Founder - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

course, Eisenmann teaches cases on cloud storage company Dropbox and the social search service Aardvark. Both firms' founders were early practitioners of the lean startup method. The Dropbox team initially announced a bare-bones version... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

along with his father, Leon, the founder of Hess Corporation, to visit the company’s oil terminals, refineries, and gas stations. In 1995, John Hess succeeded his father as CEO, and led Hess through a strategic transformation from an... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

19 Apr 2024
News

Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

transition included Stephanie Wisner (MBA 2014), Energy Tech Investment Banking, Goldman, Sachs, and moderator Osmar Abib (MBA 1987), Founder of SeracFund and retired Chair of Credit Suisse Energy. “We had very high-quality speakers,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Web

Schwartz Common & Pavilion | About

dedication ceremony on April 18, 2019. Gerald Schwartz, MBA 1970, is the Founder and CEO of Onex Corporation. He has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada and inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Gerry is a... View Details

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

radical collaborations between different players.” Sir David King, founder and chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University, also joined online and shared sobering facts—the Arctic Circle is warming more than four times... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

to develop Alfred’s routes and respond to customer requests in conjunction with other service providers, for example grocery delivery services, in what the founders describe as their "B2B2C" business model. Alfred won the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

his associates and the JV partners. Purchase this supplement:http://hbr.org/search/313019-PDF-ENG Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A) Geoffrey Jones and Lana GhanemHarvard Business School Case 813-052 The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

Former Theranos employees began testifying this week against Elizabeth Holmes, the once-celebrated biotech’s founder and CEO, in a criminal trial that has Silicon Valley worried. In opening statements last week, federal prosecutors... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

two European cultures that couldn't be more different. One-leader systems are also somewhat more common in younger and less complex family business systems; these systems are either in the founder stage or trying to emulate it. The... View Details

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

William Kerr. In a new paper, Kerr and his collaborators shed light on how discrimination affects fundraising, and ways crowdfunding sites, entrepreneurs, and investors can take action. Minority business founders already typically face a... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

WIZZIT's founders thought there was a noble and viable business model in bringing banking to the poor, via a mobile banking platform that could be used on even the most primitive cell phone. They succeeded in finding an engineer to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

Jon Staff (MBA ’16) is the CEO and Founder of Getaway, a company that designs tiny houses, places them on beautiful rural land and rents them out by the night to stressed out city-dwellers, starting at $99/night. He was the co-president... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

percent of its workforce go via a Zoom conference call. In response to criticism, founder Travis VanderZanden tweeted, “We did ask all managers to reach out to the impacted employees 1on1 immediately after the zoom call, so it's already... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

get these reports immediately, so you can actually fine-tune an online campaign in real time." Law is the cofounder of Russell Reynolds Global Internet Practice. He previously served as founder and CEO of an interactive brand... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

Specialisterne, a Danish software firm with 75 percent of its workforce diagnosed with ASD. Ferose, like the founder of Specialisterne, has a son diagnosed with ASD. Specialisterne is what Austin calls the “gold standard” of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

21 Sep 2023
HBS Seminar

Pinar Ozcan, Saïd Business School

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details

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29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

inevitable complications Though founders typically allow more time—and often buffer generous time-to-market estimates—they seem blind to the myriad interconnections and changes that subsequent products will require, the study found. That... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

the AASU conference. Two founders will be awarded $50,000 each. We are thrilled that we were able to secure $100,000 from General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures. We're really excited to have leaders in the venture capital and... View Details

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