Founder - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

01 Oct 1997
News

Brice Cutrer Jones

Ask Brice Jones, founder and president of Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards, what he does for a living, and he will answer simply, "I'm a farmer." Spend a morning touring his vineyard and winery in Windsor, California, however, and you will... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

05 Sep 2014
News

Keeping Education in Check

David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would have been possible without the game of chess. The View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

reducing the demands of the position. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made it clear: If you’re unwilling to lend a hand to a co-worker to meet a customer need, you will not survive there. “When a lot is demanded of people, you have to build a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

many entrepreneurs in action and to follow their thinking as it has evolved. Some entrepreneurs conceptualize their new business model all at once, in a single, grand epiphany. They proceed intuitively, rather than methodically. Twitch’s View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

08 Mar 2024
Blog Post

History of the HBS Women's Student Association

addition of women’s bathrooms on every floor of classroom buildings. Furthermore, the WSA has consistently introduced innovative initiatives to strengthen the support network for women at HBS. The female founder pitch competition started... View Details

07 Oct 2021
News

Planning Ahead

As founder and chief information officer of Sound Point Capital Management, Steve Ketchum is someone who thinks about long-term investments for a living. But like so many people, when it came to his personal estate planning, Ketchum... View Details

22 Mar 2024
Blog Post

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

strategy for success, as she met the founders of CrossBoundary (also HBS alumni) while she was leading the Africa Business Conference as a student. Nneka made an impact on the founders at that conference... View Details

February 2022
Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

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18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

GTB's founders felt it was imperative to try. They set out to build a bank that would be known for its workplace innovations, outstanding customer service, superior financial results, and exemplary corporate citizenship. In general,... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

highly trained athletes will use every martial arts skill at their disposal—karate, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, judo, and boxing, among others—to score a win by knockout, submission, or points. Face lit by the glow of his smartphone, ONE FC View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

that with early-stage companies, the idea doesn’t matter so much as the quality and passion of the entrepreneur who is pushing it; while others invest in the idea and replace the founder with a professional management team when needed.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

14 Jan 2022
News

Nohria’s Next Move

In a message to the HBS community this week, former Dean Nitin Nohria shared his next chapter. “I am pursuing a new adventure as the Executive Chairman of Thrive Capital, a firm that invests in and builds technology-enabled companies.” Thrive is managed by View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) (also listed under Finance) Shai Bernstein Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling Mark Roberge Lou Shipley Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Mark Roberge Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial... View Details

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

Another option: Spin off a separate structure, such as a corporate foundation. Key elements in leadership were: Founders. Attendees expressed frustration over leadership and governance issues that stemmed from the fact that many nonprofits are started by a single... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Gerardo Lietz is the founder of... Hise O. Gibson Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Hise Gibson graduated from West Point, where he was a member of the Division-1A Army football team. Following graduation, he commissioned in the... View Details

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

$140 billion investment fund. And they have roughly about 25 to 27 different assets. So the chairman and founder of JAB, his name is Peter Harf. Peter Harf and I met when I was interviewing to join the fund. And our interview was two... View Details

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