Publications

September 2000 (Revised March 2001)
Background Note

Note on Corporate Venture Capital, A

By: Josh Lerner

Provides an overview of corporate venture investment. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry

October 1981 (Revised June 1986)
Case

Stratus Computer

Bill Foster has assembled a team to begin a new computer company. He must now develop a financing strategy in view of the various kinds of capital available for new ventures. View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Computer Industry

01 Mar 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details

24 Mar 2022
News

Well Said

had as an undergrad, going through what you call the rite of passage, end up becoming a business that you built at HBS? How did that insight lead into you founding BoldVoice? Anada Lakra: There were two kinds of paths which led me to it.... View Details

12 Jun 2017
News

Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO

Immelt has been busy disassembling significant elements of the conglomerate that he began leading four days before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Immelt’s goal was to make GE more streamlined, stripping away finance and consumer... View Details

October 1995
Case

Johnson-Grace: March 1994

Johnson-Grace is a cash-strapped start-up company negotiating a licensing agreement with America OnLine (AOL), a leading provider of on-line services in the United States. The Johnson-Grace technology would enable AOL to transmit visual images to its customers more... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Online Technology; Negotiation; Business Startups

14 May 2015
News

Cracking the Nut on Exporting Shea Butter

March 2021
Supplement

CashDrop (B2)

By: Rembrand Koning, Paul A. Gompers and Sarah Gulick

After the events in CashDrop A, Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques, the founders of Harlem Capital partners, worried that Ruben Flores-Martinez, CashDrop’s founder, would take another offer while he waited for them to officially make an offer. HCP traditionally... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Online Technology; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)

April 1986 (Revised January 1993)
Case

Au Bon Pain

An eight-year-old company is in the midst of growth. This case follows the company from its inception through its growth stages. Teaching objectives are to understand the problems of growth, partnership, and operations-driven companies. View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Growth and Development; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

25 May 2014
News

"Unmentionable" Innovation

Keywords: Textile Mills; Manufacturing; Retail Trade

December 1998
Supplement

Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company Is Born

By: Ashish Nanda

The founding team of Vermeer Technologies, an entrepreneurial software start-up, discusses the opportunities and challenges confronting the company. View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry

September 1989 (Revised January 1990)
Case

Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (A)

Describes how Vinod Khosla got Sun Microsystems started, and a critical marketing challenge the company faced at the end of the first year. Objective is to illustrate how bold creative thinking can make or break start-ups. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry

01 Jun 2012
News

Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

book, The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (Princeton University Press), draws on data gleaned from nearly 4,000 high-potential start-ups and 10,000 founders, while incorporating case... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Books

how organizations can create moral behavior using unspoken cues. Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway Why do businesses evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, ignoring the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions... View Details

September 1991
Case

Momenta Corp. (B)

Momenta is a one-year-old corporation that has sought to build a distinct culture and identity through a structured process and organized rituals. The company is seeking to be a major player in the highly competitive pen-based computer market and has attracted... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Business Startups

02 Dec 2020
News

HBS Alumni Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 List

of the nonprofit Sports & Entertainment Equity Network, which aims “to close the diversity, equity, and inclusion gap in the business of sports & entertainment”; and Gabrielle Starfield (MBA 2018), Senior Associate at Blackstone Group,... View Details

06 Jan 2012
News

Where Are They Now?

Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

November 2019
Teaching Note

Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency

By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 319-002. This teaching note pairs with a case on economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch, who is on a mission to make the art market more transparent. He has built the Magnus app, which catalogues the price and transaction history of millions... View Details

Keywords: Art Market; Transparency; Art Pricing; Business Startups; Innovation Strategy; Culture; Business Strategy; Mobile Technology; Fine Arts Industry; Information Technology Industry

April 2009 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Skyhook Wireless

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Thomas R. Eisenmann

Ted Morgan, the founder of Skyhook Wireless just received a call from Steve Jobs of Apple asking for a meeting. Ted must decide how to prepare for a meeting that could finally give Skyhook an anchor customer. Ted and his team have worked for three years to build a new... View Details

Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Technology Industry