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  • June 2022
  • Teaching Note

Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-419. On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years... View Details
Keywords: B2B Vs. B2C; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Cost Management; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry
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  • 06 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

business plan and its relation to new venture formation. I tried to explain that a business plan can't be a tightly crafted prediction of the future but rather a depiction of how events might unfold and a road map for change. I emphasized the notion that successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Peer Effects and Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Jesper B. Sørensen

    Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

    The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Estée Lauder, Chanel, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us.... View Details

    • 10 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 10

    entrepreneurship. However, the decrease in entrepreneurship is entirely driven by a significant reduction in unsuccessful entrepreneurial ventures. The effect on the rate of successful post-MBA entrepreneurs, instead, is insignificantly positive. In addition, sections... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

    stories of his great-grandmother Georgia Joyner, a sales agent for Madam C.J. Walker, the Black entrepreneur considered to be the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, and his great-great-great grandfather William... View Details
    Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 18 Oct 2023
    • News

    Spreading the Words

    internal combustion engine did for transportation—propel it to new heights that were unimaginable earlier.” Khan and cofounder Imran Sayeed, an entrepreneur and senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School, started their work in Pakistan, where... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • Web

    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    Background Note Raising Startup Capital By: Jeffrey Bussgang Entrepreneurs typically focus their full energies on business-building. But raising capital is a core part of building a valuable business. Developing expertise in raising... View Details
    • Web

    Profiles - MBA

    high-quality datasets. Professional goals I’m an entrepreneur at heart. To me, the best way to improve the world and love what you do is to build a tangible product that excites you. My short-term focus is on absorbing cutting-edge... View Details
    • 27 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

    anticipate that it will continue indefinitely unless derailed by possible but unlikely international conflicts. At the core of Asian economic development is its business leadership—managers and entrepreneurs who sustain and create Asian... View Details
    Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
    • January 2021
    • Supplement

    Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science. ... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Cash Flow; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Brands and Branding; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; United States; California
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    • November 2020
    • Case

    Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an... View Details
    Keywords: Startup; Hiring; Staffing; Recruiting; Business Startups; Finance; Leadership; Management Skills; Management Teams; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • August 2020 (Revised November 2024)
    • Case

    NextView Ventures

    By: Jo Tango and Nori Gerardo Lietz
    David Beisel, Rob Go, and Lee Hower are non-partners at different-and-established venture capital (VC) firms. They decide to leave their positions to start a new seed-stage VC firm. The case covers the genesis of the firm, the formulation of its strategy and... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Strategy
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    Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures

    By: Matthew Lee and Laura Huang
    Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected personal qualities of business entrepreneurs. We examine whether social impact... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Framework; Perception; Performance Evaluation
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      Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

      Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

      In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
      • Web

      HBS - The year in Review

      innovative new events like Alumni Dialogues and an Entrepreneurs Exchange. First HBS Fund Investors Society Challenge a Success More than 500 alumni from the 15 most recent MBA classes (2007–2021) participated in the first-ever HBS Fund... View Details
      • 02 Nov 2023
      • News

      Seeding Startups

      product, the company was acquired by RIM, the company behind BlackBerry, in 2002. But that’s not why he tells the story to the fledgling entrepreneurs he mentors through TiE Seattle, a regional chapter of the global nonprofit The IndUS... View Details
      Keywords: April White
      • 10 Feb 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

      • Web

      Accelerating Solutions - Business & Environment

      well as the challenges. Highlights Video Full Panel Video Beyond Business as Usual: Climate Disruptors HBS curated a group of founders, innovators and entrepreneurs who are reinventing business models to drive real change. Their stories... View Details
      • 12 Aug 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: August 12

        Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber Abstract—There is a growing body of evidence that many View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne