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27 Oct 2015
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Using Tech to Take Indie Boutiques Global

01 Apr 2002
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The Simplest Taste

After combining two names, one from each side of his family, Stanley Marcus (MBA '27) went on to make "Neiman Marcus" a household name. It was a pairing that would prove as successful as the company's "his-and-hers" holiday gift offerings - such as matching camels, or... View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Juan Pablo Botero

If you are looking to launch or join a startup, Juan Pablo can help! With experience working in management consulting at BCG, at a fast-growing startup like Rappi, and walking the founder road at HBS and during the summer, Juan Pablo is... View Details

09 Sep 2016
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Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO

million last year—discusses how she employed strategies from her years as a consultant to her startup work. “What I really learned from those experiences was how to break down even the most complicated processes into their most minuscule... View Details

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

We are NET12, an MIT|HBS startup focused on accelerating a carbonless future by helping corporations reach and sustain their net zero goals efficiently. NetaCarbon - Grace Lam (MBA 2024) - NetaCarbon is a service provider that partners... View Details

05 Mar 2019
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"It is Possible to Walk Away from Situations that Make You Unhappy": Cauvery Patel, MBA 2016

appropriate targets. She turned to AngelList, an online directory of startup jobs, where she could keep a tab on lists generated by her keywords. "I followed up on interesting individuals and companies." she says, cold-emailing... View Details

07 Sep 2016
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Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business

the conventional path promoted by many business schools—leading students to aspire to join large-scale corporations or to pursue the fast track of the startup world, versus following the less glamorous or seemingly less lucrative work of... View Details

21 Sep 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

Frustrated by the slow pace and poor success rate of entrepreneurial startups bringing innovation from bench to bedside in his field, Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010) and two partners founded NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience-focused... View Details

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David Brown | MBA

startup working to revolutionize the stratosphere. Over the last years, I've enjoyed getting to see the value and impact we will bring to the world, and look forward to seeing what is to come. Professional goals: I hope to lead the... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Jump-Start

using the Lean Startup methodology, for the 19 cash awards given out this year. There were also 12 venture capital firms (listed below) that stepped up to help fund the program run by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. All the... View Details

Keywords: contests; Finance

19 Apr 2016
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LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility

Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization... View Details

Keywords: Blavatnik; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Vanessa Wu

Energy, she has developed strong experience in strategy topics and in the power & utilities sector. For the past summer, she pivoted to startup for her internship. She can share insights on resume and cover letter reviews, View Details

16 Jun 2016
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

learn how to do a DCF, and how to read a balance sheet. Tuition well spent! Sometimes the cases we’d read to apply these concepts were about oil rigs or department stores—and sometimes they were about technology companies, too. All the case studies we read took a form... View Details

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

Out-Innovate, calls it the “frontier market model.” Founded in places with limited resources and nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems, these startups have to be scrappier and leaner. And these limitations, Alex says, make businesses more... View Details

October 2023
Supplement

Rheaply: Circularity For Every Business Supplement 1

By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani

Pitch deck explaining the early vision of the company that was presented by the CEO to potential investors. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Mission and Purpose; United States; Chicago; Illinois

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July 2023 (Revised July 2024)
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Miracle Therapeutics: Negotiating an IP License (A)

By: Satish Tadikonda, Michael Singer, William Marks and Wendi Yajnik

(General Experience Case) Beth Sharp and Jennifer Brilliant founded Miracle Therapeutics based on intellectual property developed by Brilliant and her post-doctoral student, John Supreme, in Brilliant’s lab at Elite University (EU). Miracle will have to obtain a... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Patents; Negotiation Process

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2022
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When the Journey—And Not Just the Destination—Matters: How Internationalization Shapes Entrepreneurial Experimentation

By: Nataliya Langburd Wright and Laura Huang

Internationalization—gaining exposure to cross-border markets—is often the result of an entrepreneur’s experimentation and strategy around their core business. Scholars have shown how entrepreneurs develop products or services, and after achieving some traction, turn... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Entrepreneurial Journey; International Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Global Range; Strategy

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September 2016 (Revised March 2020)
Teaching Note

Fasten: Challenging Uber and Lyft with a New Business Model

By: Feng Zhu

Fasten, a new ridesharing start-up in Boston, entered the scene in September 2015 hoping its unique vision of transparency for both driver and passenger and strategy to keep riders' fares low and charge drivers a flat $0.99 fee per ride, as opposed to the 20%–30%... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Transportation; Business Startups; Business Model; Transportation Industry; Boston

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January 2013
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EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (B)

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Brent Grinna has one customer signed up for his alumni-networking mobile app, and is now trying to choose among three possibilities for a CTO. He decided to contract with a friend's company, Dashfire, to create a prototype of the app, and has signed up Brown University... View Details