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  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping

Walmart and Amazon are in the middle of an epic competition that is going to be thrilling to watch. The startups that have been most successful have targeted a specific category—Peloton in exercise, Casper in mattresses, Warby Parker in... View Details
Keywords: Ron Johnson (MBA 1984), founder and CEO, Enjoy
  • 22 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Career Risks and Professional Growth: Finding a Fulfilling Career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

became my greatest allies. After HBS, I stepped into brand management roles at Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola, where I honed my skills and learned to blend creativity with data-driven decision making. I later joined three tech View Details
  • 01 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

web-based service or app that once might have cost millions to launch can see the light of day for a little over $100,000. Because of that, an influx of new investors through crowdfunding could potentially allow innovative startups to put... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 03 Feb 2023
  • News

Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

students heard from President Nana Akufo-Addo, who discussed the challenge their country faces creating future opportunities for the younger generation. Read more. London In Entrepreneurship in the UK and Europe, with Professors Greg Marsh and Jeffrey Rayport, students... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2016
  • Blog Post

Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

hands-on way to practice customer discovery and rapid iteration. The Entrepreneurial Manager class applies founder concepts like lifetime value, customer acquisition, and staged financing. And every course included early-stage company... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2014
  • What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

fashion, our management nursed the money through the worst of the downturn. The story doesn't end there. On our way out we were introduced to the management and directors of the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail
  • August 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya
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  • May 2008 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Intel NBI: Handheld Graphics Organization

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Handheld Graphics Organization (HGO) was an internal start-up under Intel's New Business Incubator program. The unit designed a graphics co-processor for the handheld PDA market, to be sold with Intel's Xscale processor. Though NBI ventures were designed for a high... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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  • December 2005 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (A)

By: Richard Hamermesh and Liz Kind
Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Medical Devices; Venture Capital; Life Sciences; Health Care Industry; Healthcare Technology; Healthcare Ventures; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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  • June 2005 (Revised January 2008)
  • Case

Good Technology: Empowering Mobility Around the Globe (A)

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Adam Minnick
Describes the global growth of Good Technology, a Silicon Valley start-up in wireless handheld computing software and service. Reviews the evaluation of wireless standards, the emergence of the world wireless market for voice and data, and the growth of the major firms... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Wireless Technology; Communications Industry; Technology Industry; California
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  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

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

that addresses part of that challenge—with a particular focus on predicting customer churn. However, several other equally important aspects of managing retention have not received similar level of attention, leaving many managerial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Faculty Research Online

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much? In the course of making a decision, managers often err in one of two directions: either overanalyzing a situation or forgoing all the relevant information and simply going with their gut. Associate... View Details
Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 25 Apr 2016
  • News

Trail Blazer

Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation; Transportation
  • November 2017
  • Case

One Life; One Love (A)

By: Thomas DeLong and Kerry Herman
Katie Hood, CEO of the One Love Foundation (One Love), a group dedicated to the prevention of relationship violence, had grown the organization's base of funding support to $6 million by 2017 and broadened its mandate to include relationships across many demographics.... View Details
Keywords: Start-up; ＂Leading A Foundation＂; Social Enterprise; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership
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  • 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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  • 19 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

We are NET12, an MIT|HBS startup focused on accelerating a carbonless future by helping corporations reach and sustain their net zero goals efficiently. NetaCarbon - Grace Lam (MBA 2024) - NetaCarbon is a service provider that partners... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 16 Jan 2020
  • News

Helping California Wildfire Victims Rebuild

Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes A recent article in Forbes highlights the work of the home-building management startup Homebound, cofounded by CEO Nikki Pechet (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction
  • Web

Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

competitors’ size to their own advantage (judo strategy)? When and how can large firms impose their will (sumo strategy) against other players in their ecosystem, without running afoul of antitrust laws? Managing Intellectual Property: A... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

active gateway to entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world; and to evangelize about entrepreneurial management and thinking. Those priorities are evident in events such as the Rock 100 Entrepreneurs’ Summit, a gathering held earlier... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna