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Eric Boutin

Eric Boutin is a digital health investor, board member, and serial entrepreneur, helping early-stage startups to global pharma companies reimagine healthcare through science and technology. Eric helps founders launch, fund, and scale... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

31 Aug 2017
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Why I Spent This Summer Coding

minimal viable product (MVP) for our mental health startup idea, and to achieve that, I decided to level up my technical skills through an intensive coding program for three main reasons: 1. Entrepreneurial empowerment 2. Future of... View Details

Keywords: Technology

Sarah Leary

enterprise and consumer practice. In addition, Sarah is a member of the Board of Directors at Spindrift Beverage Co., Inc. and an advisor and mentor to several startups and founders. Sarah is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard's... View Details

Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)

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Anna Wang | MBA

side, I encouraged myself to learn about the other parts of building solutions, and started considering the product and business sides of ventures. I joined Datamatch's business team and learned about growth and partnerships, and worked on developing products at View Details

22 Jan 2025
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Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

Coca-Cola, where I honed my skills and learned to blend creativity with data-driven decision making. I later joined three tech startups as head of marketing. Their fast-paced environments pushed me to adapt quickly and think on my feet... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Georgia Messinger | MBA

Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: I have a variety of experience working at startups, and I've learned that technology and business go hand in hand. I believe innovative technology startups will play a... View Details

11 Jan 2021
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Finding My Place at HBS

their HBS pie chart should be spent building things and learning a whole lot about startups. In turn, we learn about ourselves in the process. It didn’t take long for those of us with the startup bug to congregate at the Harvard... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Mark Fuller

Fuller Photo courtesy Monitor Group While many HBS grads hanker for a plum job with a major consulting firm, Mark B. Fuller started his own. He made the leap from HBS assistant professor to cofounder and CEO of the Monitor Group in 1982. Since then, the firm has grown... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

16 Jan 2020
News

Helping California Wildfire Victims Rebuild

Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes A recent article in Forbes highlights the work of the home-building management startup Homebound, cofounded by CEO Nikki Pechet (MBA 2007). Both cofounders—Pechet... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction

01 Dec 2010
News

Rent Out Your Ride

CLARK: A bright idea for utilizing untold idle capacity, America’s privately owned autos. It’s estimated that a privately owned midsize car costs about $8,000 a year to own and operate. In cities, it also spends most of its time parked and unused. As an HBS student... View Details

Keywords: car sharing; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

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Rachel Silverstein

the timing never felt right." At the same time, her career was progressing. After five years with two corporate giants, Dell and American Express, she tested the startup waters. "I had an itch to do something entrepreneurial,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Retail/Hospitality; CPG

01 Mar 2016
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The Western Front

Hendrickson says: with personal connections. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has developed strong connections in the Valley, so the team started with his network and then spread out, meeting with startup founders and venture capitalists.... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

January 1983 (Revised August 1988)
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Universal Robotics Corp.

Three former classmates are founding a company to design, develop, manufacture, and market industrial robots. Principal issues involve the sources, amount, and form of outside investment, the allocation of equity, and the terms and conditions under which outside funds... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Business Startups; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry

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Neology: Embedded Opportunities in the RFID Space (A)

By: Roberto Charvel and Atul Joshi

Neology was a pioneer in the RFID industry that was able to attract U.S. Army contracts and secure financing by creating a holding company in the U.S., while being a Mexican company. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital; Emerging Market; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Technology

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August 1991
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Momenta Corp. (A)

Momenta is a one-month-old high-tech company founded by Kamran Elahian who has already helped found two other successful firms. Having faced problems of teamwork and communication before, Kamran is determined to establish the right corporate culture early on. Teaching... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Business Startups

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