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  • 18 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

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
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

In the summer of 2020, Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) was looking for an internship where he would have the opportunity to work closely with a startup founder. He considered Boston based startups originally and... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2020
  • News

Helping California Wildfire Victims Rebuild

Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes A recent article in Forbes highlights the work of the home-building management startup Homebound, cofounded by CEO Nikki Pechet (MBA 2007). Both cofounders—Pechet... View Details
Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction
  • 20 Oct 2016
  • News

Uncharted Territory

(Uncharted Play) (Uncharted Play) Jessica Matthews’s (MBA 2014) startup Uncharted Play made headlines when it debuted Soccket, a soccer ball that captures kinetic energy to power a lamp. The simple idea could change life in poor, rural... View Details
  • Career Coach

Nicolle Richards

Nicolle is passionate about supporting students in navigating different roles focused on creating social impact. Nicolle has spent her whole career in the social impact space, working across philanthropy, impact investing, social enterprises, and 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
  • 29 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

buyouts on target firms and their workers vary greatly by deal type and market conditions. Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing An analysis of the adoption of A/B testing technology by 35,000 global View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Jake Flomenberg

startups and companies who are leaders in various technology fields and build relationships that I maintain to this day. How has HBS prepared you for your current role & your long term career? As a product manager, I leverage my HBS... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • Web

Eligibility | New Venture Competition

(HBS) Field Course: Innovating in Health Care (HBS) Field Course: Investing for Impact (HBS) Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation (HBS) Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses (HBS) Field Course: Startup Operations (HBS) Impact... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

to the magnitude, we need business leaders to really start thinking about the timing of emissions as well, and that is where both big corporations and startups become important pieces of the puzzle. We absolutely need to reduce emissions... View Details
  • Web

Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

Concepts What Is a Platform? Value Creation and Capture Growth Factors Featured Exercise Articulate dynamic pricing’s benefits and drawbacks Define the most important characteristics of economies of scale Determine how platforms build trust into their systems Advise a... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

or having time to invest in a startup or other personal or professional endeavor. In determining which path (or mix of multiple) you seek to take, consider your career objectives, level of confidence in the hypothesis and plan you have... View Details
  • Web

Sponsors | New Venture Competition

Sponsors The New Venture Competition thanks its sponsors for their tremendous support which enables participants to access expert resources, test their ideas, and gain real-world feedback throughout the process. Amazon Web Services All Stage Bubble CASE Smart Impact... View Details
  • May 2011 (Revised March 2013)
  • Background Note

Location Choice for New Ventures: Cities

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
Location choice is a critical decision for entrepreneurs. This note explores how entrepreneurs should think about different city options through a systematic framework that encompasses professional and personal issues. We use the intellectual frameworks of the cluster... View Details
Keywords: City; Business Startups
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  • November 2006
  • Case

Brontes Technologies -- 2005

By: William A. Sahlman and Caroline Perkins
Describes a set of decisions confronting the founders of a company developing a new device for taking three-dimensional pictures of teeth in order to improve dental outcomes. The company needs more money and must choose between raising new equity capital from a venture... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Business Startups; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • May 2006 (Revised July 2007)
  • Case

Tropos Networks

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind
As Ron Sege, president and CEO of Tropos Networks, walked through the halls of the firm's offices, he realized that the space they had moved into only about a year ago was already becoming too small. The company, based in Sunnyvale, California, was founded in late 2000... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Wireless Technology; Sunnyvale
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  • January 2006 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

SuperCat Powerboats (A)

By: James L. Heskett
Ryan and David Kratz have formed a new company, under very favorable terms, with a fiberglass boat builder. But at the signing of the agreement for the new company's information, the builder's spouse suggests that the Kratz's share of ownership be reduced from 67% to... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Negotiation; Ownership Stake; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 03 Apr 2015
  • News

Blocking Bad: A Flare for Internet Security

  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman

knowledge he acquired at Harvard. After gaining finance experience at Fairchild Semiconductor and Memorex, in 1981 Goldman left the stability of those established firms and joined a startup semiconductor venture, VLSI Technology, becoming... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

how we thought about online opportunities one year after the dot-com bubble burst. In retrospect, many of my thoughts about the internet’s future evolution missed the mark. If you think history repeats itself, then these forecasting errors might be germane, since View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology