startup - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Mar 2020
News

CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis

pandemic. During the current crisis, CPD Managing Director Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003) notes, most larger companies are honoring their internship commitments to first-year students, but many smaller firms and startups either need to... View Details

28 May 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)

but all businesses have to have empathy for the customer. Empathy is the best leading indicator of success for a business. When I consider the startups that pitch to GV, I look for the ones that have true empathy for their customers,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2014
News

New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery

spring, Moskowitz and five classmates launched a startup they call Boxxify to provide a solution. E-commerce customers have their packages delivered to Boxxify, which, for a $7 fee (regardless of number of items), drops them off with... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Jun 2022
News

'Rooted' In Innovation

Pelkins Ajanoh (MS/MBA 2022) and Nembu Emmanuel Photo courtesy Pelkins Ajanoh The earthy cassava root is a dietary staple for millions across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. For Pelkins Ajanoh (MS/MBA 2022), the tuber was also the starting point for CassVita, an... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 Dec 2021
News

Tom Eisenmann & The Other F Word (Failure)

31 Jul 2018
News

How to Launch a Company in a Company

Keywords: RentTheRunway; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2014
News

Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

(Sergey Nivens/iStock/Thinkstock) Starting a business, says HBS professor Tom Eisenmann, looks glamorous in The Social Network. “But a fair amount of it is moving boxes around. Not org chart boxes—actual boxes.” That’s the kind of insight Eisenmann says students get... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

24 Oct 2013
News

Harvard MBAs to Crowdfund Local Business

Keywords: crowdsourcing

01 Feb 2011
News

A New Solution to Backend Needs

Keywords: cloud computing; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Telecommunications; Information

01 Jun 2010
News

Pitch for Change

The “Pitch for Change” wasn’t a case of saving the best for last, because all that came before was so good. But the elevator-pitch, business-plan showdown did close February’s 11th annual Social Enterprise Conference on a high note: Competing against contenders from... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

21 Dec 2012
News

Start-up travel site offers a Peek at hidden gems

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details

30 May 2018
News

HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach

job within Allstate’s leadership development program in Chicago. She later pivoted to personal finance startup NerdWallet in San Francisco, where she realized that colleagues who had the internal strategy jobs she aspired to had MBA... View Details

16 Mar 2018
News

Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

Startup Bootcamp in January 2018, working with teammates from Thailand and Australia to build a marketing platform connecting brands with influencers. Ng appreciates such opportunities and resources offered by the School, and credits the... View Details

24 Sep 2019
News

Connecting Patients and Providers

10 months with her family. And it inspired Jarzabek to create Trustedoctor. The digital healthcare startup “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey,” explains Jarzabek. Through his mother’s treatment, he saw... View Details

12 Feb 2019
News

A View of the Valley

spends a lot of time managing male expectations at work and at home (with both her dad and her husband, an aspiring startup founder who was the ninth engineer at Google and has never gotten over leaving too early). Fred, the son, seems... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Jun 2017
News

Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO

headquarters—a move spurred in part by the CEO’s professed desire to shake up the corporate mindset: Immelt, 61, also wanted a big culture shift. He asked employees to think more like they work for a startup and less like they work for a... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

@Soldiers Field

Polaroid in the 1930s and ’40s, when the iconic company was a risky startup led by an untested entrepreneur. A “Hack Your Sleep” event offered insights into the science of slumber—a subject unfamiliar to many MBA students. Cosponsored by... View Details

30 Apr 2019
News

Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile

Photo courtesy of Justin McLeod, via Instagram Photo courtesy of Justin McLeod, via Instagram Justin McLeod (MBA 2011), the self-proclaimed romantic and founder of Hinge, the fast-growing dating app, thinks you can learn from his story. In an interview with Vogue, he... View Details