO, MagicLinks Connie Cocroft Venture Partner, Trailhead Capital Daniel Arnold CEO, Co-Founder, Medality Daniel Oliver CEO & Co-Founder, Rejuvenate Bio Dave Terry CEO, Valendo Health Deborah Kleiman Head of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
direct contact with executives from the lab’s partner institutions along with mentors and VCs. That cast of characters plays a variety of roles. The financial institutions represent potential customers that can give the startup View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Air Time
who could figure out the transmission problem.” “Transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a big obstacle. I figured the world didn’t need another Midwest wind developer as much as it needed someone who could figure out the... View Details
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) is helping to make New Orleans one of the country's vibrant centers for entrepreneurship. The founder of New Orleans–based trepwise, Wilkins works with emerging entrepreneurial companies across all sectors and... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
Clubs News Clubs News HBSAB Virtual Case Event Explores Black New Venture Competition As second-year students at HBS, Kimberly Foster (MBA 2020) and Tyler Simpson (MBA 2020) created the inaugural Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) to help Black tech View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
changed for them when the world went remote. They’ve since hired six employees who are clustered in Boston but working remotely. As the team expands, the founders wonder whether they should build a remote-first company or plan for an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
pitches to a crowd at Burden in late April. The grand prize winner—decided by a panel of judges that included Glasswing Ventures founder and managing partner Rudina Seseri (MBA 2005) and Grab cofounder and CEO Anthony Tan (MBA 2011)—was... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Web
Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA
boundaries, leaders who tackle such problems require more than technical skill – they require training in innovation and problem-solving techniques, and the ability to work on interdisciplinary teams. The Harvard Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows (HUTIF)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture
The humble cocktail napkin is a tried-and-true medium for honing a concept to its essential elements. For Tina Hay (MBA 2002) it’s also a business. As founder and CEO of Napkin Finance, Hay oversees a multimedia effort to simplify... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
Sheila Marmon (MBA 1999) has built her career by breaking down barriers. The founder and CEO of Mirror Digital, a technology-enabled media and advertising company, Marmon has executed more than 350 interactive campaigns, connecting... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as on-demand flower delivery View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
with each successful convert. Many startups run out of runway before getting there, so founders need to be particularly scrappy in gaining the most learning in the shortest period of time. That means fast... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
to Lead" and sponsored by the student-run Entrepreneurship Club, offered a fresh look at today's changing entrepreneurial environment. Guy Kawasaki, founder and CEO of the venture-capital investment bank Garage.com, kicked off the October... View Details
Keywords: Information