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- 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
Shirish Nimgaonkar
startups in areas such as SaaS, AI and B2B software across functions such as solution / product development, sales, marketing, team building, capital raising and acquisitions. View Details
- Career Coach
Adelina Pak
Informed by her prior experiences in the Technology industry, Adelina enjoys helping students understand the various roles within tech and navigate recruiting specific to the industry. She has experience working at both software and hardware, B2C and B2B, as well as... View Details
- Profile
Jonathan Assayag
immediately. "I spent a lot of time experimenting with a startup in the area of college admissions," he says. "I was able to pick up the phone and talk to HBS alumni with similar interests. The network really is everything... View Details
- 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
- News
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
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture
for anyone who wants to understand money and finance. Courtesy Napkin Finance The company was an accidental outgrowth of another startup Hay founded—a payment platform targeting millennials that also included some Napkin Finance–style... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for those who aspire to be founders, but a company only has one or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- Profile
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
- 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
- February 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Collab Capital
Founded in 2020 by Jewel Burks Solomon and her partners, Barry Givens and Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital was a new investment firm built on two pillars: first, it would identify and support ventures founded by Black entrepreneurs, a group underrepresented in... View Details
Keywords: Black Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Race; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Atlanta
Rigol, Natalia, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Mitchell Weiss. "Collab Capital." Harvard Business School Case 821-067, February 2021. (Revised October 2021.)
- June 2016 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
The Cheese and the Oligarchs: The Politics, the Media, and Israel's Dream of a Start-Up Nation
By: Rafael Di Tella and Christine Snively
Israel enjoyed the highest concentration of technology start-ups in the world per capita. Despite regional instability, the country maintained strong economic growth and was considered a high-tech powerhouse. But not all Israelis benefited. Between the 1980s and 2010s,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Israel
Di Tella, Rafael, and Christine Snively. "The Cheese and the Oligarchs: The Politics, the Media, and Israel's Dream of a Start-Up Nation." Harvard Business School Case 716-060, June 2016. (Revised December 2017.)
- March 2009
- Teaching Note
Proteus Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly (TN)
Teaching Note for [809051]. View Details
- January 2009
- Article
Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night
By: Noam Wasserman
If you dream of starting your own business, it's better to leave the corporate nest sooner than later, before you get too comfortable with the big-company amenities every start-up lacks. Get going before you're 40 - or even earlier, if you want to make entrepreneurship... View Details
Wasserman, Noam. "Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 1 (January 2009).
- April 1985 (Revised November 1987)
- Case
Sun Hydraulics Corp. (A)
Involves the design and creation of a company with no formally-defined hierarchy. Describes the steps the founder takes to avoid the organizational politics he perceives as crushing the human contributions they were designed to harness. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Engineering; Business Startups; Technology Industry
Barnes, Louis B. "Sun Hydraulics Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 485-169, April 1985. (Revised November 1987.)
- 17 Mar 2022
- News
Venture Capital & Angel Investing - What We Know and Still Need to Learn
Keywords: Angel investing
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Exploring new ways to understand and engage audiences
Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) launched Wildfire Interactive, now a Google company, to connect companies and customers through social media. (Published April 2014) View Details