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  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Surviving Success

In the frenzied, early months of a new venture’s launch, few entrepreneurs anticipate a future beyond their role as company leader. In “Founder–CEO Succession at Wily Technology,” HBS assistant professor Noam View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • Web

Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

of Business Administration Noam T. Wasserman , Associate Professor of Business Administration Honorary Chairs Jim Breyer – Accel Partners and Breyer Capital Karen Gordon Mills – Harvard Business School... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

decisions can enable or inhibit them from achieving their goals. The Moment of Truth For Founder-CEOs, Good Deeds Seldom Go Unpunished “My data show that 52 percent of founder-CEOs are replaced by the time their start-ups raise their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • August 2011 (Revised July 2014)
  • Case

Earl Martin Phalen: Ready to ROAR?

By: Noam T. Wasserman, Julia Taylor and Yael Braid
Earl Martin Phalen is in the midst of starting his second non-profit organization, Summer Advantage, by implementing the lessons he learned from BELL, the non-profit he had founded and run for the prior 15 years. His aspirations for Summer Advantage were to make it... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Development; Financial Management
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Wasserman, Noam T., Julia Taylor, and Yael Braid. "Earl Martin Phalen: Ready to ROAR?" Harvard Business School Case 812-024, August 2011. (Revised July 2014.)
  • August 2011 (Revised February 2012)
  • Supplement

Ockham Technologies (B): Building the Board

By: Noam Wasserman
Describes the issues facing a founder-ceo regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing development work. View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Management Teams; Groups and Teams
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Wasserman, Noam. "Ockham Technologies (B): Building the Board." Harvard Business School Supplement 812-022, August 2011. (Revised February 2012.)
  • June 2011
  • Teaching Note

Knight the King: The Founding of Nike (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman
Teaching Note for 810077. View Details
Keywords: Market Participation; Public Ownership; Transformation; Business Startups; Going Public; Competition; Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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Wasserman, Noam. "Knight the King: The Founding of Nike (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 812-006, June 2011.
  • March 2006 (Revised March 2014)
  • Teaching Note

Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman
Teaching Note to 805150. View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Governing and Advisory Boards; Selection and Staffing; Transformation; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Decisions
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Wasserman, Noam. "Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 806-161, March 2006. (Revised March 2014.)
  • February 2008
  • Article

The Founder's Dilemma

By: Noam Wasserman
Most entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it's tough to do both. If you don't figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles
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Wasserman, Noam. "The Founder's Dilemma." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 2 (February 2008): 102–109.
  • March – April 2008
  • Article

Revisiting the Strategy, Structure, and Performance Paradigm: The Case of Venture Capital

By: Noam Wasserman
Keywords: Strategy; Performance; Standards
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Wasserman, Noam. "Revisiting the Strategy, Structure, and Performance Paradigm: The Case of Venture Capital." Organization Science 19, no. 2 (March–April 2008).
  • 2002
  • Dissertation

The Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur: Characteristics and Dynamics within VC Firms

By: Noam Wasserman
Keywords: Venture Capital; Corporate Entrepreneurship
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Wasserman, Noam. "The Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur: Characteristics and Dynamics within VC Firms." Diss., Harvard University, 2002. (Winner of George S. Dively Award For outstanding dissertation research presented by Harvard Business School.)
  • March 2012
  • Course Overview Note

Founders' Dilemmas

By: Noam Wasserman
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Wasserman, Noam. "Founders' Dilemmas." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 812-137, March 2012.​
  • June 2011
  • Teaching Note

Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman
Teaching Note for 808167. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Experience and Expertise; Business Startups; Problems and Challenges; Entrepreneurship; Telecommunications Industry
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Wasserman, Noam. "Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 812-005, June 2011.
  • November 2007 (Revised March 2014)
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Excerpts from Interview with Jim Triandiflou, Founder of Ockham Technologies

By: Noam Wasserman
Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing and Advisory Boards; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Conflict Management
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Wasserman, Noam. "Excerpts from Interview with Jim Triandiflou, Founder of Ockham Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 808-088, November 2007. (Revised March 2014.)
  • January 2009
  • Article

Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night

By: Noam Wasserman
If you dream of starting your own business, it's better to leave the corporate nest sooner than later, before you get too comfortable with the big-company amenities every start-up lacks. Get going before you're 40 - or even earlier, if you want to make entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Age; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career
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Wasserman, Noam. "Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 1 (January 2009).
  • 2006
  • Article

Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma

By: Noam Wasserman
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges
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Wasserman, Noam. "Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2006).
  • October 2006
  • Article

Stewards, Agents, and the Founder Discount: Executive Compensation in New Ventures

By: Noam Wasserman
Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Business Ventures
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Wasserman, Noam. "Stewards, Agents, and the Founder Discount: Executive Compensation in New Ventures." Academy of Management Journal 49, no. 5 (October 2006): 960–976.
  • 28 Aug 2009
  • News

Humility and the Successful Startup

  • June 2016
  • Case

Career at a Crossroad: Akhil and Roopa

By: Noam Wasserman
Akhil Patel is passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but Roopa Rao, his fiancee, is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Green Technology Industry
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Wasserman, Noam. "Career at a Crossroad: Akhil and Roopa." Harvard Business School Case 816-102, June 2016.
  • March 2014
  • Course Overview Note

Founders' Dilemmas

By: Noam Wasserman
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Wasserman, Noam. "Founders' Dilemmas." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 814-087, March 2014.​
  • June 2011
  • Teaching Note

Curt Schilling's Next Pitch (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman
Teaching Note for 810053. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Selection and Staffing; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Financing and Loans; Games, Gaming, and Gambling
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Wasserman, Noam. "Curt Schilling's Next Pitch (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 812-007, June 2011.
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