Founders - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Feb 2023
Blog Post

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

businesses face and the unique strategies that founders have adopted to stay relevant in the wake of the global pandemic and shifting consumer and investor preferences – from reinvesting in retail, introducing new channels, optimizing... View Details

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

C. Roland Christensen was one of the founders of the field of business strategy and the world’s leading authority on case method teaching. Legacy Harvard Business School Professor C. Roland (Chris) Christensen was one of the View Details

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Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship - Race, Gender & Equity

across three topics: the state of inclusive entrepreneurship; the perspectives from capital creators; and the founders themselves. In each episode, Sanchez speaks with a wide range of players, including key educators, funders, and... View Details

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Initiative, Boston Industrial Development Financing Authority, and Third Sector New England Deval Patrick, JD 1982 Professor and Co-Director, Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership; Founder and Honorary Chair, Project 351;... View Details

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Investors - Entrepreneurship

Founders & Investors Discover Rock alumni and students who are turning opportunity into reality. Contact us if you would like to be included here . Entrepreneurs Investors Companies Ajay Agarwal Partner, Bain Capital Ventures MBA 1995... View Details

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For Alumni - Entrepreneurship

For Alumni Rock100 Network When HBS alumni entrepreneurs connect, share their experiences, and learn together, a powerful community is established. Join the Rock100 global network, an exclusive community for founders of early stage, high... View Details

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

Making Her Mark with Mission-Driven Work This desire to build a better world for her children and future generations set in motion Leahy’s next career move to Glossier. A chance encounter with Glossier founder Emily Weiss provided Leahy... View Details

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

March 2025
Teaching Plan

Wasabi Technologies (A) and (B)

By: N. Louis Shipley and Stacy Straaberg

Teaching Plan for HBS Case Nos. 823-021 and 825-035. Set in 2019, the “Wasabi Technologies (A)” case centers on Wasabi Technologies (Wasabi), a successful hot cloud storage company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founder and CEO David Friend is ready to scale the... View Details

Keywords: Sales; Product Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Divisions; Business Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Information Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston

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Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the next three weeks, 14 analysts make investment recommendations on Snap: two with buy... View Details

28 Mar 2024
News

Rooms with a View

understaffed. Mirza estimates it could take more than a decade to rebuild a skilled talent pool. Mogul Recruiter—part of Mogul Hospitality, of which Mirza is founder and CEO—is an HR platform that uses data to evaluate employee skills and... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

1982). Originally from Chicago, Judy earned a BS of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Harvard Business School (MBA 1983). She is the managing partner of PagsGroup, where she invests in startup companies in the Boston area, working... View Details

27 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

founder Charlie Javice, the nation’s largest bank had been “conned” after it acquired her company for $175 million. “To cash in, Javice decided to lie,” JPMorgan’s suit said. FTX under Sam Bankman-Fried used investor funds to bet on... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

to a body positivity rebranding by the lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret. Just two weeks later, the cultural moment was amplified when Hulu released a documentary about an association between financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

03 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures

Keywords: by Matthew Lee & Julie Battilana

June 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)

By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris

Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio—a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies—was shocked by an unusual request from his senior leadership team. Could Hawkins and one of his agile teams build... View Details

Keywords: Values; Agile; Vision; Corporate Culture; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Transformation; Technology Industry; United States; California

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22 Nov 2023
News

So You Want to Join a Startup

any return on their equity, right? And just to put a finer point on that, investors who invest in the company receive preferred shares. So that means they get paid out first. Employees, founders have common shares. So they sit at the back... View Details

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

data-id=_/STdeHQndptXujGr22R1f][/div] An associate professor of management at Babson College and founder of the Opie Consulting Group, Opie is Black and Christian. She collaborated with Beth Livingston, associate professor at the... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

06 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1

in last year’s SIPs gave rave reviews. Neelam Khan (MBA 2024) considers Moving Beyond DTC a highlight of her time at HBS, and noted its comprehensive approach. “It didn't solely focus on founders and branding; it also offered a thorough... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Elevator Pitch: Block by Block

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Curtis Wong (MBA 2019) Founder and CEO, Cloud Apartments Concept: Cloud Apartments is a product company within the rental apartment space. Its flagship line of modular apartments,... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; construction; housing; design; Construction of Buildings; Construction

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