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- March 2021
- Case
Founders Factory
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett
In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within...
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Entrepreneurship;
Markets;
Planning;
Expansion;
Global Range;
Business Model;
Talent and Talent Management;
Experience and Expertise;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Global Strategy;
Innovation Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Partners and Partnerships;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Technology Industry;
Africa;
South Africa;
Johannesburg;
Europe;
France;
Paris;
United Kingdom;
England;
London;
United States;
New York (city, NY)
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and James Barnett. "Founders Factory." Harvard Business School Case 821-009, March 2021.
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Routledge, forthcoming Abstract This Handbook gives an overview of the range and scope of International Political Economy (IPE) scholarship by mapping the different regional schools of IPE and noting the distinctive way IPE is practiced...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
universities nationwide, pointed to a gender disparity in the sciences. Sponsored by the Vice Provost's Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, the group originally piloted several programs focusing on gender in science, and over the next few years widened its...
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- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
million, to support the School’s higher revenues and the increased level of activity on campus. While in any given year our largest expense—people—is always the same, the budget dynamics from one year to the next can be markedly different. In fiscal 2021, with the...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
helping to drive the green tech revolution, and he is a leader in the education-reform movement as well. Doerr and his wife, Ann, have two daughters. How are things different at KPCB than when you started almost thirty years ago? The size, scale, and View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out. It...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
could build on the cross-university success of the nearby i-lab in Batten Hall, expanding further the opportunity for collaboration, interdisciplinary research, and entrepreneurial innovation.” Crispi acknowledges the historic scope of...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
right choices for themselves and for society.” That can be a tall order. The magnitude and scope of the life sciences revolution (and its potential risks) challenge the imagination. But there is little doubt that before too long, life...
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- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
"socially responsible" actions, the scope of the agenda covered, and the definition of what is the ultimate goal (e.g., increased profit, shareholder value, or longer-term success and value of the business). Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
resources to environmental protection? How should we think about the notion of firms sacrificing profits in the social interest? May they do so within the scope of their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders? Can they do so on...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful opportunities for learning—to drive...
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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
natural experiment that required agents to describe commissions for a specific product caused agents to shift recommendations to an alternative product, which had even higher commissions but no disclosure requirement. We do find some View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
including expanding the sales force, expanding the scope of art development services they offer and, more radically, going into the games publishing business themselves. Besides offering a picture of an interesting firm in a growing,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
What was the proper target and scope for the launch? Which strategy gave them the best chance of success? Could chotuKool really redefine the company and bring refrigeration to hundreds of millions of Indians? Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
lecture courses as MOOCs. While the future role of MOOCs in higher education remained a topic of public debate, edX needed to answer concrete managerial and strategic questions. For example, what should edX's scope be? Should edX try to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
can speculate on the scope and rate of diffusion for any given product, it's helpful to compare and contrast diffusion across products. Doing so allows one to focus on the drivers or product characteristics that influence product...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
scope of his thinking: You can’t talk about success and strategy without also understanding purpose, they said. Gulati was skeptical. But he decided to explore it, and in conversations with leaders like Blackrock CEO Larry Fink and...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
they learn, they learn from each other.” From campus to FIELD How Global Is HBS? MBA Class of 2013 34% born outside the United States representing 68 countries. Research 41% of all research produced was global in scope in FY ’11,...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
wide geographical scope in this comprehensive text. Mutual Rescue: How Adopting a Homeless Animal Can Save You, Too by Carol Novello (MBA 1991), with Ginny Graves Grand Central Publishing Novello profiles the transformational impact that...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tierney. But nothing of the scope and scale of what he envisioned. Along the way, Tierney enlisted Bradach, a former Bain consultant then teaching at HBS, as an adviser. “I’ve always lived on the boundary between the social sector and the...
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