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  • June 2020
  • Supplement

Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (B)

By: Laura Huang and Elizabeth Jiang
This (B) case expands upon the journey of Career Karma’s three founders by presenting a fictionalized Investor Meeting scenario. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Business Startups; Education; Training; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry; Education Industry; Education Industry
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  • September 2007 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Gokhan Hotamisligil is a star researcher at Harvard School of Public Health who has made groundbreaking discoveries linking fat cells, inflammation, and diabetes. He now wants to form a company to commercialize these discoveries. At the same time, Isaac Kohlberg, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry
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  • July 2001 (Revised February 2002)
  • Case

Enspire Learning

An MBA student founds an e-education business and must decide which customers to target and which products/services to produce. View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Service Delivery; Education; Business Startups; Planning; Education Industry; Education Industry
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  • January 2006 (Revised May 2006)
  • Case

Akin Ongor's Journey

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
A retired bank CEO, one of Turkey's most admired leaders, wants to start a leadership institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean region. Describes his biography and values, the models he established for excellent financial performance and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Startups; Environmental Sustainability; Retirement; Education Industry; Turkey; United States
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  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

years, MacCormack has led FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development), a hands-on experiential learning program that has arguably revolutionized education at HBS more than any development since the introduction of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 30 Jul 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

some important negotiations, and often working alone," Mohan says. "They're negotiating their job offer or they have a startup and are negotiating with investors. So these lessons strike home." View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • September 2013
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
David Weinstein, a lawyer and former Chief Administrative Officer of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, launched Write the World, a proprietary online platform that included a writing curriculum, essay prompts in distinct subject matter, and access to expert... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business Startups; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

expectations prior to any equity grant and using a template like the FAST agreement to solidify an adviser relationship. Most startups have at least two or three advisers filling in complementary areas, sometimes many more, but be... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • September–October 2015
  • Article

Crash and Burn: Why Silicon Valley's Notion That Failure Leads to Success Won't Work for the Rest of the World

By: Debora L. Spar
In the frenzied hills of Silicon Valley, going bust is common. Research attests that close to half of start-ups supported by venture capital chew through most or all of their backers' money and that the majority never achieve their projected returns on investment. But... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Failure; Learning; Situation or Environment
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  • March 1991 (Revised December 1994)
  • Case

Steve Mariotti and NFTE

Less than three years ago, Steve Mariotti created NFTE, a nonprofit organization for teaching entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youths. The organization has gained national recognition, and offers a variety of programs on a budget of nearly half a million dollars. It... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Teaching; Business Startups
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  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

Education Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning By: Avery, Jill Abstract—Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

talking to women. You will say what you’re going to say, and when you say something stupid, they will pull you aside and educate you. And you will listen to them. That’s the best you can do. That’s what you can achieve.” Mensah was among... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

and the orchestrator. How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption Large companies can be easy targets for disruption, but there are steps that can keep them ahead of the innovation curve. Rule 1: Don't emulate startup cultures. What’s Really... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but this is conditional on educational attainment of comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

informal organizational networks; and during periods of credit expansion. Overall, we provide novel evidence of non-agency related costs in the use of soft information in credit decisions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54618... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research By: Serafeim, George Abstract—A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

anchoring, and loss aversion is key to generating returns on the investment side and educating clients on the advisory side. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207084 Board of Directors of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

drugs,” says Giusti. Working with leaders at direct-to-consumer enterprises and five leading cancer organizations, they drew on the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

differences between putting for par and birdie and performance under pressure. Read the paper: http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol7/iss1/5/ Scanning the Commons? Evidence on the Benefits to Startups Participating in Open Standards Development... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

identified in the education and skill system, labor market incentives and flexibility, the ability to translate R&D outcomes into economic value creation, and in preparing the economy for the new realities of globalization. Maybe most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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