Startup - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Oct 2016
News

China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

misses.” Those misses have been pushed into the shadows by the hits in Breyer’s portfolio, including a once-little startup called Facebook. Breyer met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in April 2005. Within 48 hours he knew he wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Feb 2000
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet

As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want.... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

09 Sep 2016
News

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

01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown

Ina Foalea leads a brainstorming session in Morris Hall during this year’s Startup Lockdown. It is 6:30 p.m. on the Wednesday of Spring Break. But Ina Foalea (MBA 2018) is in work mode as she stretches out on the couch in the first-floor... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

01 Dec 2016
News

The Evolving HBS Campus

gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve (MBA 1982) Pagliuca, the lab, opened in November, offers shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral... View Details

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Aspa Lekka

distance from my handball team in Arta, one of the best in Greece." The other force is more interior, and even more powerful. "I realized I had global ambitions and wanted to compete in the larger world." Aspa ventured out to Berlin where she joined a... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

really inspire me. The first is my father, who came from a very poor emigrant family and became, in a generation, a member of one of the strongest fashion garment merchant families in the south of France. Another would be Fabrice Grinda, one of the rare Internet View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

Jon Staff

Consumer brand building - Mission/vision/values development and adherence - Co-founder and early stage team building - DTC marketing - Go-to-market strategies - Hospitality startups - Real estate businesses - Investor management -... View Details

Payal Agrawal Divakaran

enterprise-focused startups in healthcare, data + AI, and cybersecurity. Every member of the firm has deep operating or investing experience in these segments. .406’s world-class founders and digital health companies are transforming... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital;#43;#Healthcare

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Benjamin Chang | MBA

biotech startup creating advanced gene therapies, which showed me the potential of the biotech industry in translating scientific breakthroughs to directly impact people. Founding Harvard OpenBio, our student-run biomakerspace, helped me... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Salute to 1998

classmates, created startups despite difficult odds, or fought repression in their homeland, they've each demonstrated the kind of dedication and drive, initiative and leadership that make students and alumni proud to be associated with... View Details

Career Coach

Kelsey Holland

through – Acquisition club and plans to launch her own search fund after graduation with the goal of acquiring a software company. She would love to help you think through the right startup role, stage of company, or approach getting your... View Details

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Grace Jemison

career conversations and coaching. Work Experience: Wellframe, Ovia Health (both recent successful startup exits, Quilted Health (internship), Venture for America View Details

Career Coach

Lauren Weston

experience in the fintech, software, and real estate technology sectors. In particular, she can help students who want to "break into VC" as well as students who worked in investing prior to HBS and are considering returning to investing or pursuing View Details

18 Feb 2016
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Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS

The work both renewed my excitement to come back to HBS and to aggressively pursue healthcare coursework in EC year. I focused almost entirely on healthcare and entrepreneurship coursework during the fall term, including working for a healthcare View Details

15 Apr 2025
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Mothers of Invention

VC Backed Moms founders Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017), and Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) Illustration by John Ritter Early in her first pregnancy, having just launched the venture she cofounded, Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017) wondered how she could take maternity... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

08 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla

product roadmap. How has having an MBA impacted your career? We're a startup most of our future customers have never heard of. HBS gives me credibility when selling to larger companies. While HBS helped shape the way I think about the... View Details

Keywords: Technology

Profile

Jennifer DeWhitt

than on structuring a vision or dictating a plan.” What applies to business in general also applies to Jennifer’s career path, which remains open and flexible. “This summer, I’m looking at startups in the Bay Area, something... View Details

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Who We Are | Research Associates

a marketing manager with experience at both startups and established companies. The diversity of my real-life experience gave me the confidence and expertise to develop cases, teaching notes, and simulations to support student learning.”... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the chefs, caterers, and florists... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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