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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
and—eventually—an Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship led by Bill Sahlman and Joe Lassiter. These products will also leverage the HBX online learning platform with the added potential for incorporating in-person classroom... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
doctoral students, and underwrite entrepreneurship–related publications and conferences. “It’s really an amazing opportunity and responsibility that Arthur Rock has placed in front of us,” comments HBS professor William View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
dilemmas. The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper III (MBA '54) (Palgrave Macmillan) Draper looks at how the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship works.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
professor Michael A. Cusumano identify the common magic mojo management practices of a trio who were individually very different people but who shared a similar drive. “All three were enormously ambitious and dreamed big dreams—not so... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
The Time for Hope," HBS No. 310-070. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/313010-PDF-ENG CSN Stores William A. Sahlman and Neil TolaneyHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2015
- News
Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
alumni in the region, as well as with HBS faculty members and administrators. The evening featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor William A. Sahlman, Senior Associate Dean for External Relations and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
losing their humanity. All Business Is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World by John A. Quelch (DBA 1977) and Katherine E. Jocz (Portfolio/Penguin) Now that businesses can be everywhere at once, they need to... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
structuring. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-003 Pershing Square 2.0 In June 2015 William A. Ackman, the CEO and founder of New... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
Canadian GAAP, (2) adopting U.S. GAAP, or (3) adopting IFRS. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110023-PDF-ENG Nantucket Nectars: The Exit Joseph B. Lassiter, III, William A. Sahlman,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
A New Approach to Solving Society's Biggest Problems
- May 2025
- Teaching Note
Clay Ridge Capital
By: William R. Kerr and Martin A. Sinozich
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 823-089. Kel Jackson, with the support of his young family, has been searching for a manufacturing business to purchase. After a long process, Kel had submitted a written offer to buy Sheetfab that matched his original conversation with... View Details
- June 1991 (Revised January 1996)
- Teaching Note
Tysons Corner, Teaching Note
By: Donald A. Brown and William J. Poorvu
Teaching Note for (9-390-052). View Details
Keywords: Retail Industry
- September 1985 (Revised May 1990)
- Case
Ohio Building
By: Donald A. Brown and William J. Poorvu
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities
Brown, Donald A., and William J. Poorvu. "Ohio Building." Harvard Business School Case 386-066, September 1985. (Revised May 1990.)
- Web
Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
William Draper (HBS MBA '54) remembers Doriot counseled students that initially "[y]ou don't want to go into financial things...You want to go into something which is real business where they make something." 13 The combined topics... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Professor William A. Sahlman calls "the problem of simultaneity." If, as the business school defines it, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of a business opportunity... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Authors:Michael J. Roberts, Howard H. Stevenson, William A. Sahlman, Paul W. Marshall, and Richard G. Hamermesh, eds. Publication:New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006 Abstract New Business Ventures and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
In 1989, Sergeant William Delaney Gibbs was in Panama participating in Operation Just Cause, set to remove military dictator Manuel Noriega from power. He was with the Seventh Infantry Division and, during combat five days before the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- May 2020
- Teaching Note
Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight? (Brief Case)
By: Stephen A. Greyser and William Ellet
Teaching Note for HBS Brief Case No. 920-557. The case addresses analysis and decisions related to the entrepreneurial life of a distinctive energy beverage, including its niche market launch, early problems, reformulation, social media impact, market success, and... View Details
- October 2015
- Teaching Note
DRW Technologies (Brief Case)
By: Stephen A. Greyser and William Ellet
Teaching note for case 916-535. This note addresses use of the case at different levels and in different courses, with considerable role play suggestions. Updated in September 2020, and now includes a supplemental section with specific experience-based guides for use... View Details
- August 2008 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Nantero
By: William A. Sahlman, Dan Heath and Caroline Perkins
This case describes a decision confronting the founder of Nantero, a company developing a new semiconductor technology. The company needs to raise additional venture capital. Potential investors have competing visions for the company, and its business model. Some... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment; Product Development; Production; Technology; Semiconductor Industry
Sahlman, William A., Dan Heath, and Caroline Perkins. "Nantero." Harvard Business School Case 809-031, August 2008. (Revised December 2009.)