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04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

02 Nov 2022
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Strong Finish

Heela Yang and Alicia Sontag Four years after its launch in 2015, the Brazilian-inspired beauty brand Sol de Janeiro was already profitable; its skin-tightening Bum Bum Cream had been Sephora’s top-selling skin care product for three years running. But when View Details

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Cumnock Hall | About

Room . About the Name Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Alexander Cumnock came to the United States with his family in 1846 and began his career in the textile industry as a young man. By the turn of the century, he was a well-known figure in New England fabric manufacturing... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

escalated to the level of assault, as Dixon alleged in the Times reporting. She went home and told her roommate what had happened, then scrawled out a letter of resignation and walked away. She landed soon after at Arista Records, where she worked for View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

her HBS section as a key support network, as well as the HBS alumni she has connected with in Nigeria. Nneka’s experience is proof that building a network is a long-term strategy for success, as she met the founders of CrossBoundary (also... View Details

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

transfers—giving people cash via mobile money—to combat poverty wo... Transforming Talent at Teach For Taiwan By: Juan Alcácer and Chi Kuan January 2025 | Faculty Research The Teach For Taiwan (TFT) case follows founder Anting Liu as she... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

buyers/borrowers, lenders, and Nester all win. —Reed Benet (MBA 1991), founder and CEO, HeroHomes.com Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update:... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

because of her gender. And so he was just really determined that I’d be independent and practical. JH: Gerald Schwartz (MBA 1970) is founder and chairman of Onyx Corporation, a Toronto- based private equity firm with more than $50 billion... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

supportive community it gave us in which to learn and grow as entrepreneurs.” After earning prize money as runners-up in both the HBS New Venture Competition and the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, the founders secured funding... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

Research Summary

Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)

In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals... View Details

September 2020
Case

Minerva 2004: Discovery

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry

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August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
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MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work

By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai

In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Adoption; Pharmaceutical Industry

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01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

School clubs he had joined, he decided to apply. “It was just curiosity,” Goble says. The program, now known as Nucleate, which is dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders, hosted what Goble remembers as a kind of “speed dating” event where... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

interviews provide insights on family business, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and social impact, as well as the relationship between government and business. In conversations with Professor Geoffrey Jones, Melek El Nimer discussed issues related to her work as... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Jul 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

growing pains in 2007, founder Howard Schultz realized its unique customer experience was broken. The State of Customer Service LeadershipThe economic future of the country is largely in the hands of those who lead our service... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

organizations. We propose that individual founders of hybrid organizations acquire imprints from past exposure to work environments, thus predisposing them to incorporate the associated logics in their subsequent ventures, even when doing... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

include the founders and leaders of organizations such as Google and Facebook. Their business models are centered around the exchange of a “free” service for free information about us that can later be combined with other data and sold.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

02 Aug 2022
Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

practical advice about operating a startup from the founders themselves. The Harvard Innovation Lab and the Rock Center of Entrepreneurship are two other massive resources one should not miss! Overall, I think the tech ecosystem is highly... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a... View Details