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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
a token hire. Knowing the extended team around the business is diverse, can allay these concerns. Ask your investors to help sell the business to prospective candidates. This can be especially critical if you’re trying to hire a senior team member or a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
professor Mary Tripsas introduces conceptual models to help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. "Whenever a firm... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
Western Avenue and Cumnock Hall, this budget includes investments to complete the campus framework plan, create start-up space for D^3 in Cotting House, and upgrade several Executive Education hybrid classrooms. In summary, we begin... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
WHITMAN When Meg Whitman joined a fledgling online auction start-up in 1998, not many people outside of serious collectors of Beanie Babies had heard of eBay. After ten years under her leadership, the company now has 16,000 employees in... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA '01) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug research. "A number of the scientists decided that being part of a View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
data sets, which has narrowed much research to a study of high-technology start-ups in a few locations. Business historians have a real opportunity now to address the key issues of why societies differ in entrepreneurial cognition and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
of a start-up wasn’t for them, but one key person stayed,” Machiels recalls. “The Internet bubble had just burst, but we were still able to secure a funding commitment. Unfortunately at the same time I started to realize that the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
for investing heavily in R&D and innovation by large companies or in the decision to open a new start-up by a graduating Harvard Business School MBA. Uncertainty kills investment, however, and we are seeing uncertainty on an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
Published: January 10, 2011 For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon or Not to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
hospital. Where and how should she begin? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409090 Cherrypicks Harvard Business School Case 807-106 Cherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Ndidi. To change people's minds, she and Mezuo have decided to change the marketplace. In 2009, the couple launched a start-up agribusiness called AACE Food Processing & Distribution Ltd., which buys bulk spices and other ingredients,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
takes the man’s point of view in hopes of rebalancing a debate too often confined to women, to political correctness, or to conforming reluctantly to equality laws. From Start-Up to Global Success: The Zensar Story by Ganesh Natarajan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
unnoticed. As CEO of Impromptu Gourmet, a start-up approaching its one-year anniversary, Max Polaner (MBA '97) knew that his company could not afford a huge donation, but he decided to give all proceeds for a month from dessert purchases... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
was fierce, and there were always thousands of start-ups looking to enter the sector. Founder and CEO Ma Huateng (“Pony” Ma) remarked, “In America, when you bring an idea to market you usually have several months before competition pops... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
banking and - as a new owner of an apartment - threw herself into interior design and antiques, taking courses and attending events and lectures. More recently, she's been helping develop The Franklin Report, a start-up publication that... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Case 412-044 The mission of the Global Business School Network (GBSN) is to strengthen business education for the developing world. The organization was transitioning out of its start-up phase and wants to shift its focus from capacity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
range from Fortune 100 and start-up companies to not-for-profits and municipalities. He has helped position Bangkok, Thailand, as a global fashion capital and FootJoy as the number one shoe and glove brand in golf. With FootJoy, he notes,... View Details
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facing start-ups The special and evolving characteristic of China’s capital markets Strategies for protecting and developing intellectual property The emergence of an increasingly powerful middle class and its impact on the consumer... View Details