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John H. McArthur | About
notes in distinctive longhand. McArthur also was there for members of the HBS community in good and bad times. He often appeared unannounced in hospital rooms and at family celebrations of faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
time to maintain high standards and efficiency. Leaders of firms from start-ups to tech giants should give themselves the room they need to manage employee performance while shifting headcount to match... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
start-up with five employees to a global powerhouse with sixteen hundred employees in 23 countries. From day one, Fuller and his colleagues knew they wanted to build a firm... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
Your company is forming an intrapreneurial venture, and has asked you to join the start-up team. Is this a career pick-me-up, or occupational suicide? It could be either one, and employees should carefully... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
MBA Students Reflect on Their Summer Internships
for an early stage and stealth mode robotics start-up in the agriculture space as a Business Analysis & Operations Intern. I am the fourth and the only non-technical employee of the company. After... View Details
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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
Covenants not to Compete Day 16: Coming Together – Forming a Business Day 17: Choice of Organization Day 18: Financing a Start-up Company Day 19: Employers and Employees Day 20: Employment – Compensation Day... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
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Megan Gardner
capital led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer, expanded the company to 28 different cities with 350+ employees and contractors while growing the online member base to over a million people. She worked with top retailers like Target,... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
interests of shareholders alone or, those of all stakeholders, including employees and customers? Moris Simson (HBS ISMP 91) Mitel Corporation Those taking issue with these premises generally saw the company's leadership with the support... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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In the News - Entrepreneurship
How Bill Wilson Changed the World Re: Robert Simons 20 Jun 2025 Bloomberg Silicon Valley’s ‘Tiny Team’ Era Is Here Re: Jeff Bussgang 16 Jun 2025 HBS Working Knowledge Does Your Startup Set Employees Up to Fail? Re: Julia Austin 10 Jun... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
undergraduates at Harvard College. Together, the trio has turned Vostu from a tiny 12-person start-up to an operation with close to 400 employees in three locations: São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and New York.... View Details
- 11 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact
EquaLife Group, a start-up dedicated to “building and creating consumer-related businesses” in Africa. Five employees work at the holding group level; an additional fifteen run its leading current venture,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
EnTRIPreneurs
also hosts a July music festival (Emmy Lou Harris, Merle Haggard, et al) to support its charitable foundation. "Unlike a start-up in a larger city, RAP, based in a community of 900 people, makes everything work without the advantage of... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
employees to raise their creative game. But Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, has a different approach, creating an organization that values and rewards innovation rather than attempting to create it with his bare hands. AG Lafley, P&G's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
picked up steam after a nationwide franchise program launched in 2009. Revenues for that year were $2 million; in 2011, they’re projected to hit $10 million. The company charges employers a percentage of a worker’s hourly rate or salary; franchisees (which now number... View Details
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
something from the ground up when he served as president and COO of Green Dot Public Schools, a start-up charter organization that has since expanded to include 18 schools. Now his days are spent meeting with members of city government;... View Details
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LGBTQ+ Pride Month | Baker Library
"Diversity Spotlight" feature, where you can filter for U.S. start-ups founded and led by LGBTQ+ individuals. Review Capital IQ Pro 's LGBTQ market map, which consists of companies that provide products or services to LGBTQ communities or... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and investor patience. "Once a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne