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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
selection is potentially the most critical question a founder can answer during the scaling stage of a startup. As is well understood by VCs (but less so by founders!), small companies rarely do more than one thing well; efforts to hedge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
down the road and looking to change direction, don’t hesitate to jump in. I’m a huge fan of starting your own company, because I think it lets you get closer to life. Your destiny is in your own hands. If it’s Sunday night and you’re not... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
thing I could do? How are we going to split up the roles? Which one of us will become the CEO? How are we going to split the equity among us? "Each fork in the road brings us to a bunch more cofounder... View Details
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
out of those days, hugging turns and accelerating through straightaways like he was auditioning for a car commercial. Recently, he decided to insure his car full-time, but now, he says, driving is "just about contained road rage and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
2021) prove not only is this goal attainable, but also that experience outside of investing can be highly transferable and valuable to the field. Mbanusi’s Road to HBS When sharing the story of his path to HBS and venture capital, Mbanusi... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
age,” Hancock told the audience. “I take that responsibility seriously. I’m trying to lead by example and taking time to mentor.” Hancock also made Fortune's list, ranking number five. Other events during the jam-packed day included a panel View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
James Ellman shows how to invest wisely as climate change impacts multiple sectors across the stock market. The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market performance over the next two decades. As... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
This book will teach you how to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, from beginning to end, and walk you, step-by-step, through idea formulation, product/market validation, value realization, and exit strategy. On the View Details
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
leap across the chasm, from startups to investing. In so doing, he became one of the most successful venture capitalists in the technology sector, with a unique investing philosophy and an enviable track record that makes him a regular... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
seven years old and did not speak a word of English. Her father, a pilot, often took the family on weekend adventures to locations that were accessible only by air, landing a single prop plane on View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
financial crises, and weak intellectual property rights. HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu, authors of the new book Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution (Harvard Business Press), offer an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience 08–09 MAR 2018 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Arthur P. Brief Arthur P. Brief is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Utah. His research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
indications of failure) of the innovation process. Firm scientists were able to see beyond the drug's initial lack of success in treating hypertension, and, in doing so, they rescued UK-92,480 from the scrap heap of failed innovation and put it View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
on a two-lane road that all of a sudden widened to 28 lanes wide with not any lane separation for several miles, right up to the steps of the new capitol. I'd never seen anything like that before. And the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
work. Alfred Chandler: The road that led me to write Inventing the Electronic Century had a bit of a twist and turn. I originally planned a single study in comparative institutional history called "Paths of Learning: The Evolution of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Elvis. The lead singer, dressed in a white, sequined jump suit with flaring bell-bottoms, leaps about the stage one moment and hurls himself onto the outstretched arms of the frenetic crowd the next as he View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
(MBA 11/ ’47), and the impact they had both on Goldman and Wall Street itself. Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington Sidney J. Weinberg, 1950 In 1907, the brash and irreverent Sidney Weinberg, one of eleven... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
oil." He also notes that the EV1 will be the most emission-free vehicle on the road today, surpassing even the newest gas-powered cars that feature state-of-the-art emission-control technology. Analysts... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. It’s trendy to say that Silicon Valley is over—that this place and the philosophy that it... View Details