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    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • December 2023 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    21Seeds: Taking Shots at Breakout Growth

    By: Elie Ofek, Julian De Freitas, Michael Moynihan and Nicole Tempest Keller
    21Seeds, a female-founded flavor-infused tequila startup launched in 2019, had made inroads into the alcoholic beverage industry by focusing on an underserved consumer segment in spirits—women, primarily in their 30s and 40s, many of whom were moms—and by following a... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Sales; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 12 Aug 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

    to scale simply because they did not have big-company DNA or because the company did not ensure they were in roles in which they could continue to thrive. Think about who on your team has real startup DNA–do they thrive with ambiguity and... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    In Full Flower

    “Flowers are a very emotive product category, but it didn’t seem that anyone had built a brand that people loved and trusted,” Gelbard recalls. “So often we just turned to a Google search. And the technology for mobile phone orders wasn’t very user-friendly.” Out of... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; florist; marketing; supply chain management; Personal Services
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    Videos

    By: Tarun Khanna
    Business Today, 'Genome Sequencing' & How Biology Is Connected To AI; Explains Tarun Khanna, March 29, 2023  

    NASSCOM Product, NPC2022 Tête à... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Case Study: The Home Team

    Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
    • 06 Sep 2016
    • Blog Post

    What Makes the HBS MBA unique?

    skills critical for business. Additionally, you’re introduced to classes and career paths that you might find interesting but that you otherwise wouldn’t take on your own.   For me, I came to HBS thinking that I was more of an established company person, but I... View Details
    • Web

    Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

    shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. The two-story, 15,000-square-foot facility on Harvard’s Allston campus is a... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Alex Angelopoulos

    hubs felt out of reach. A small startup of five was the antidote to my distress. Huddled around a laptop in a cramped, buzzing co-working space in Athens, our team competed with Goliaths, fueled only by our determination, creativity, and... View Details
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    Founder - Entrepreneurship

    trends in entrepreneurship (AI, Web 3, VC, etc.) Learn about HBS resources to support your journey: Entrepreneurship Day Rock and i-lab Newsletters Startup Bootcamp info session New Venture Competition Kickoff Rock Summer Fellows program... View Details
    • November 2021
    • Case

    Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking I: “Becoming a ‘Friend of the Situation’” (A)

    By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
    Blackstone Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, whom Forbes has called “Wall Street’s Greatest Dealmaker,” played a major role in the negotiations that transformed Blackstone from a fragile startup in 1985 with $400,000 in capital into a dominant... View Details
    Keywords: Dealmaking; Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Negotiation; Private Equity; Conflict and Resolution; Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Negotiation Tactics; Financial Services Industry
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    • 19 Nov 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: November 19

      Publications August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Accounting for Crises By: Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We provide one of the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2018
    • Supplement

    Jumia Nigeria PowerPoint Supplement

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
    Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Marketplace; Inventory; Nigeria; Africa; Ecommerce; Funding; Business Ecosystems; Business Ecosystem; Competition; Business Model; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Logistics; E-commerce; Retail Industry; India; Nigeria; Africa
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    • January 2018 (Revised March 2019)
    • Teaching Note

    Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (A) and (B)

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
    Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Marketplace; Inventory; Ecommerce; Funding; Business Ecosystems; Competition; Business Model; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Logistics; E-commerce; Retail Industry; India; Nigeria; Africa
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    • 03 Apr 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

    • 09 Feb 2023
    • Blog Post

    The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

    incumbents or start-ups) and the critical unsolved problems yet to be addressed. The students did so with a mix of guest speakers, panels, case studies, articles, and a visit to Boston area climate facilities including Greentown Labs, a climate tech View Details
    • 19 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

    operates power projects and is the world’s largest producer of wind and solar energy. Aman's role prior to HBS was the Head of Partnerships at Plentify. Dennis Cha (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: Product Partnership Intern, Voltus Voltus is an energy software... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2022
    • Book

    Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

    What if more managers at big corporations channeled some of the same magic that helped Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lead their startups to great success? Large companies are actually fertile ground for innovation;... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

    Keywords: by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman
    • 29 Apr 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight Search

    Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Zhenyu Lai; Publishing; Technology