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  • Career Coach

Kelsey Holland

through – Acquisition club and plans to launch her own search fund after graduation with the goal of acquiring a software company. She would love to help you think through the right startup role, stage of... View Details
  • January–February 2017
  • Article

Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
An increasingly popular route to success as a small business owner is “acquisition entrepreneurship”—buying and running an existing operation. If you’re considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Planning
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  • 29 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan & Wesley Yin; Financial Services
  • July 2012
  • Case

Droga5: Launching Jay-Z's Decoded

By: Anita Elberse and Kwame Owusu-Kesse
In 2010, David Droga and Andrew Essex, co-founders of advertising agency Droga5, hope to convince both John Meneilly, manager of hip-hop star Shawn Carter—better known as Jay-Z—and a partner in Carter's company Roc Nation and Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Entertainment; Advertising Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 21 Jan 2020
  • Blog Post

Meet the AFAA Club

The mission of the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) is to assist in the professional development and job search process of members; to promote camaraderie among members; and to raise awareness and support for the military among the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries

    Sara McKinley Torti

    Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products... View Details

    • September 2011 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    Brightcove, Inc. in 2007

    By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie
    Brightcove, a technology and services provider to content owners in the Internet television field, aimed to become a media distribution company in its own right. On October 30, 2006, it relaunched its Website—and, in effect, its business. With its new, consumer-facing... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Diversification; Digital Platforms; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Distribution; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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    • Teaching Interest

    Digital Marketing Strategy

    By: John A. Deighton

    When the tools of marketing change, strategies change too. The focus of this course is on firms trying to navigate the transition from offline to online market-making and strategy development. Our concern is primarily with corporations that have products and... View Details

      Andreessen Horowitz

      This teaching case profiles Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm launched in 2009 that quickly broke into the VC industry's top ranks. The case recounts the firm's history; describes its co-founders' motivations and their strategy for disrupting an... View Details

      • 09 Apr 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

      revenue toward high impact opportunities, then an investment may allow the financier to reallocate funds to other purposes. Does the company have opportunities to expand its profitability at little cost to its social mission? If yes, an... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 10 Apr 2019
      • HBS Case

      How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

      Entrepreneurs aren’t short on ideas for exciting new products or companies, but they are often short-sighted when it comes to finding ways to fund and build those projects. “There is a huge amount of discussion about how you come up with... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
      • 20 Mar 2025
      • Blog Post

      Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

      is your current role and what steps and tactics did you use to get hired in your current position? During EC year, I focused my career search on impact investing roles. I was particularly interested in impact-first View Details
      • 13 Oct 2015
      • First Look

      October 13, 2015

      empirical analysis of a representative project, we find abundant evidence consistent with this characterization, and we proceed to discuss implications for platform design and entrepreneurial funding and unique and defining... View Details
      • 2023
      • Article

      Digital Health Reimbursement Strategies of 8 European Countries and Israel: Scoping Review and Policy Mapping

      By: Robin van Kessel, Divya Srivastava, Ilias Kyriopoulos, Giovanni Monti, David Novillo-Ortiz, Ran Milman, Wojciech Wilhelm Zhang-Czabanowski, Greta Nasi, Ariel Dora Stern, George Wharton and Elias Mossialos
      Background: The adoption of digital health care within health systems is determined by various factors, including pricing and reimbursement. The reimbursement landscape for digital health in Europe remains underresearched. Although various emergency reimbursement... View Details
      Keywords: Technology Adoption; Health Care and Treatment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Price; Health Industry; Europe; Israel
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      • September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
      • Case

      pymetrics: Early Days

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details
      Keywords: BrainTech; Psychology; Hiring; Games; Entrepreneur; Start-up; Start-up Growth; Strategic Change; Strategy Formulation; Recruiting; Corporate Culture; Hiring Of Employees; Start-ups; Startup; Startups; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Competition; Organizational Culture
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      • 26 Aug 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: August 26, 2008

      tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming evidence, but for disconfirming evidence as well. We undertake such a search in the context of a single well-known case: the Federal Radio... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 10 Jun 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: June 10

        Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      Publications - Faculty & Research

      Goes to Sea By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 325-013 View Details Keywords: Communication Technology ; Green Technology ; Finance ; Venture Capital ; Private Equity ; Investment ; Investment Funds ;... View Details
      • 16 Nov 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: November 16, 2010

        PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for Managing Emotional Assessment of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Employment Data

      Starting own business 13% Company sponsored or already employed 3% Other 1% Postponing job search 0% Continuing education 0% No Data Available Median Base Salary $175,000 Median Signing Bonus $30,000 53% Receiving Median Variable Bonus... View Details