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  • 12 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)

journey since graduating. Were your roles always related to climate and, if not, how did your journey lead you to pursuing a career in climate? I’ve been fortunate to stay in climate tech throughout my career. While at HBS, I interned at Membrion, a Series-A View Details
  • 24 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

startup that has just successfully deployed software for its first customer, the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department. On the other hand, pursuing the LAPD RFP could consume most of Mark43’s engineering resources for the coming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2003
  • Case

Growing Up in China: The Financing of BabyCare Ltd.

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
The CFO of this infant nutritional products company must choose among competing financing offers. The interplay of Chinese legal and customs restrictions and venture capitalists' bargaining techniques challenge the CFO to navigate a tricky negotiation and to devise a... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Working Capital; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; China
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Desai, Mihir A., and Mark Veblen. "Growing Up in China: The Financing of BabyCare Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 204-029, September 2003.
  • 18 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

Most companies rely on artificial intelligence-based algorithms to make a wide variety of business decisions—from pinpointing the products customers prefer to determining which resumes should go to hiring managers. The problem for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • October 2011 (Revised October 2013)
  • Supplement

Gracious Eloise: What Do Angels Want? (B)

By: Lena G. Goldberg, Janet Kraus and Mary Beth Findlay
Having received an extensive critique of her business plan but only a small amount of financing from an angel group she pitched in 2010, Eloise Bune responds to the angels' concerns, refines her presentation, and pitches her company again. View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Investment; Presentations
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Goldberg, Lena G., Janet Kraus, and Mary Beth Findlay. "Gracious Eloise: What Do Angels Want? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 312-055, October 2011. (Revised October 2013.)
  • January–February 2023
  • Article

The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Davide Sola and Martin Kupp
Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called extrapolation, say three business school professors.
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Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scalability; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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Rayport, Jeffrey F., Davide Sola, and Martin Kupp. "The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up." Harvard Business Review (January–February 2023): 56–65.
  • January 1998 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

Chemdex.com

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
An Internet start-up company is developing an online marketplace for specialty chemicals and reagents. David Perry has been named a runner-up in the 1st annual HBS Business Plan contest and now faces seed-stage financing questions--how much money to raise, at what... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Internet and the Web; Chemicals; Business Startups; Capital; Chemical Industry
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Sahlman, William A., Michael J. Roberts, and Laurence E. Katz. "Chemdex.com." Harvard Business School Case 898-076, January 1998. (Revised June 1999.)
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Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

Whitehead Society. Entrepreneurs Promise Startup founders, builders, and investors who promise to support the School in the future have opportunities to deepen their connections to HBS’s growing entrepreneurship ecosystem. Global Leaders... View Details
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current Issues

By: Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda
Mexico is often cited as one of the world's most entrepreneurial countries in terms of the percentage of its population that has started or is in the process of starting a business venture. Yet Mexico does not seem to be very friendly to entrepreneurs, as confirmed by... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Competition; Mexico
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Canales, Rodrigo, and Ramana Nanda. "Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current Issues." In The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009, edited by Ricardo Hausmann, Emilio Austin, and Irene Mia. World Economic Forum, 2009.
  • November 2023 (Revised April 2025)
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Norse Atlantic Airways

By: Willy Shih
Bjørn Tore Larsen, Norse Atlantic Airways' founder and CEO, hadn't planned to get into the airline business. But when the COVID-19 pandemic depressed the global demand for air travel and the lease rates for jetliners, he realized if ever he was going to get into the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Market Entry and Exit; Leasing; Business Strategy; Segmentation; Interest Rates; Air Transportation Industry; Europe; North America; Norway; United Kingdom; United States
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Shih, Willy. "Norse Atlantic Airways." Harvard Business School Case 624-034, November 2023. (Revised April 2025.)
  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

Parks Management is People Management

same way it would at a lean startup or a large corporation. The transferability of business practices, especially the need for agile thinkers in key management roles, is encouraging. I feel confident that I... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
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Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth W. Legris
Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business founded on the principles of product quality, organizational alignment, and sustainability. A former environmental... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Values; Development Stage Enterprises; Innovation; Management By Objective; Experimentation; Emerging Technologies; Mission and Purpose; Management Style; Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Food and Beverage Industry; New Hampshire
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Koehn, Nancy F., Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth W. Legris. "Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm." Harvard Business School Case 312-122, March 2012. (Revised October 2012.)
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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

In the first step toward entrepreneurship, career seekers face a fundamental choice that affects every subsequent action: do you see yourself as a startup founder or joiner? The Path of the Founder Founders are typically driven by one of... View Details
  • March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
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Evolution of eCoverage in the Online Insurance Market, The

David Riker, the founder and chairman of eCoverage, an online insurance company, describes the various phases of company development, such as presenting a business plan, gathering a management team, getting the word out, and running the site. View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Insurance Industry
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Hansen, Morten T., and Jeffrey Berger. "Evolution of eCoverage in the Online Insurance Market, The." Harvard Business School Case 400-081, March 2000. (Revised May 2000.)
  • April 2000 (Revised June 2000)
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Everdream

Silicon Valley start-up Everdream wants to turn the provision of PCs to small business into a turnkey service including excellent 24/7 support. This case explores what this will take by focusing on the question of what, if anything, Everdream can guarantee. View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Infrastructure; Business Startups; Computer Industry; Service Industry; California
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Hallowell, Roger H., and Christina L. Darwall. "Everdream." Harvard Business School Case 800-251, April 2000. (Revised June 2000.)
  • 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

pumping gas at a Hess station in New Jersey when I was age 15. I loved that job, because I met people from all walks of life and was busy every second, filling the tank, washing windshields, and popping the hood.” Building blocks: “My... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2023
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Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

startups focused on Climate Tech and Future of Work. Prior to HBS, I was the program manager of the NextGen Initiatives at Disability:IN, the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion... View Details
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

transparency is customarily trained on elected officials as a means of ethical oversight, our research documents the benefits of increased transparency into the delivery of government services. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2349801   Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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