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  • 05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016

start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

Unit at Harvard Business School. "For example, procurement policies could serve a demonstration role that would stimulate private demand by making people more aware of green buildings. They might also cover the start-up costs of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public offering and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

It's sad to say, but many companies developing the next generation of customer interface technologies spend more time interacting with computers than with customers. As a result, the systems are often incompatible with consumers' shopping habits. For example, an... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 28 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

that the market doesn't exist. For example, I've done a study where we compared the income statements of new start-up online businesses to those of the typical online newspaper business and we find that anywhere from 35 percent to 45... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

108-092 An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) refocusing process, and 5) takeover by new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/902412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-012 ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly Richard G. Hamermesh, Lauren Barley, and Ginger L. GrahamHarvard Business School Case 809-051 Proteus is a healthcare start-up that has developed technology to embed electronics for computing and sensing in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

for "big teaming": intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of an award-winning "smart city"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

possible explanation is that founders are great at the start-up phase because they have the vision and the motivation. But as the firm grows, to do the ongoing management on a daily basis requires a different set of skills." Market... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112067-PDF-ENG Location Choice for New Ventures: Choices within Cities William R. Kerr and Alexis BrownellHarvard Business School Note 812-036 This note describes location choice decisions for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508111 Sensors Unlimited: Bringing InGaAs Technology to the Market Harvard Business School Case 608-138 Sensors Unlimited was a small start-up in short-wavelength... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

King 806-166 Edison Schools, Inc., a pioneer in the for-profit management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private-sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. The case follows the organization from its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Bussgang, Jeffrey Abstract—Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

Susie Mulder at NIC+ZOE Susie Mulder must decide how to lead NIC+ZOE-the women's apparel brand she had recently joined as CEO-from its start-up phase into a disciplined growth phase. With growing revenues, a successful product line, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Domeyard: Starting a High-Frequency Trading (HFT) Hedge Fund The principals at Domeyard, a start-up high frequency trading (HFT) hedge fund based in Cambridge, faced a myriad of important decisions: which markets to trade on, how to raise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-068 This case describes a new venture attempting to bring early-stage entrepreneurial financing to Finland and other Nordic countries. Entrepreneurship is taking off in Finland, an area that historically has had little venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

themselves or held senior positions in one of the Valley's garage-to-giant start-ups such as Netscape or Oracle. But having failed once or twice along the way does not disqualify them. In fact, the scars are proof of valor—provided one... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

branch out into new innovative directions? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810079-PDF-ENG School of One: Reimagining How Students Learn Stacey Childress, James Weber, and Matthew HaldemanHarvard Business School Case 310-053 School of One was a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

play, but how easy is it to do business in this sector? What are the promises and pitfalls of the industry, and how well is Zane Wang, the case protagonist, navigating them? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/912417-PDF-ENG Start-Up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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