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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy
determining the winners of the "most innovative" and "greatest impact" prizes. (A panel of VCs and angel investors will then vote on the third category, "best investment.") Winners for all three categories will be announced April 15 on... View Details
Keywords: New Venture Competition
- 30 Oct 2020
- News
Billion-Dollar Valuations and Exits for Harvard-born Startups
2012. WHOOP, founded by Harvard College students at the i-lab in 2012, announced this week that it has raised a $100M Series E round at a valuation of more than $1 billion. "We will continue to make WHOOP the best product experience for measuring and improving health,"... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Dress Code
music, but not fashion, which is an extremely nuanced category requiring constant training and retraining of the model,” says Koen. Stats: Founded in 2018 and launched in May 2020, The Yes currently employs 40 and is the subject of a... View Details
- 10 Nov 2022
- News
Peloton Founder Starts His Next Trek
equipment category ten years ago, people were scratching their heads,” he told Forbes. “We believe that ten years from now, people will say, ‘Well, of course, this is one of the great design brands in the world.’” READ MORE View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
“the sound of dog food glopping out of a can.” (Buy a of copy of his book, MouthSounds, if you want to know more.) I’ve long enjoyed Fred’s creative ability to make me smile. I put him in a special category of entertaining HBSers,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Online Fashionistas
“A lot of the brands love the fact that our Web site is private like a very contained platform in which we could sell their goods. It was actually very easy once we got the system up and running to get amazing designers, not only women’s ready-to-wear but for other... View Details
- 15 Aug 2021
- News
You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America
company has become a media powerhouse, with Lonely Planet, CNET, Healthline, and The Points Guy among the brands they manage. These are all sites, the article notes, that fall into the category of “intent-based media”, which is “a term... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
one year he’s grown revenues by 44 percent and increased his customer base by 32 percent. No matter what kind of businesses we create or what kind of infrastructure is built, it can all be destroyed in the space of a few hours by a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story
the study of some 250 American dailies found that newspapers are forgoing nearly $300 million annually by failing to use the Internet to serve new advertisers. “Despite an intense commitment from the industry, most online newspapers are missing 40 to 45 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
the Required Curriculum category were Michael E. Porter (Competition and Strategy) and Mihir A. Desai (Finance), who were joined by André F. Perold (Finance) and Benjamin C. Esty (Finance) in the Elective Curriculum. Class Day student... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
Choi Greenthal (MBA 1991) The key to creating a category here is getting the cards into people’s hands and letting them see the value. Relying on purchases at retail value to drive word of mouth will be slow, and will open up the View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WesTrek: Students Find Options in Bay Area
and a host of firms in between. While most of the companies fell into the category of high tech-new media, communications, and computer software and hardware-others represented more traditional business activities, such as consulting,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
for optimal results. He recommends that four core categories be considered when planning these adjustments: customer definition, critical performance variables, creative tension, and commitment to the mission. View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
from several different Harvard departments, as well as public officials and engineering firms. The criteria are: quality of life, leadership, resources allocation, natural world, and climate and risk. It’s a rare project that can score high in all these View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
runner-up in the social enterprise category of the HBS Business Plan Contest. They used the $5,000 cash prize and the same amount in services from The Bridgespan Group to turn their business plan into a reality. They garnered support from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
branding and market intelligence,” she says. “Sometimes there isn’t a trademark issue, but perhaps there are associations with another category of goods that could be worrisome, or just send the wrong message.” Other recently added... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
looms as a potential complement or substitute for all of the major categories of existing media and appears capable of serving a wide range of communications objectives for a broad array of advertisers." Silk and his colleagues note that... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
kind of social capital, she contends, helps mitigate three categories of investor uncertainty: technological, firm-based, and market-based. Higgins maintains that an IPO team's connections are a crucial component of any start-up's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
as well as additional funding for activities such as due diligence, market research, and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. Since its launch in 2013, fellows have created 17 companies in View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Action Plan: Finding Fluency
don’t think we’re ever going to go back to the world of 16-week planning cycles.” How to: Find New Customers Look nearby. “Think about adjacent categories for your company,” Dunaway advises. Duolingo has launched Duolingo ABC to teach... View Details