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- November 2008
- Case
Eden McCallum
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Robert G. Eccles
This case illustrates the leadership and management challenges of starting a new firm based on a new business model and how success creates pressures that challenge the work/life balance which was one of the original goals of its two founders. The case also raises... View Details
Gardner, Heidi K., and Robert G. Eccles. "Eden McCallum." Harvard Business School Case 409-060, November 2008.
- 24 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
2019 New Venture Competition Student and Alumni Journeys
The New Venture Competition is an annual student and alumni competition sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative. The 2019 New Venture Competition Student & Alumni... View Details
- Career Coach
Adelina Pak
Informed by her prior experiences in the Technology industry, Adelina enjoys helping students understand the various roles within tech and navigate recruiting specific to the industry. She has experience working at both software and hardware, B2C and B2B, as well as... View Details
- January 2020 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
Direct to Consumer Brands
By: Sunil Gupta
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands by several startups. Many of these brands, such as Dollar Shave Club, Harry’s, Glossier, and Allbirds, entered mature markets dominated by established companies, and yet they grew rapidly to... View Details
Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Digital Marketing; Industry Evolution; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Change
Gupta, Sunil. "Direct to Consumer Brands." Harvard Business School Case 520-060, January 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
- 22 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
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
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
company I was considering joining after school. Enter Plaid. Plaid is a startup that enables businesses to access their users’ financial information by streamlining the connection to their users’ bank... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
is a real need for MBAs to fill key business roles, even at the smaller startups where I was focusing my search. Sometimes, the roles were already well-defined, like Business... View Details
- Web
Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online
or aspiring entrepreneur looking to grow your startup company or a strategist interested in introducing innovation ideas to your organization. A course about entrepreneurship and innovation will teach you how to assess new View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
is a real need for MBAs to fill key business roles, even at the smaller startups where I was focusing my search. Sometimes, the roles were already well-defined, like Business... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
to execute a high-quality, profitable business model and prepare your startup for funding and scaling. “It’s an eye-opening course that enlightens the path for future founders, joiners, or investors.” Roman... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. The Asian Affinity Business Association (AABA), in collaboration with students and organizations across campus, is proud to share and honor the stories of our community... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet
alumni-founded ventures across the globe, and a wet-lab building for life sciences ventures. It is overseen by Thomas Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration and the Peter O. Crisp Chair of the Harvard... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
of the largest camshaft manufacturers in the world, serving marquee customers like GM, Ford, Daimler, Porsche, Toyota, and others. “In the two years that I have been at PCL—first as a business development executive and now as executive... View Details
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
The Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) is a student-led club on campus for service members and veterans from all military branches and nations. The AFAA mission is to help talented veterans transition out of the military to Harvard View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
itself. It's all very exciting in theory, but moving a company from a one-man, one-patent startup to an organization that could change the face of therapy takes some business strategy. "We have a big sense... View Details
- 02 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS
Hoffman-Senn (HBS '19) and I work to on Venuefly there. The iLab fosters community amongst entrepreneurs who get to interact with other founders working on interesting startups and facing similar challenges – from both emotional and View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
is a real need for MBAs to fill key business roles, even at the smaller startups where I was focusing my search. Sometimes, the roles were already well-defined, like Business... View Details
- November 1997 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
Interactive Minds (A)
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Christina L. Darwall
The efforts of two recent Harvard Business School graduates to start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet are recounted. Raises the question of what the nature of this opportunity is, how well-positioned the protagonists... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Consulting Industry
Sahlman, William A., Michael J. Roberts, and Christina L. Darwall. "Interactive Minds (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-072, November 1997. (Revised October 2000.)
- March 1996 (Revised August 1996)
- Case
Open Market, Inc.: Managing in a Turbulent Environment
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Janis Lee Gogan
Presents the story of Open Market, Inc., one of numerous companies formed in 1994 to engage in electronic commerce over the Internet. This case examines the company's development--its business strategy and organization evolution--as the company increased in size and... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Growth and Development; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizations; Web Services Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Janis Lee Gogan. "Open Market, Inc.: Managing in a Turbulent Environment." Harvard Business School Case 196-097, March 1996. (Revised August 1996.)
- September–October 2015
- Article
Crash and Burn: Why Silicon Valley's Notion That Failure Leads to Success Won't Work for the Rest of the World
By: Debora L. Spar
In the frenzied hills of Silicon Valley, going bust is common. Research attests that close to half of start-ups supported by venture capital chew through most or all of their backers' money and that the majority never achieve their projected returns on investment. But... View Details
Spar, Debora L. "Crash and Burn: Why Silicon Valley's Notion That Failure Leads to Success Won't Work for the Rest of the World." Foreign Policy 214 (September–October 2015).