Publications

28 Mar 2016
News

Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

was fresh and contemporary when it was created, and was available cheaply. There may be only one or two pieces among a million that will endure for centuries. However, if there is no market for these million paintings now, there is no... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

Finance and Investing Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission Featuring Victoria Ivashina . By Avery Forman on July 24, 2025 . Private equity has long been limited to institutional and high-net-worth investors, but the German View Details

Profile

Kevin Nazemi

Kevin Nazemi chose Microsoft after graduation from MIT for the chance to turn a small market presence into something much bigger. “When I arrived, our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product had almost no traction in the U.S.,”... View Details

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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

actively apply tools. This course is for founders, joiners, investors, and consultants aspiring to create value by designing (or helping design) the management systems necessary to bring new ventures from early-stage startups to... View Details

March 2000 (Revised June 2001)
Case

AES: Hungarian Project (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Ann Leamon

The AES Corp., the world's largest independent power producer, has put out a request for bids to build a new power plant in Hungary. Just after the closing date for submitting bids, one of the contractors calls to request an opportunity to "improve" its bid. Although... View Details

Keywords: Bids and Bidding; Energy Generation; Technology Adoption; Business Startups; Ethics; Value; Energy Industry; Hungary

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Angela R. Hicks Bowman

Most would-be entrepreneurs realize their startup dream after finishing their MBA. But for Angie Hicks, the founder of Angie’s List, the road to successful entrepreneurship began well before she headed to HBS. In 1995, Hicks arrived in... View Details

August 2001 (Revised May 2002)
Case

Worldzap

By: Rohit Deshpande, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Suma Raju and David Kiron

In February 2001, the CEO of a new technology start-up had to decide how to present his firm's value proposition to future clients, customers, and business partners. The technology allowed distribution of full-motion video clips of sports highlights to "third... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Information Technology; Marketing Strategy; Distribution; Technology Adoption; Forecasting and Prediction; Value Creation; Information Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Europe

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

2013), the founder and CEO of the Chinese electric startup WM Motor, puts the personal passenger vehicle market at around 28 million. Chinese consumers bought nearly half of all electric plug-ins sold... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

and venture capital funds. “The tradeoff in making the decision to go back to an emerging market is so great that you can’t come to it analytically,” says Managing Director Hiran Embuldeniya (MBA 2005), an alum of McKinsey and Goldman... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

September 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Case

Katie Couric Media: Landing the First Client

By: N. Louis Shipley and William R. Kerr

In May 2018, celebrated journalist Katie Couric and her husband, John Molner, had recently launched a full-service media firm called Katie Couric Media (KCM). Couric treasured the opportunity to address important social issues like gender equality, environmental... View Details

Keywords: Customer Acquisition; Subscription Model; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Media; Customers; Acquisition; Social Issues; Brands and Branding; Media and Broadcasting Industry

30 May 2018
News

HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach

Richardson, proudly noting that her mother later became a teacher. A native of Arlington, Texas, Richardson received a track scholarship at Baylor University, where she majored in business administration and journalism. After graduation, she merged her analytical and... View Details

October 2022
Case

Single.Earth

By: Rembrand Koning and Emer Moloney

Estonian greentech company Single.Earth is launching a nature-backed token that is linked to and funds the protection of a specific plot fo land. The first landowners had been onboarded to the company's Digital Twin, a virtual representation of the planet's natural... View Details

Keywords: Alternative Assets; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Natural Resources; Pollution; Analytics and Data Science; Marketing; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Market Timing; Strategy; Green Technology Industry; Estonia

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

globalization entails. All managers now face a business environment where international, macroeconomic, and political phenomena matter. Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock market booms and busts, social and... View Details

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

become the Amazon of freelance labor, and transforming its business model from a marketplace to software-as-a-service (SaaS). Each of the three paths was risky and required financial and human resource investment. Could and should the fledgling View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2000 (Revised October 2006)
Teaching Note

Wildfire Communications, Inc. (A) and (B) (TN)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and John T. Gourville

Teaching Note for (9-396-305) and (9-396-306). View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Performance Effectiveness; Business Processes; Digital Platforms; Business Strategy; Markets

Consumer brand building - Mission/vision/values development and adherence - Co-founder and early stage team building - DTC marketing - Go-to-market strategies - Hospitality startups - Real estate businesses... View Details

January 2014
Teaching Note

R&R

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence

This a revised teaching note for R&R case(9-386-019). View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Experience and Expertise; Contracts; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Market Entry and Exit