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- May 2012
- Case
Indigo Telecom Australia
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Keith Chi-ho Wong
Two entrepreneurs identify an opportunity to bring ubiquitous satellite phone service to the outback of Australia. This case challenges students to carefully identify and evaluate the added-value the firm is bringing to the market, its priorities in implementation, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
cachet to mail-order shopping. Although he mixed easily with the wealthy and famous, and came to be considered an arbiter of correctness, Marcus never forgot his business roots, declaring that "no man is too big to go out and make a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details
- 11 Nov 2016
- News
Creating a Coffee Culture in Nigeria
- September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Kyruus: Big Data's Search for the Killer App
By: Robert F. Higgins, Penrose O'Donnell and Mehul Bhatt
Kyruus is used in a course at HBS on Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services (EHITS). It describes a young company that has built a very large database on physicians. The company has had some early successful pilots with prominent customers, but it is now faced... View Details
Higgins, Robert F., Penrose O'Donnell, and Mehul Bhatt. "Kyruus: Big Data's Search for the Killer App." Harvard Business School Case 813-060, September 2012. (Revised December 2012.)
- January 2002 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Publishing Group of America (B)
By: Jay O. Light, Michael J. Roberts and Taslim Pirmohamed
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Light, Jay O., Michael J. Roberts, and Taslim Pirmohamed. "Publishing Group of America (B)." Harvard Business School Case 202-080, January 2002. (Revised January 2003.)
- January 2002 (Revised August 2006)
- Background Note
New Venture Financing
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Describes the various alternative financing alternatives available to new ventures. A rewritten version of an earlier note. View Details
Stevenson, Howard H., and Michael J. Roberts. "New Venture Financing." Harvard Business School Background Note 802-131, January 2002. (Revised August 2006.)
- 06 May 2017
- News
Rumi Spice Gets "Shark Tank" Investment
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
New Fashion Brand Honors Grandmother's Stylish Legacy
- 15 Jun 2015
- News
Giving Small Boutiques a Global Reach
- 04 Jun 2015
- News
Can Silicon Valley Fix Women's Fashion?
- 15 Oct 2014
- News
A New Model for the Manicure
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
Illustration by QuickHoney On the surface, there is seemingly nothing sexy about a startup that sells foam mattresses online. But in January 2014, David Coats (MBA 1992) and Trevor Kienzle (MBA 1991) made a significant seed-round... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 29 Jun 2015
- News
Entrepreneurs on a "Surprise Ride"
- 19 Jun 2015
- News
Outside the Box: Jodi Goldstein of Harvard Innovation Lab
- 27 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Venture Capital Attract Human Capital? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
- 2009
- Case
The North America Environmental Fund (NAEF)
By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama
NAEF was the first VC fund created in Latin America. It was also the first fund to focus on green technologies. The fund and its managers confronted several issues regarding the under-developed governance and cultural structures required for succesful VC investments. View Details
Keywords: Clean Tech; Emerging Market; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Governance; Technology; Green Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; North and Central America
Charvel, Roberto, Fernando Fabre, and T. Putimahtama. "The North America Environmental Fund (NAEF)." Mexico City: Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE) Case (P)DGe-440, 2009.