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Joe Blair
than 30 early or mid-stage startups while at firms like Obvious Ventures, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, and Cota Capital. Prior to his career in venture capital, Joe was an engineer with the energy performance contracting division of... View Details
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Lara Hodgson
Lara O’Connor Hodgson thought she’d found the entrepreneurial dream while running Nourish, the successful startup she launched in 2009. But it was Nourish’s very success that triggered Hodgson’s next and even more successful venture,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- Video
New Venture Competition: The Entrepreneurial Journey
- 25 Jul 2025
- Video
Access to Entrepreneurial Resources: Idea to Impact
- 14 Oct 2022
- News
Is Agenda Theater Ruining Your Meetings?
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
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Jonathan Shepherd
Jonathan is CPD's Corporate Relations Director overseeing principal investing: VC/PE, investment management and real estate. Since 2007, he has coached thousands of students & alumni and forged recruiting relationships with hundreds of firms across these... View Details
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- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
Sometimes inspiration does come from the likeliest places. For Rahil Mehrotra, MBA 2018, it emerged from a combination of HBS courses and experiences: The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) course, the winter break Startup Boot Camp program,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- February 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Theranos: The Unicorn That Wasn't
By: Joseph B. Fuller and John Masko
In 2003, 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes founded a startup dedicated to making blood testing easier and more affordable. By 2015, her company, Theranos, was worth $9 billion. It boasted a star-studded board and contracts with national pharmacy and supermarket chains... View Details
Keywords: Theranos; Blood; Lab Testing; Fraud; Holmes; Balwani; Shultz; Carreyrou; Securities And Exchange Commission; Food And Drug Administration; FDA; SEC; Health Testing and Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Fuller, Joseph B., and John Masko. "Theranos: The Unicorn That Wasn't." Harvard Business School Case 319-068, February 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- June 2016 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
Airbnb, Etsy, Uber: Growing from One Thousand to One Million Customers
By: Thales S. Teixeira and Morgan Brown
By 2016, two-sided online platforms (or marketplaces) were pervasive among the highest growing internet startups around. These marketplaces sought to match suppliers of assets for rent, physical products or services with customers demanding them. Among the most notable... View Details
Keywords: Airbnb; Etsy; Uber; Growth Hacking; Two Sided Markets; Digital Platforms; Marketing; Digital Marketing; Growth Management; Service Industry
Teixeira, Thales S., and Morgan Brown. "Airbnb, Etsy, Uber: Growing from One Thousand to One Million Customers." Harvard Business School Case 516-108, June 2016. (Revised January 2018.)
- 12 Nov 2019
- Video
Christoph Schiess
Christoph Schiess, President of TANICA, a Chilean business group with diversified activities in real estate, tourism and hotels, mineral water, and other activities,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- Video
Katie Rae, Managing Director, Project 11 Ventures
Mark43
The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals (RFP) from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). On the one hand, LAPD would be a second large and... View Details
Youngme Moon
Youngme Moon is the Donald K. David Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. Professor Moon's research sits at the intersection of brand strategy and culture, with a particular focus on the emergent AI economy. She is the author of the bestselling book,
Keywords: advertising; automobiles; automotive; clothing; communications; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; electronics; entertainment; fashion; high technology; home video games; information; information technology industry; internet; marketing industry; music; pharmaceuticals; toy; video games
Failure Shouldn't Come as a Surprise
I’ve worked at startup companies and I’ve run development teams inside large public companies. In both environments, executives spend far more time forecasting how successful they’ll be than planning what they will do if something breaks down.
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- Case
Comun: Partners in Peril
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alexis Lefort
In spring 2023, Abiel Gutierrez and Andres Santos, co-founders of Comun, faced a critical decision at their fintech startup serving Latino immigrants. Having launched their product the previous year, they experienced rapid growth but encountered rising fraud and... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Business Development; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Partners and Partnerships; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Latin America; United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Alexis Lefort. "Comun: Partners in Peril." Harvard Business School Case 825-036, September 2024.
- 14 May 2015
- Blog Post
Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students
For Rudina Seseri, coming to HBS as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence was a kind of homecoming. A 2005 graduate of HBS, Rudina has spent much of the last decade working as a venture capitalist - investing in startups and working closely with... View Details