Publications

March 2023 (Revised May 2025)
Case

On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger and Sascha Mader

Founded in 2010, in just one decade, the Swiss company On had established itself as a main player in global sports footwear and apparel. Based on an unconventional strategy which one of the founders labeled as “obsessively distinct,” On grew its sales with a compound... View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

make choices about what to eat. Clover Food Lab was founded to convince meat-lovers that vegetables aren't just delicious but have the power to save the planet.” Megan Murday MBA 2021 | Founder & CEO, Metric “Metric is a digital ESG reporting platform for View Details

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

startup to tackle product accessibility for the disability community. Many products and websites today are inaccessible to people with disabilities despite over 30 years of the Americans Disabilities Act which prohibits disability... View Details

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

(CHRO, L’Oreal USA), and Victoria A. Budson (Partner & Global Head of DEI at Bain Capital), as well as six panels and our second annual startup pitch competition. Panel speakers included women execs and female founders from a variety... View Details

01 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

themselves are not highly correlated. Alpha, net of fees, remains an open question. OpenInvest (218064) by Shawn Cole , Boris Vallee and Nicole Tempest Keller FEBRUARY 2018 (REVISED AUGUST 2018) OpenInvest is a San Francisco-based startup... View Details

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

events will lure tourists to Singapore’s restaurants, hotels, and casinos. A primary barrier to ONE FC’s growth, according to Cui, is the difficulty of attracting and recruiting employees with the necessary levels of commitment and expertise. Going to work for a sports... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

November 2018
Case

David Hysong and SHEPHERD Therapeutics

By: Ananth Raman, John Masko and Aldo Sesia

In 2016, David Hysong, at age 27, found out he had a rare, incurable cancer. Rather than wait around to die, Hysong, a recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School, decided to launch a biotechnology company called Shepherd Therapeutics to development treatments for his... View Details

Keywords: Cancer; Therapeutics; Drugs; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Product Development; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges

29 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing

Profile

Philippe Rival

help and mentor on projects, cases or even startup brainstorming! This is clearly a network for life, one that is here for you. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I have always been interested in building things and... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Mind Your Manners

Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) As a newcomer to the Global A-list, some observers say China has a few things to learn about proper comportment in Western social settings. Etiquette is one of them, declares Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012), a quintilingual Hong Kong native who has... View Details

Keywords: etiquette; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

August 2023
Case

WayCool: Reimagining the Food Supply Chain

By: Paul Gompers and Kairavi Dey

Founded in 2015, WayCool, is an Indian agri-tech start-up that built a B2B operation acquiring fruits and vegetables from product-specific agriculture companies and small-holding farmers. It sold them to business customers, such as local retail stores, restaurants, and... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Digital Transformation; Operations; Business Strategy; Supply Chain; Performance; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; Asia; South Asia

September 2023
Case

Diamond Standard

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Zhaoheng Gong and Grace Headinger

Cormac Kinney, Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard, was on a mission to transform the U.S. diamond market through unlocking the precious gems as market-traded assets. As a serial FinTech entrepreneur, he hoped to add an additional service to his vault: Carats. The... View Details

06 Feb 2019
Blog Post

7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion

at high-growth companies. The Technology Venture Immersion (TVI) course is co-taught by SEAS and HBS faculty and modeled after HBS’s Startup Bootcamp program, where students are asked to “learn by doing.” During the two-week intensive... View Details

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

time and money around that goal. There are so many opportunities at HBS; you can literally have 3 opportunities for every slot on your calendar, so I imposed a yes/no framework that helped me prioritize: Is this something that would help me go further, faster in a... View Details

February 2001 (Revised October 2001)
Case

JetBlue Airways: Starting from Scratch

JetBlue Airways shows how an entrepreneurial venture is able to use human resource management, specifically a values-centered approach to managing people, as a source of competitive advantage. The major challenge faced by Ann Rhoades is to grow this people-centered... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Competitive Advantage; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Business Startups; Air Transportation Industry