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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Launch Codes

capitalized, loss-making technology company is what it took for me to learn that! —Steve Papa (MBA 1999) founder of Endeca; founder and current CEO at Parallel Wireless; longtime NVC judge and mentor Tenacity Amid Uncertainty I applied to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez
  • 11 Jun 2019
  • Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

says Tarun Khanna, is that startups must create their own trust. Fintech, Small Business, & the American Dream Karen Mills describes how technology is opening up new capital for entrepreneurs. Creative... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

Bizongo and e-B2B in India

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Radhika Kak
Bizongo, an Indian e-B2B platform was co-founded by three college graduates in 2015 with the goal of creating the "Alibaba of India" when the B2B e-commerce landscape was practically non-existent. The founders saw a significant opportunity in connecting mid-sized... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; E-commerce; Business Strategy; India
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  • 06 Feb 2015
  • News

The Billion-Dollar E-commerce Company You Know Nothing About

Keywords: e-commerce; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • Profile

Ann Chao

with a machine." If you cannot bring everyone to the concert hall, why not bring the concert hall to everyone? Ann emailed every university with a music and technology program to find partners for her application idea. Her search led... View Details
  • June 2001
  • Case

GetConnected

By: Jay O. Light and Daniel J. Green
An embryonic Internet-based telecom marketing firm considers its first (seed) round of funding. They are choosing between a fixed price round and a discounted convertible round. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Downhill Re-Boot

HANSON: For boomers who still dare to schuss, a new way to keep them from getting cold feet. Former ski racer Denny Hanson (OPM 2, 1977) saw a lot of his contemporaries giving up skiing because they were tired of being cold and dealing with uncomfortable and ungainly... View Details
Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • Web

Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 B2B Sales and Distribution (also listed under Marketing) Lou Shipley Spring... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2019
  • News

Getting There

as one of the largest tech startups in Southeast Asia. The cofounders sat next to one another in Business at the Base of the Pyramid at HBS, where case discussions focused their attention on building businesses with double or triple... View Details
Keywords: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Aug 2013
  • News

A Cure for Cold Storage

easier," he says. Though the product is still four or five years of regulatory hurdles away from market by Schrader's estimate, Vaxess has started working with various global health organizations to figure out how to apply its silk stabilization View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; vaccines; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • Profile

Mike Maples Jr.

leap across the chasm, from startups to investing. In so doing, he became one of the most successful venture capitalists in the technology sector, with a unique investing philosophy and an enviable track... View Details
  • 13 Jan 2021
  • News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

Out-Innovate, calls it the “frontier market model.” Founded in places with limited resources and nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems, these startups have to be scrappier and leaner. And these limitations, Alex says, make businesses more... View Details
  • September 2000 (Revised October 2006)
  • Teaching Note

Wildfire Communications, Inc. (A) and (B) (TN)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and John T. Gourville
Teaching Note for (9-396-305) and (9-396-306). View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Performance Effectiveness; Business Processes; Digital Platforms; Business Strategy; Markets
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  • 27 Jan 2016
  • News

Harvard MBA Hurdles Silicon Valley Gender Barrier

Keywords: Stitch Fix; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • News

Beautiful Deliveries

Keywords: makeup; beauty products; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • January 2016 (Revised November 2016)
  • Case

Uber in China: Driving in the Gray Zone

By: William C. Kirby, Joycelyn W. Eby, Shuang L. Frost and Adam K. Frost
CEO and Founder of Uber Technologies, Travis Kalanick, had made clear to investors and the public that expansion into China was one of his company's major priorities for 2016. Uber had already demonstrated remarkable capacity for rapid, global scaling, and for... View Details
Keywords: China; Uber; Start-up Growth; Regulation; Ride-sharing; Transportation; Business Startups; Growth and Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; China
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  • January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
  • Case

AsiaMail.com: What's in a Name?

By: Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus
Three founders of an international Internet company (e-mail-based marketing) struggle with naming the company. As they prepare to invest more than $10 million of first-round venture funding in advertising and marketing, they search for a name that will have power and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Brands and Branding; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Advertising; Marketing; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Asia
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  • 16 Mar 2018
  • News

Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

at HBS, Ng is exploring media investing or starting a media company, furthering an interest that began with documentary filmmaking in college. “I’d love to start a company that utilizes media and technology to change the way people... View Details
  • Web

Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

new and adventurous attitude on the part of the business community." 67 In 1987, Doriot died at the age of 87. From an era of conservative investment and large corporations, the patient visionary and calculated risk taker paved the way for groundbreaking View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

High Yields

100,000 jobs and $82 billion worth of value. Amazon famously entered the space in 2013, announcing plans to use drones for its 30-minute delivery service, but there’s plenty of startup activity, too. Hawk Aerial, launched last year by CEO... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs